Comedy Quotes

We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.

It's quite funny that, 20 years ago, one would have thought putting out a fragrance would [negatively] affect your musical credibility. Now it may enhance it.

I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.

It's funny, I write lyrics in a bizarre way - I'm always writing lyrics, mostly when we're traveling or walking around New York, that's when I'm writing most of the stuff.

I want every day to be the most boring news day ever. I want every day to be about spelling bee champions and baby basketball. It's better to have no comedy material than a horrific news day.

The ladies of comedy now are comfortable dressing up. It's not forbidden anymore.

What drives the creative person is that we see it all.

I feel like L.A. is more of a showcase, and Chicago is a pure comedy scene where you're doing comedy for comedy. You're doing comedy actually for the audience that's there.

I do miss the rhythms of comedy. And I've never been able to perform very well without an audience. The sitcoms I've done had them. It was like doing a little play.

I think comedy should be left up to the professionals, that way everyone's safety is protected.

I like funny guys and those, for some reason, tend to be nerdy guys.

I think it's because my comedy is in your face, and it comes from a place that's real.

I only got into comedy to get laid

I like comedy when its mixed with action, it's just so much fun to do comedy with a bit of action, its fun to watch and also so much fun to do.

It's hard to narrow down your influences in comedy.

I'm going to memorize your name and throw my head away.

What's funny is we were doing some fire at work the other day and it was reminding me of all the firework I got to do as Havok, because a lot of that was as practical as you could get.

I never thought I was funny. I don't THINK funny.

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.

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

It reminds me how funny living in LA can be; You go to a friend's barbecue and you leave the face of Victoria Beckham's look book.

Funny always makes the bad things go away.

In a man, I like funny guys. A guy who doesn't have a lot of therapy, who's mature. A man, not a boy.

Comedy is a very delicate business, especially comedies that sort of attempt to do things in an honest way and in a very naturalistic way the way that 'No Strings Attached' is.

Nothing's funny about someone who's successful.

A pie in the face is funny. Comedy gold.

I'm much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I've always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me. I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.

Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.

Now women in comedy is a trendy topic, and people are hungering for women's voices in a way that they haven't before.

The Westerns I like aren't really comedies. I'm drawn to the scope of them and the land as a central character.

I don't want to make a style. Not tragedy, not comedy. Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.

There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It's something we are all too familiar with.

I love doing comedy. It's a lot of fun.

Comedy clubs can be brutal. Those people are for real, and if you aren't funny, they aren't laughing. They don't care who you are.

I find it funny that people now come up to me and say, 'Wow, you are absolutely gorgeous. I'm like, 'I was beautiful before I lost weight. Egotistically speaking, I thought I was amazing.'

That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.

People have very specific opinions of comedy. Slapstick was an art form in the '20s and the lowest form of show business in the '50s. Who's right, who's wrong? Who's an idiot, who's not?

I'm an actor who loves doing comedy.

The Doctor says, "You'll live to be 60!" "I AM 60!" "See, what did I tell you?"

I would love to see some comedies about loser women.

The internet has done nothing but good for comedy all around. Comedians no longer have to rely on TV execs and club owners deciding if they are funny or not.

You know what's funny? I don't ever feel the need to escape. I have a strong marriage. I like my life. You hear about these guys having midlife crises - I don't see that happening to me.

I've introduced myself with comedy, and once you've introduced yourself as something, that's where people keep you. That's where people like to hold you.

Comedy distances pain, but leaves signs of it everywhere.

I've remained friends with all of them. We'remaking a fun kids movie and it's a comedy so we're just having fun and running around fighting these aliens.

The funny thing is that in Bosnia there are no words that are equivalent to fiction and nonfiction. From the storytelling point of view, the difference is artificial.

When death comes too near, comedy and tragedy fall silent.

Comedy defends the commonplace; tragedy explodes it.