Quotes of: Musical-comedy Keyword

I think that for the most part, when I started doing comedy, it had become very commercialized.

Larry David

I like to think I've done a lot of different kinds of roles, but obviously I have done quite a lot of comedies.

Luke Wilson

I think that there's a fine line between comedy and drama.

Michael Mosley

The only thing I miss from the sitcom format is that immediate gratification of when you're, if we're talking about comedy, of the live audience.

Ray Romano

I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.

Rachel Weisz

We call ourselves comedy writer-performers, and that encompasses everything, and I certainly have a very open mind about it.

Robert Webb

I believe in the importance of sincerity and emotion and honesty in TV, even when it's goofy comedy.

Michael Schur

For storytelling purposes, there has to be conflict, but that doesn't mean the people have to be mean. I've never liked mean-spirited comedy.

Michael Schur

I want to be able to infuse some youthful energy and comedy while appreciating the generations before.

Neil Patrick Harris

My thinking is, if we're setting out to make comedy in which nothing is off limits, then everybody is fair game.

Nick Kroll

Some comedians will tour and do these classic bits all the time. But now with YouTube and Comedy Central, people see your stuff, and they don't want to hear you do that again.

Aziz Ansari

It's certainly strange to do sketch comedy with cue cards at midnight in a skyscraper as opposed to in a basement with your friends.

Casey Wilson

I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what things are funny and not.

Keenen Ivory Wayans

I was never really comfortable doing comedy. Though it was good the first couple of years, there were problems, and it became a stifling experience. I was happy it ended.

Ricky Schroder

I'm kind of obsessed with food. I like to eat. When I tour, it's like, well, like a food tour as much as a comedy tour.

Aziz Ansari

My family's always been really funny. I feel like comedy's hard. I feel like it's so important.

Christine Taylor

I'm a storyteller: the crux of the matter is to reach beauty, poetry; it doesn't matter if that is comedy or tragedy. They're the same if you reach the beauty.

Roberto Benigni

There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.

Sally Field

I think I would do a much better job if I had a chance to do things that were edgier than I get to do in comedies.

Seann William Scott

We just sort of thought a Web series would be a cool thing to be able to send to our parents to show them that we were, in fact, actually doing comedy.

Abbi Jacobson

I didn't know I was cool, but I was very flattered that some of the younger comedy writers came up to talk to me at the Emmys. I found that gratifying.

Bob Newhart