John C. Reilly
Related Comedy is such a vulnerable thing. With drama, you're not trying to make someone cry. If you do,... HARLEY QUINN SMITH CARL REINER With drama, you know if you're having a true moment, but in comedy, if somebody doesn't laug... BROOKE NEVIN The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and y... LESLIE NIELSEN I didn't want to do comedy again. It is way harder when you are doing comedy. You can't just... PATRICIA RICHARDSON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, tha... NORM MACDONALD I'm not good at telling a joke, but I can say a line in a certain way that makes people uncomfor... WALTON GOGGINS Comedy is so subjective. You could be in a room with 400 people laughing at a joke and you could jus... TODD PHILLIPS I think that there's a fine line between comedy and drama. I think that ultimately, the less win... MICHAEL MOSLEY The thing about stand-ups is you can't really get good unless you're failing in front of a l... DAVID STEINBERG ADRIANA LIMA ADAM MCKAY ELI ROTH When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thi... BARRY HANNAH KEVIN HART I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't thin... DAVID WALLIAMS JESSICA ST. CLAIR Comedy can be more difficult than drama. It requires more attention to timing. In the theater, you&#... DAVID ALAN BASCHE I think it's great training for any comedian to start on cows. Because with cows, you expect the... KRISTEN SCHAAL I really enjoyed multicamera comedy. You film in front of a live audience, and it's kind of the ... ALAN RUCK TREVOR NOAH With comedy, it's really hard to tell if something's working on the page - you really need t... MAGGIE CAREY STAN LAUREL I think if you're trying to be funny, sometimes you're bending a piece of metal in a directi... TAMSIN GREIG MAGGIE SMITH LAKE BELL I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy... STEVE COOGAN NICK KROLL 'The Bill Engvall Show' is a comedy about a middle-class family in the Midwest. It's a g... NANCY TRAVIS CHRISTOPHER GUEST There's just something about youth and comedy that go together. Maybe it's that foolishness,... JOE FLAHERTY KEVIN NEALON I started to do a study on how not to do stand-up comedy. Yeah, it's lonely work. You die, you d... JIM VARNEY TREVOR NOAH ELLIOTT ERWITT LAURA DERN BRYAN CRANSTON I don't like doing things by halves, and I realised you can't do stand-up comedy part-time. DEIRDRE O'KANE WILL FERRELL I have always felt comedy and tragedy are roommates. If you look up comedy and tragedy, you will fin... GILBERT GOTTFRIED AMY POEHLER KEVIN HART If I'm doing comedy, I try to improvise a lot. Even if they don't use it, it helps me loosen... ZACH WOODS As an actor you get categorized by other people, but it's not like I arrange myself into comedy ... SOPHIE THOMPSON MATT DILLON JULIANNE MOORE When you do a good comedy show, you have to understand that if you don't have drama or sad momen... JAIME CAMIL JOHN C. REILLY I used to go red when anybody spoke to me. It's awful because you absolutely cannot control it. ... CATHERINE TATE JERRY SEINFELD I really like comedy. There's always a choice, when you're writing: you can either go for th... DAVID CHASE BO BURNHAM When doing a series, I look for something that has an idea you can think about, something that I'... DARREN STAR JOHN RIDLEY I laugh a lot in horror films. If I'm scared in a horror film, I try to think about what's s... JASON REITMAN CARL REINER DYLAN MORAN HANNIBAL BURESS HANNAH SIMONE You really have no idea whether or not what you're writing is funny. In stand-up and sketch come... MICHAEL SHOWALTER TREVOR NOAH TINA FEY I don't want to play earnest. I'd rather play somebody who's kind of sleazy. It's mu... JACK COLEMAN JIM HENSON I think at the beginning of a project, you decide if you're in love with the idea and what it... SPIKE JONZE TATIANA MASLANY I think it's harder to go from comedy to drama than from drama to comedy. Seeing you dramatic al... EVAN PETERS TOMMY CHONG In comedy, if you don't have the right tuning with your co-actor, the humour can fall flat. JACQUELINE FERNANDEZ I love doing comedy. I find comedy quite hard work. Comedy's underrated, I think, by actors, you... RALPH BROWN ROBIN WILLIAMS DWAYNE JOHNSON I'm not a comedian, I'm not a stand-up and I don't come from a comedy background. I am a... DARREN BOYD ROBIN WILLIAMS JOSH DUHAMEL WALTER DEAN MYERS There's this weird thing that happens when you contribute something to a static profile. You hav... EVAN SPIEGEL ADAM MCKAY If you're somebody who writes songs or writes fiction, a writer that people pay for your opinion... JASON ISBELL I can't tell if I want to be a rapper who's funny because I kind of enjoy just doing really ... AWKWAFINA Even in comedy, you have to be real. It's all about being real. It's how real can you be? Th... CRAIG ROBINSON I do love situational comedy, clowning, and slapstick; I approach that with a lot of respect. The go... JAIME CAMIL CRAIG GROESCHEL A sign now of success with a certain audience when you do a short comedy piece, anywhere, is that it... ANDY SAMBERG That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don&#... VICTORIA PRATT Shy, insecure, afraid to speak up? “Act as if,” they say. Act as if you’re not. Stand tall whe... TAMARA IRELAND STONE With female-oriented movies, unless it's something like 'Bridesmaids' or a romantic come... CALLIE KHOURI With this business, you have to learn to go with the flow. Not being able to grow in comfort is a be... MADISON MARLOW ZACH GALIFIANAKIS If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration. ROBERT MOSES I don't desire happiness. I think it's a myth, and I don't think it's... and it make... BEAU WILLIMON People think that, when you're doing comedy, nothing means anything, that people run around and ... J. SMITH-CAMERON SAM KINISON ROBERTO BENIGNI Comedy and tragedy co-exist. You can't have one without the other. I'm of the school that an... HAROLD RAMIS ARI GRAYNOR REBEL WILSON GENE WILDER JULIA SAWALHA
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I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't... 
