“You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a television series. I want to do dramas as well as comedies, but I have no idea what kind or in what order. Just give me the chance at them.” KnowsWantGivingWellsKindIdeasOrderChanceAnswersComedyTelevisionDramaGive MeSeriesNo Idea Author:Michael J. Fox
“As someone who's been doing a lot of classical theater recently, I loved the idea of getting to run around in Steven Alan, and not be in a corset and a wig, and not have a dialect, and get to be in a 90-minute play with no intermission, and get to do real comedy.” IdeasRealPlayRunningComedyMinutesTheaterWigsDialectCorsetsIntermission Author:Lily Rabe
“I want to entertain people, whether it be with a comedy, a drama or a movie. An idea's an idea.” PeopleWantIdeasComedyDrama Author:Bruce Nash
“It was extremely important to show that Wilde's sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.” ThinkingHumansHas BeensImportantIdeasRealShowsBodyComedyIntellectualSexualityPeculiarHuman BodyWilde Author:Stephen Fry
“No, I love the idea that someone changes. As an actor it's always the thing that you look for. He is someone who starts off bright, cheerful and confident and then has everything taken away from him. It's a wonderful journey to take.” LooksIdeasActorsTakenComedyWonderfulJourneyCheerfulWonderful Journey Author:Stephen Fry
“I had two projects that fell apart during preproduction. The first one was this movie that Judd Apatow and I had written about two guys following the Rolling Stones. It was going to be half concert film, half pseudo-documentary. It was Mick Jagger's idea.The other one was Simple Plan, based on a novel by Scott Smith. It's a great book - really stark, not a comedy - about a guy who finds $4 million in a plane crash and decides to keep it.” FirstsTwoBookIdeasFilmGuySimpleHalfMillionsNovelComedyPlansWrittenProjectsStonesFollowingPlanesConcertsCrashRollingDocumentariesStarksRolling StonesGreat BookPseudoTwo GuysJaggerPlane CrashesSimple Plan Author:Ben Stiller
“If you look at the films that I've done generally, you would probably get an idea of what I'm most interested in, and if ever I do something unusual like a science fiction film or an action film or a comedy or something, then that to me feels like a step to the side to do something different.” IfsFeelsLooksIdeasDifferentDoneActionFilmSidesFictionStepsComedyScience FictionUnusualAction Films Author:Guy Pearce
“The whole idea of comedy, there is nothing normal about going up on stage to make strangers laugh. But I'm also not an exhibitionist like other comics. I'm not up there talking about masturbating.” IdeasWholeTalkingLaughingComedyStageNormalStrangerExhibitionist Author:Jim Gaffigan
“I'm generally not a social dramatist or comedy writer. My interests have always been more in psychological stories or personal relations and comic ideas.” IdeasStoriesSocialInterestComedyRelationPsychologicalComic Author:Woody Allen
“If I had my choice in life I would have had the gifts of Tennessee Williams or Eugene O'Neill. Unfortunately my gifts lie in comedy and so comedy comes fairly easy to me and I occasionally have an idea for a very serious piece and I do it, but the ideas don't come that readily to me.” IfsIdeasLyingChoicesEasyComedyPiecesSeriousLife ChoicesTennesseeEugene O Neill Author:Woody Allen
“My idea as far as comedy goes has always been to push the limits of what's acceptable for a woman to do or say or be. My hero in that would be Lenny Bruce, who teaches us that words have no meaning. It's the intent behind them that is what's important.” ImportantIdeasWould BeBehindsTeachComedyHeroLimitsAcceptableWhat's ImportantMy Hero Author:Lea DeLaria
“Well, this movie I've been working on for a while. I had the idea for the movie like twenty years ago when I was doing 'Empire of the Sun' in 1987 because at that time that's when all these Vietnam movies were being made and my friends and I were going on auditions for these Vietnam movies and my friends were getting them and going away to fake boot camps.” YearsWellsMadeIdeasSunComedyMy FriendsYears AgoTwentiesFakeEmpiresGoing AwayCampsVietnamBootsAuditionsBoot CampEmpire Of The Sun Author:Ben Stiller
“I was totally involved in Bobby's World from the time we started the idea to sitting with the artists on how he would look, to the script meetings, the music, the lyrics, the songs.” WorldLooksIdeasArtistSongComedyInvolvedSittingMeetingsScripts Author:Howie Mandel
“The idea behind doing comedies is that you go home a little happier.” LittlesIdeasHomeBehindsComedy Author:Kathleen Turner
“I was thinking about comedy and how comedy in many ways opens us up to ideas and really being influenced by Richard Pryor and sort of the way he would use comedy to really speak about larger social issues.” ThinkingWayIdeasUseSpeakSocialIssuesComedySocial Issues Author:Terry Gross
