You cant be a casual observer of something humorous – you have to engage, you have to find it funny for the relationship between actor and audience to work. – Brendan Coyle
I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. – Brendan Coyle
My dad was a master butcher and I trained to be a butcher when I left school. I didnt enjoy it at the time but I love cooking now, so perhaps I would have been a chef. – Brendan Coyle
When I was in my 30s, I was at the end of a long-term relationship and going through a very hard time. Id had about 15 different addresses and a series of relationships. I thought, Its time to have a look at yourself. – Brendan Coyle
Youve got to honor your relationship with your audience – that they sit down because they want to be entertained. And that doesnt mean you cant provoke them and antagonize them and challenge them in the course of the entertainment as long as you keep the entertainment part of the equation alive. – David E. Kelley
I think theres a suspicion in the South of people putting on airs. You see it in most successful Southern politicians, but you also see it in someone like Richard Petty, who may be a multimillionaire stock car driver, but hes also beloved because he has a nice self-deprecatory way about him. – John Shelton Reed