Harold Ramis Comedy Quotations

Comedy is essentially made by young men, or older men with some form of arrested development, for young men or immature older men.

When someone's an actor and you're an actor, you meet them and you feel like you know them. We're in the same business, and we all speak the same comedy language.

I've always thought that comedy was just another dramatic expression.

The times change, and to the extent that comedy captures the spirit of the times, it will enjoy success.

I try to measure the amount of truth in a work rather than just looking at the generic distinction between comedy and drama.

You can perceive life as tragic, or you can laugh at the tragedy of it and that turns it into comedy. It doesn't change the circumstances.

I can't imagine a successful comedy movie without a successful comedy performance at the heart of it.

I met someone who said they'd figured out my genre: "madcap redemption comedy." I'll buy that.

Most comedy is not very ambitious. You probably can't name more than a handful of comedies that would qualify for Best Picture.

Most comedies are calculated. They tend to pander. They're not about anything important.

I'd rather do comedies that strike at some bigger ideas.