Comedy Quotes

I want to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press for even having a comedy category.

I find it so funny that people find me so interesting.

I like to play characters that get to do it all - to have a bit of comedy here and a bit of pathos here and a bit of suspense here, that's what's fun.

I like the honesty of standup comedy. People don't fake laugh. If they're truly laughing at you, you know they like you.

Good comedy makes you laugh, and bad comedy makes people you hate laugh.

I drank the Kool-Aid of being a network star. Once it didn't happen, I realized it wasn't the best version of my comedy.

he puppeteers really responded to it. Patrick Bistrow really responded to it, it's great fun to do improve comedy with puppets.

I hadn't done just a straight-out comedy in a long time, just letting an ensemble do really good character acting, having them carry the movie as in my earlier pictures

I think the second you think that you're funny is when you stop being funny.

It's amazing how fast later comes when you buy now!

I miss the comedy of the '70s and '80s, like 'Only Fools And Horses' and 'Fawlty Towers,' so I'm glad I'm put in that category.

I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny.

I tried to freshen up a room, so I held a Certs in front of a fan.

I can whistle with my fingers, especially if I have a whistle.

I had a chicken finger that was so big, it was a chicken hand.

I want to see Bob Dylan do sketch comedy. I'm a huge Bob Dylan fan.

For a comedy to work, magic has to happen.

The secret to comedy is not playing the comedy, but actually playing the situation, playing the drama of it.

[Robert Smigel] is one of the greatest comedy writers in the last 50 years. "TV Funhouse" and Triumph and all those sketches.He's really unique, and he has an amazing comedy mind.

I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.

We love the Stooges, and young kids today don't watch them. They think it's their dad's comedy. So we thought we could reintroduce them to a new audience.

It was funny that you know someone for years but still discover something you never noticed before.

What I've learned about comedy people is that they're defined by the harshest level they've been to, their personal Auschwitz.

This is my chance to get out there and appease the fans of my music as well as show people that I do do standup comedy because a lot of people don't know that's where I started.

Whether it's corporate investigations or comedy, there are certain inherent truths to trying to get what you want while trying to be a decent person doing it.

Drama is more focused and it reveals itself to you, whereas comedy is just right there, when you first read it.

I worked in accounting for two and a half years, realized that wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life, and decided I was just going to give comedy a try.

They'll always be an England, even if it's in Hollywood.

If you want to be an actor, you need to learn how to act first, even in sketch comedy.

Let's do some comedy. I always like to add some comedy to my show. Those who've seen me before might know that.

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

It's funny that some ideas start with a little "What if?" and then suddenly you're spending a million dollars to shoot the scene and hoping that it works.

Comedy wasn't something I chose - it chose me.

Funny to watch these Senators switching back and forth on Prohibition. Politics is a great character builder. You have to take a referendum to see what your convictions are for that day.

I can juggle. I started juggling as a kid. And when I worked at Disneyland, I knew a juggler there named Christopher Faire, and he taught me how to juggle. I used it in my comedy act for a while.

My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic.

I just wanted to be in show business. I didn't care if I was going to be an actor or a magician or what. Comedy was a point of the least resistance, really. And on the simplest level, I loved comedy.

It's funny how when you're up so late at night for so long your mind can get into these creative places, the kind of creative places that come to you when you're halfway between asleep and awake.

Ladies Commit, There's A Wedding In It For You.

Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter?

The other day I ... no wait, that wasn't me.

I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival.

Whenever I do a comedy show I still just read poems, some of which are intentionally funny and some of which are just bizarre. The mix seems to work well.

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

It's funny, when you look back in history books or American cookery books, one of the reasons that the quinces and cranberries are used so often is because of their natural jelling properties.

I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author.

I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It's a valid test of your creative abilities.

I love comedy. If I could be a comedian - well, I probably would not take that job because it seems really hard, but I wish I could be.

When I tried to branch out into comedy, I didn't do very well at it, so I went back to doing what I do naturally well, or what the audience expects from me - action pictures.

It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.