Comedy famous quotes

Whenever I do a comedy show I still just read poems, some of which are intentionally funny and some of which are just bizarre. The mix seems to work well.
-- Aaron Belz

#Comedy #Bizarre #Shows

I'd like to do a romantic comedy.
-- Aaron Eckhart

#Comedy

I don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.
-- Aaron Eckhart

#Comedy

I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
-- Abhishek Bachchan

#Romance #Done #Comedy

There's a common misconception with sketch comedy that you just go up there and wing it, but it's written, and there really is order.
-- Adam Pally

#Order #Wings #Comedy

My comedy is different every time I do it. I don't know what the hell I'm doing.
-- Adam Sandler

#Different #Comedy #Hell

I grew up in a house that liked to be funny. Everybody liked to be funny. My family's been...we've been enjoying each other's comedy for years.
-- Adam Sandler

#Years #House #Comedy

I enjoy doing all different types of movies even though I am the most comfortable with comedy.
-- Adam Sandler

#Different #Comedy #Type

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don't know if I'll ever be as good a dad as my dad.
-- Adam Sandler

#Dad #Important #Comedy

He has a 5 year plan... What is it, don't die?
-- Adam Sandler

#Funny #Years #Comedy

Most modern comedy is crap.
-- Ade Edmondson

#Comedy #Modern #Crap

You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.
-- Ade Edmondson

#Land #Entering #Comedy

For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.
-- Agnes Repplier

#Thinking #Shifting #Comedy

I like grown up comedy.
-- Aisha Tyler

#Comedy

Comedy is ugly. It's honest, it's raw.
-- Aisha Tyler

#Ugly #Comedy #Honest

When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
-- Al Franken

#Advice #Encounters #Comedy

I'm still a geek on the inside, that's the important thing.
-- Al Yankovic

#Important #Comedy #Geek

I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they're so universal.
-- Alan Cumming

#Tragedy #Way #Comedy

I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.
-- Alan King

#Thinking #Comedy #Bigs

I don't like this young crudeness now which is supposed to be comedy on Friday nights.
-- Alan Sugar

#Friday #Night #Comedy

It's always been said that comedy comes mostly out of the dark side anyway.
-- Alan Thicke

#Dark #Sides #Comedy

All improv turns into anger. All comedy improv basically turns into anger, because that's all people know how to do when they're improvising. If you notice shows that are improvising are generally people yelling at each other.
-- Albert Brooks

#Yelling #People #Comedy

You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly.
-- Albert Brooks

#Writing #Directors #Comedy

I, sort of, got into comedy accidentally, and it got bigger than I wanted it to.
-- Albert Brooks

#Comedy #Bigger #Wanted

I love doing comedy. It's a lot of fun.
-- Alexa Vega

#Fun #Comedy

It seems easier to make a career out of comedy now than it was in the 1980s.
-- Alexei Sayle

#Careers #Comedy #Easier

You can't do comedy with a beard.
-- Alexei Sayle

#Beard #Comedy

I feel like any time John Oliver is added to something, the comedy is instantly there. He's so funny.
-- Alison Brie

#Comedy #Feels

I enjoy doing drama, and I enjoy doing comedy equally.
-- Alison Brie

#Drama #Comedy #Enjoy

I'm standing in a slaughterhouse where the cattle are begging to become hamburgers. I have a right to be jumpy.
-- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

#Hamburgers #Comedy #Slaughterhouses

It's very hard to watch comedy for me, when I'm doing a comedy show, because I either watch a show and I love it, and I'm jealous, or I watch a show and I see all the problems with it, and I'm angry that I watched it.
-- Amy Poehler

#Jealous #Watches #Comedy

Don't feel bad for me. I think I'm, like, so pretty.
-- Amy Schumer

#Funny #Thinking #Comedy

Comedy isn't really something where you get discovered. You can't network your way to being funny or talented. It's not hard to get seen if you're funny. If you're funny, talented, and work hard, you will go somewhere.
-- Amy Schumer

#Hard Work #Way #Comedy

I always loved comedy but I didn't start formally until I was in college.
-- Ana Gasteyer

