I never like to be the same, whether it be comedy or drama, funny or serious.
I try to play serious scenes a little funny and the comedy a little serious.
I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it.
I love Stewart Lee's 'Comedy Vehicle' on BBC2. The guy is a genius.
It'd be fun to do a comedy with someone like Sandra Bullock.
To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy.
Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.
Comedy is my choice, as it's what I've always enjoyed doing.
Comedy is my passion. I'm going to do this until I drop.
I'm not opposed to putting myself in danger for meaningless comedy.
One of my favorite comedies of all time is 'Terms of Endearment;' that's my pace.
We are in desperate need of a well-done romantic lesbian comedy.
I love acting but I also love writing, especially comedy.
It's just so hard to get movies made, especially comedies.
When I'm playing comedy, it is such a crap shoot of what will work and what won't.
For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously. In order to "give a meaning" to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in wha...
Each way to suicide is its own: intensely private, unknowable, and terrible. Suicide will have seemed to its perpetrator the last and best of bad possibilities, and any attempt by the living to chart this final terrain of life can be only a sketch, m...
I talk as I sketch, too, in order to keep their minds off what I'm doing so I'll get the most natural expression I can from them. Also, the talking helps to size up the subject's personality, so I can figure out better how to portray him.
For the most part, my characters don't talk to me. I like to lord over them like some kind of benevolent deity. And, for the most part, my characters go along with it. I write intense character sketches and long, play-like conversations between me an...
We are going to do 'Hot Tub' until we die. Every Monday. Then we'll come back and do it as zombies. 'Hot Tub' is very important. What we do is based on our live skills. It's stand-up and sketch and improv; everything we do in 'Hot Tub' is important t...
For my first show at 'SNL', I wrote a Bill Clinton sketch, and during our read-through, it wasn't getting any laughs. This weight of embarrassment came over me, and I felt like I was sweating from my spine out. But I realized, 'Okay, that happened, a...
