Comedy Quotes · Page 148

I never planned to be a comedian. I don't consider myself one now.

— Scott Adsit

I like to respond with jokes and to keep it as light as possible.

— Margaret Cho

Rhythm and timing are so important in comedic acting.

— Glenne Headly

Playing Chelsea on 'The Suite Life of Zack and Cody' really helped with my over-the-top comedy.

— Brittany Curran

My problem on 'Safe' was that when I liked something, I would giggle.

— Todd Haynes

*throws hands up* Jubagaga juba gaga gaga juju*...translation: Fat midget bitch get the damn juice!

— Kevin Hart

“He's safe as long as he can laugh, he thinks, and it works pretty fair.”

— Ken Kesey

Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.

— Ian Frazier

I think, in a comedy, it's easy to play people as very two-dimensional. But what is enjoyable to watch is seeing a…

— Sophie Rundle

comedy is a high form of art becaus it brings us more joy than anything else, practically but at the same time,…

— Jim Carrey

A person who can laugh and go with life does not demand to be in control, which is why the most controlling…

— Richard Rohr

But I am Northern myself, and there is a certain rhythm of Northern speech that is very comical: that combination of the…

— Sarah Lancashire

I don't do comedy. I think if a situation is funny you just play it for real and if it's funny, it's…

— Morgan Freeman

It's a lucky kink for comedy writers that particular English obsession and interest with class and social difference. It maybe is not…

— Jesse Armstrong

Comedy has helped me as a Black woman speak up for myself and not apologize right after, whether it's more money or…

— Michelle Buteau

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

— Scot Armstrong

When you're on stage performing stand-up, things only happen one time. I've done bits where I improv a joke, and people are…

— J. B. Smoove

I think people need to laugh everyday. Whether the economy is good or bad, I think the most important thing is to…

— Ellen DeGeneres

On the field, you have to be aggressive; you're thinking how to get the better of a situation. It's not that I…

— Yuvraj Singh

That was my dad's sense of, you know, laughing at himself, laughing at existence, the universe, all of it and not being…

— John Buffalo Mailer

“Obviously the name of the show is a joke, a friend of mine gave it to me. But some people are very…

— Greg Proops

Like his admirer Samuel Beckett, Johnson locates his voices among conditions of such deprivation that even the most miserable memories are gilded…

— James Marcus

There is a strange sort of reasoning in Hollywood that musicals are less worthy of Academy consideration than dramas. It's a form…

— Gene Kelly

You aim comedy up. If comedy is aimed down, you're a jerk. You laugh at the powerful as a way of bringing…

— Haroon Moghul

I couldn't have made it without knowing how to use laughter to get from one day to the next.

— Shana Alexander

That dark humor has always been a part of what I've done. It's always been somewhat tongue-in-cheek.

— El-P

No matter how funny you are, If I don't like you, I won't laugh.

— Amit Verma

I approach a comedy the same way I do a drama. I try to make it as real as possible.

— Mark Wahlberg

I don't have any type of sketch-comedy or stand-up background.

— Jenna Fischer

It was a joke, okay? If we thought it would actually be used, we wouldn't have written it!

— Marc Andreessen

I don't really seem to gravitate to romantic comedies.

— Aaron Paul

Hopefully, underlying all my jokes is an element of surprise.

— David Spade

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

— Jonathan Swift

I did sketch comedy with a troupe at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.

— Selenis Leyva

There aren't many political humorists. Dave Barry is excellent, but he doesn't do it much.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I'm pretty much a comic that dwells on what happened to me instead of what's happening to me.

— Jermaine Fowler

He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.

— Anonymous

In my personal life, I'm hilarious! I was always a bit of a jokester.

— Alison Brie

I was a failed actor but I still wanted to show off, so I ended up doing live comedy.

— Graham Norton

“I even, to my own amusement if no one else's, developed the knack of cursing in iambic pentameters.”

— Philip Palmer