Megyn Price Quotes

Because I was a television writer for many years, I write very conversationally. I put things straight, and with a lot of humor.

Still, on 'Friends', we had some guest-stars who were less than spectacular, not the stunt-casting, but just regular guest-stars, and they weren't particularly great actors, but the material was so good that they scored. It's the writing.

And of course Marc Cherry heightens it and makes it hilarious. But there's so many universal themes in the show, and he made it so funny. We knew he was onto something if he could keep it up and, thankfully, he did.

I did a web series years ago where I helped write a kind of a spoof called 'Young Love.'

I have admiration for people who can do it well - the guys who wrote 'Cheers' and 'Frasier.' They created sort of a blissful comedic universe.

I want to try something on situational comedy.

Sitcoms, I always figured that would be an easy gig, but man, it is not.

I enjoy watching sitcoms where the team behind it have successfully created a whole alternate reality that you can enter into for half an hour every week.

I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries.

There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven't found too many great scripts.

I really like writing television, and I like the collaborative writers room feeling. It's ten people, and you're together every day laughing your heads off.

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

And I think it's very rare to have good stories, well written comedies.

I love doing sitcoms. I love doing comedy. I love the whole shooting match.

Some of my favorite movies are action movies. You want something good to say. That comes from good writing. But writing is not a skill I possess, unfortunately.

To be perfectly honest, drama is a lot simpler than comedy.

In Australia, I wrote lots of little plays and put them on, and then I worked on a few different TV shows, like the Australian equivalent of 'SNL.' I would write and perform all of my characters.

I wanted to do screenwriting. That's what I went to school for, but my major was overfilled, and when I got 'The Daily Show', I was a semester away from officially starting my major, so I never started that in particular.

I'm very interested in any script that makes me laugh.

A lot of the time, a comedy script is just dialogue, and that's the main thing you have to worry about.

If Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be doing sitcoms.

Writing a whole series was a crash course in screenwriting, which is a very different muscle to standup comedy writing.

"Prison Break" has been a really great experience because of the writers. I think that in television, you can have great directors, really good actors, but if it's not on the page... I think a series lives and dies in writing.

A good part's a good part. You can play serious and funny moments with a well-written role.

In terms of television and movies, I've been really interested in seeing the partnership of comedy and beauty and heart. I think they can go together really well and really thoughtfully. But, I'm a total one-hour drama addict. I think when you're a comedian, you tend towards dramas because that's the less stressful thing to watch.