Quotes having the keyword Comedy
Fox came to us with the concept for ICE AGE and they came to us with the first draft of the script. They also gave us a mandate to make it into a comedy from what was previously a rather dramatic action concept.
by Chris Wedge (Director, American , born in 1957) keywords: action, age, also, came, comedy, concept, draft, dramatic, first, fox, gave, ice, into, make, mandate, previously, rather, script , us I take my fun very seriously, whether it's playing the drums or acting in comedy bits. The need to be disciplined about it, and not take it lightly, and not be too casual, is something I take deeply to heart.
by Max Weinberg (Musician, American , born in 1951) keywords: acting, bits, casual, comedy, deeply, disciplined, drums, fun, heart, lightly, need, playing, seriously, something, take, too, very , whether That title, is one of the things I fought for. A lot of people said "But it's stupid, and it's the title of a comedy movie, and people won't take it seriously," and I'm sure there are some people who still don't. But for the most part, people do see that we really have a quality show.
by Joss Whedon (Writer, American , born in 1964) keywords: comedy, fought, lot, most, movie, part, quality, really, said, see, seriously, show, some, still, stupid, sure, take, things, title , won I had to choose, I'd be so sad. They are flip sides of the same coin. I love both comedy and drama.
by Dianne Wiest (Actor, American , born in 1948) keywords: both, choose, coin, comedy, drama, flip, had, love, sad, same , sides I'd like to do a comedy with Emma Thompson. I admire her as an actress so much. I love her. And I didn't know it until recently that her whole career started in comedy.
by Gene Wilder (Actor, American , born in 1933) keywords: actress, admire, career, comedy, emma, her, know, love, much, recently, started, thompson, until , whole Someone I've always admired is Catherine O'Hara... I think she's one of the best actresses in the country, not only comedy. I just think she's just a step aside from everybody, she's just wonderful.
by Fred Willard (Comedian, American , born in 1939) keywords: actresses, admired, always, aside, best, catherine, comedy, country, everybody, hara, just, only, she, someone, step, think , wonderful I never walked the streets of New York hoping to be a musical comedy star. For one thing, they would have thought I was too tall, because l was five feet eight and a half, and they were all little bitty things running around in the studio at that time.
by Esther Williams (Actor, American , born in 1921) keywords: around, because, comedy, eight, feet, five, half, hoping, little, musical, never, new, running, star, streets, studio, tall, thing, things, thought, time, too, walked, were, would , york People need to be peppered or even outraged occasionally. Our national comedy and drama is packed with earthy familiarity and honest vulgarity. Clean vulgarity can be very shocking and that, in my view, gives greater involvement.
by Kenneth Williams (Actor, British , born in 1926) keywords: clean, comedy, drama, even, familiarity, gives, greater, honest, involvement, national, need, occasionally, our, outraged, packed, shocking, very, view , vulgarity Especially with a comedy, you've got the clear cut goal of trying to make a scene funny. It's not like drama where you're trying to achieve some kind of emotion or trying to further the story along. You're trying to figure out what's the funniest way to do something.
by Luke Wilson (Actor, American , born in 1971) keywords: achieve, along, clear, comedy, cut, drama, emotion, especially, figure, funniest, funny, further, goal, got, kind, make, out, scene, some, something, story, trying, way , where You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.
by Owen Wilson (Actor, American , born in 1968) keywords: actors, comedy, cool, dramatic, freshmen, high, hollywood, juniors, maybe, school, seniors, think , tv I think we're the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. It's not a joke show. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great part of what it is to be human.
by Rainn Wilson (Actor, American , born in 1966) keywords: again, awkward, born, comedy, experience, funny, great, human, joke, lines, mean, moments, only, part, pauses, punch, really, show, television , think I've an idea for doing a Situation Comedy myself but its always difficult to get people to listen to you because they like to put their own ideas forward.
by Norman Wisdom (Comedian, English , born in 1915) keywords: always, because, comedy, difficult, doing, forward, get, idea, ideas, listen, myself, own, put, situation , their It's fun to do a comedy and hook people in and then hoodwink them into watching a serious movie. I like to lead in with the comedy and then hit them over the head with a drama.
by Reese Witherspoon (Actor, American , born in 1976) keywords: comedy, drama, fun, head, hit, hook, into, lead, movie, over, serious, them, then , watching Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off.
by Dick Wolf (Producer, American , born in 1946) keywords: advertisers, audience, bets, changes, comedy, drama, mass, off, once, programming, reach, still, surest , way I am a big fan of the TV series Taxi which combined comedy and pathos better than any other show I've seen.
by Douglas Wood (Celebrity, Australian , born in 1942) keywords: am, any, better, big, combined, comedy, fan, other, pathos, seen, series, show, taxi, than, tv , which But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine.
by Jerry Zucker (Director, American , born in 1950) keywords: biggest, comedy, earliest, influence, mad, magazine, our, satire , terms
