Paresh Rawal Quotes

I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.

It's very difficult to make comedy work; I think it's a very underrated genre.

Comedy becomes intensified in short scenes.

I think comedy, so much of it comes out of the strange sort of golden instant 'cause you don't know why it's funny, but you captured it.

It's really challenging to play comedy.

If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious.

It's very hard to write humor.

There's an art to stupid comedy. There's an art to offensive comedy, and I think the key is it's just gotta make you laugh.

Humor writing is something that comes naturally to me.

Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.

There's always a message in my comedy.

Now the point of comedy is not just looking funny, it's use of language. We have at our disposal a great language... and the imaginative, creative use of that language can be at the service of humour.

I can't not write funny. It's literally the only way I know how to do it.

Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.

I think so. I can't think of anything that requires more finesse than comedy, both from a verbal and visual point of view.

It's not about trying to be funny all the time. It's more of a document that hopefully is funny.

Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.

The secret of writing comedy is to know where it's all going, then get ahead of it.

Comedy is the most difficult thing to do. Easily the most difficult.

If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.

Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.

Humor writing requires a rhythm and timing, as well as some kind of connection to the reader, and I think that's how I tap into it.

Comedy, at least the way I write comedy, is just drama with jokes.

A good comedy's very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy.

You know, comedy's hard. With drama, you have a responsibility to the emotional truth, but with comedy, you have emotional truth and you have technique on top of it.