#comedy

I'm not at all funny. I can do dark comedy pretty well, but straight-up comedy, I don't know. I'm much darker. I've been like that since I was 3 years old. ↗

— Rooney Mara

#comedy #dark #darker #funny #i

The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like. ↗

— Rachel McAdams

#action movies #comedy #hard #i #like

A good comedy's very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy. ↗

— Colm Meaney

#comic #comic writing #enjoy #good #hard

We didn't know anything about comedy duos - Abbot and Costello, Martin and Lewis - we didn't know anything about that. Kim Fields showed us a tape of Martin and Lewis and their old shows and they come through the curtain so we started doing research on them. ↗

— Kel Mitchell

#anything #come #comedy #costello #curtain

What's your name, son?' Sam said. The man looked to be about Sam's age, but Sam always thought calling people 'son' immediately gave the air of imperial authority and opened the door for spanking if need be. ↗

— Tod Goldberg

#comedy #funny #spy #age

Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references to the spectators or to the fictive nature of the play. ↗

— Paul Watzlawick

#again #classical #comedy #fictive #found

And I must draft an advertisement for the Daily Prophet, too,' he added thoughtfully. 'We'll be needing a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher.... Dear me, we do seem to run through them, don't we? ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#comedy #dumbledore #harry-potter #secrets #art

It's like a fairy tale. . . on crack! ↗

— Hillary DePiano

#fairy-tale #humor #art

It’s hillbilly urine; we had better get home before they come to eat us.” Kevin said pointing towards home proving if there was ever any doubt that he had no acting ability at all. (The Children of Ankh series) ↗

— Kim Cormack

#fantasy #paranormal-fiction #paranormal-series #paranormal-ya #paranormalfantasy

There are many other little refinements too, Mr. Bohlen. You'll see them all when you study the plans carefully. For example, there's a trick that nearly every writer uses, of inserting at least one long, obscure word into each story. This makes the reader think that the man is very wise and clever. So I have the machine do the same thing. There'll be a whole stack of long words stored away just for this purpose." Where?" In the 'word-memory' section," he said, epexegetically. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#funny #humor #humour #funny