#comedy

You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#audiences #come #comedy #doing #draw

It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy. ↗

— Larry David

#coming #hear #i #kind #mainstream

The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy. ↗

— Bjork

#country #critical #criticism #english #good

The male image has been so pulled down by situation comedy in the last 15 years, it is frightening. I don't like what has happened to the American male. ↗

— Bill Bixby

#been #comedy #down #frightening #happened

I would like to play an average guy. I would have loved to play opposite John Candy in a movie. That was my dream for a long time, and sadly, now I can never realize that. But I'd like to do comedy. ↗

— Warwick Davis

#average guy #candy #comedy #dream #guy

Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other. ↗

— Jack Dee

#area #coin #comedy #lead #might

I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second. ↗

— Jack Dee

#almost #become #came #comedian #comedy

The book is called 'Thanks for Nothing' and it's really the story of how I got into comedy and traces back every strand in my life that is relevant to that story. It's kind of an autobiography but isn't, as it stops about 25 years ago. It goes right up to the first time I do stand up. ↗

— Jack Dee

#ago #autobiography #back #book #called

I will always love to perform standup comedy. ↗

— Shelley Berman

#comedy #i #love #perform #standup

I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny. ↗

— Illeana Douglas

#brooks #comedy #day #fantasy #find