David Thewlis
Related I want to do all kinds of things. I want to do some comedy. I'd love to do a romantic comedy, an... KEVIN ALEJANDRO KENNETH BRANAGH DAVID BOWIE I'd love to do more comedy. It'd just be nice to go into work and not be crying every day. S... FELICITY JONES For years I've wanted to write about the Australian countryside, but, like most Australians, I&#... KATE GRENVILLE RICHARD C. ARMITAGE CASS MCCOMBS I looked back at the years since I'd left college and thought of the list of things I'd have... SIMON TOYNE PETER JENNINGS I've always just been attracted to comedy. OSCAR NUNEZ RAINBOW ROWELL JACK LEMMON ADAM DEVINE With roasting, you've really got to bring your A-game. I hate to admit it, but I probably think ... JEFF ROSS I love doing comedy. I find comedy quite hard work. Comedy's underrated, I think, by actors, you... RALPH BROWN CARL HIAASEN I've always wanted to write an airport book. ELIZABETH HAND PAUL DANO I've always wanted to be a fighter pilot. But I don't want to kill people. I'd hate to. MAX IRONS I didn't want to do comedy again. It is way harder when you are doing comedy. You can't just... PATRICIA RICHARDSON DEMETRI MARTIN ED SHEERAN ADAM MCKAY MARIA BAMFORD I've had a lot of girls reach out to me about struggling with body image. I've only been abl... TROIAN BELLISARIO RIDLEY SCOTT GILLIAN JACOBS You know, I've just always been sort of goofy and kind of gone with it. I actually usually work ... ZACHARY KNIGHTON MARC BOLAN I've always read books and loved human behavior since I was ten or twelve years old. Maybe even ... DANE COOK I love a good comedy, but the slapstick sitcom belly-laugh sort of comedy - the multicam thing - is ... TARA LYNNE BARR All the stories I write come from someone I've met or some anecdote I've heard. EDITH PEARLMAN I've never wanted to live in a ghetto or write in a ghetto. I want to write about a world that r... VAL MCDERMID I'd love to do a comedy. I'm terrified of comedy. I don't think I'm funny, but I gue... JARED PADALECKI JAY PHAROAH ALBERT BROOKS JUDITH JAMISON WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN I actually imagined 'Thunderbolts' as a straight-up comedy book in a lot of ways, like a ver... CHARLES SOULE I really love writing comedy. Writing romantic comedy is even nicer because you get to write about h... PEARL CLEAGE SUNNY DEOL I have no sense of what I should or shouldn't talk about. I just blather. Which is why it's ... CECILY VON ZIEGESAR MARIO LOPEZ TREVOR NOAH I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up. ANN BRASHARES I've always loved to write, and I kept a diary of what I thought about my business, being an ent... BEN CASNOCHA I am a big fan of the TV series 'Taxi' which combined comedy and pathos better than any othe... DOUGLAS WOOD RYAN GOSLING AMY POEHLER I've always wanted to be a part of that experience of writing to an audience that is just starti... SARAH MLYNOWSKI I didn't really know how to write jokes, so I just told weird, long stories about being tall and... MELISSA MCCARTHY ROB MCCLURE PATTI SMITH I'd like to do a romantic comedy. AARON ECKHART To be honest, I used to always procrastinate when I write. I mean, I love writing, but I hate it. DAVID GRANN I don't want to play earnest. I'd rather play somebody who's kind of sleazy. It's mu... JACK COLEMAN ALAN ARKIN JACK LEMMON It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of... JACK LEMON CARRIE UNDERWOOD JASON BATEMAN When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then ... SCOTT THOMPSON TOM STOPPARD BOB NEWHART The original Dean Martin Comedy Hour handed me some hysterical sketches. I've got highlights on ... RUTH BUZZI But I'm kind of spoilt when it comes to comedy. I was on 'Friends', which was one of the... MATT LEBLANC I haven't been offered a lot of comedy. In theater, I've done quite a bit of comedy or drama... MIREILLE ENOS CHARLES FRAZIER I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had... RICHARD MARX JACKIE KENNEDY JIM DALE I don't write on topics that require a lot of urgency. But in 'Stiff,' I wanted to chang... MARY ROACH CHRISTOPHER WALKEN When doing a series, I look for something that has an idea you can think about, something that I'... DARREN STAR M. STANTON EVANS LYNDA BARRY I just always wrote songs as a side hobby. So it was sort of a natural thing to write comedy songs. ... KYLE DUNNIGAN I've just written this six-part sketch comedy series, which I've never done before. And I do... DAVID ALPAY BETH HENLEY MACAULAY CULKIN GEORGE R. R. MARTIN DANIEL RADCLIFFE AARON SORKIN I do love situational comedy, clowning, and slapstick; I approach that with a lot of respect. The go... JAIME CAMIL I would like to do a romantic comedy, but not a romantic comedy that is cheesy. I want to do an old ... SAMI GAYLE I write a lot in my head. I've never been driven to write things down. EDWARD P. JONES I did a film called 'Puccini for Beginners,' which was a romantic comedy, and I always wante... ELIZABETH REASER CANDACE BUSHNELL RAIN I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy... STEVE COOGAN I'd like to teach kids how to write songs. This will be my first year so I'm just as green a... BO BICE ALICE MUNRO I write about people in small towns; I don't write about people living in big cities. My kind of... LEE SMITH I did sketch comedy for years. I've always enjoyed it. JAMIE FARR I mean if I'm in the middle of a field with my keyboard and some headphones and I feel inspired ... VANESSA BROWN JOHN OLIVER Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON WILL FERRELL KAREN JOY FOWLER I've actually done a lot of comedy. NATALIE ZEA
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I've always loved pure, silly slapstick comedy. It always makes me laugh. 
I've always tended to write songs prolifically. 
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I'm an immigrant and I've always wanted to write something about America. 
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