Comedy Quotations | Page 4

Unless you're Jack Lemmon or Cary Grant, there are few guys who can do comedy and drama.

I like dark comedies. That's why I like the Wayans Brothers.

I will remember the night I won the New Comedy Awards, as I was young and unformed, so that sticks in the mind. I've also done a fantastic gig at the Royal Albert Hall, which was amazing. Appearing in the Christopher Guest film was also a real highlight, even if I was only in it for a couple of minutes.

Comedy is the most difficult. Comic timing is something which you either have it in you, or you don't. You have to have a good sense of humour to be able to understand it. A split second can make you lose the punch.

I very rarely laugh. I remember I used to have a joy at comedy. I remember going to see Sean Lock for the first time live, just in some comedy club when I was 18, and again, just guttural, pure laughter. I didn't know what he was doing; I couldn't see the tricks.

I've never heard of a comedy that hasn't had reshoots, especially for the ending of a movie in a comedy.

I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they're so universal.

Molly Shannon, for example, is someone I've always really looked up to, because her comedy is so physical and wild and unembarrassed and brave.

I enjoy doing drama, and I enjoy doing comedy equally.

In life, comedy occurs naturally, as it should, in the most appalling of circumstances.

You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.

I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone.

I think in life, the sense of humor and comedy always exists.

I'd love to do situation comedy - it's the best job in show business.

Clearly romantic comedy is my franchise genre, I don't mind saying that, it's true. I love doing them and hopefully always will do them.

Life is a comedy when watching and a tragedy when experiencing. I try and share anything I have.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.

It's hard to really get that excited about movies. Think about it like this: how many good comedy movies come out a year? Maybe one or two? And then, in those movies, what are the chances that there's a character that I'm the best fit to play? It's really small!

Sir one more comment like that and I will strangle you with my microphone wire!

I feel like any time John Oliver is added to something, the comedy is instantly there. He's so funny.

When I do comedy, I lose all inhibition and introspection. I no longer care.

My theory is that comedy comes from little people.

The kinds of shows that seem to work now, the comedy shows, are those which require very little attention. They're superficial and I like articulate comedy.

We "chicks" have munched our popcorn while romantic comedies became just comedies, and then each female protagonist got recast for Mathew McConaughey or Seth Rogan.

Stand-up comedy seems like a terrifying thing. Objectively. Before anyone has done it, it seems like one of the most frightening things you could conceive, and there's just no shortcut - you just have to do it.

Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.

I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.

I loved watching classics such as 'Casablanca' and goofball comedies such as 'How To Murder Your Wife' on WGN-TV.

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

Before the whole Disney realm had undergone this huge revamping, as a kid, I always saw myself doing these dramatic indie parts. And then I fell in love with doing comedy and doing kid shows and really working for kids.

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

I was depressed as a child. I found it hard to make friends. My favourite thing was locking myself in the bathroom and practising comedy routines.

In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.

I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it.

The embarrassment of a situation can, once you are over it, be the funniest time in your life. And I suppose a lot of my comedy comes from painful moments or experiences in life, and you just flip them on their head.

I would like to do maybe a smaller romantic comedy.

Women and minorities have excelled beautifully in comedy, but very few women are the lead in a drama,

I didn't really feel 100 percent comfortable until we started working on the 2004 election.

The nature of comedy is 'just do it.' But I think what's interesting about it is this joke has been around and why. And it's just saying what's wrong and how wrong can you be if you say it.

You've got to be rich to have a swing like that.

I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.

A straight factor is important in any comedy, because you need something to tee it up and also to ground it.

The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the same afterwards.

You know, stand-up comedy is where I pretty much started out.

I don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.

You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.

If I could sew comedy and philosophy together, then I've done a good job. The primary goal is always going to be laughs and the secondary goal is always going to be saying something without it being a lecture. I think it's important to have substance for what you're saying.

I'm never going to say, 'Well, I'm never going to do comedy again.' I love comedies, and it's what people know me for, so I love doing it... I don't really think about it in terms of 'Well, I should do this because it's comedy or drama.'

I'm a stand-up comic. Anything else I do besides that is a plus, but stand-up comedy is what I do, it's what I've been doing and it's what I'm going to keep doing.

I was a failed actor but I still wanted to show off, so I ended up doing live comedy.

I like to watch comedies; the most dramatic that I used to get was 'Forrest Gump.

Really, I just love doing comedy. Any form it takes is great, as long as I can keep doing it, you know? If I can do my show and 'The League' while also getting to do other bits, that's awesome.

I find painting a much slower process than comedy, where you can go a mile a minute verbally and hope to God that some of the people out there understand you.

Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable.

I have to be careful not to do so many comedy airhead roles from now on. I've turned down a couple already.

I get all of my comedy from CNN.

Well, I'm not afraid to say something if I think it's funny, even if it's harsh or racist.

I used to do a lot of comedy. I don't know what happened. I think it's my face.

Life is dramatic and comedic at times. Sometimes in the most dramatic situations, there is comedy. And good comedy comes from a sense of reality.

Some people would say comedy draws from some dark places, from your dark stuff. Life's great optimists aren't necessarily the funniest people.

'Not Another Happy Ending' is a romantic comedy starring Karen Gillan and Stanley Weber. It is about these two characters and their relationships.

I don't write any of my material down. I like to improvise and be spontaneous.

Well, actually, I did start out in comedies. Very, very early.

My early days in Broadway were all comedies. I never did a straight play on Broadway.

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

To be perfectly honest, drama is a lot simpler than comedy.

Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.

But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.

The ladies of comedy now are comfortable dressing up. It's not forbidden anymore.

I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes though I'm gonna be on for an hour.

I could keep trying to do the same kind of comedies. You know how it's going to go, and you can get an audience with it, but then I feel like a hamster on a wheel.

All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.

This has been a learning experience for me. I also thought that privacy was something we were granted in the Constitution. I have learned from this when in fact the word privacy does not appear in the Constitution.

I'm the first one who sees every romantic comedy in theaters.

Comedy doesn't always have to come from a dark place.

When you're doing sketch comedy and you're pregnant, it's like wearing a giant sombrero in every sketch.

It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy.

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

Comedy writing is taking the brief thought and going with it.

Comedy is tragedy plus time, but the time is different for everybody.

I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy.

Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it.

You're at the top of your game if you do comedy.

It always interested me that 'Goodness Gracious Me' and 'The Kumars,' when shown around the world, were referred to as British comedy. It was only here that they were referred to as Asian comedy, even though I always felt it was very British in its humour and structure.

A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh.

I would love to do a dramatic comedy. All of that, it all interests me. At some point I want to do my 'Monster,' like Charlize Theron, so I'm buckling up for that.

I remember 'Def Comedy Jam' being a big deal and kids talking about it in school, but it was never, 'I want to do that.'

A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.

Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.

There are a lot of comics at the top end making staggering amounts of money and selling out stadiums. I think stand-up is a more intimate thing than that. Maybe because of the kind of comedy I do. It's like a discussion, but I'm the one with the microphone.

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.

Maybe I'll just become a cartoon character because there's nothing left for me to do in an R-rated comedy.

I don't think there's anything outside what comedy can address.

Comedy covers such a wide range of different styles that I'm not really qualified to talk on all of them any more than anyone else is.

And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.

It's not good for comedy to be like, 'Thanks for liking me.' Being popular is poison.

Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.