“Your anger can be 49 percent and your comedy 51 percent, and you're okay. If the anger is 51 percent, the comedy is gone.” IfsGoneComedyPercentOkay Author:Joan Rivers
“I think that when you’re doing a comedy and it makes you laugh, there’s a certain… like you can reject it, and it’s okay. It’s not promoting it or making it seem cool. I think that’s when you get into hot water.” ThinkingSeemsCertainWaterLaughingComedyLike YouOkayHotRejectsPromotingMake You LaughHot Water Author:Michael Pena
“Comedies are very hard to do. They are difficult. Unless there's the Judd Apatow school, where they're like okay, we know that, we're going to do those. Or unless it's something that's far to the other side.” KnowsHardSchoolDifficultSidesComedyOkay Author:Don Cheadle
“I knew I wanted to be in comedy but the path of least resistance was doing stand-up in folk music clubs where I could get on stage. I guess you could get up no matter how bad you were and you didn't have to audition. You just got up. Everything else required an audition and if you auditioned for a TV show, you would stand in line with a hundred other people. But at the clubs, it was okay just to get up, so that's why I started in stand-up.” PeopleIfsMatterShowsWantedLinesPathComedyStageTvsHundredOkayFolksClubsResistanceGet UpTv ShowsAuditionsFolk MusicPath Of Least Resistance Author:Steve Martin
“To me, Fight Club was a comedy. When [David] Fincher sent me the book and I read it, the first thing I asked him was, "This is a comedy, right?" he said, "Yeah, that's the whole point," and I said, "Okay, I'm in." I certainly wasn't imagining myself as a dramatic actor when I was running around in my underwear in that film.” FirstsSaidBookWholeRunningFilmFightingActorsComedyOkayYeahClubsDramaticUnderwear Author:Edward Norton
“I do come across people who don't like me, don't like my comedy, don't think it's funny, it's too cutesy, or whatever they hate. And it's like, "Okay. That's your opinion. Somebody liked it, so that's good." Hopefully it balances out.” PeopleThinkingHateOpinionComedyBalanceOkayLike MeHopefullyDon't Like Me Author:Demetri Martin
“I'd say that that is a challenge, but it also is, again, it's helpful. It's helpful to have the discipline of, okay, I'm doing, I'm doing something that's quite precise over here, working the puppet, and I'm doing something that's very imprecise and creative and unleashed over here, which is the comedy side. And it's kind of nice to allow your brain to be doing those two things at once.” KindTwoSidesChallengesBrainCreativeComedyNiceDisciplineOkayTwo ThingsHelpfulPrecisePuppetsUnleashed Author:Brian Henson
“I haven't seen a lot of screwball comedies, and I don't think of myself as loving the genre. To me it sounds like, okay, you're going to be in a lot of crazy situations that are unbelievable.” ThinkingSoundSituationComedyCrazyHavensOkayGenreUnbelievable Author:Owen Wilson
“At the beggining of my career, for me the comedy circuit was a combination of desperation and the fact that it was something I could do. I sort of meandered and really had no idea what I was going to do with my life. I had a go at stand-up, and I was sort of okay at it. I'd say I'm the opposite of someone that has the urge to stand in front of strangers and make them laugh, but the idea of getting up and telling a story and people finding it amusing always appealed to me. So I'd say it was probably more about that than anything.” PeopleLaughingComedyOkayStrangerDesperationAmusing Author:Eric Bana
“I always try to stick to the script because I want to respect the writers, and I want to respect the director. But if the director and my fellow actors are okay with me playing with it a little bit, then I definitely want to play with it. I definitely want to do that, because I tend to... when I put things in my own words, it comes out way better. It flows naturally, it just feels better. I can put some weight into the words. Even in comedy, it just comes better.” TryingComedyOkayFeel Better Author:Rob Riggle
“If the audience is responding very well to comedians that are hacks, and I don't do well, I don't feel as bad, because I feel like their taste is different than mine. They're laughing at somebody I would never laugh at, so that makes it okay, because obviously our tastes are not in the same place. And comedy is subjective, so I feel like maybe the failure wasn't all mine. I don't think they ever would have really enjoyed me. So sometimes that's a little easier, but not much.” ThinkingDifferentSometimesAudienceLaughingComedyOkayComedian Author:Janeane Garofalo