Comedy Quotes

I feel like I share a great relationship with my audience where they trust my judgment and choice of films and sense of comedy.

I've spent the last few years just really actively pursuing comedy and that's something I always wanted to know how to do.

I would rather be living in Philadelphia.

A wonderful story collection set between one place and another and shaped by a fearless sense of comedy.

Some things just strike me as funny. The way things play out just makes me laugh sometimes. It drives my wife crazy sometimes because I'll just be laughing for no reason.

Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued; while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their collective belly.

What is our life? A play of passion. Our mirth the music of division. Our mother's wombs the tyring houses be, Where we are drest for this short Comedy.

I'm here today because I hated everything else.

It wasn't until I became more confident with myself and I put myself forward instead of the jokes; at first it was put the jokes out there and I'm just behind the jokes.

I love Costas. He's knows too much, but he's a good guy.

Men don't hear women.

I watched a lot of comedy growing up.

I was funny around my family. My family, they're pretty funny, too.

A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh.

But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.

I always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom.

I'm really funny now.

I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.

I would like to play an average guy. I would have loved to play opposite John Candy in a movie. That was my dream for a long time, and sadly, now I can never realize that. But I'd like to do comedy.

There is no character in the comedy of human life more difficult to play well than that of an old bachelor.

I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.

It’s funny to hear priests and nuns argue with each other.

I grew up fascinated with comedy and with people who could capture someone's attention.

I think if anybody had a roll of dice with a lot of money at stake, they would not want Wes Craven and a romantic comedy.

I love watching the romantic comedies of the late '50s and early '60s. I used to have a rule that if Tony Randall's in it, it can't be bad.

I've always maintained that I don't think comedy should be reviewed. I think it's un-reviewable, because it is so subjective.

When I first started doing sketch comedy, I promised myself that if I were ever to have any success in this business, I wouldn't hold back. Why get there and play it safe?

Comedy Central made their own awards show. They were named best comedy channel.

At first, there was a separation of clubs and sketch comedy. Now there's all kinds of comedy, making us one big happy family.

I did sketch comedy for years. Ive always enjoyed it.

A lot of my early pictures are, I think, quite funny. And these days I tend to look for comedy more and more.

I can't imagine a successful comedy movie without a successful comedy performance at the heart of it.

Acting by yourself is pretty darn hard, especially having to do physical comedy.

I have always been told that I was a funny, entertaining person and have always been told to give comedy a try.

If a great comedy landed on my doorstep, I would find it hard to say no.

A great model for this is the way that Dante calls on Virgil at the beginning of 'The Inferno,' 'The Divine Comedy,' to help guide him through the underworld.

I'm going to be criticized by lots of "scholars," but I think Shakespeare's best comedy often appears in his tragedies, actually. Not necessarily in his comedies.

Comedy writing is taking the brief thought and going with it.

The best comedy I ever did was when people didn't know who I was.

American comedies about Asians have never been funny to me. That always kind of pissed me off.

You know, stand-up comedy is where I pretty much started out.

Acting in a sitcom or a comedy movie is like a comedy routine with the setups.

I believe in the future a new Dante will write a new Divine Comedy.

Stand-up comedy is a raunchy profession.

As a dancer, I was always the physical comedy girl. I love it so much.

It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.

I remember as a child listening to comedic musicals and thinking they were a real riot. I had pretty questionable taste in comedy.

As I get older, I think I'm more interested in comedy that doesn't take cheap shots. But I watched some of that Justin Bieber "roast" and I thought it was hilarious.

I've done comedy, and I've done drama. I've sort of been a journeyman in my career so far.

It's funny that you [Zachary Quinto] did a monologue from Pounding Nails in the Floor With My Forehead. I did the same thing for my university when I went to USC.