Comedy Quotes

Guys play characters that won't grow up and something catastrophic happens and they have to grow up to save the day - that's pretty much what today's comedy is about.

When you're a stand-up, you play in front of 600 people, and it's all about timing. I could never do stand-up comedy; it would be way too hard for me.

Funny the only two times we use the phrase "seeing someone" are when we are referring to being in a a relationship or getting psychological help.

I love comedy. It's where my heart is.

For doing comedy, a sense of humor is a must!

Carol Leifer is funny, really funny.

I love comedy; so you want to make them happy, make them laugh.

Comedy can simultaneously allow you to dive headfirst into the world's pain and escape it.

I'll go back to comedy clubs when they get a real no-camera policy, the same way they did with smoking.

To me, comedy is a game.

I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.

But long story short, I didn't start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an actor or even wanted to write sketch comedy. I got into stand-up because I love stand-up.

All this world's noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!

I think there's a difference between making comedy and reporting comedy. When you're a joke teller you can easily fall into the second, you can show up and just say the jokes.

By the time I was 7 or 8, I wanted to be a comedy writer.

Most of the time, my favorite drama has comedy in it as well. I think most good dramas have comedy in there. And all of the dramatic actors I look up to are also very funny.

Stand-up comedy is like the lowest medium in all of show business in levels of respect.

I started being a comedy fan when I was, I'm going to guess, like 5 or 6 years old.

The reason you often get in comedy is because you're not getting laid.

I wasn't even a big comedy nerd. A lot of the comedians I know - a lot of my friends are comedians - they knew a lot about comedy growing up.

I love Buster Keaton and I love physical comedy when it's done in an emotionally understated way. I just like to play it, and I need the attention.

Most parts in comedy, they're not really written for men. They're written for, like, these boy-men.

What's funny about Jesus' Son is that I never even wrote that book, I just wrote it down. I would tell these stories and people would say, You should write these things down.

Funny is only something that others know about you - you can't be funny by yourself.

The best comedy audiences in the country and this is tried and true, I'm not just saying it, in my opinion are Boston, Atlanta, and Chicago.

I want my name to be a brand in comedy. I hope my name stands for comedic excellence.

Every actor thinks he can do comedy, and it's not true.

I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality.

I was the funny, outgoing kid who didn't understand how he could keep getting mistaken for a nerd nobody liked.

Some people learn comedy, and some people just are comedy.

Comedy has sort of been my life-long obsession. I literally obsessed over comedy. I really didn't play sports - for me it was just comedy, computers and chess club; those were my big things.

A bargain is something you don't need at a price you can't resist.

The goal of almost every comic is to find a comedy voice - a specific point of view that an audience can latch onto.

If I were running a campaign, I'd urge taking the mountain of money reportedly squandered on pizza, coffee and bagels and spending it more wisely - on a talented young comedy writer.

Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.

I'll continue to make the typical Adam Sandler comedies.

Wedding Singer taught us we shouldnt be afraid of making people feel emotional in the middle of the movie, rather than just dealing with comedy.

I grew up in a house that liked to be funny. Everybody liked to be funny. My family's been...we've been enjoying each other's comedy for years.

Comedy is commitment and playing a character and falling into the role, and I've been doing that since I was 19 years old.

Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.

The only reason I got into stand-up was because my brother told me to. I had no idea what I was going to do with my life. I was 17 and my brother went to a comedy club and he said - you can do that.

Maybe forced retirement isn't necessary after all.

In Australia, I'm built up as this comedy hero, which was never my intention.

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don't know if I'll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

I just do what I think is funny and what's exciting to me.

I enjoy doing all different types of movies even though I am the most comfortable with comedy.

I could see how people get addicted to animation, and I understand why it's so great for comedy. You can do whatever you want and it just happens.

As for movies, what's great about comedy is that if your movie gets laughs and makes money, you have freedom.

I think what's dangerous [about comedy] is that you're coming into the room announcing your intentions.

I'd rather be funny than wise.