Comedy Quotes

Comedy has had no history, because it was not at first treated seriously.

I always loved comedy, but I never knew it was something you could learn to do. I always thought that some people are born comedians ... just like some people are born dentists.

Though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve.

The comedy gods are smiling on me tonight.

It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for comedy.

With comedy, you have no place to go but more comedy, so you're never off the hook.

In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand there mute and play 25 banjo songs.

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.

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

Here's the funny thing about the world coming to an end. Once it gets going, it doesn't seem to stop.

Writing, acting, music, comedy. A deep love of literature and books. Thank God for all the artists who've helped me.

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

Making people laugh is magic. I feel like if you have humility, then you can do anything in comedy.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Comedy is a serious business. A serious business with only one purpose--to make people laugh.

Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright, they're grand.

There's never been anything funny about a woman dying for love.

To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.

I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.

If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.

It's a funny thing about me. I don't have any interest in food most of the time now, although when I was a kid I was always hungry

I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.

There's always something every night that I learn from reacting to what the audience is reacting to. You learn what to leave out, what to put in, if you need a little more comedy or more drama.

It doesn't hurt my feeling when I get vilified by fundamentalist religious people. I've actually made comedy out of it. I've made light of that.

I'm a little funny when it comes to blood and guts and stuff like that.

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

I do like any kind of project that has both comedy and drama in it because in life you don't have one day where everything is funny then the next day everything is dramatic.

If you try to go for a laugh, it's death to the comedy. Personally, that's how I approach comedy. But I'm no expert.

Well I sure had been looking for a comedy for years without any success.

I am not a trained writer and I don't think anyone would accuse me of being a funny person. But I feel God has truly blessed me.

A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs.