Comedy Quotes · Page 164

I've made myself laugh from some ideas - but I've never scared myself.

— R. L. Stine

Some must cry so that others may be able to laugh the more heartily. Sacrifices are necessary...

— Jean Rhys

I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.

— Olivia Colman

Sense of humor is important in life, not just in clothing. How boring to live a life in beige.

— Jean Pigozzi

HOMÅ’OPATHIST, n. The humorist of the medical profession.

— Ambrose Bierce

But to die of laughter--this, too, seems to me a great euthanasia.

— Max Beerbohm

To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there's no way around it.

— John Leguizamo

When Rush Limbaugh says I'm not a scientist, I'm charmed - I smirk.

— Bill Nye

Comedy is essentially made by young men, or older men with some form of arrested development, for young men or immature older…

— Harold Ramis

We love the Stooges, and young kids today don't watch them. They think it's their dad's comedy. So we thought we could…

— Bobby Farrelly

Honestly we never lied to people about who we were. Usually the wackier interviews came to pass because the interview subjects, aware…

— Mo Rocca

One thing you learn from comedy writing, or sketch writing, is just to be vicious about cutting. Do not get sentimental about…

— Brendan Hunt

“stomach hurts. If my entire life is like this, loud laughter and bold action and the kind of exhaustion you feel after…

— Veronica Roth

Every movie I do, or when I'm on the sketch comedy show, I don't really get into it until I have an…

— Kel Mitchell

I set out to be a comedian, and then the spokesperson thing is kind of just something that came along with it.

— Josh Blue

When I'm doing a drama, I wish I was doing something funny. When I'm doing something funny, I wish I was doing…

— Alan Ruck

'Newton' is a black comedy, a social satire. Amit Masurkar is directing the movie, and Drishyam films is producing. Rajkummar Rao is…

— Pankaj Tripathi

Mel [Gibson] could stage physical comedy and put the camera in such a way... I mean, we did some really funny stuff,…

— Keith Carradine

Activism isn't about holding your faults up to the light. That's what comedy is about, it's about saying, 'Look at this person…

— Scott Thompson

I think a lot of the instincts you have doing comedy are really the same for doing drama, in that it's essentially…

— Will Ferrell

They are just really stupid people in Hollywood. You write them a script, and they say they love it, they absolutely love…

— P. J. O'Rourke

If I see someone not laughing, the first thing I'm thinking is, "OK, am I cursing too much? Am I doing a…

— Leslie Jones

I've been looking at that in myself lately. Often, joking for me is a way of diffusing the awkwardness of a situation,…

— Emma Stone

I've been to Canada, and they love - oh my God, they love their stand-up comedy in Canada. I've been overseas to…

— Brad Williams

“Laughter is the only medicine, without side effects.”

— Shannon L. Alder

There's nothing that makes me cry and laugh more than stories about friendship.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

I love 'Monty Python,' 'Black Adder,' 'Fawlty Towers.' I'm a huge fan of British comedy.

— Isla Fisher

I think anyone who can pretend to have a sense of humor long enough, may actually, eventually grow one.

— Cellan Slarcas

Because when you’re laughing, there is no other emotion in that moment except for joy.

— Robert Schimmel

You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote.

— David Nicholls

Music often happens even faster than comedy in terms of the creation.

— Harry Shearer

It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them.

— Louis C. K

“This is not at all funny." "Which is why I'm not laughing.”

— Dani Alexander

I love it when somebody makes me laugh - it's what attracts me to people.

— Dawn French

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

— Wislawa Szymborska

“Life always works out. What seems like a big deal today will be just a funny story tomorrow.”

— Cap'n Fatty Goodlander

I really just love dumb humor. I watch a lot of SNL.

— Taylor Louderman

I don't like doing stand-up for little kids. It's not geared for that.

— Tracy Morgan

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.

— Carol Burnett