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

— Gene Hackman

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If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment. ↗

— Tom Hanks

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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

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

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

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I like idiotic comedies. ↗

— James Gandolfini

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

— Leslie Mann

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I like more grounded comedy. I enjoy broad comedies also, but I like Shirley MacLaine. ↗

— Leslie Mann

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And I think it's very rare to have good stories, well written comedies. ↗

— Sophie Marceau

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I tend to play strong characters and people just assume that I would want to play romantic comedies, which I would love to do, but there are other women that do it so great and they maybe couldn't do what I do, play the kind of characters that I play. ↗

— Carrie-Anne Moss

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