Words matter. These are the best Brad Hall Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
You start out as an artist in some way or other. And my background is all theater, and I goofed into doing TV comedy.
On every show I’ve ever done, one of the first network notes is, ‘You have to put a time clock on this thing.’
People are a lot more tolerant when they’re home watching TV and they’re looking for a laugh.
I can do a Green Day joke and people actually get it.
I was very, very happy in Chicago as an actor making $168 a week.
Hugh Grant is really the perfect actor for romantic comedies. Anything he does is invariably charming.
If you drugged me with truth serum and said I can only do one thing, I would probably have to say that I would be an actor in the theater. And then I would have you arrested for drugging me.
My first performance was as one of the orphans in ‘Oliver!’
No one remembers this because it’s the whipping boy, but ‘The Single Guy’ was very well-reviewed and watched, and then the central concept became attacked by the very people who were putting it on. And then the next thing you know you’re running in fear, and everyone stops being funny.
When you romanticize something so extraordinarily in the hopes that it will divert you from agony, you’re destined for a letdown.
Marjorie Luke was funny and huge, or at least I remember her that way.
I don’t have a lot of lifetime regrets, and very few show business regrets, surely.
The casualness with which people say hello to Julia on the street is hilarious to me.
Those regrets that I do have are, exclusively, not doing plays that I wish I had done.
Audiences know the form in their bones, they know that romantic comedies end in an uplifting way.
New York is just such a perfect place for romance.
The truth of the matter is that it’s not much less work to do a short than it is to do a feature. Particularly when you’re running around different countries.
I’ve had situations before where there are more people giving notes than there are writers on the show.
It’s a really special skill to be able to pick up a phone the way that a human picks up a phone. It’s not as easy as you think.
I think the fact that I’m married to Julia, people like to take shots at me.
It’s nice to be able to sit down and have a discussion about something for more than four minutes, and not look at your watch and go, ‘Oh my God, I just spent $40,000 of HBO’s money.’
In New York you can actually run into people on the street, unlike in California where you’re always in the car.
Audiences want to see people break rules for love, to challenge the fates for love.
I mean, if you look at all the great romantic screwbally kind of movies from the ’30s and ’40s, they’re all in New York. Even ‘Sleepless in Seattle,’ a movie about Seattle, ends up in New York, of course. The whole country, even if they’ve never been to New York, knows about it… from the movies.
I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that I have an unbelievably beautiful, well-known wife. And the people who criticize me don’t.
You have to run, an awful lot, on instinct. Even on ‘Veep,’ it’s not like you get weeks of rehearsal to break out what’s going on in the scenes.
I like the compressed nature of the story telling.
Comics and actors come from such a wide variety of backgrounds and there’s a theory that all comedians had tortured youths.
When I go to see theater, I’m consumed with professional jealousy.
The theater was the place where I felt my first crush, and it’s where I got my first kiss.
