Comedy Quotations | Page 2

I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.

I like comedy a lot. I love comedy. It's so much fun, but it's hard, too.

FX does a great thing with its comedies where they give them a slow push out there.

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

There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.

Whoever is my relative, I will not be nice to them.

Movie 43 is about the hardest R Rated comedy ever.

With comedy, you really want to work things out beforehand.

Drama and comedy, to me ,are all about being surprising, coherent, and true, all at once.

Sometimes I wonder how I got into comedy at all

Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories.

For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.

You do develop a taste as an actress: Chekhov, Ayckbourn: it's the combination of comedy and human drama. I would never want to do anything without comedy.

I'm a 'Bridesmaids' type of girl. I love silliness. That's who I am at heart, and I know I can do it. If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.

When I was doing comedy in New York, before I was in movies, I was never known as the deadpan actress. I was just a comedienne.

One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots.

I'd love to do a movie with females in it, and not necessarily the female version of 'The Hangover,' but I'd love to. If I did it it'd star Juliette Lewis, because she's the funniest woman in the world. She's my favorite actress on the planet. If we did a character-based comedy about women, I don't see it out of my range.

Now, where does my comedy come from, like, as a human being? Yeah, when I was a kid I was dyslexic and had to go to special-ed every day and felt stupid about that and got very witty to defend myself.

When you're hot, you're hot; when you're not, you're not.

I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.

People come up to me... concerned... that I'll reproduce.

I like comedy, I love it very much, I love laughing.

Me and my roommate wrote and directed a little short comedy called 'The Elevator.

I value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny.

When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.

It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for comedy.

I think if I have any kind of unique gift, it's more in the comedy area than it is in the dramatic area.

The fun part for me is to just really push that envelope.

I don't devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.

I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny

The first purpose of comedy is to make people laugh. Anything deeper is a bonus. Some comedians want to make people laugh and make them think about socially relevant issues, but comedy, by the very nature of the word, is to make people laugh. If people aren't laughing, it's not comedy. It's as simple as that.

I really try to have fun. If I don't have fun, you won't have fun. That's what my gift is: to relieve people from a little of the pain and comfort in their lives by allowing my comedy to distract them. A good laugh is almost as good as any doctor visit.

I believe that everyone should be treated as an individual. Women should be treated equally in the right to vote, sure. But if Im paying to see a comedy, then I just want to see whos funniest, with everyone treated equally.

I do find myself surprised by the comedy shows that seem to have the same joke week in week out.

With comedy I can search for the profound.

Don't order one for the road, because the road is already laid out.

Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh.

I used to say that whenever people heard my Southern accent, they always wanted to deduct 100 IQ points.

The best comedy is where you attack the strong, not the weak.

I love comedy, and I think thats sort of what comes naturally to me.

I love comedies, and I like sometimes comedies have a tendency to get a bit lazy. The Other Guys was not lazy.

We actually did quite a lot of comedy on 'Xena'. The whole show was very tongue-in-cheek.

If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death.

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

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

I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.

And you know, whether it's drama or comedy, the best work is based on truth. It's just that, with comedy, the circumstances are just crazy-heightened, and you have these crazy things thrown at you. But you still have to do it truthfully, because that's where the humor comes from. So it's not that difficult to cross over.

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

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.

It's kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart.

I had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure.

I think people are always looking for a good comedy.

I am very proud of what 'Johnny' achieved in stand-up comedy because he believed entirely in giving an audience the best kick he could. But he was someone who was quite detrimental to my health, both emotionally and physically.

I was on the improv team in high school, and after I graduated, I joined an improv company that had been established 10 years prior to me getting there. They did longform improv, and I fell in love with it. It's acting, character creation, collaborative, artistic expression and comedy - and it's scary. It was a big rush.

There's not many good comedies to watch - you know, comedies that make you glad you watched them.

