I love action movies, and I love comedy, and I love writing comedy, but the genre of action-comedy - or, at least, as it currently usually is - is just not something that I feel that compelled by, generally, because I find the action to be silly, or it's too slapstick, or the stakes feel low because people are joking in the middle of it.

Susanna Fogel

The 'Police Academy' stuff was all hyper-slapsticky.

I would love to play Mary in 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' or 'Virginia Woolf' or a comedy - just, like, a slapstick comedy.

Alice Ripley

Love Would Wool

In terms of being vulgar, I don't think you need to be violent unless it's slapstick, violence to yourself. That can be funny - we've all tripped and fallen on our faces.

Andy Dick

Funny Yourself Yours

I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.

Anjelica Huston

Humor Tick T

The less lines, the better. I am the silent film actor, but not in a slapstick sort of way. Film is an image-based medium, so whatever you can say without the words is far more provocative and punctuating. If the lines are not funny or if they don't advance the story, sometimes it's hard. I hate talk in movies.

Callum Keith Rennie

Time Movies Funny

My favorite movies were 'Singin' in the Rain' and stuff that had a more classic comedy type feel, that more slapsticky stuff. It's the comedy I've gravitated towards.

Colleen Ballinger

War Movies Were

If we were making a cop comedy about bad cops or cops who were comically bad at the jobs, then the jokes would be more hijinks and more like slapstick.

Daniel J. Goor

Would Who Were

I've always tended to write comedy, but I'd hate to just write some kind of sitcom or a lighthearted series of jokes and slapstick. I wanted to talk about some deeper things within the comedy.

David Thewlis

Art Write Within

At times we were criticized for doing too much slapstick. I don't believe in mild comedy, and neither does Lucy.

Desi Arnaz

Time Were Too Much

Some lucky people can be funny without half trying because they actually look funny, because acting funny is in their bones - fun as funny, not funny as crude slapstick.

F. Sionil Jose

Funny Yin Without

I'd love to do more comedy. It'd just be nice to go into work and not be crying every day. Some broad slapstick would be great. Falling over banana skins would be wonderful.

Felicity Jones

Work Love Great

I do love situational comedy, clowning, and slapstick; I approach that with a lot of respect. The goofier you are, it doesn't mean you're going to be funnier.

Jaime Camil

Respect Love You

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.

Jaimie Alexander

Love Funny Change

I want to see good-quality comedy shows, not the slapstick ones or where people imitate others.

Jennifer Winget

Good Where Want

'Raising Arizona' is maybe my favorite comedy of all time. What's great about it is that as slapstick as it gets, it has great moments of emotion and caring. Them bringing the baby back and Trey Wilson's character. I love that, man.

Joe Carnahan

Time Mom Men

A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.

John Ratzenberger

Humor Well Universally

I'm all about the slapstick, generally. If you fell off it, into it, or through it, I'm probably nearby wetting myself.

Jon Richardson

You Wet Tin

'Fawlty Towers' was a huge influence on me. I mean, it was so slapstick, too. 'Are You Being Served?' was on 15 times a day, it seemed like, and I loved it.

Jonathan Krisel

Time Love You

When people feel vulnerable, they make slapstick decisions.

Jonathan Krisel

Vulnerable Tick T

'Backwash' is an old-school, slapstick-y romp between three eccentric loser friends who inadvertently rob a bank, armed solely with a salami and a sweat sock, and then find themselves on the run pursued by singing cops. It's kind of a classic piece, a sophisticated piece, if you will.

Joshua Malina

You Wit Will

I took a couple of classes in clowning, but that was more like Lucille Ball kind of slapstick, not Ringling Brothers. But we had to do things silently, and the teacher would do this running commentary. 'Does this make Clown sad? Oh, Clown doesn't like that, does Clown?' Always 'Clown.' Never a name.

June Diane Raphael

I've always loved pure, silly slapstick comedy. It always makes me laugh.

Kenneth Branagh

I'm a guy who has more slapstick than Joe Cool moments in his day, so I'm not taking myself so seriously.

Kurt Elling

I'm a big fan of American vaudeville and Hollywood silent film-era slapstick and the music halls full of ridiculous, eccentric characters.

Lenny Abrahamson

My background is in largely in theatre and acting. I grew up in a town with a well-respected Shakespeare Festival, and I fell in with some kids whose parents worked there. We staged all-kid versions of 'Hamlet', 'Cymbeline', a few others. All the while, I was making short films; monster movies, slapstick comedies, claymation.

Matt Ross

Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it.

Maureen O'Hara

There are thousands of ways to make people laugh - satire, black comedy, slapstick.

Nawazuddin Siddiqui

I don't see myself doing slapstick movies or being a part of them, even if they get the box office ringing. It's not my space; I haven't reached that point.

Neil Nitin Mukesh

I don't feel genres have helped me as an actor. Movies can be of any genre. But if you give me slapstick, I may not do it.

Parvathy

I was into 'In Living Color,' 'Martin,' the 'Ace Ventura' movies. I love slapstick stuff, too: 'Naked Gun' and 'Caddyshack.'

Penny Hardaway

The word 'comedy' implies slapstick.

Ridley Scott

My family is all obsessed with comedy. I grew up watching a lot of comedy in the house. I used to watch Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy with my dad. But my mom is more into slapstick stuff.

Romesh Ranganathan

Bollywood always expected me to indulge in slapstick. I don't mind it, but for how long!

Satish Kaushik

Generally, we try not to write down to kids. We really just try to write a visual, character-driven cartoon that has a lot of slapstick and really appeals to us. I guess we are just lucky that other adults find that amusing, too.

Stephen Hillenburg

'Yamla Pagla Deewana' is not slapstick but a situation based comedy.

Sunny Deol

I love action movies, and I love comedy, and I love writing comedy, but the genre of action-comedy - or, at least, as it currently usually is - is just not something that I feel that compelled by, generally, because I find the action to be silly, or it's too slapstick, or the stakes feel low because people are joking in the middle of it.

Susanna Fogel

I love a good comedy, but the slapstick sitcom belly-laugh sort of comedy - the multicam thing - is not really where my interests lie. I'm very interested in single-cam, in intimate portraits. I like it when comedies have a little bit of realism and a little bit of darkness to them. It makes them more palatable and more relatable and grounded.

Tara Lynne Barr

Sometimes you don't want to be a slapstick clown in order to convey a funny perception of the world.

Tina Weymouth

Even today, people tell me that the slapstick humour in 'Friends' is the most viewed comedy track on television. Siddique knows the art of mixing slapstick with genuine humour.

Vijay