Comedy Quotes

I think when someone who's known for doing drama does a comedy but just tries to be funny, that's a mistake.

I'll do whatever I can do to remain employed. I'm just not precious about doing comedy or doing drama. I never want to do something in order to prove to other people what I can do.

I do comedy shows. I make fun of myself, first of all.

That's the funny thing about knowing you can't have something. It makes you desperate.

Funny how it kept hitting me, like each new thing was a surprise. When was I going to stop being surprised?

I have to step out for a second. Don’t do anything funny while I’m gone.

There is a strength of conviction that can only come from being 100% wrong.

You can only be embarrassed if you allow yourself to be embarrassed. If you embrace it and just accept that you're kind of a klutz, and you're able to make it into comedy gold.

I am a passionate believer that comedy is a way of tackling some of the most dark and difficult aspects of being a human being.

Comedy is a very personal thing, and some people will find it funny, some people wont.

I came to Hollywood originally writing comedy and writing satire.

Status is always ripe for satire, status is always good for comedy.

I mean, teenage girls and their fathers don't have a lot in common, but when you add something like comedy into the mix, it just opens up all sorts of doors for them to bond.

This is the funny thing about Skype. No one is really looking into the camera. People always looking down because they're looking at the image. You wish the camera was there in the center.

Comedy was something I picked up trying to perfect my art through spoken word. I got on YouTube just to show off my poetry, and then people thought I was funny, so I ran with it.

It's funny how intimate it feels to get a text.

I've only made short films and two features, which are very different. One is a surreal comedy, and the other is a period tragedy. I'm curious to know what misconceptions this could trigger

I would love to do a really cool romantic comedy, perhaps with Hugh Grant. I think he is brilliant. That's the kind of film I love to go to see. I love 'girls' films.

It's funny how heterosexuals have lives and the rest of us have "lifestyles."

I like comedy. I would love to do comedy for a long time.

I like to do things that are shocking or challenging for the sake of comedy.

I think that every piece has its challenges. I love going back and forth between one and the other. I'll always pick a comedy over a drama.

When I did comedy I made fun of myself. If there was a buffoon, I played the buffoon.

The comedy of class, played so straight, is a wonderful thing for an actor to sink their teeth into.

I like books that are funny, but that aren't trying to be funny. I like situational humor.

Funny how internal scars never healed. They were the souvenirs of the past.

Funny how a little politeness can change people's minds.

I'm grateful to be working. The most exciting thing for me is that I never get bored - I've done comedy, drama, musical theatre and now Shakespeare.

You have to know where the funny is, and if you know where the funny is, you know everything.

It's very funny to see a Justin Bieber song done by a bunch of grown men.

The most fun I ever had on a movie was working with Albert Brooks. He's the caviar of comedy. I mean, nobody's funnier; nobody is smarter than Albert Brooks.

It's funny, but I never knew I was hot or could be beautiful until I saw 'Basic Instinct,' and I was so shocked when I saw how pretty they made me.

There are lots of actors, and you need a way to stand out. Writing comedy sketches was a way of doing that.

Comedy and drama are less ageist media for women than stuff like light entertainment. But in TV or film, women have to be more pleasing on the eye than men.

I think that's important to women in comedy, that we get a lot of the good lines and you're not just the girlfriend or the sister.

Comedy is helping a lot at the moment. It also seems to be getting under Trump's skin and revealing a lot about the kind of thin-skinned fool that he is.

Comedy is about talking about my own experience, and I'm a woman, and that's my experience, and just because it isn't yours doesn't invalidate it.

That's the funny thing, she thought. You always want things to get better, but you never know how good you already have it.

Murder is easy. Comedy is hard.

I find I've always been judgmental about comedy (laughs) and it's hard to turn that off, really. But what constant exposure to live comedy does is it makes you give people a second chance.

I think shows that have more of a narrative and are about what's going to happen next, those need to wrap up as a complete story. But it's weird when a goofy comedy show needs to end.

Оf course you can only write comedy when you're smoking weed.

Thank you for listening to Comedy Bang Bang! My name is Scott Aukerman and I will see you next week.

I never knew what an engineer did for a living when I was a kid. I still don't.

Comedy works in fashion cycles, in a way. And sometimes, studios will imitate those cycles a little too much.

Everyone's got their own velocity, and there's no real time frame with comedy.

I'll tell you why we make fun of midgets: We're not afraid of them.

There are so many great comedies, right now. I like how comedies are really mixing. They're not just one thing. It can be very moving and dramatic, and yet hilarious.

I don't set out to offend or shock, but I also don't do anything to avoid it.

If you decide to do comedy that involves risk, risk means risk, and you can't complain of flesh wounds if you sit down at the table to play.