#College #Comedy

You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.
-- Andrew Denton

#Comedy #Comic #Middle

I've always had my voice as a comic. I was never that into politics, or prop comedy.
-- Andrew Dice Clay

#Voice #Comedy #Comic

The Internet is a great place to find unconventional comedy that you can't find anywhere else.
-- Andy Dick

#Unconventional #Comedy #Internet

A sign now of success with a certain audience when you do a short comedy piece, anywhere, is that it gets on YouTube and gets around. It's always something you're thinking about unconsciously.
-- Andy Samberg

#Thinking #Pieces #Comedy

After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.
-- Ang Lee

#Comedy #Cynicism #Tragic

I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.
-- Ann Brashares

#Writing #Character #Comedy

I feel like all comedy does require a lack of vanity, but multi-cam, especially.
-- Anna Faris

#Vanity #Doe #Comedy

I feel really grateful that I am in comedy, and I love doing it.
-- Anna Faris

#Grateful #Comedy #Feels

Comedy is second nature for me.
-- Anthony Anderson

#Comedy

I always loved comedy, but it never seemed like something that I could do professionally.
-- Anthony Jeselnik

#Comedy

I never go see live comedy shows because I just sit in the audience thinking, "Here's what I would say. Here's what I would do if I got up there." It drives me crazy.
-- Anthony Jeselnik

#Crazy #Thinking #Comedy

In comedy, I hate that cop-out where you say, "Just kidding." I know you're just kidding. Don't insult my intelligence by spelling it out for me that much.
-- Anthony Jeselnik

#Hate #Comedy #Insult

There's got to be structure and great comedy. When you start with that, everything else falls into place.
-- Aries Spears

#Fall #Comedy #Structure

Because it's uncensored cable, I think we'll be able to do the kind of sketch comedy that really hasn't been seen before. We can actually finish jokes.
-- Aries Spears

#Thinking #Able #Comedy

Eddie Murphy was the Michael Jordan of comedy. He had a full range of abilities.
-- Aries Spears

#Jordan #Comedy #Range

Ladies Commit, There's A Wedding In It For You.
-- Aries Spears

#Funny #Comedy #Commit

Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
-- Aristophanes

#Comedy #Sometimes #Please

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.
-- Aristotle

#Men #Tragedy #Comedy

Comedy has had no history, because it was not at first treated seriously.
-- Aristotle

#Firsts #Comedy #Treated

Comedy ages quicker than tragedy, to the extent that we can't know if the 10 commandments may originally have been 10 hilarious one-liners.
-- Arthur Smith

#Tragedy #May #Comedy

I got into comedy so I could stay out all night.
-- Artie Lange

#Night #Comedy

Historically, a successful life in comedy is a dream that's as equally pondered and unpursued as being an astronaut.
-- Artie Lange

#Dream #Successful #Comedy

I don't have anything saying, 'I'm going to do this many new films, and this many comedies.' But, it's always exciting for me, whenever it is a new character and something I haven't done before, and that's part of what draws me to it.
-- Ashley Greene

#Character #Done #Comedy

It takes a lot of energy to be funny... for me it does. I feel like I work twice as hard when I'm doing comedy.
-- Ashton Kutcher

#Energy #Doe #Comedy

When I was doing comedy in New York, before I was in movies, I was never known as the deadpan actress. I was just a comedienne.
-- Aubrey Plaza

#New York #Actresses #Comedy

Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!
-- Augustus

#Play #Roles #Comedy

I think comedy is more my instinct and more what I'm geared towards.
-- Austin Peck

#Thinking #Comedy #Instinct

I'm kind of obsessed with food. I like to eat. When I tour, it's like, well, like a food tour as much as a comedy tour.
-- Aziz Ansari

#Comedy #Kind #Obsessed

Stand-up comedy is a raunchy profession.
-- Aziz Ansari

#Comedy #Stand Up Comedy #Profession

There's not many good comedies to watch - you know, comedies that make you glad you watched them.
-- B. J. Novak

