“I enjoy doing all different types of movies even though I am the most comfortable with comedy.” DifferentEnjoyComedyTypeComfortable Author:Adam Sandler
“I've had a chance to really stretch and do a lot of different genres. When I started acting, my whole focus and intention was to work as a stage actor in a company where you're asked to different roles - do a comedy, do a tragedy, etc. I haven't had any reservations about jumping from one type of genre to another.” DifferentWholeActorsChanceActingCompanyRolesComedyFocusStageHavensTypeTragedyIntentionGenreEtcJumpingReservationsDifferent GenresStage Actors Author:Kyle MacLachlan
“I'm perfectly happy to have the reputation as a comedian. I love comedies, I would love to be doing more comedies. But I also feel like I hit the limit on playing the girlfriend type in a lot of rom-coms that aren't actually rom-coms, but guy movies that happen to have girls in them.” FeelsHappensGuyGirlComedyTypeLimitsReputationComedianGirlfriend Author:Elizabeth Banks
“I think comedians get too much credit or too much criticism for the style of comedy they do, and they generally do the style of comedy that works for them. [...] There's no kind of shrewd calculation going into the type of standup we all do. It's like David Cross is supposed to be doing the David Cross' type of standup.” ThinkingKindComedyToo MuchStyleTypeCrossesCriticismCreditSupposed To BeComedianCalculations Author:Jim Gaffigan
“I am completely open to doing a romantic comedy, but I will never do something just for the sake of doing a specific genre or because it's the time or place to do a different type of movie. I think that would be a huge mistake.” ThinkingDifferentWould BeMistakeComedyHugeTypeSakeGenre Author:Leonardo DiCaprio
“There are two types of actors. There's the actors who can acknowledge that they could never do standup comedy. Then there's the pretentious ones, who believe that acting is harder than standup comedy. I definitely don't think it is. I also think making a comedy is substantially harder than making a drama.” ThinkingBelieveTwoActorsActingComedyTypeDramaHarderAcknowledgePretentious Author:Jim Jefferies
“I'd like to do 'My Best Friend's Wedding,' 'Pretty Woman,' Meg Ryan type stuff. Romantic comedies. I'd love to do some action stuff as well.” WellsActionStuffComedyTypeMy Best FriendPretty WomanMeg Author:Jennifer Love Hewitt
“I can do comedy but it's a certain type. I'm not a physical comedy guy. I'm not Will Ferrell - there's just this crazy and get naked and run through the thing screaming. That's just not my style; my style is drama or - I'm not slapstick.” I CanRunningGuyCertainCan DoComedyCrazyStyleTypeDramaNakedSlapstickPhysical Comedy Author:Mekhi Phifer
“I see parody as another form of comedy. If you are making a comedy, there are a lot of different ways to do it. I'm not necessarily always aware of my quote-unquote persona when doing things like that. It's more, "What does the character need at the time?" I'm certainly drawn to certain types of material, there's no doubt about that.” IfsWayNeedsDoeDifferentCharacterFormCertainDoubtComedyMaterialsTypeDifferent WaysNo DoubtPersonaParody Author:Bruce Campbell
“I think there are certain tenets set in place for all different types on genres. For thrillers, women usually die first. I can't say exactly why, and it's kind of a bummer... But I also can't explain why the wallflower girl in the romantic comedy always gets the guy in the end. That's just the way those movies go.” ThinkingWayFirstsKindI CanDifferentEndsGuyCertainDiesGirlComedyTypeGenreThrillersBummer Author:Katie Aselton
“There are advances in technology and enabling voices, but there are issues with the stories themselves. I think people of color are still not seen as human beings. They're still associated with types, with comedy, but we're in a crisis right now, with things like Black Lives Matter. We need films that address these issues.” PeopleThinkingNeedsHumansStillsMatterStoriesFilmBlackVoiceHuman BeingsTechnologyIssuesComedyColorTypeRight NowCrisisAddressesBlack Lives MatterEnablingBlack Lives Author:Charles Burnett
“I like to play different types roles, but I'd like to do a comedy next.” DifferentPlayNextRolesComedyType Author:Jonny Lee Miller
“The work I'm doing on the screen differs from that of anyone else. My comedy is of a peculiar nature...no writers have been developed along the lines of my type of comedy and this is why I sometimes have differences with writers, supervisors and directors alike.” Has BeensSometimesDifferencesLinesComedyTypeDirectorsScreensPeculiarSupervisors Author:W. C. Fields
“My comedy has no color, it's for everybody, black, white, Latino, Asian. It's not a pro-black show, not a def jam show; it's just straight, wholesome type of humor.” ShowsBlackWhiteComedyColorTypeAsianLatinoJamBlack White Author:Bruce Bruce
“I want to be able to go into a room of aliens and be funny. I don't care who it is. I don't ever want to limit myself to a type of comedy because I don't want to be stuck. I want to be able to make anybody laugh and that's the key for me.” WantCareAbleRoomsLaughingComedyKeysTypeLimitsDon't CareStuckAliensI Don't Care Author:Godfrey
“The Comedy Store attracts all types of people, growing up I was able to meet them all.” PeopleAbleGrowing UpComedyGrowingTypeStores Author:Pauly Shore
“I don't have that kind of Southern experience, of the fire-and-brimstone preacher type of thing. Certainly not in my comedy. I come more from the guilt-ridden, neurotic type of [ - ] I have more in common with the Jewish brand of comedy.” KindCommonFireComedyTypeGuiltBrandsSouthernPreacherNeurotic Author:Larry Wilmore
“Hollywood wanted a certain type of comic - that Def Jam comedy style of comic that was very loud, very brash, very much from the ghetto, had that sensibility.” WantedCertainComedyStyleTypeHollywoodComicLoudSensibilityJamGhettoBrash Author:Larry Wilmore
“Hopefully people will be reinventing comedy forever and ever. This is just what I do, and it's a type of comedy.” PeopleForeverComedyTypeHopefullyReinventing Author:David Cross