Comedy Quotes

Comedy is crowded. There are hundreds of comedians in every place in the world.

There are no funny lawyers - only funny people who made a career mistake.

The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.

Because it's uncensored cable, I think we'll be able to do the kind of sketch comedy that really hasn't been seen before. We can actually finish jokes.

I like things that are funny - in everyday conversation, in incidents that you see, in watching TV or watching film. Comedy has always had an impact on my life.

This world is a comedy, not Life.

I'm not a comedian. I didn't study sketch comedy; my background isn't that.

Gentlemen, include me out.

Two things are not debatable: eroticism, and comedy. If you don't think it's sexy, or funny, there's no way I can change your mind.

That's the best advice I can give - when you're trying to write a comedy, first write a drama, and then make it funny.

I developed several comedy phone calls.

Comedy breaks down walls. It frees us for just a moment from the ugliness of this world.

It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.

It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.

I don't like forcing comedy and people just trying to do things just to find a funny beat all the time.

To have a friend and a comrade as your co-star, especially in a romantic comedy, is really important. It gives you the room. It's easier to give yourself and the other person permission to play.

A sleeping bag is a tortilla for a human.

The funny thing is, all my friends are short. I wasn't aware of tall people till I got to high school. I didn't know they existed. I was sheltered.

I chose to do comedy instead of going to college.

I think the book is less emotional than the film. With the film, the emotions are much more raw and in front. In the book, they are kind of ironized and seen through comedy.

Somebody's sent a funny little valentine to me. It's a bunch of baby-roses in a vase of filigree, And hovering above them ... is a fairy cupid tangled in a scarf of poetry.

He is, most of all, l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.

Jean Alesi is 4th and 5th.

Comedy is essentially made by young men, or older men with some form of arrested development, for young men or immature older men.

My main point is to be funny; if I can slip a message in there, fine.

As you can see, visually, with your eyes.

It's funny that they've called homosexuality a crime... At this rate, everyone will be a criminal.

I used to go to the library all the time when I was kid. As a teenager, I got a book on how to write jokes at the library, and that, in turn, launched my comedy career.

Let's stop the startwatch.

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.

I think comedy is a really, really good tool for trying to say something.

She was so fat that her bathtub has stretch marks.

Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.

Funny, how just when you think life can’t possibly get any worse it suddenly does.

I think of a lot of comedy being watched alone, for some reason. It's surprising to me that people are getting together to watch stand-up comedy.

I'm not interested in parts where they are looking for a good-looking guy. I want to be a weird little sidekick in a crazy comedy and then play like a dark drama or a thriller.

One picture is worth 1,000 denials.

Beaches and romantic comedies are not my thing. I'm a workaholic.

I don't remember what my favourite comedy film is - truthfully! I saw Borat and I thought I was not going to be able to get out of the theatre because I was in so much pain from the laughter.

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

I have funny bones. If there's ever any kind of tension, I'll always be the one to try and be funny to loosen things up.

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

To succeed in comedy you ultimately have to put in the hours and get lucky - The amount of people who are able to break through is so small a fraction of the amount of people trying.

I don't think I've ever made any conscious decision to be a comic artist, but to me there's something quite anarchic about comedy.

The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I'm really a jock.

I think when I feel I'm at my best is when I'm on stage, and it's my version of jazz because it's just riffing or something.

It’s funny, everything is so much easier when you do it yourself.

I think it's probably much easier to do political comedy from a two-party point of view, in that the majority have some sense of what it means to be one or the other.

The Seasons Difference is a suave and urbane comedy about several immense abstractions - faith, innocence, loneliness, and love.

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.