Physical Comedy Quotes:

I enjoy doing physical comedy.

- Scott Adsit

topic: Comedy, Enjoy, Physical Comedy

I love broad comedy. It has its place. If I were to do that, I'd love to do physical comedy.

- Rashida Jones

source: Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. April 8, 2009.

topic: Comedy, Broads, Physical Comedy

Acting by yourself is pretty darn hard, especially having to do physical comedy.

- Gillian Jacobs

topic: Acting, Comedy, Physical Comedy

I don't have a lot of physical comedy instincts. I'm more verbal.

- Reese Witherspoon

source: Source: guff.com

topic: Comedy, Instinct, Physical Comedy

The key is just to ignore the pain, because physical comedy only works if you see someone get hurt and they aren't actually hurt. If someone gets hit in the face with a bat, falls down, and gets back up, it's funny. If they stay down and their jaw is wired shut in the next scene, it's really tragic and weird. You have to pretend it doesn't hurt.

- Chris Pratt

topic: Hurt, Pain, Fall, Physical Comedy

I think physical comedy is an amazing asset because it tells a story that's more universal than just language and dialogue. I grew up watching Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. They're very powerful figures in my life.

- Josh Gad

topic: Powerful, Thinking, Stories, Chaplin, Physical Comedy

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

- Elizabeth Banks

topic: Oscars, Comedy, Wilde, Physical Comedy

Physical comedy is my favorite thing in the world to do.

- Jason Biggs

topic: World, Favorites Things, Comedy, Physical Comedy

When you're doing physical comedy, everybody's involved, not just the actors. Everybody's behind the scenes following them, and we've got Jillian the cinematographer running after them, then we've got three guys behind her who are cable-wranglers running with her so she doesn't trip on it. Every day was a mad-dash to the finish line. Every day was so stressful. Every day was so fun.

- J. Robert Spencer

source: "J. Robert Spencer: Jersey Boy & Movie Man". Interview with Eugene Lovendusky, www.broadwayworld.com. November 13, 2007.

topic: Running, Fun, Mad, Physical Comedy, Wranglers

I never was shy, but as far as telling jokes, I'm the worst. I like physical comedy; it's where I feel comfortable.

- Malin Akerman

topic: Shy, Comedy, Worst, Physical Comedy

By watching the great, old comedians I picked up a few tricks about how to do physical comedy. And whenever I could learn something, I sort of added that to my repertoire.

- John Cleese

source: "Early On, Comedian John Cleese Says, He Had Good Timing But Little Else". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. October 16, 2015.

topic: Comedian, Comedy, Tricks, Physical Comedy

Mel [Gibson] could stage physical comedy and put the camera in such a way... I mean, we did some really funny stuff, and he had some great ideas about how to do it. It was a delight to work with him in that regard.

- Keith Carradine

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Mean, Ideas, Way, Physical Comedy, Funny Stuff

I've got a lot of nervous energy and I trip a lot. I don't have a good equilibrium. In the places where the physical comedy was necessary, it came very naturally and it was fun.

- Kristen Bell

source: "Kristen Bell Interview YOU AGAIN". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 21, 2010.

topic: Fun, Energy, Comedy, Physical Comedy

I like doing the comedic episodes because it's refreshing. I enjoy doing comedic things and physical comedy. It's fun.

- Emily Deschanel

source: "Emily Deschanel Talks BONES Season 8, Brennan Getting Shot, and Her Hope to Direct an Episode". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 11, 2013.

topic: Fun, Comedy, Episodes, Physical Comedy

I love Buster Keaton and I love physical comedy when it's done in an emotionally understated way. I just like to play it, and I need the attention.

- Demetri Martin

topic: Play, Done, Way, Physical Comedy, Understated

Carol Burnett probably had the biggest influence on me as kid. Although I was very young and watched her a lot in reruns, I was mesmerized by the way she transformed, by her physical comedy and the rolling laughter from the live studio audience. I loved her most as Scarlett O'Hara and her well known Cleaning Lady character.

- Christine Lakin

topic: Laughter, Character, Kids, Physical Comedy, Mesmerized

I love physical comedy. Comedy that comes from an emotional place is amazing too and lets me develop in a new way as an actor.

- Eden Sher

source: Source: www.etonline.com

topic: Emotional, Actors, Way, Physical Comedy

I wrote three years for Lucille Ball. She taught me everything I know about physical comedy...

- Garry Marshall

source: "Fresh Air Remembers Garry Marshall, Creator Of 'Happy Days' And 'Laverne & Shirley'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 20, 2016.

topic: Years, Balls, Taught, Physical Comedy

I'm looking for laughs, you know? If it take me to flip over a table, if I have to go physical comedy, I will do it. But whatever the joke needs at that particular time, is where I'm dedicated to. I'm not into beating somebody down and beating myself up. I don't do insults and things like that. I don't do it - I'm a storyteller.

