I think, through comedy, sometimes we're allowed to discuss things that you'd never be able to talk about in a drama.
I think that... I would say that sometimes people get afraid of when you're balancing comedy and drama.
I think comedy I've learned is really just about relaxing and trusting yourself and allowing yourself to fail.
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
I would like to do comedy. I can be a bit of a Jim Carrey. I was always the class clown.
You have to be careful what you say in front of comedy writers because they will absolutely make fun of it in the next episode.
I always say, 'Thank goodness 'Wimpy Kid' was a comedy because my singing in that was more humorous than professional.'
I'm not the guy with the enormous comedy nose or the big feet or the bad posture or the whatever; a physical comic has certain things.
I had always been heavily influenced by stand-up. I was in a comedy team called Red Johnny And The Round Guy.
If you can have heart as well as the comedy, it takes you a lot further. I think that that's what we were trying to do with 'Gigi.'
My comedy is different every time I do it. I don't know what the hell I'm doing.
There's always something interesting about comedy teams that have the exact same energy. The one time I really noticed that was Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly in 'Step Brothers.'
With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.
I don't know what I'd do if I was making a romantic comedy; I wouldn't feel like I was earning my $100 a day.
Mind you, Roman Holiday - which is kind of a romantic comedy - is one of my favorite films, and I think Audrey Hepburn is absolutely phenomenal in that movie.
Acting can be pretty challenging. I can't say making a romantic comedy is challenging, but to do anything well, you have to put yourself into it.
I don't want to be pigeonholed into doing just romantic comedies. But they're fun, and especially for women, it's nice to go to see them and enjoy that breath of fresh air.
I go to acting class, and in acting class, I'm not the girl that brings in romantic comedies; I'm the girl that wants to do 'Girl Interrupted' all the time.
I still want to do a romantic comedy or a western or a gritty independent film... there's so much that I still want to do.
All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.
And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence.
