Comedy Quotes

The interesting trick of comedy, in a lot of ways, is to have both the comedy and the grounding of the real thing. You get a real sense of a human being.

Comedy is just one of the many professions that women are taking over.

I've actually done a lot of comedy.

It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.

When I first started comedy, me and my friends were kids. I claim - although I know that it's a spurious and probably untrue claim - that we were the first generation of kids to act black.

Action films are emotionally and physically draining, and you're dirty and sweaty. In a romantic comedy, you have to have your fingernails perfect, you're in air-conditioned rooms the whole time.

Doing comedy is as easy as doing anything else. You're dependent totally on the material.

I would much rather watch a horror film or science fiction than a comedy. I don't know why. I just like them. I find them relaxing.

I have always loved both drama and comedy.

I consider my comedy to be dramatic comedy. I always wanted music underscoring the dramatic monologue. It was always drama with comedy, in my head.

Authentic sources. Many authentic sources.

Up till now, they are only on dock No. 10, not in Umm Qasr, not in the city

My knee-jerk is that it is comedy and, if you watch them all back-to-back, you will gain something and you will lose something.

When you start out in comedy, or probably in a lot of things, you want it to happen fast. You don't want to see yourself having to do this for seven years before you start to get some feedback.

There was a male sketch group in my college. I was like why isn't there a female sketch group? So then I started doing sketch comedy and all that stuff. It just happened.

I haven't been offered a lot of comedy. In theater, I've done quite a bit of comedy or dramas that included a lot of funny stuff. But in my TV work, those aren't the roles that I've been offered.

It's on the bucket list for sure to do a comedy film, even if it was just one line on the lot.

I think a lot of people compare female writers or female comedians to each other in a way that men are not. Male comedy writers are not scrutinized.

I had to learn a skill set. I think I had the materials to be a good comedy writer.

My dad is funny in his own way, and so is my brother, but in terms of legitimately making a lot of people laugh, that's my mom. I inherit my sense of comedy from her.

Comedy writers have the most fragile egos.

People don't want to listen to a celebrity tweeting about their charities and shows. That's why comedy writers do well - we put out little funny ideas.

I think parenthood is just ripe for comedy. This just happens to be told from the perspective of women.

When it's a comedy or drama or horror or romance, it's all the same. You want to be honest with the character. You want to play truthfully and you want to be genuine with your character.

I decided to do a comedy. It's a good mind-set to go into work and be happy every day instead of being in a dark place.

Dad loved movies and I grew up with British comedy. My ultimate favourite is Peter Sellers.

I love making comedy. I never stopped loving it. I will continue to love it and I can't believe that I get to do it.

The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.

I'm a compulsive everything.

I think serious situations actually make for the best kind of belly laughs. But theyre also the hardest to convert into comedy at the outset.

I like films that are so funny, dramatic and lifelike simultaneously, that you are laughing and cringing simultaneously all throughout the film.

Comedy unites, it doesn't divide!

All techniques of comedy are valid and interesting to me.

Comedy is tragedy plus time, but the time is different for everybody.

I was an altar boy as a kid. And the answer is no.

It's really challenging to play comedy.

Maybe in 10 years,I'll only be doing "classical" comedy. Or crashing my car into trees.

I like doing all different types of comedy - stand-up, sketch, movies, TV. I like to try everything.

I'm equally terrified of both comedy and drama. The only thing I'm really comfortable with is action.

All of comedy at some level is trial-and-error, whether it's a stand-up trying out jokes or a comedy show trying stories.

For storytelling purposes, there has to be conflict, but that doesn't mean the people have to be mean. I've never liked mean-spirited comedy.

I'm just an actor. If it's drama, I add as much humour as the part will stand. And if it's a comedy, add as much drama as you can, so it balances out; you don't wanna be too serious.

Who's to say where funny stops and 'too far' starts?

How can there be inaccuracy in comedy?

I love comedy. God has given me this platform.

If you're playing things sincere in a really absurd, heightened situation, you'll achieve comedy as opposed to just saying funny lines and one-liners and stuff.

It's funny. You succeed, but now where are you gonna go from there? I've got to keep proving that I can laugh or cry more real each time.

Stand-up comedy is tough right now. Anybody can come to a concert, tape you, and put you up on the Internet. You either fight it or embrace it.

I don't necessarily think of it as Southern comedy. I just think I'm a comedian and I have a Southern accent.

I never analyze stuff with comedy because it's boring. It makes you stop being funny. Just be who you are and do what you do, and you're either funny or you're not.