- Bernie Mac

topic: Laughing, Needs, Tables, Physical Comedy

The nude thing, I don't know. It's sillier somehow. It's more like physical comedy. But kissing someone, it feels invasive to have everybody watching me.

- Ilana Glazer

source: Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

topic: Kissing, Comedy, Feels, Physical Comedy, Kissing Someone

I get to do physical comedy! When do women get to do physical comedy? Very rarely.

- Michaela Watkins

topic: Comedy, Physical Comedy

As a dancer, I was always the physical comedy girl. I love it so much.

- Anne Fletcher

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Girl, Dancer, Comedy, Physical Comedy

George Lopez has to get a physical comedy checkup every year to make sure his bulging eyes don't get out of control... Good news George... you are humor free! There's no sign of comedy anywhere in your blood stream.

- Andy Kindler

topic: Eye, Blood, Years, Physical Comedy

I talked about everything, man. I've always written material that everyone can laugh at. I talked about growing up. I did a lot of physical comedy. That was my thing. I was a physical comedian. I did anything and everything from running on a treadmill, I can paint a picture on stage of anything.

- J. B. Smoove

topic: Running, Growing Up, Men, Physical Comedy

I loved Peter Sellers. I thought he was the perfect mix of physical comedy with out-of-the-box humor. I loved his tone; I loved his physicality; I loved everything about what he was doing as a comedic actor.

- J. B. Smoove

topic: Perfect, Actors, Tone, Physical Comedy

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

- Corbin Bernsen

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Real, Soap, Comedy, Physical Comedy

I always like the physical comedy because I actually do a lot of it in my own life, but not on purpose. I am the klutziest person on the planet. It's easy for me.

- Paula Patton

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Purpose, Comedy, Easy, Physical Comedy

So, you don't have laughs as a reference point any more, it becomes a bit of a science after that. And the last thing, you would love to be able to depend on a sense of spontaneity, but hours of waiting and then hours of repetition are not conducive to spontaneity so those are your obstacles. On the other hand it's a lot of fun. Plunging into a bit of physical comedy and abandoning all dignity, no one can really hurt you much after you much after that, once you've done it.

- Colin Firth

source: "Gambit - Colin Firth interview". Press conference, www.indielondon.co.uk.

topic: Hurt, Fun, Hands, Physical Comedy

I have to say I enjoy physical comedy and I've always loved to kind of take risks. I don't like worrying too much about how I look or how I come across, so that can sometimes... You know, I like to play those kinds of deluded but fun characters.

- Amy Poehler

topic: Fun, Character, Play, Physical Comedy, Worrying Too Much

My idol growing up was Charlie Chaplin. I was obsessed with him. I mean, while other kids were watching Jim Carrey and the likes in the '90s, I was watching Charlie Chaplin films, because I was a bit of a geek. I became obsessed with this idea of physical comedy.

- Josh Gad

topic: Growing Up, Mean, Kids, Chaplin, Physical Comedy

I like physical comedy. And I like the old comedies.

- Patrick Dempsey

topic: Comedy, Physical Comedy

Jackass: The Movie is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how gravity acts on the body

- Matthew Barney

topic: Thinking, Body, Comedy, Physical Comedy, Jackasses

I have a side of me that doesn't care. I really enjoy physical comedy, thinking of an idea and pitching it to the director.

- Isla Fisher

source: "Isla Fisher Talks Confessions of a Shopaholic". Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment interview, movieweb.com. June 29, 2009.

topic: Thinking, Ideas, Directors, Physical Comedy

The great thing about doing physical comedy for film is that if it doesn't work you're not exposed. It ends up on the editing room floor, so it gives you a lot more room to experiment I guess. But I really enjoy doing it. I'm very comfortable tapping into my inner idiot.

- Isla Fisher

source: "Isla Fisher Talks Confessions of a Shopaholic". Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment interview, movieweb.com. June 29, 2009.

topic: Editing, Giving, Rooms, Physical Comedy

I enjoy doing physical comedy. I'd love, you know, them to throw me some shtick that way. I'd love to do that, if they need physical comedy, if they'd let me display my wares that way.

- Scott Adsit

topic: Love You, Comedy, Enjoy, Physical Comedy

I can do comedy but it's a certain type. I'm not a physical comedy guy. I'm not Will Ferrell - there's just this crazy and get naked and run through the thing screaming. That's just not my style; my style is drama or - I'm not slapstick.

- Mekhi Phifer

source: Source: www.movieweb.com

topic: Running, Crazy, Drama, Physical Comedy, Slapstick