Comedy Quotes · Page 155

I'm convinced that it's energy and humor. The two of them combined equal charm.

— Judith Krantz

Comedy defends the commonplace; tragedy explodes it.

— Mason Cooley

I quit law school in 1990 and started doing stand up in Boston.

— Sam Seder

It's just fun to be on a movie set and looking to find the comedy in sweet, simple family moments.

— Sean Astin

“i have laughed more than daffodils and cried more than June.”

— Sanober Khan

It's a letdown if the comedian doesn't finally actually really sit on his hat.

— Kingsley Amis

If Mandela were a comedian, I bet he would never get mad at a heckler, he'd give him or her a hug.

— Godfrey

But if something funny happens, I can't resist. I have to tell the people.

— Kathy Griffin

I know a lot of girls in the comedy world who are kind of like me. I don't know where the slutty…

— Rachel Dratch

I've always loved movies, and enjoyed theater and stand-up comedy and I had a knack for writing and performing.

— Paul Walter Hauser

If anyone had ever told me these things would ever be on my mind, I would have laughed in their face too.…

— Anonymous

I'm generally not a social dramatist or comedy writer. My interests have always been more in psychological stories or personal relations and…

— Woody Allen

It's funny how you can laugh untill you cry and cry untill you laugh...but that's just the beauty of it.

— Ayjee Grogan

Comedy is important! When you're having a stressful day, and you come home, you want to watch something that makes you laugh.

— Michael Cudlitz

I can find the worst thing in the world funny. My humour is dark. If I'm talking about the worst situations in…

— Slowthai

I think the reward for doing comedy is doing the comedy itself. You get to go to work everyday and laugh and…

— Ashton Kutcher

Comedy is so subjective. If you trip and fall down, some people will laugh, and some people will say, 'Oh, physical comedy…

— Martin Short

'Dating Game' wasn't social commentary, political analysis, Shakespearean-level drama or even blunt-force comedy. It was just the televised equivalent of meeting someone…

— Seth Shostak

Every American, to the last man, lays claim to a "sense" of humor and guards it as his most significant spiritual trait,…

— E. B. White

Statistically, I'd say comedy writers are perhaps the sanest category of show people. And why not? They make big money, and although…

— Dick Cavett

I've always taken a lot of cues from comedy minds. The guy that discovered me in the very beginning was Joseph Cates.…

— David Copperfield

Gummi Bears was actually an adventure comedy. It was great fun, it had this terrific backstory, a show created by Jymn Magon.…

— Greg Weisman

The problem with a lot of comedy clubs is not that they are a comedy club; it's just the cheesy way they're…

— Todd Barry

Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. When these things are raised to a…

— James Thurber

“Angus...had hitherto maintained hilarious ease from motives of mental hygiene...”

— G.K. Chesterton

I try to play serious scenes a little funny and the comedy a little serious.

— Uzo Aduba

Life is a comedian, never take it too seriously. Live, Love, Laugh

— Collins Hasty

Jokes are always better than promises. Because jokes are half meant, while promises are half lies.

— Anonymous

While you are crying for someone, They are busy laughing with someone else.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

— E. B. White

Laugh a lot. Laughter will make even the dreariest situations a whole lot more enjoyable.

— Robert Cheeke

If I can make someone laugh, I lift them out of their fundamentally tragic existence.

— T. J. Miller

The Apartment' was fun, but I enjoy comedy much more, and I feel I do it better.

— Fred MacMurray

I think people are surprised to learn that I'm pretty goofy and pretty funny.

— Susan Egan

“you can’t be permanently hysterical, so you might as well not bother getting started.”

— Jo Baker

If I could continue to work in comedy - whether it's TV, stand-up - I will be happy.

— Esther Povitsky

You:I didn't do it Person:Then why are you laughing? You:Cause, whoever did it is a freaking genius

— Ritu Ghatourey

I think a lot of people like to romanticize comedians being outsider romantic losers.

— Sarah Sherman

You can't always go to the well and have things be funny.

— Richard Ford

In life, some laugh, some cry, some live, some die. The choice is ours to crawl or to fly.

— RVM