“I feel like women are frequently seen as guests in the comedy world - you know, a kid sister of the “real comedians”. I like the idea of positioning myself as legendary rather than trying to fit in. Now do I see myself like that every day? No, but I think it's a funny attitude and maybe on some weird, spiritual level, maybe it's a good attitude.” ThinkingKnowsWorldFeelsTryingIdeasRealKidsSpiritualLevelsAttitudeComedyFitComedianGuestsLegendaryGood AttitudeTrying To Fit In Author:Chelsea Peretti
“In this political climate, people are so shut down to other ideas - I call it a hardening of the categories - that if you can get them to open up and laugh, there is a possibility of improvement, and a possibility of change. I think humor sneaks up on people, and before you know it, you're laughing at something you might not agree with.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsIdeasMightPoliticalLaughingComedyPossibilityLaughterAgreeClimateImprovementCategoriesSneakPossibility Of Change Author:Kate Clinton
“The nice thing about 'Futurama' for me personally was that it was a way to honor some of the traditional ideas in literary science fiction, not so much movie or television science fiction - although we have that too, obviously. Our situation, a workplace comedy, led to all sorts of stuff.” WayIdeasStuffFictionSituationComedyNiceTelevisionHonorScience FictionTraditionalWorkplaceNice Things Author:Matt Groening
“The dramas for me allow me to explore more behavioral, deeper psychological things. But the comedies obviously allow me to explore the idea of really working off other people. I'm having more fun doing that.” PeopleIdeasFunComedyDramaDeeperPsychological Author:Robin Williams
“I like the idea of building the suspense and taking it all the way up to the very last second with the suspense, and right when you think you can't take it anymore, then you come in with the joke and kind of break the tension. To me, that's the best kind of film. I like thrillers, so thrillers with comedy, to me, is always the best.” ThinkingWayKindIdeasLastsFilmBreakComedyBuildingJokesSuspenseTensionThrillers Author:Corey Feldman
“The only reason I got into stand-up was because my brother told me to. I had no idea what I was going to do with my life. I was 17 and my brother went to a comedy club and he said - you can do that.” SaidIdeasReasonCan DoComedyBrotherClubsNo IdeaMy BrotherComedy Clubs Author:Adam Sandler
“It's the idea that we as people can control our own destinies. The government and the corporations, more even than the government, can't dictate what artwork we're supposed to like or what comedy we're supposed to laugh at.” PeopleIdeasGovernmentDestinyLaughingComedyCorporationsArtwork Author:Kathleen Hanna
“After you have loss in your life and after you experience something like losing your parents, the greatest gift of that was it prepared me for [anything]. Nothing else is as scary, and certainly stand-up comedy is not as scary as sitting there with your mom and having to have last conversations and things like that. It's heavy stuff, but it's enlightening because it makes me think I shouldn't be afraid of sharing ideas and thoughts with people. It's the yin and the yang of life.” PeopleThinkingIdeasLastsStuffParentLossComedyMomConversationLosingSittingPreparedScaryHeavyEnlighteningGreatest GiftsYour MomStand Up ComedyYangSharing Ideas Author:Dane Cook
“Obviously [my daughters] - and Michelle - have made a lot of sacrifices on behalf of my cockamamie ideas, the running for office and things.” MadeIdeasRealityRunningPoliticsCommunityFamilyComedyGenerationsSacrificeHuman NatureOfficeDaughterUnityIdeologyMy DaughterBehalfRunning For Office Author:Barack Obama
“I actually prefer to work in as many different genres as possible as often as possible because I actually think the best way to be inspired and avoid any writers block or things like that is actually to be able to go from a comedy to an action to a horror to a adventure, that actually makes it easy for me to start over and get new ideas, and it keeps things interesting.” ThinkingWayIdeasDifferentAbleActionEasyInterestingComedyAdventureHorrorInspiredBest WayBlockGenreNew IdeasStarting OverWriter's BlockBe InspiredDifferent Genres Author:Christopher Lennertz
“I like broad comedy. If I had an idea tomorrow for a film that was all slapstick and broad comedy, and it was an idea that interested me, I would not hesitate to do it because I enjoy watching these kinds of film.” IfsKindIdeasFilmEnjoyComedyTomorrowBroadsSlapstick Author:Woody Allen
“Comedy is a funny thing, and it's really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title. You would never go to a club just to see "Live music," you would go to a jazz club to see jazz, a blues club to see blues, etc. But when you go to see "standup comedy," if you don't know the performers material, you really don't have any idea what you're gonna get.” IfsKnowsArtIdeasFormComedyMaterialsJazzClubsTitlesEtcPerformersFunny ThingsGenericLive Music Author:Joe Rogan
