#comedies

The reason I turn down 99% of a hundred, I mean a thousand, scripts is because romantic comedies are often very romantic but seldom very funny. ↗

— Hugh Grant

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I think I would say 'The King's Speech' is surprisingly funny, in fact the audiences in London, Toronto, LA, New York commented there's more laughter in this film than in most comedies, while it is also a moving tear-jerker with an uplifting ending. ↗

— Tom Hooper

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In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me. ↗

— Carter Burwell

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But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday. ↗

— Gabrielle Union

#give #give me #go #i #julia

I love romantic comedies. They're for me the easiest thing to do and the most natural to do. There's nothing natural about holding an uzi hanging out of a moving van shooting at people. That's not second nature to me, thank God. ↗

— Gabrielle Union

#comedies #easiest #easiest thing #god #hanging

It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic comedies where both the romance and the comedy are artificial sweeteners. ↗

— James Wolcott

#bathe #both #bridal #comedies #comedy

Our comedies are not to be laughed at. ↗

— Samuel Goldwyn

#laughed #our

I like the days when all the filmmakers had was a film roll, a camera and a gangster. The Mack Sennett comedies were all like that. They'd create little teams to go out and shoot films. ↗

— Michel Gondry

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My early days in Broadway were all comedies. I never did a straight play on Broadway. ↗

— Gene Hackman

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Usually comedy is only available to us ladies in the romantic comedy. That's why I hate romantic comedies. ↗

— Sandra Bullock

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