Quotes of: Standup-comedy Keyword

I drank the Kool-Aid of being a network star. Once it didn't happen, I realized it wasn't the best version of my comedy.

Mike Birbiglia

'The Best Man' was my first feature film, and I didn't want to be known as a director who only does romantic comedies.

Melissa De Sousa

If you want to reach any kind of poignancy or meaning a lot of times, coming from comedy is the best way to get there.

Matthew Weiner

Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.

Josh Lucas

If you want to be an actor, you need to learn how to act first, even in sketch comedy.

Nicole Sullivan

Real comedy is not when you laugh at an idiot, it's when the idiot laughs at you.

Raheel Farooq

And the only studies were - Rodney Dangerfield was my mentor and he was my Yale drama school for comedy.

Robert Klein

I'm a comedian who happens to be Muslim; my comedy stems on all forms of my identity.

Riaad Moosa

What I wanted to do was the comedy, and I found that. I found my bliss, I think.

Riaad Moosa

There are lots of actors, and you need a way to stand out. Writing comedy sketches was a way of doing that.

Sharon Horgan

The comedy of class, played so straight, is a wonderful thing for an actor to sink their teeth into.

Shirley MacLaine

I am a playwright who does not write comedies, or tragedies.

Steven L. Sheppard

I've done about six comedies. Oddly enough, the script came to me from one of the guys in Platoon.

Tom Berenger

The ladies of comedy now are comfortable dressing up. It's not forbidden anymore.

Tina Fey

Drama and comedy, to me ,are all about being surprising, coherent, and true, all at once.

Tim Blake Nelson

I think I enlist comedy to a serious purpose.

Tom Stoppard

To give up my job as a temp and actually make a living doing comedy, it was staggering.

Kathy Griffin

I don't understand why people think it's harder to do drama than it is to do comedy.

Leslie Mann

I didn't think, 'I want to do dramas or I want to do comedies' - I wasn't clear in that way.

Leslie Mann

The one thing you're most reluctant to tell. That's where the comedy is.

Mike Birbiglia

I always try to attack the most honest issues I can in my comedy.

Mike Birbiglia