Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jenji Kohan

A TV touchstone for me is 'The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd.' That series was whimsical and smart and had the mix of comedy and drama that I now trade in - but with a dash of magical realism. I wanted to be Molly Dodd, but more than that, I wanted to be Jay Tarses, who created the show.

Melissa McCarthy

At some point in the past, it was decided that women in comedy are never supposed to be shown in an unflattering light. But in comedy, you need all of your tools to be funny.

Mark Waters

Drama is played at the pace of chess... or billiards... or poker. Engrossing? Sure. But comedy is played at the jubilant, high-octane speed of sports like basketball or hockey.

Ray William Johnson

Sometimes, comedy and entertainment is not all about telling jokes; sometimes you just have to be you for a few moments.

Reese Witherspoon

Romantic comedy has really evolved since that time when there used to be a lot of social conventions and all sorts of reasons why people couldn't be together,

Christy Romano

It would be a half-hour comedy that would really showcase my personality so my fans could get to know me. And I'd love to keep working with ABC.

Will Rogers

The way to judge a good comedy is by how long it will last and have people talk about it. Now Congress had turned out some that have lived for years and people are still laughing about them.

Brett Ratner

I'm a laugher and a lover of comedy.

Ben Elton

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.

Lynn Sadler

The breeding population there is no bigger than that of the federally endangered mountain lion of Florida - the Florida panther,

Robert Douglas

The sizes of homes keep getting bigger and bigger. We are looking for ways to control the size.

Kim Smith

This is a small district. If they're looking for that kind of money, those kind of benefits, they should be in a bigger district. They're welcomed to leave. They're welcomed to work some place else that can pay them what they want. We can't, it's that simple!

John Reid

This is definitely bigger than homecoming, I'd say.

Scotty Bowman

That's not going to create more scoring chances. Scoring chances are down because that's the way the game is played today. The players are bigger now, there's not as much room to move around. You watch old tapes, which I do quite a bit, it is a different game now.

Martin Chapman

That's just a little taste of what's liable to happen at some point in the not-so-distant future. There's no reason why a much bigger earthquake couldn't happen there.

John Hoffman

We did it for the past four years in Oil City and it gets bigger and better each year.

John McEnroe

Things slow down, the ball seems a lot bigger and you feel like you have more time. Everything computes - you have options, but you always take the right one.

Silvia Pepino

There is a risk (to the recovery from the VAT hike) but since we are seeing stronger growth then there is a bigger chance that the German economy can actually withstand it.

Quentin Clark

The broadest audience we can reach right now is going to be on Windows XP. What we do longer term is a function of where the market is.

Jennifer Lopez

I see this opportunity as a way to connect to the Spanish-speaking audience in a different and more profound way than I've been able to do in the past. I want to tell the stories of Latinos who grow up here and live the American Dream.

Eduard Hanslick

That the sweetly intoxicating three-four rhythm which took hold of hand & foot, necessarily eclipsed great & serious music & made the audience unfit for any intellectual effort goes without saying.

James Wan

I don't like talking about sequels or spinoffs or franchise until they actually happen, until they actually work with the audience.

Kate Smith

It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.

Tom Bissell

All video games are games, obviously. They're designed. They're digital. They have rules; they give an audience some type of vicarious experience.

Tracy Chapman

I think of the audience the way I would think of another person: You meet someone, then you take it from there; you see what's interesting to both of you.

Barry Levinson

It's always hard to explain why an audience ultimately responds to a movie.

Suzy Menkes

I was taken to my first fashion show - Nina Ricci haute couture - in Paris by the White Russian princess, down on her luck, whom I was boarding with in Paris in 1963. I was captivated by the glamour of the gilded salon, the elegant clothes, and the audience of grand ladies.