Comedy Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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'.

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

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!

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Id like to do a romantic comedy like Notting Hill, which is one of my favorite movies.

This makes me so sore it gets my dandruff up.

Keep a stiff upper chin.

I would like to do a romantic comedy, but not a romantic comedy that is cheesy. I want to do an old romantic comedy like Roman Holiday or My Fair Lady.

I can't claim to feel like I've been under some man's thumb in comedy. I've sort of always done my own thing for better or worse, and have been lucky enough to be able to perform ever since.

I have a lot of funny friends, though not everyone's funny all the time. Doon Mackichan's my funniest friend in the pub; Nina Conti's the funniest with a monkey.

I was always telling everybody that I could be funny.

I did comedies for 10 years and I learned a great deal.

I wasnt particularly funny in high school, but I grew up with three older brothers who were quite funny.

Entourage [movie] really is established as a genre unto itself, much like the thriller or the horror movie or the comedy. And those things trend.

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.

I think you're bound to get a sense of any character that you play. It's not something you often do in comedy.

The arts community still has a long lasting cynicism of the importance, or the artistic value, of comedy. Comedy is just farting about for money.

I do as much comedy as I possibly can but I'm basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions.