Comedy Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

The comedy gods are smiling on me tonight.

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

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.

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

But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.

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

As soon as I got funny, I killed any majestic intentions in my work.

All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.

I considered the years in Hollywood nothing but an interim. What I always wanted was to be was a musical comedy star.

It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.

I consider myself a sit-down comedian really, as much as anything else. I love comedy. Life is a cosmic joke.

There can be a science to joke writing, there are certainly rules and patterns that can be followed, but I think most of the best comedy goes beyond the rules.

... life is a comedy far darker than drama. It just takes time to learn what to smile at.

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

When I worked with Robin Williams, now there is improv! He is just as funny as you think he is. We did at least five or six takes of every scene, improvising every scene differently. He was a riot.

With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.

I remember being fascinated by the very nature of comedy from the age of 10; why is this funny, and that isn't?

Every movie I do, or when I'm on the sketch comedy show, I don't really get into it until I have an outfit or something funny with my head or face or something.

An actor shouldn't undergo psychoanalysis, because there are a lot of things you're better off not knowing.

The funny thing about gold is how quickly it can tarnish.

I did sketch comedy, but I never did improv. So I've just tried to learn as I go.

It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is its ambiguity. You can simultaneously laugh at a situation, and take it seriously.

My comedy does not come from a place of deep cynicism, and I tend to play characters who are naive in some way.

They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.

I don't think comedy comes from hotbeds of doing shtick. I think it usually comes from some kind of childhood humiliation or darkness.

My favorite work is The Full Monty because I got an Oscar for it. But it was really hard work at the time. Sometimes comedy is not a bundle of laughs to actually do.

If one official signals Falcons ball and Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson signals Seahawks ball, is it a jump ball?

In my sick brain, gruesome violence and comedy go as hand-to-hand together as anything else in the world.

In television, and especially in a situation comedy, you kind of play yourself, or at least the essence of yourself.

It's really funny if two women stand on the House floor. There are usually at least two men who go by and say, 'What is this, a coup?' They're almost afraid to see us in public together.

For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.

I think comedy is more my instinct and more what I'm geared towards.

There's got to be structure and great comedy. When you start with that, everything else falls into place.

It's funny what a few no-hitters do for a body.

I've never done a comedy club in my life. It's weird because I don't have the same background as most comics. I don't have a history of going up and only doing eight minutes.

It is funny, I don't feel old enough to give advice... But with the advisers you trust, you better listen to them. It may be bad news but that's the only way you're going to improve.

I loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it was delightful. I absolutely loved it. What a smashing place.