Comedy Quotes

The Comedy Store attracts all types of people, growing up I was able to meet them all.

There's a lot of people out there who didn't like my style of comedy.

I feel like a lot of comedies out are just the same consistent joke.

The masters of the comic spirit are often our prophets.

jokes are ideally pleasurable. They are an act of assassination without a corpse, a moment of total annihilation that paradoxically makes anything possible.

Big studio comedies are such a headache.

You don't go to a comedy and try to laugh. You laugh in spite of yourself. You don't just come on stage and cry. Something has pushed you to cry.

It is really funny to see people that you know acting unpleasantly just because there are TV cameras on.

I've been fired from a situational comedy with a script they wrote specifically for me because of my voice.

I like idolator.com a lot. Every once in a while they shred me on there, but it's usually pretty funny.

First and foremost, I just want to write comedy.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

I think good comedy is a commitment to the absurd in that the situation for the actors should be virtually played like a drama.

Movie 43 is about the hardest R Rated comedy ever.

The funny thing in France is that writers are not allowed to retire, because the French government say you are still earning money from books you wrote 20 years ago.

When things are really painful, I turn it into comedy.

When I go to the movies, I like romance, comedy, and thrillers. I hate gore.

I'm writing a political comedy that takes place in Canada in Quebec. It's funny. Saying political comedy is a little redundant but it's a first. I've never done any comedy per se.

I took a job in a comedy club - not doing stand-up comedy, because that's my idea of hell, but in the office - and I went traveling.

Comedy is tragedy revisited or hostility. It is mock hostility, of course, or it would be ugly; we would have a war.

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

I don't know if I was funny as a child, though I always thought my parents really enjoyed listening to me sing.

Well, it's funny because, "The Green Leaves of Summer" and "The Alamo" theme are the same thing. There's just - the Brothers Four was a different recording of it.

[Baz Luhrmann] is funny, to be quite honest with you.

As an actor, you don't become Meryl Streep by doing the same type of comedy. You get there by being challenged.

I always get the better when I argue alone.

I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.

If you think something's funny, go with that. Most comedians pull jokes from a place of honesty.

I have a great management team and great agents that assist me, and I take roles in feature films that I hope will show my other talents other than just comedy.

I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy.

Seeing the energy of 'SNL' made me want to be a part of it. If that was a job, I thought, that was the job I wanted. That was my plan. Comedy.

I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended.

What is funny is when you do a futuristic movie, you immediately get to be fashionable because you're creating something that doesn't exist.

I've always just been attracted to comedy.

The funny thing is, I was never much of a fighter. Better a live coward than a dead hero, that was my motto.

I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.

I love Frances McDormand so much. I love her career. And I think it's fun because she gets to do comedy as well as drama.

I love doing sitcoms. I love doing comedy. I love the whole shooting match.

He had on a funny T-shirt, as usual. Today's featured acartoon figure running from a giant T. rex, and it read EXERCISE: SOME MOTIVATIONREQUIRED.

I'm so into you, it's not even funny. (Naomi & Ely's No Kiss List)

If it gets laughs, it’s funny.

I know a lot of girls in the comedy world who are kind of like me. I don't know where the slutty girls hang out, but it's not the comedy world as far as I know.

A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made men curious.

I'd like to do a comedy, actually. I think it would be great to do a sitcom or something like that. I'm pretty much open to anything.

I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously.

I agree that comedy does a good job - and is often about - stepping over the line - Lenny Bruce, etc. - and that this is important for a lot of poets too. I guess I feel like there has to be depth.

Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.

With Attachments, my goal was to write a really good romantic comedy. I wanted the reader to be smiling throughout.

It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.

The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history; 't is all toy figures in a toyhouse.