Adam McKay Quotes

You probably can't name more than a handful of comedies that would qualify for Best Picture. I can think of a lot of comedy screenplays; Woody Allen has had numerous nominations for his screenplays. But most comedies are calculated. They tend to pander. They're not about anything important.

I suppose I'm what you'd called a character actress, so, often, my characters are quite extreme.

Films with a message just make me laugh.

I knew what kind of genre 'Casa de mi Padre' was going for. But my character, specifically, I think is very real.

I love doing comedy and I love watching comedy... I'm more inclined to go watch a Seth Rogen film than a serious Oscar drama.

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

I love doing comedy, and I don't get a chance to much. I get to play lots of serious people, and killers, and people with a lot of... sheriffs. Good people and bad people, but lots of drama, and to get a chance to be genuinely silly is a great treat for me.

'SCTV' was the concept of a group ensemble doing satirical things. 'Saturday Night Live's sketches were broader than ours, more universal.

It can take the uninitiated a minute to realize that 'Gangnam Style' is satire.

I dress up as a middle-aged prostitute and do a game show.

Chris Farley, I was a huge fan of his growing up. I would love to do something kind of slapstick and funny, maybe where I could change my look even a little bit.

I love comedies, and I like sometimes comedies have a tendency to get a bit lazy. 'The Other Guys' was not lazy.

I'm looking at some comedic horror films because I have often been accused of being too dark. I'm not dark, not compared with 'Saw' or anything like that. So I'm looking at live-action horror films, but not slasher ones - ones that have humor and maybe some social satire.

I have played 50 different kinds of fathers and villains. Only mediocre actors play the part the same way.

It seems like there's a lot of people who just do not understand satire. They think it's weird. There's people who just don't understand you portray something or just explore a character, it means you're condoning it, saying this is the way to live.

Dobie was so well written and so ahead of its time.

I thought 'Borat' was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasn't some studio-produced script with 14 writers.

You know, what I like about 'The Family Tree' is it's a kitchen sink movie; you can't think of anything that it doesn't either throw into the story for conflict or poke fun at or attack, even, so I like it.

Many people have done really well pulling their characters out; I think 'Wayne's World' really hit the mark.

The best cartoons work by making fun of sacred cows, in trying to inflict the uncomfortable.

I haven't done many films. But with every movie, I try to showcase a different side of me through a character.

Beetle Bailey is actually me, in uniform. I've got about 20 characters, and they're all after friends of mine.

I'm hypersensitive to negativity and duplicity, and I want to push it away by writing comedy. Maybe that hypersensitivity comes across and allows me to play dastardly, multi-layered people.

Look at 'Batman' - that was theater of the absurd, as is 'Family Guy.'

For me, as an actor, it is brilliant that I can do both song-dance films and also something like 'NH10.' It is versatility which every actor aspires.