#comedy

Being onstage is like being rock star. Whereas if you're doing a movie, it's such a confined space. You know, you do a comedy, it's so hard, too, 'cause with a comedy, there's no vocal reaction, there's no energy that you get back that spurs you on to be funnier because everyone has to be quiet. ↗

— Matthew Lillard

#because #being #cause #comedy #confined

Something like 'Without a Paddle' does really well at the box office and I'm like, 'Oh, here we go.' In 'Without a Paddle' I'm the romantic lead - great! A comedy and that's what America wants. Then it did nothing for me and I went into kind-of a work abyss. I just didn't get another shot. ↗

— Matthew Lillard

#america #another #box #box office #comedy

What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy. ↗

— John Lithgow

#comedy #feeling #live #sitcom #you

You cannot say, because I am from Naples so I like the mixture of drama and comedy all together. ↗

— Sophia Loren

#because #cannot #comedy #drama #i

I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band. ↗

— Courtney Love

#band #bought #comedy #everybody #i

Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable. ↗

— Paul Lynde

#always #believable #comedy #exaggerated #ludicrous

I don't understand why people think it's harder to do drama than it is to do comedy. ↗

— Leslie Mann

#drama #harder #i #people #than

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

— Leslie Mann

#broad #comedies #comedy #enjoy #grounded

Comedy is obviously a matter of personal taste and the world always needs a clown and some people have no taste at all and any clown will do. ↗

— Marc Maron

#any #clown #comedy #matter #needs

The development of the comedy club industry destroyed the uniqueness and intimacy of the profession but it also created jobs for comics and bred some great performers. ↗

— Marc Maron

#bred #club #comedy #comedy club #comics