Quotes of: Sketch-comedy Keyword

Drama is played at the pace of chess... or billiards... or poker. Engrossing? Sure. But comedy is played at the jubilant, high-octane speed of sports like basketball or hockey.

Mark Waters

Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories.

Charlton Heston

Clearly romantic comedy is my franchise genre, I don't mind saying that, it's true. I love doing them and hopefully always will do them.

Meg Ryan

When I first did theatre, I was always doing comedies; it was always my first love. But it wasn't what I was picked for at first, for films and TV.

Olivia Wilde

I love Frances McDormand so much. I love her career. And I think it's fun because she gets to do comedy as well as drama.

Rachael Harris

I love comedy, but I actually do prefer drama because I am already animated as a human being.

Shanola Hampton

I think that every piece has its challenges. I love going back and forth between one and the other. I'll always pick a comedy over a drama.

Sigourney Weaver

I'd love to do a comedy; that's the one thing I haven't done yet that I really, really want to do.

Zoe Kravitz

Comedy and drama are less ageist media for women than stuff like light entertainment. But in TV or film, women have to be more pleasing on the eye than men.

Sharon Horgan

Anybody with a sharp brain and a mic can become a comedian, but there's a need to move beyond it. The audience wants to witness the marriage of theatre, comedy and something more.

Vir Das

I was imagining films in my head and trying to gather friends together to make movies since I was a kid. I tried to do comedy skits and a horror film.

Cary Fukunaga

When I was a kid I was much happier watching old movies than kids' TV, and I ended up watching all the old Ealing comedies.

Ewan McGregor

Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded.

Mike Myers

I would like to get back to making people laugh. Before drama school, I did nothing but comedy.

Andrew Buchan

I think that comedy is one of the more serious things that you can do in our day, especially in the world that we're living in.

Antonio Banderas

Making people laugh is magic. I feel like if you have humility, then you can do anything in comedy.

Amanda Seyfried

'The Cosby Show' made an impact on comedy, television and culture. We rejected lowering the bar.

Bill Cosby

I have some very personal feelings about politics, but I don't get into it because I do comedy already.

Jerry Lewis

When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.

Robin McLeavy

I've mainly been in dramas, so this is one of my first comedy kind of performances in Cecil B. Demented.

Stephen Dorff

Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.

Wanda Sykes