Comedy Quotations | Page 3

Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.

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

You don't get a chance to take a breath but when you do, you have some really good comedy moments that ease up on the tension that the movie is centered around which is Kim being kidnapped and her son and husband being kidnapped and the jeopardy that they're in.

It's much funnier when the comedy can happen with me just trying my best to genuinely do a good thing.

I would love to work with Sir Anthony Hopkins. How and why that would happen in a comedy I'm not sure - why he would be dragged over to my side, or I'd be be dragged over to his side.

It'd be fun to do a comedy with someone like Sandra Bullock.

Comedy is very controlling - you are making people laugh.

I would say I try to make my comedy really personal. I try to tell stories that happened to me, experiences from my life.

Most of the people I know in comedy are not weird or messed up.

It is quite true - in fact, obvious on the surface - that the vast majority of dramatic shows and comedies, as well, advocate a liberal and humanistic and relativistic lifestyle and concept.

My purist comedy friends accuse me of being a Jack of all trades and master of none.

My paintings and comedy have a lot in common. They are both improvisations based on observation.

Comedy is not commercial; it is risky, because what is funny in one place isn't always funny somewhere else.

The whole romantic part of my life was a wipeout. I didn't even own a belt.

I will always love to perform standup comedy.

If Mr. Einstein doesn't like the natural laws of the universe, let him go back to where he came from.

Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.

It's always been said that comedy comes mostly out of the dark side anyway.

She said she was approaching forty, and I couldn't help wondering from what direction.

They tend to come out a colour called 'Pants left in wash'

The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language.

I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up on stage and did it without thinking.

My comedy is different every time I do it. I don't know what the hell I'm doing.

January 14, 2000, was my first time on stage, and I've been hooked ever since. I got discovered nationally in Seattle by the now-defunct HBO Comedy Festival, and that led to an appearance on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' and a path to a professional comedy career.

Regardless of what I do, whether I write a book or whether I act or whether I host, I'll always do stand-up comedy because those moments, that's what I crave. If I do something funny, and I hear a crowd laugh in that moment, we're all sharing the exact same experience and the exact same feeling.

Comedy and horror are cousins; they're related. They both come from storytellers who want to specifically affect the audience and elicit specific reactions during the movie.

You know, I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end.

I don't want to sit and cry for an hour in a movie. I'd rather have an action or a comedy.

My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.

You know, dramas are much more expensive to do than say a comedy, so any kind of deficit like that is picked up on when it comes time for them to pick up new shows.

Moonstruck... was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.

I was raised on the purest comedy there is: 'I Love Lucy.' I was raised watching 'Three's Company' and sitcoms of the '70s and '80s.

Never use a big word when a little filthy one will do.

Comedy has always been more challenging for me than drama.

I wouldn't feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy - I'd be bored to death.

I've mainly been in dramas, so this is one of my first comedy kind of performances in Cecil B. Demented.

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

I'm not at all funny. I can do dark comedy pretty well, but straight-up comedy, I don't know. I'm much darker. I've been like that since I was 3 years old

Why is Cloud 9 so amazing? What is wrong with Cloud 8? That joke came off the top of my head, and the top of my head ain't funny!

After 20 years of doing comedy, I find dramatic work more challenging.

Deep inside, I am desperate to do comedy.

Having written both comedy and drama, comedy's harder because the fear of failure's so much stronger. When you write a scene and you see it cut together, and it doesn't make you laugh, it hurts in a way that failed drama doesn't. Failed drama, it's all, 'That's not that compelling,' but failed comedy just lays there.

You can not have comedy unless people are behaving badly. You can't have it.

The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.

She kind of reminds one of Helen. There's something very similar about Elizabeth Perkins.

If we can't have comedy books written about aspects of womanhood without going into a panic attack about it, then we haven't got very far at being equal.

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.

The best comedy, I feel, comes in a drama because it balances each other out.

I like American women. They do things sexually Russian girls never dream of doing - like showering.

Comedy. I think that's something I'd really like to do.

I chose to do comedy instead of going to college.

Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.

Stand-up comedy and comedy in general is the ultimate form of free speech, because you get to poke holes in all the pretentious bubbles politicians and pundits and popes and pretenders try to float over our heads.

People expect comedy from me but I am not just a stand-up comedian anymore. I act on stage, host 'Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa' and also conduct interviews on my show. I have grown as a person and an artiste.

Comedy is really best when watched with other people, and I don't really understand people who sit at home watching comedy movies on Netflix.

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.

Yeah, romantic comedies are the hardest movies to make. Maybe one works a year.

There are a couple of ideas for features that I would love to do. They happen to be comedies.

I never like to be the same, whether it be comedy or drama, funny or serious.

My comedy doesn't come from any calculations and studies.

I never like to do parodies. I never do. It's just not my style of comedy.

I am desperate to do a comedy now.

Only in America could you get away with the kind of comedy I did.

I would never say never to returning to comedy.

Comedy tends to come out of things which are quite painful and serious.

The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience.

I like that kind of 'straight-faced' comedy. I like to be straight-faced and outrageous.

Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words that no one else would say.

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

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

I think comedy comes more from a low sense of self-esteem, and I certainly have that.

'Fresh Meat' is the first comedy thing I've ever done.

Stand up comedy is this thing you get to do, so you have to treat it with respect. You can't just be like, 'Alright, I got my hour down, people are coming to see me now. Now, I'm going to lean on the mike stand.' No, you gotta work even harder now. You got to top what you already did. Because they'll find someone else.

I think comedy stems from being honest, often painfully so. I hope I can achieve that perspective in my own life and also have fun.

A good comedy's very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy.

I directed a half hour comedy pilot, 'Upgrade,' and had one of the best times ever! I had such a great time directing; I would love to get to direct another project.

I would say 80% of the scripts I get are dramas and not comedies or romantic comedies, which is funny because that's what I do every week.

I will never say never, but I will say never to doing the more typical romantic comedies. You know, unless I'm getting audited and I'm on the street and I desperately need some dough and that's the only thing that I'm getting.

I am a big comedy fan, having been in 'Coupling.'

The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.

He was born early. But he was born within a safe range of premature.

Comedy and drama are both challenging to me.

But I'm kind of spoilt when it comes to comedy. I was on 'Friends', which was one of the funniest things on television.

Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.

There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins.

I've always loved... actually I didn't always love horror films. I started out and I only liked comedies and dramas.

I'm a really huge fan of the old romantic comedies from the '30s and '40s... Huge fan. I love all that stuff.

I fed my ego, but not my soul.

I think when you dissect a joke too much, you have ruined whatever there is in comedy.

I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv.

I wanted to be a vet before I got into comedy, but then once I found out how much gore goes into that job, I wanted nothing to do with it.

I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.

I can't do comedy that is cutting and vicious. If I knew I'd said something that was going to make someone feel bad, well, that supersedes everything.

In a comedy it helps enhance things that were already there.

Just making a good movie is hard to do.

As long as there's Big Momma, we're going to bring you comedy.

I'm not a big fan of romantic comedies, believe it or not

Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form.

I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots of jokes in it - I wouldn't know how to do jokes without the story.