Comedy Quotes · Page 156

“You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.”

— George Bernard Shaw

[Baz Luhrmann] is funny, to be quite honest with you.

— Quindon Tarver

One does not laugh because one is happy; one is happy because one laughs.

— Mireille Guiliano

Realizing that life is precious the natural tendency is to trample on it, like laughing at a funeral.

— Lester Bangs

“One's theories, after all, matter little, it is one's humor that is the great thing.”

— Henry James

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

— John Mortimer

But I'm a toon. Toons are supposed to make people laugh.

— Roger Rabbit

A lot of being a comedian is about observing people.

— Anh Do

In every case, I find pre-planning noble, but not always that useful in comedy. You know comedy once you're doing it.

— John Mulaney

I've always enjoyed family movies anyway. And I grew up loving actors who could hop around and play in something very family…

— Dan Stevens

Life can be funny and serious. We either laugh over it or cry over it. But Life itself doesn't care about such…

— Terry Mark

“I wondered about my inner child. In fact, I was troubled. Did I even have an inner child, I asked myself, given…

— Sol Luckman

The thought of a comedy with paid prostitutes always seemed so silly and purposeless, for a person hired by me could never…

— Anonymous

Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometimes, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight.

— Anonymous

If you call me a comedian I will be very grateful. I will thank you profoundly. No, I love doing comedy. It's…

— Betty White

Stand-up comedy is still a very male-dominated world. You look at a set list and maybe there's one woman on there.

— Ari Graynor

I understand why so many female comics quit or change their path, because it is hard. It's hard to be a comedian,…

— Amy Schumer

To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death freely chosen, death at the right time, brightly and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Okay, so how, exactly, did I get into this mess—up onstage at a comedy club, baking like a bag of French fries…

— James Patterson

To go from working with a group of people in a sketch-comedy show on a small network, where it was all about…

— Ken Marino

Comedy Central was a great network, but 'Chappelle's Show' took it to a completely different level. Other shows got bigger because so…

— Kevin Hart

Comedy mocks the vanity of visions of rational control. The person who can joke amidst a confrontation with evil, like the quick-witted…

— Peter Leithart

Close friends and relatives, while not meaning to do so, often handicap on through 'opinions' and sometimes though ridicule, which is meant…

— Napoleon Hill

The timing of comedy is so difficult. You've got to leave room for a laugh, you don't want to kill the laugh,…

— Helen Mirren

Having a sense of humor about yourself is a sign of mental health.

— Jedediah Bila

The best kind of stomach ache: When your friends make you laugh way too hard.

— Anonymous

I'm too far to the left for some, too far to the right for others. I'm my own brand of comedy.

— Ralphie May

I'm not a comedian. I don't make things funny if they're not funny. I don't invent funny stuff.

— Morgan Freeman

You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show.

— Joe Klein

I think comedy as an art involves the audience as a participant as much as is involves the artist.

— Craig Ferguson

Those who laugh the hardest are often the most unhappy.

— Bill Loguidice

I just want to make people laugh, and I want to do that the best way possible.

— Michaela Watkins

When you cry,you cry alone … When you laugh, the world laughs with you...

— Anamika Singh

I got off the plane - I was walking and cooking at the same time.

— Gabriel Iglesias

In all my content I don't really swear or use profanity, because I believe comedy can just be pure.

— Michael Dapaah

Doing comedy and romance is easy, if I compare it with playing the role of a real-life person.

— Ammy Virk

As a comedian, frankly, I don't care that much about bad jokes.

— Dave Rubin

Some say that laughter is the best medicine, Obviously they have yet to try medicine.

— Anonymous

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

— Charles Bukowski

You know the Dutch, they're always a bit funny... some of them.

— Franz Beckenbauer