Comedy Quotes

I didn't take anything from anyone - first of all. Second of all, I opened a comedy club with money that I saved over 25 years. I created jobs.

I don't think just funny is enough on Broadway.

There's always been physical suffering in comedy.

I still think funny, and people young and old still come and see me. That's flattering. The day comes that they stop coming, then I'll know that it's time to retire to the Jewish ranch.

Comedy speaks for civilization; farce bears an ill-concealed, sometimes unconcealed animus against civilization. Often against civility too.

But that hair? That is comedy entrapment. People are not attacking your hair, they are defending themselves from something that appears like it's about to attack them.

I never thought of myself in comedy at all... I loved going to the theatre and seeing people wearing beautiful clothes come down the staircase and start to dance.

But I just think I was lucky enough to figure out early on that I wanted to do comedy, so that's what I put all my effort into.

Christina can sing all the notes, but Britney is just hot!

I'm a big fan of Albert Brooks, Nichols and May. I'd like to follow in their footsteps and do comedy films.

I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny.

It's funny how everyone has a bizarre relationship with Google. The knowledge is there, but no one knows how to use it right.

I blame Hollywood for skewing perspectives. Life is just a big romantic comedy to them, and if you meet cute, happily ever-after is a forgone conclusion.

[Hollywood] is obviously so fake, but then comedy is this little carve-out of sincerity. I love it. I get to be funny and do this.

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

I like to play different types roles, but I'd like to do a comedy next.

It's really funny because the same people who loved me as Stringer Bell were the same people that were watching Daddy's Little Girls literally in tears.

Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.

Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.

Stand-up comedy is the most relaxing thing I do. If I want to unwind and de-stress, I go out and do stand-up, often several shows in a night.

People like the comedy more when they care about the characters.

That place is so behind the times, you can't even get AIDS there yet.

He is the only man I ever met with a seersucker face.

I am more comfortable doing comedy, and I want to perform comedy. When you can really make someone laugh, that's a healing experience. It's like music. A lot of music is really healing.

You have a ready wit. Tell me when it's ready.

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.

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

You know, comedy's hard. With drama, you have a responsibility to the emotional truth, but with comedy, you have emotional truth and you have technique on top of it.

It's funny, I get really nervous when I audition for voiceovers.

Unfortunately this is where comedy works, where people are the most miserable.

I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive.

The funny thing about these uniforms is that you hang them in the closet and they get smaller and smaller.

In 20 years of comedy, I've probably had a dozen good points.

I don't like the phrase shock value. Surprise is essential in comedy, and if people are shocked by what I consider merely surprising, then that's their shock. But there is no joke without surprise.

Comedy is just to me, maybe it's a natural knack, if I can see where the joke is in the writing and I can see where the setup is and I can tell this is the way to make it.

One night I attended a Laughing Liberally comedy show. There was one funny comedian there - Lee Camp.

It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.

I think people who work in comedy and humor are hesitant to analyze it too much, because you feel like if you take it apart, you'll break it and not be able to put it back together again.

Comedy can't be about continuous success.

I think comedy is the most difficult thing in the world, I really do.

I want to do literally everything. I think I was gifted... I inherited one of the best comedy visionaries as a director.

The funny thing about the boy who gave away his loaves and fish is that he, too, ended the day with a full stomach.

If we could just find out who's in charge, we could kill him.

Comedy is obviously a matter of personal taste and the world always needs a clown and some people have no taste at all and any clown will do.

Ben Stiller isn't funny - honest. Ben Stiller is very funny, and smart, and cute, too, in a neurotic, New York kind of way.

It sounds gross to say that I like myself more. But not everyone likes themselves that much. Especially in the comedy world.

Charlie Chaplin's genius was in comedy. He has no sense of humor, particularly about himself.

I know how to play comedy when it's needed. So even when it's really not there, my facial expressions are really great. I have a lot of facial expressions in my face, you know.

I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer.

I don't think I'm funny.