#Watches #Comedy #Glad

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

#Believe #Writing #Comedy

There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.
-- Barbara Stanwyck

#Tragedy #Comedy #Surface

Analysing comedy is like dissecting a frog. Nobody laughs and the frog dies.
-- Barry Cryer

#Laughing #Frogs #Comedy

Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don't really see such stark lines between genres nowadays.
-- Beck

#Growing Up #Lines #Comedy

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.
-- Ben Elton

#Comedy #Instinct

But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.
-- Ben Kingsley

#Comedy

I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It's a valid test of your creative abilities.
-- Ben Stiller

#Creative #Tests #Comedy

I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.
-- Ben Stiller

#Careers #Way #Comedy

I don't devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.
-- Ben Stiller

#Drama #Comedy #Devalue

Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.
-- Ben Stiller

#Comedy #Shattered #Meetings

Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.
-- Ben Stiller

#Comedy #Sensibility

I'd consider myself a flailing comedy writer.
-- Benjamin Walker

#Comedy #Flailing

Whatever success I've had, I always like to top it.
-- Bernie Mac

#Comedy

My comedy comes from pain. I can't stand to see someone hurting.
-- Bernie Mac

#Hurt #Pain #Comedy

The success of my comedy has been not being afraid to touch on subject matters or issues that everyone else is politically scared of.
-- Bernie Mac

#Issues #Matter #Comedy

Comedy always pushes some buttons, because it wouldn't be comedy if it didn't.
-- Beth Behrs

#Buttons #Comedy

It's true. Hitler was a vegetarian. Just goes to show, vegetarianism, not always a good thing. Can in some extreme cases lead to genocide.
-- Bill Bailey

#Funny #Vegetarianism #Comedy

The BBC did a survey of the top 50 things to do before we die. Not while we're still alive, before we die.
-- Bill Bailey

#Funny #Alive #Comedy

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

#Acting #Routine #Comedy

Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.
-- Bill Cosby

#Civilization #Comedy #Open Minded

When you become senile, you won't know it.
-- Bill Cosby

#Hypocrisy #Age #Comedy

Comedy is incredibly hard. You have to be loose. You have to be not afraid to fail.
-- Bill Hader

#Comedy #Failing #Not Afraid

I don't like anything in the mainstream and they don't like me.
-- Bill Hicks

#Funny #Comedy

Fame has sent a number of celebrities off the deep end, and in the case of Michael Jackson, to the kiddy pool.
-- Bill Maher

#Numbers #Comedy #Pool

Comedy is harder than drama, because with comedy you're expecting a result..you make them laugh. [If] they ain't laughing then you're screwed.
-- Billy Bob Thornton

#Drama #Laughing #Comedy

The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the same afterwards.
-- Billy Connolly

#Nuclear #Looks #Comedy

Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
-- Billy Connolly

#Comedy #Fame #Euthanasia

I loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it was delightful. I absolutely loved it. What a smashing place.
-- Billy Connolly

#Children #Japan #Comedy

That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul.
-- Billy Crystal

#Soul #Comedy #Jazz

When comedy is good, it's jazz. The beats of it, the looseness, the improvisational part, the music-the way you hit the inflection, the high notes of a joke. It's all melody to me.
-- Billy Crystal

#Art #Way #Comedy

I think when I feel I'm at my best is when I'm on stage, and it's my version of jazz because it's just riffing or something.
-- Billy Crystal

#Thinking #Comedy #Jazz

Every day is a surprise. There are confirmations of an interconnectivity and synchronicity which inspire, titillate and confirm the inherent comedy of the universe.
-- Billy Zane

#Inspire #Comedy #Surprise

Postmodern comedy doesn't work well with very old audiences, because it's making fun of the comedy they enjoy.
-- Bo Burnham

#Fun #Comedy #Enjoy

I chose to do comedy instead of going to college.
-- Bo Burnham

#College #Comedy #Going To College

Women are like puzzles because prior to 1920 neither had the right to vote. Puzzles still don't.
-- Bo Burnham

#Funny #Comedy #Vote

When I tried to hit puberty I swung and I missed.
-- Bo Burnham

#Funny #Comedy #Puberty