31 Quotes About Comedies

I've enjoyed the time I've had working on films. I've enjoyed television movie-of-the-week format. I've enjoyed the few comedies that I've done, and I've enjoyed one-hour television.

I've always loved the '40s romantic comedies and the idea of those mistaken identities and lovers' misunderstandings.

It is nice to do an independent film that can be a commercial hit. I think comedies do really well. I wish more independent films were comedies.

The big story coming out of this year was that comedies did really well,

Romantic comedies seem to take over where the fairytales of childhood left off, feeding our dreams of a soulmate; though, sadly, the Hollywood endings prove quite elusive in the real world.

Americans have always been excellent at making romantic comedies - but dramatically, we don't really try to do it.

I've been really fortunate to do so many comedies and then so many dramatic roles and then television and movies and stuff like that.

I could go my whole life and say, 'I'm not going to do anything with a love triangle,' but whenever you have a romance, there has to be some obstacle, and even the dumbest romantic comedies have a love triangle or something.

I'm fascinated by failure, and I'm fascinated by finality. Shakespeare's historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to the finality of life. Without finality, life would not be beautiful.