Sally Phillips Quotes

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

I love comedy that seems kind of a little bit absurd.

Madness isn't altogether a bad thing in comedy.

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

Humor is reason gone mad.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

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

Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

I like really stupid comedies.

The word 'comedy' implies slapstick.

I'm like a sight gag.

I like idiotic comedies.

In terms of pure comedic value, 'Tootsie' is brilliant.

In the end, everything is a gag.

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

I always approach every role through a lens of comedy.

Hollywood comedy has gotten really silly and absurd, and I like that.

Comedy, unlike drama, demands surprise. You can't quietly and thoughtfully enjoy a comedy.

Daft Wee Stories' is, as the title says, daft wee stories. I just sort of rattled them out, tried to make them quite funny, with punchlines - they're kind of like sketches.

There was always comical aspects of everything I've done, 'Playing The Field' again, I played a comical character even though it was a drama - I like the light and shade.

In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama.

Comedy becomes intensified in short scenes.

I guess the more serious you play something, if the context is funny, then it will be funny and it doesn't really require you to be necessarily, explicitly humorous, or silly.

I think comedy, so much of it comes out of the strange sort of golden instant 'cause you don't know why it's funny, but you captured it.

What's fun about comedy is you're pushing things a little further than you would in a drama; you're pushing reality a little bit more.