We're all comedy fans in my family. My parents mainly wouldn't let me watch stuff that was either annoying to them, or just garbage. My dad wouldn't let us watch 'The Flintstones' if he was home, because he said it was a rip-off of 'The Honeymooners'. But he would let us stay up really late in the summer and watch old 'Honeymooners'.

I love doing comedy. You don't get many good comedy scripts. They're rare. But, I do love playing comedy. Even in drama, I like to try to find the humor because I think it's very human.

For me, comedy is constantly presented as this fake casualness, like a guy just walked on stage going, 'This crazy thing happened to me the other day.' And he's in front of 3000 people, and he's acting like an everyman, and he's getting paid so much money.

I feel really grateful that I am in comedy, and I love doing it.

My day jobs... I knew I was bad at those, so I didn't really have the confidence to think that I could do comedy. But I knew I hated the day jobs.

My theory is, if you can do comedy and you can be in a scene with someone like Brad Garrett and hold your own, you've really got a future in this business.

I have some very personal feelings about politics, but I don't get into it because I do comedy already.

I would like to do comedy. I can be a bit of a Jim Carrey. I was always the class clown.

You never heard of a comedy team that didn't fight, did you?

To give up my job as a temp and actually make a living doing comedy, it was staggering.

I did skit comedy online for many years, beginning around 2001. Around 2006 I started watching a lot of food television and got re-interested in food. I come from a very food-obsessed family. But I also wanted to do my own thing, which was the comedy.

Some of the things I've been in are comedic, but I don't get considered for true comedies because I'm a 'dramatic' actor.

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

A room is like a stage. If you see it without lighting, it can be the coldest place in the world.

I had a terrible job letting me do anything that wasn't comedy.

This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I wanted to do a comedy, so this was just the right one.

Comedy is still alive, and there are still funny people. Jews are still overrepresented in comedy and psychiatry and underrepresented in the priesthood. That immigrant Jewish humor is still with us.

It doesn't look great if you cancel the reigning Best Comedy Program, you know, you're gonna take a hit from a... from sort of a public relations standpoint.

Comedy arises out of necessity, because some things are so dark that you have to laugh about it.

I have plenty of dream roles because there is so much I want to do, but my dream year would be to be in a single-camera comedy and then, on my hiatus, film a little low-budget indie drama. That would be a dream 12-month period. A dream role depends on having good material and working with people that I can learn from.

I like comedy a lot, and dramatics show how I can really act. Because a lot of people can do comedy - I'm not saying it's easy, but dramatics are very hard.

You don't really have to say much when your headline is 'Drag Queen Robs Burger King.' Sometimes comedy writes itself.

I always loved comedy but I didn't start formally until I was in college.

I think, you know, a lot of the business of comedy is taking your personal experiences and making them relatable to other people.

Comedy is just one of the many professions that women are taking over.

Making people laugh is the lowest form of comedy.

I love being manipulated by what I see. I love weepies and romantic comedies where you're reaching for the Kleenex at the right moment.

I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material.

Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.

When I did comedy I made fun of myself. If there was a buffoon, I played the buffoon.

Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.

Comedy is a very personal thing, and some people will find it funny, some people wont.

We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born.

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

It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy.

I met the surgeon general - he offered me a cigarette.

Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?

You know you must be doing something right if old people like you.

I guess funny people are attracted to funny people, and then you get comedy marriages.

I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.

I used to do a lot of serious theatre during my school and college days. Comedy was only reserved for youth festival and inter-college competitions. Then once 'The Great Indian Laughter Challenge' was launched, a regional channel in Punjab started a program based on that. I participated in it and emerged as the winner.

I feel reviewers are tougher on comedies in general. They don't take them seriously, and the ones that get great reviews are not necessarily the ones that I like.

Comedy ages quicker than tragedy, to the extent that we can't know if the 10 commandments may originally have been 10 hilarious one-liners.

Comedy is incredibly hard. You have to be loose. You have to be not afraid to fail.