#comedy

The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language. ↗

— Dominic Chianese

#big influence #came #comedy #feel #had

Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder. ↗

— Patrick Dempsey

#because #caught #comedy #drama #easier

First of all, to defend my work, I had to believe that I am doing a totally silly, stupid, innocent comedy. ↗

— Milos Forman

#believe #comedy #defend #doing #first

Directors, like actors, get typecast. And because I've had great success with comedy and horror and TV shows, that's basically what I'm kind of offered. ↗

— John Landis

#because #comedy #directors #get #great

In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment? ↗

— Famke Janssen

#body needs #boxed #comedy #drama #everybody

I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy. ↗

— Norman Jewison

#comedy #experience #i #mood #moonstruck

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'm drawn to a good story, really, as I hope most people are. For me, it's the story that's going to stay with you eventually, not necessarily the genre. I go to watch a film because of the story, not because it was a Western or a comedy. ↗

— Ryan Kwanten

#comedy #drawn #eventually #film #genre

I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end, the comic's best trick is the illusion that comedy is effortless. That people imagine what he's doing is easy is an occupational hazard. ↗

— Richard Russo

#best #comedy #comic #doing #easy