Don't try to be what you're not. If you're nervous, be nervous. If you're shy, be sh... 
First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times t... 
Horror is like comedy. Woody Allen's comedy is going to be very different from Ben Stiller's... 
Comedy's about opening up and being unique, but to a point where the audience can relate to what... 
The thing with physical comedy is that you have to actually try to do the thing you're trying to... 
The first purpose of comedy is to make people laugh. Anything deeper is a bonus. Some comedians want... 
A friend once asked me what comedy was. That floored me. What is comedy? I don't know. Does anyb... 
I do love comedy, and when it's a comedy moment and you can make people laugh, of course it is w... 
I think, in general, when you're doing comedy, you're having a good time regardless of the c... 
Comedy can't be done in a vacuum, and you can't do it on your own. So if you have a communit... 
If you don't like the people, you're just doing a sketch. Which, in most cases, is comedy mi... 
With music, you're laying it all out there. They're judging you right away, and you can lose... 
What I've always said about comedy is if you do it in the right way, you can say anything to any... 
You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them. You... 
If you're looking to be loved for a part, it's great and enticing to be adorable in a romant... 
What's great about comedy, obviously, is that you set up a situation that people assume one thin... 
I think a lot of the instincts you have doing comedy are really the same for doing drama, in that it... 
When you're doing sketch comedy and you're pregnant, it's like wearing a giant sombrero ... 
I get that racism exists, but it's not a catalyst for my content. I don't need to talk about... 
I like doing comedy, I like doing drama. Naturally I like to do, I like doing dramas, I like conflic... 
You know, comedy's hard. With drama, you have a responsibility to the emotional truth, but with ... 
I like working. I wish I could say I made a deliberate choice to comedy, but it's just what came... 
When you're in comedy, people always come up and say, 'Oh, it must be so hard.' It reall... 
I think comedy has a range, with multiple peaks in different areas. It's like trying to compare ... 
As an ex-stand up, I can tell you that a comedy club isn't a place you go looking to get the abu... 
You have to assume that you're talking to the most intelligent, tuned-in audience you could ever... 
You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come ... 
The thing I learned about being in this industry is the core of hosting and the core of acting is au... 
When you are honest in your comedy, you have to acknowledge the world that you're in. Through a ... 
If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the sta... 
You're assisting the audience to understand; you're giving them a bridge or an access. And i... 
I think Amy Poehler and Tina Fey have done so much for women in comedy in the sense that they've... 
People try to put ownership on things: 'That's mine, that's my joke.' No such thing.... 
Performing comedy in San Francisco to begin with is pretty wild. You've got to - you've got ... 
If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you've got a pretty good shot at maki... 
In the process of looking for comedy, you have to be deeply honest. And in doing that, you'll fi... 
Relationships, if you want them to work, take work. The biggest thing that I learned growing up, and... 
I don't want to approach reading from the viewpoint of that it's a pleasant adjunct to your ... 
I'll tell you one thing... no doubt about it, my favorite kind of comedy is talking head comedy.... 
If you catch yourself wondering why you want more of the world and you're not satisfied with God, it... 
I think comedy does have that powerful thing that doesn't seem too preachy because you're al... 
Real comedy doesn't just make people laugh and think, but makes them laugh and change. 
I'm a storyteller: the crux of the matter is to reach beauty, poetry; it doesn't matter if t... 
There's a certain truism that you can't be self-conscious in comedy. 
In comedy, it's not the glamorous, beautiful people that are great at comedy. They're either... 
Success is a terrible thing and a wonderful thing. If you can enjoy it, it's wonderful. If it st... 
It's a tremendous feeling walking on to a set with a live audience and making them laugh, but I ... 
I know I'm not some matinee idol, but I think we're sold this bill of goods by the media, wh... 
I was a founding member of the 'Dungeons and Dragons' club at my high school. I was in choru... 
These are lines from my asteroid-impact novel, Regolith:
Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, tak... 
I write the story that nobody reads. Someday, I'm going to write it in German to see if anyone notic... 
One time after one of these long trips, my wife and I had been separated for a long time and I calle... 
The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potentia... 
The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their dist... 
Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn... 
None but a people advanced to a high state of moral and intellectual excellence are capable in a civ... 
What people can excel our Northern and New England brethren in skill, invention, activity, energy, p... 
The problem for a lot of people is that they don't really know what they want. They have vague desir... 
It is time that financial types developed a greater tolerance for imprecision, because that?s the wa... 
I will tell each person what I have told others in the past 
I never know what South Carolina thinks of a measure. I never consult her. I act to the best of my j... 
Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind. 
In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true. 
If you don't have a policeman to stop traffic and let you walk across the street like you are somebo... 
In private grief with careless scorn. In public seem to triumph and not to mourn. 
Obstinacy in opinions holds the dogmatist in the chains of error, without hope of emancipation. 