Comedy Quotes

Sometimes when you're doing a comedy, the director will yell out "alts" and then the director gets the first laugh.

'Buried Alive' is a little scary, but also a comedy at the same time.

I haven't done a lot in London. I think comedy over there is how it was over here years ago. There's tons of it, and they're better paid.

There seems to be more comedy for comedy's sake

To me, the script is a living, breathing organism. Comedy is something that is ever-changing and ever-flowing with the vibe and the mood of the movie.

You know, if I started worrying about what the critics think, I'd never make another comedy. You couldn't pick a less funny group than critics - you couldn't find a more bitter group of people!

I think a lot of American comedies tend to apologize for their bad behavior in the last 10 minutes of the movie.

My movies before tend to be just funny. But it wasn't a conscious thing I was looking for at all.

The funny thing is, strangers still seem to feel comfortable coming up to me and saying things, but now usually it’s because they recognize me, and they say nice things.

I've always said that I myself am not the best audience for my own work, because I'm just not that receptive to comedy.

Comedy has always been something I love, but for some reason - probably because of the British accent - I've always been pushed toward more period work.

Your name is a funny thing. It stands for what you're about, and everything I do is really about pride.

If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious.

I am desperate to do a comedy now.

I actually don't subscribe to the notion that comedy is easier than drama. When you're trying to be funny and you're not funny, that's really terrible. It's a horrible feeling.

I've always wanted to do a real comedy. I haven't done enough, and it seems silly not to do more, considering the fact that people tend to laugh at me.

I enjoy doing these silly little videos, and a lot of stuff online is stuff I actually created for my live comedy shows.

The funny thing is just the collision of genres, taking one medium and trying to ram it into another medium, whether it fits or not.

Obviously neither 'American Idol' nor 'Dancing With the Stars' is a variety show in the classic sense, but the way they incorporate elements of drama, comedy and suspense is moderately ingenious.

From being a young kid I was always drawing and painting, usually stuff like private parts or bloody images but always with a comedy twist to it.

A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.

Stand-up keeps you alive. It is definitely the most specialized field in comedy because you need to stay sharp and well-tuned every night.

I hate to force anything. A lot of people say that comedy is twenty percent truth, and eighty percent fallacy. I believe that you have to have lived through something to write about it.

It's a funny time, but I'm sure in any time you live in, you'd consider it funny because life is change and it'll just keep doing that. It's a matter of embracing it or not.

George Carlin is an influence on a generation. He made me want to do comedy.

Young stand-ups, we ought to do comedy in George Carlin's spirit, in Richard Pryor's spirit, in Jackie Gleason's spirit, in Lucille Ball's spirit, because they did it with the spirit.

I love being around people who love to do what I love to do, which is comedy.

If I don't offend somebody, then I'm probably not funny.

I just want to be funny, I just want to do comedy.

Stand-up and comedy is the place where we are supposed to be able to make fun of all of the world's ills.

People bring camera phones into comedy shows and clubs and concerts, and sound bites never come out right.

Comedy clubs are sacred ground. That's where anything goes.

Reality is the scary thing. Not my work, not comedy.

I would love to do comedy. I'm actually really animated and goofy. I talk with my hands so intensely.

It's funny, the whole cooking thing came out of just a random thought of writing a cookbook with my mom and my sister for fun.

If you make comedy, if you try and make comedy where no one gets upset or offended, you're going to fail.

I just like comedy in general. My film work, which has been at times more dramatic, has been satisfying. But I never feel quite as good and as light and blissful as when I'm doing comedy.

For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.

It was very serious and I wanted to do something really different so there was this comedy called TOP SECRET.

I think it's funny how people get confused when they think about church music, because a lot of times there is a soloist who stands out, but my church wasn't like that at all.

The funny thing is that I'm the girl who no one sees at the beach. Ask anyone who's traveled with me. Normally, I'm in so many layers, I look like Lawrence of Arabia!

It's hard for me to even watch comedies I'm in.

Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.

It's funny when you put music up against picture, and all your preconceptions go away, and you start over. You just realize that that doesn't work at all.

Funny how we look for miracles in our lives when our life is one big miracle in itself.

Comedy comes from confusion.

I do films which get me out of my comedian routine so that I don't get bored being a stand-up comedian. And with films, it's here today, gone tomorrow. So stand-up comedy is here to stay for me.

I feel like I share a great relationship with my audience where they trust my judgment and choice of films and sense of comedy.

I've spent the last few years just really actively pursuing comedy and that's something I always wanted to know how to do.

I would rather be living in Philadelphia.