Paul Reiser Quotes About Comedy

Quotes about: Comedy

• I'd distract myself until finally it was a combination of things. The show was over and I had time on my hands. I had taken time and played and just relaxed.

  Paul Reiser

  Taken, Hands, Comedy

• In the original draft I was 27 and Peter was 55 in the script. That's not the same as a guy in his 40s and a dad in the end of his 70s. It's a different point in both our lives.

  Paul Reiser

  Dad, Guy, Different

• She kind of reminds one of Helen. There's something very similar about Elizabeth Perkins.

  Paul Reiser

  Comedy, Kind, Helen

  Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

• We had the boy's name picked out, but we didn't have a girl's. When he turned out to be a boy, we were so relieved. Literally, in the middle of contracting and pushing, and with my wife being drugged - out and half - lucid, we were still coming up with names.

  Paul Reiser

  Girl, Boys, Names

• He was born early. But he was born within a safe range of premature.

  Paul Reiser

  Safe, Comedy, Range

• But at the same time that the experience is pulling you apart, it's also bonding you. You have this joint venture! You both made this baby. And that's the thing I still can't get over

  Paul Reiser

  Baby, Joints, Venture

• Nothing would make me happier if Peter Falk would finally win his Oscar for this. Not just as the writer but as a fan and a friend. It would be so great

  Paul Reiser

  Winning, Fans, Would Be

• It's not like some movies where you're following a bunch of different stories you can cut around. There was nowhere to cut to. It's these guys. We're not cutting back to anybody else

  Paul Reiser

  Cutting, Guy, Different

• We have such a long, familiar history with Peter Falk. The minute his mug is on that screen people smile.

  Paul Reiser

  Smile, Long, People

  Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

• I remember my wife and I used to get on plane and see everybody else with their babies. They'd be putting strollers and car seats up above, and we'd think: Oh, please Lord, don't make us go through that

  Paul Reiser

  Baby, Thinking, Car

• Every time I see Peter Falk in the movie I think that would be great. We'd be fun together

  Paul Reiser

  Fun, Thinking, Together

• But the two of them together, broke my heart. Olympia and Peter, those scenes... When they're kissing in their 20s and then kissing in their 70s, that's what it is. And they had never met five minutes before they shot those scenes.

  Paul Reiser

  Heart, Kissing, Two

• And in that time, I lost my dad and had kids of my own. It was like, OK, I get it now. I know what fatherhood is all about. And you look at your parents differently

  Paul Reiser

  Dad, Kids, Parent

• I'd never directed before and this movie's too important to me to put in the hands of some guy who has never directed. Even if it's me

  Paul Reiser

  Hands, Guy, Important

• I always loved comedy, but I never knew it was something you could learn to do. I always thought that some people are born comedians ... just like some people are born dentists.

  Paul Reiser

  People, Comedian, Comedy

• Field of Dreams is the only movie - and I saw it in the theater - on an afternoon when I was on location somewhere, and there were like 12 people in the theater. I was just so devastated; I couldn't get out of my seat. And I sat and watched it a second time.

  Paul Reiser

  Dream, People, Fields

  Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

• They're not the sharpest people - babies. So, you must be everything to them.

  Paul Reiser

  Baby, People, Comedy

• But you get past that and realize you have to let go of what you think you want. There'll be plenty of time for that later. Right now, go and be with that baby. Just play with this beautiful little boy

  Paul Reiser

  Beautiful, Letting Go, Baby

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