#comedies

Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies. Musical Theater is now a more expanded art form. Back then, singer/actors were not the norm. From the 60's to now, it is necessary to do it all to be a consummate Broadway performer. ↗

— Betty Buckley

#art form #back #broadway #changed #comedies

If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards, or 1960s British comedies to policy minutiae and political arcana. But, like Christians in ancient Rome, you can still spot them if you know the signals. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#ancient rome #any #baseball #british #cards

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

#comedies #create #days #film #filmmakers

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

#audiences #comedies #commented #ending #fact

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

— Sandra Bullock

#comedies #comedy #hate #i #ladies

People like us who are on their last leg can only understand comedies. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#last #leg #like #only #people

Even in comedies, you've got to feel safe for things to just happen in a way that is natural and free, and recognizable as human. ↗

— Richard Gere

#even #feel #free #got #happen

Shakespeare wrote great plays that we're still watching all these years later. Charlie Chaplin made great comedies and they are still as funny today as they ever were. ↗

— Leonard Maltin

#charlie #charlie chaplin #comedies #ever #funny

Yeah, romantic comedies are the hardest movies to make. Maybe one works a year. ↗

— Dylan McDermott

#hardest #make #maybe #movies #romantic