“With comedy, you never know until you put it in front of an audience. You shoot it and a year later you have no idea if it's going to work. And then you get the response. It's great when it's good.” IfsKnowsYearsIdeasAudienceComedyFrontsResponseNo IdeaGoing To Work Author:Steve Martin
“The beautiful thing about podcasting is it's just talking. It can be funny, or it can be terrifying. It can be sweet. It can be obnoxious. It almost has no definitive form. In that sense it's one of the best ways to explore an idea, and certainly much less limiting than trying to express the same idea in stand up comedy. For some ideas stand up is best, but it's really, really nice to have podcasts as well.” WayTryingWellsIdeasBeautifulFormTalkingComedyNiceSweetBest WayBeautiful ThingsReally NiceObnoxiousStand Up ComedyPodcasting Author:Joe Rogan
“The strength of comedy is I don't have to answer to anybody but sometimes you want to learn from other people and see your ideas strengthen by other people.” PeopleWantIdeasSometimesAnswersComedy Author:Bo Burnham
“I just hate the whole idea of labeling anything as a comedy. If you tell me something's funny, I'll want to rebel against it. When I go to a bookstore and see books categorized as humor, I get furious. Don't tell me that a book is funny. Let me decide if it's funny. It's the same with sitcoms. You call something a sitcom and people expect it to be funny. And that ruins everything.” PeopleIfsWantBookIdeasWholeHateComedyLet MeRuinsRebelSitcomBookstoresFuriousLabeling Author:Amy Sedaris
“I'm a comedian. I make comic films and there are certain ideas that occur to me that are comic, with heavy, serious undertones. There are some ideas that are more frivolous to me. The next idea that could occur to me could be comedy about death and famine or something.” IdeasFilmCertainNextComedySeriousHeavyComicComedianFamineFrivolous Author:Woody Allen
“I knew I wanted to work with Brad [Falchuk] and Ian [Brennan] again on something comedic, and we are having a blast writing SCREAM QUEENS. We hope to create a whole new genre - comedy-horror - and the idea is for every season to revolve around two female leads.” WritingTwoIdeasWholeWantedComedyHorrorFemaleSeasonsGenreQueensScreamBlastComedicBrad Author:Ryan Murphy
“I have a side of me that doesn't care. I really enjoy physical comedy, thinking of an idea and pitching it to the director.” ThinkingIdeasCareEnjoySidesComedyDirectorsPitchingPhysical Comedy Author:Isla Fisher
“I'm a sponge. I'm obsessed with comedy. I'm obsessed with the idea that you can make somebody laugh, and I love to be around people who can make other people laugh.” PeopleIdeasLaughingComedyObsessedSponges Author:Rashida Jones
“Performing comedy, you develop a rhythm of ideas and laughs. I live for it.” IdeasLaughingComedyRhythmPerforming Author:Louis C. K.
“Most of my comedy writing happens through improvisation on stage; doing it in the moment. Going up with an idea and fleshing it out over time on stage and in front of people until it becomes a full bit.” PeopleWritingIdeasMomentsHappensBitsComedyStageFrontsImprovisationComedy Writing Author:Marc Maron
“What you want to do is talk about ideas, you write a novel, you have a lecture about those ideas. Satire and comedy are really the only film mediums where you can get into ideas and have people leave the theater without being moralized.” PeopleWantWritingIdeasFilmNovelComedyTheaterWhat You WantMediumsSatireLectures Author:Justin Simien
“Comedy can be destructive, and still very, very funny. But if I can do something that is fun to watch and critical of the world but not wantonly destructive, I pursue those kinds of ideas more. The world needs less destruction. And destruction is kind of “easy,” too.” IfsWorldKindStillsI CanIdeasFunCan DoWatchesComedyCriticalPursueDestructiveCan Do Something Author:Bob Odenkirk
“I took a job in a comedy club - not doing stand-up comedy, because that's my idea of hell, but in the office - and I went traveling.” IdeasJobsHellComedyOfficeClubsStand Up ComedyComedy Clubs Author:Phoebe Fox
“I love the idea of doing comedy, whether it's action comedy or just straight comedy. It's such a big, new world for me that I'm starting to realize that any character that I relate to, in any way, shape or form, or that I have any appreciation for, given enough preparation, I can find that person.” WorldWayPersonsI CanIdeasEnoughCharacterBigsActionFormGivenRealizingComedyShapesStartingAppreciationPreparationRelateNew World Author:Zoe Bell
“My record label, which is a huge record label who represents massive, massive stars - they've never done anything like this before, and they were so excited about this idea of an animated character which is singing legitimate music. It's not a comedy record, it's a legitimate record. And they really jumped on board. So, we've got our Facebook page up, we'll be jumping on Twitter very soon, and sort of be creating Haley outside of American Dad.” IdeasDoneCharacterStarsRecordsComedyHugeDadCreatingPagesSingingExcitedLabelsBoardsMassiveJumpingAnimatedRecord LabelsHaleyFacebook PageAmerican Dad Author:Rachael MacFarlane