Noureen DeWulf Quotes

I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.

The best comedy, I feel, comes in a drama because it balances each other out.

It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy.

I always found that drama, really good drama, has a lot of comedy in it.

I'd love to do some comedy. Particularly French comedy, which I know sounds like a contradiction in terms.

I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny.

What's the funniest play ever written? I used to think it was 'Noises Off,' but now that I've seen 'The Liar,' I'm not so sure.

Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.

Comedy becomes intensified in short scenes.

I have a lot of funny friends, and we joke a lot, but I've never really played comedic parts.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.

I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv.

Denzel Washington has a great sense of humor. He did all those 'Nutty Professor' movies.

I like all Jim Carrey films. They're really funny.

Now the point of comedy is not just looking funny, it's use of language. We have at our disposal a great language... and the imaginative, creative use of that language can be at the service of humour.

I like really stupid comedies.

In the best traditions of American comedy, from its beginnings through the crash-bang comedies of the 1990s and 2000s, Leslie Nielsen skewered the otherwise proper, did it with mischievous delight and convulsed audiences mercilessly.

Comedy is unique in the sense that laughter is a palpable noise that everyone makes.

I would love to do a comedy spoof, like a Spinal Tap kind of thing.

I guess I don't have much interest in writing straight drama. So whatever subject matter I choose will ultimately be dealt with in a comic way.

I haven't done much comedy; I would love to. I love doing dramatic roles, but I'd love to do comedy. I think it would be refreshing.

Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.

Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.