Comedy Quotes

It's funny: All my friends back home are always wondering why every television show I'm on is a drama, but all the comedy pilots I did died a slow and painful death.

Something funny always happens in every show in the UK and I genuinely love touring the UK because it's where I'm from. I just get a warm feeling when I'm home.

I think I became funny because I grew up in the Bronx. I was small and weak and Jewish instead of large and fierce and Puerto Rican. You need something.

The ability to understand and deliver comedy and tragedy is extremely rare in one composer.

People are amazed that I do comedy. I always did comedy.

How funny it is that the most unlikely person sometimes becomes your ally.

I loved comedy all my life. I think it's a real powerful art form.

funny how ready people are to believe that counseling, which even when voluntary takes years to modify garden-variety neuroses, can work wonders in months with resistant patients who hate each other.

I did try when I wasn't doing the singing to do as much comedy as I could because I thought with Comic Relief you are duty bound to anyway.

You have to be careful what you say in front of comedy writers because they will absolutely make fun of it in the next episode.

As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.

As a rule, Germans shouldn't do comedy. Their last box office comedy was Nosferatu.

My goal in life is to be as happy as a studio audience.

And it's very, very funny When you've lots and lots of money To be horrible to those with none! Be horrible to those with none!

It's funny how people want to sometimes think that Young and Beautiful film is about all adolescents, but it's just the case of one girl. It doesn't mean all the adolescents are like that, of course.

Will Smith is a funny person, a very likable person, but at the same time he can be serious and really handle his business. I'll stay away from talking about his rapping abilities, though.

I enjoy comedy and I hope that people enjoy watching me do it.

Funny how someone can come into your life for such a brief time but leave such a lasting impression.

It’s funny, I can sit through the worst horror film ever made! But even a quite good romantic comedy.

Between funny and witty Falls the shadow

Don't try to give a funny opinion; give your opinion in a way that will be funny.

My comedy is like emotional hang-gliding.

Comedy pays the bills if I can't find a film.

The only weapon we have is comedy.

In order for comedy to be funny you have to play the truth of the moment. But if you're not being completely truthful to the basis of the character, its not going to be funny.

comedy is a high form of art becaus it brings us more joy than anything else, practically but at the same time, it doesn't get a lot of respect. that's the sacrifice you make to do it.

It's frightening and exhilarating. It's like combat. Look at the metaphors: You kill when it works; you die when it doesn't.

I am so happy because I want more people to like martial arts movie not just martial arts audience. Even martial arts can be used in comedy, in drama, in horror movies, in different kinds of movies.

President Bush has been silent on Schwarzenegger. Of course, he can't pronounce Schwarzenegger.

I've always improvised, and stand-up was this great release. All of a sudden, it was just me and the audience.

Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and cause for expression of grief.

If you don't advertise yourself you will be advertised by your loving enemies.

When I was growing up in comedy, there were maybe 10 comics in the whole country. Everyone had a day job. You worked free for years in little clubs, then you got your big break and became a star.

I was funny -- ha-ha, not peculiar. It was a modest currency, like pennies: pedestrian, somewhat laborious, but a currency nonetheless. I was funny, in public, most often at my own expense.

The whole object of comedy is to be yourself and the closer you get to that, the funnier you will be.

If you are writing comedy and try to please everybody, you'll please nobody.

What's funny about my group of friends is that none of us ever went to the same school. None of us lived in the same part of town.

It is funny the things that run through your mind when you're sitting in your underpants in front of a pair of strangers.

The secret of writing comedy is to know where it's all going, then get ahead of it.

Wickedly funny to read and morally bracing as only good satire can be.

Comedy is about flaws anyway... There's a lot of humor in the dark areas of life.

I always try to attack the most honest issues I can in my comedy.

Awkwardness and feeling alienated are always going to be a part of comedy.

I would like to get back to making people laugh. Before drama school, I did nothing but comedy.

With comedy, if you write something for me, I'm better at it. I'm not sure I'm so good at improvisational stuff.

Besties before testes.

I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

One longs to be funny, to make people laugh. Laughter is such a sign of approval, isn't it?

Comedy [deals] with a lot of the same areas where our defenses are the strongest - race, religion, politics, sexuality.

I actually enjoy comedy; it's a lot of fun.