Quotes of: Sketch-comedy Keyword

The Stranger: I guess that's the way the whole durned human comedy keeps perpetuatin' itself.

The Big Lebowski

You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly.

Albert Brooks

The last thing I want to do is use my comedy as a partisan tool or as a method for preaching.

Armando Iannucci

People want their actors to do comedy, too. They don't want any comedians next to the actor. They want one solo hero and want to see everything in him.

Akshay Kumar

I get frustrated by the fact that comics go on stage with some kind of agenda beyond comedy - I'm not sure it should be about that.

Andrew Lawrence

I am a stage actor. I do mostly improv comedy. The only national television stuff is 'Archer' and' Frisky Dingo.'

Amber Nash

Especially when you deal with comedy, you have got to be really honest because it's the honesty and the spontaneity that causes people to chuckle, that catches people.

Austin Peck

I'm not interested in parts where they are looking for a good-looking guy. I want to be a weird little sidekick in a crazy comedy and then play like a dark drama or a thriller.

Alexander Skarsgard

I'm gradually working through my obsessions, and maybe, when they're all free and clear, I'll write a comedy. But I'm not there yet.

Alice Sebold

I like a certain style of show, I like a certain pace, I like a rhythm, I like a lot of comedy in with my drama.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

The male image has been so pulled down by situation comedy in the last 15 years, it is frightening. I don't like what has happened to the American male.

Bill Bixby

Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that. I've been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you're under pressure.

Al Franken

If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration.

Robert Moses

Comedy covers such a wide range of different styles that I'm not really qualified to talk on all of them any more than anyone else is.

Tim Vine

Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.

Vivien Leigh

When I was at school at Paris, I had special lessons from Mademoiselle Antoine, an actress at the Comedie Francaise, and I was taken to every sort of play. I felt very grand.

Vivien Leigh

I could keep trying to do the same kind of comedies. You know how it's going to go, and you can get an audience with it, but then I feel like a hamster on a wheel.

Vince Vaughn

You don't really have to say much when your headline is 'Drag Queen Robs Burger King.' Sometimes comedy writes itself.

Willie Geist

I think it's because my comedy is in your face, and it comes from a place that's real.

Wanda Sykes

'Community' is a comedy show, and one of the characters happens to be a Christian. I do think they have been very careful to make sure everyone is the butt of the joke for various reasons.

Yvette Nicole Brown

When it comes to comedy, it might be interesting to know why an airplane works, but really? Maybe it's better not to know why certain things work. Just fly the thing, and if nothing falls apart, you'll be fine.

Bill Hader