#comedy

Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#comedy #stringent #very

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#because #comedy #critic #dramatic #exacting

I would say that fifty percent of my show is killer comedy. ↗

— Davy Jones

#fifty #fifty percent #i #killer #percent

I think that no matter how much you don't like yourself or the drama of your life you can still find some comedy in it. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#drama #find #how #i #i think

There is a strange sort of reasoning in Hollywood that musicals are less worthy of Academy consideration than dramas. It's a form of snobbism, the same sort that perpetuates the idea that drama is more deserving of Awards than comedy. ↗

— Gene Kelly

#awards #comedy #consideration #deserving #drama

I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#bad #bad habits #character #comedy #fall

But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#humanly #i #love #much #possible

Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#became #before #comedy #doing #fifteen

Same job, whether it's comedy or drama. Regardless of the weight of the role, I feel like the job is always kind of the same. Who is this person? What's this guy here, and how is he playing with this thing, and what's he trying to say? And what's the volley with all these other people around him? ↗

— Greg Kinnear

#around #comedy #drama #feel #guy

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

— Robert Klein

#drama #drama school #mentor #only #rodney