Comedy Quotes

I love the idea of comedy in horror. I think this should be allowed.

It's funny how it reads like a Kubrick-inspired moment, a filmmaker controlling one's mise en scène. What it truly is is a documentary moment.

I have a work-out regime; I am not a maniac. It sounds cliche, but stand-up comedy, doing a one-man show, helps keep me young, and yes, it is exhausting, but I don't collapse.

I grew up watching British comedy on TV, really.

I cant imagine getting bored with comedy or thinking comedy is beneath us suddenly.

It's funny how bed and pillows and covers can change a conversation. Words turn quiet and you mean more and say less. It's like you can build your own little world, Population: 2.

every actor knows that tragedy, being linear and inevitable, is taxing - but comedy, which depends on the element of surprise, is the hardest act of all.

I haven't really done a lot of comedies. I don't know why, because I really like them

Comedy is what happens when you cross the dateline from the unbearable. Things become so unbearable they become a joke.

You learn quite a bit about your film from test screening audiences. With both comedies and movies that are intense, you need to calibrate the film and see how audiences react.

It is hard enough to be good at all, but to be good in comedy speaks for your character.

I would say, when it comes to comedy, I think Matthew Broderick was great.

For me, comedy and drama are all the same thing.

If I'm in something funny, I like to try and find some kind of serious line in it that people can relate to.

I think it's funny how excited people can get about things I say that don't have anything to do with music. I made a disparaging comment about McDonald's on Twitter once and people flipped out on me.

I was a huge fan of comedy when I was a child.

Comedy has to have momentum in order for it to keep moving along.

With a comedy, it's so important to see it with an audience and an audience who really wants to be there and is enthusiastic, otherwise it can be quite a traumatizing experience.

I love the absurd - kind of absurdist comedy, absurd things in life.

I got, like, Diane Keaton's manager, and she was very connected; she had power. And she was like, "Your star is in tears on this comedy. Do you even notice that at all?"

I was a good student, sort of funny and athletic. I had friends.

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.

The arts community still has a long lasting cynicism of the importance, or the artistic value, of comedy. Comedy is just farting about for money.

I think you're bound to get a sense of any character that you play. It's not something you often do in comedy.

I do as much comedy as I possibly can but I'm basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions.

How long is it polite to continue to be interested in what someone says after they reveal they've got a boyfriend?

Azhar Usman is very funny, deeply spiritual, and extremely hairy. He's like Zach Galifianakis meets Deepak Chopra-and funnier than you'd expect that combination to be.

My parents are desperate, they keep saying: 'Please stop doing these angsty roles; make it easier for us.' So, yeah, I'd love to do some comedy.

Id like to do a romantic comedy like Notting Hill, which is one of my favorite movies.

Entourage [movie] really is established as a genre unto itself, much like the thriller or the horror movie or the comedy. And those things trend.

I wasnt particularly funny in high school, but I grew up with three older brothers who were quite funny.

I did comedies for 10 years and I learned a great deal.

I was always telling everybody that I could be funny.

I have a lot of funny friends, though not everyone's funny all the time. Doon Mackichan's my funniest friend in the pub; Nina Conti's the funniest with a monkey.

I can't claim to feel like I've been under some man's thumb in comedy. I've sort of always done my own thing for better or worse, and have been lucky enough to be able to perform ever since.

I would like to do a romantic comedy, but not a romantic comedy that is cheesy. I want to do an old romantic comedy like Roman Holiday or My Fair Lady.

Keep a stiff upper chin.

This makes me so sore it gets my dandruff up.

Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is.

I feel like you've gotta be able to get up every night in front of a live audience. Whether it's 10 people or 50 people or a hundred people, whether you're in a rock band or doing the comedy circuit.

It's depressing sitting at a comedy club all night, waiting to get on to do your five or ten minutes of material.

I love good romantic comedies. There just aren't a lot of them. But, I love comedies, and I'll never stop doing them.

I know nothing about love and romance, so I prefer to stick to just comedy.

As for doing more dramatic work over comedy, I do whatever turns me on at the moment.

Comedy is wonderful when you really nail it and you hear people laughing, but it's not always that easy.

People who do comedy really are the nastiest people on the planet.

The costume designer designing clothes that helped the comedy in The Proposal, that sold the character. Each and every detail was so perfectly thought of, what wouldn't be here? That's a lost art.

I love my comedy too much to bastardize it with bad romantic comedy.

I really am thankful that I got to do The Proposal movie the right way with people who taught me how to do comedy better.

Good drama, challenging drama - and comedy for that matter - has a place in the daytime schedule.