Comedy Quotes

I've never had prejudice against me because of being a woman in comedy, I've never felt any sort of unfairness because of that - but I do think it is naive to think that it doesn't exist.

I wrote comedy sketches in college.

An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.

Funny, now I can see, how looks can be deceiving.

It's a dangerous game that comedy plays. Sometimes it tells you the truth; sometimes it delays it.

It's funny, because when you work on a set, everyone is watching you. You are being observed by everyone.

Elisa Albert in a nutshell: funny, self-aware, and genuinely fearless that she might be a lunatic, or a genius, or both.

I think Georges Feydeau said comedy is just tragedy speeded up.

I'm a huge fan of 'Community'; it's, I think, one of the most brilliant comedy on television and has been for a long time.

I think my strongest suit is comedy. I certainly have limits in other areas.

It's funny because the voice-over world is definitely another career. It's another outlet to be creative. But, I'm just not invested, in the way that I am with film and television.

Coming up with a funny joke is like falling in love: It can hit you any time, anywhere. Having said that, the more you put yourself out there, the better your odds will be.

By the time I finished comedy, I was really burnt out of it. I had had enough. I don't really have a strong desire to prove myself in that area, or to go back to it in any great way.

Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.

Why should I be feeling tension? It's The Daily Show.

I was going out for absolutely everything that was in Backstage.

People want other people to know that they share our sensibility even if they're not exactly sure what that sensibility is.

I actually got the part. And I thought, Well, I'll do it for a while. I'll just quit if it's stupid.

I've got like a week and a half left, all bets are off.

I remember saying in college that I would never do commercials.

I don't know how this company got the name National Shakespeare Company, because it was literally like retards employing retards.

I go to a lot of stand-up comedy. I find more inspiration from observational stuff than from rap.

It's funny, people say 'Welcome back' when I haven't gone anywhere.

I think the best advice I'd say to any actor when you do comedy is play it straight.

I think comedy has to be an intellectual pursuit. It comes down to logic and analysis. As soon as it becomes emotional, it's not comedy anymore.

Comedy is a medicine - a healing process that can help people get through difficult times and understand things better

I have admired Melissa Pritchard's writing for several years now for its wisdom, its humble elegance, and its earthy comedy.

It's funny: I've been very successful and done a lot of films, and I don't really have an agent - I don't really pursue jobs, I let people come to me.

I’ve come to ask you where Seth is.” "Funny,” said Andrea. “We were going to ask you the same thing.” I was taken aback. “How would I know?” They both just stared. "I don’t!

Funny how someone telling you not to do something can talk you into it.

The thought of a comedy with paid prostitutes always seemed so silly and purposeless, for a person hired by me could never take the place of my imagination of a 'cruel mistress'.

I loved watching classics such as 'Casablanca' and goofball comedies such as 'How To Murder Your Wife' on WGN-TV.

IT'S funny. It doesn't work the other way round !

People think drama drives story, but I think the comedy is really the heart and soul.

Ain't it funny what people say? Ain't it funny what people write?

You've got to have a likeability factor, I think, in your comedy characters. If the guy's really, really funny but you just don't like him or her, then you're never going to root for them.

I always did music, but music is an easier thing for me. Making videos and doing comedy things was more of a challenge, so I was more interested in that. Music is a little bit more automatic.

I'm not really very funny, I just keep recycling jokes.

I totally love to act. I don't care if it's a musical, a comedy. I just like to work and interact with other people.

It is not funny that a man should be killed, but it is sometimes funny that he should be killed for so little, and that his death should be the coin of what we call civilization.

I'm probably not very funny. The scripts just don't come in, or the ones that do aren't that good. I suppose I'm just an old drama queen, really.

The only thing I miss from the sitcom format is that immediate gratification of when you're, if we're talking about comedy, of the live audience.

It's starting to feel good, although I don't like feeling too good - that's not where my comedy comes from.

If I think something's funny, I think it's funny.

I'm a comedy geek so anything comedy related, whether that's standup shows, improv shows, I'm all over that. That's my favorite way to be entertained always.

Comedy is like music, and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band.

I would be an idiot to say comedy is easy, but it does come naturally. It never feels forced.

The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history; 't is all toy figures in a toyhouse.

It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.

With Attachments, my goal was to write a really good romantic comedy. I wanted the reader to be smiling throughout.