Jenny Eclair Quotes

I do mostly comedy, and it tends to be a subtler comedy. But I think that probably lends itself well to commercials.

I love comedy, and I think that's sort of what comes naturally to me.

I've always just been attracted to comedy.

I really appreciate comedy a lot.

I always knew about comedy; I always loved comedy.

I'm a comedic actor, not to mix words, but it's something I think about. A comedic actor. I like to think that Christopher Guest, Phil Hartman, Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness are comedic actors. And Dan Aykroyd, too. Those are my heroes.

Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.

But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.

I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.

I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.

Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded.

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

If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious.

Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.

I'm a light comedienne; that's really where I live the most often.

I just want to be funny, I just want to do comedy.

Comedy scares me a lot. I feel like it's way harder than drama. I think my safety net is definitely drama, and I would love to kind of be able to be able to push into the comedy world and do something kind of like a Christopher Guest kind of style show. That, to me, is my kind of comedy. Like, Ricky Gervais comedy. That's my kind of thing.

The best comedy to me - and again, I grew up with comedy since I was a baby, so I've seen it all - is when you exaggerate the truth, like Richard Pryor did, you understand?

In college, my teachers were usually after me for going after comedy too much, leaning too much in that direction.

I have deep comedic roots, and I want to be funny.

Comedy has been so good to me.

The best shows to tweet about are the ones that are hilarious, but they might not necessarily be trying to be hilarious. Those are the easiest and the funniest because you're like 'come onnnn.'

Hey, I think comic actors are the best actors.

I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.

That was sort of the 'Second City' approach, which was try to be intelligent and assume your audience is intelligent. We were influenced by 'Monty Python,' too, which would have philosophers in a wrestling match.