Comedy Quotes · Page 191

I sometimes say things for a joke, and they are picked up the wrong way.

— Brenda Fricker

If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.

— Jennifer Jones

All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.

— Yahoo Serious

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

— H. P. Lovecraft

Comedy is a tool to be used so that people can relate to each other.

— Eddie Griffin

Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.

— Christian Morgenstern

You can't cheat comedy. You know, it either is going to be there on the day you capture or it's not.

— Justin Lin

Even in comedy it's important to get your body acquainted with what you're going to do.

— Noureen DeWulf

It's much easier to cry or be angry, but to really laugh and genuinely be buoyant and laugh. That's hard if you…

— Don Cheadle

Being in comedy you don't get any chance to be bored. You have a fun-filled day and at the same time enjoy…

— Kiku Sharda

“Laughter helps us view frustrations and disappointments from new perspectives; it enables us to survive hard times, setbacks, and frustrations.”

— Jeanne Segal

In the distance, Bo saw a fairy. A fairy so beautiful that he felt proud of being called one in highschool.

— Bo Burnham

Humans are so Funny. So much moralising about words while at the same time thinking it perfectly "moral" to pepper-bomb cities full…

— David Icke

We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much…

— Emma Thompson

I still like doing stand-up now, but it's not the same. It used to be that I was out there with five…

— Adam Sandler

I've introduced myself with comedy, and once you've introduced yourself as something, that's where people keep you. That's where people like to…

— Bernie Mac

“Humour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer. Laughter must be heard in the outer…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Jokes for jokes' sake are kind of meaningless to me. I understand the value of them, but it doesn't speak to me…

— Hasan Minhaj

Oscars isn't about comedy. It's about a bunch of people turning up to see if they have won an award. It's a…

— Ricky Gervais

since piety has become the fashion at Court, dramatic authors imagine that their pieces would be more welcome if they added in…

— Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orleans

I love Ron Howard, he's a wonderful director, incredibly prepared. But I have to criticize my performance in that movie. It all…

— Glenn Close

The jokes now, it's just more stories and personal experiences. And just talking about things that really happened. It's just becoming more…

— Hannibal Buress

No, I never really set out to be a stand up. I wanted to be a writer of some sort. I thought…

— Josh Widdicombe

I make comedies and I always try... I don't try but I allow to have at least 5% of the jokes or…

— Alexander Payne

Throw in the humor, throw in that personality, try things you wouldn't normally try.

— Melinda Clarke

Don't be so serious today that you forget to smile and laugh.

— Angela Simmons

The best way to ruin a comedy is to throw a lot of money at it.

— Jay Leno

I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?

— Vince Lombardi

I don't like being preachy. I think using fun and humor is an excellent way to make people think.

— Princess Superstar

Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.

— Lewis Mumford

Every time I do something silly, it comes off really funny because it's natural.

— Shaquille O'Neal

“If God gives you a hundred bucks, you better bet He’s going to ask you what you bought.”

— Geoffrey Wood

I don't even think about the comedy community at all.

— Brian Quinn

If there's something funny to be said, I will say it.

— Kevin Owens

O you gonna go get steve huh…give me the trash ill take it out

— Kevin Heart

What I like the most about you is that you can make me laugh, when nothing's even funny.

— Ritu Ghatourey

I initially signed up for Twitter just to do jokes I wasn't going to do in my stand-up routine.

— Jim Gaffigan

For jokes as well as justice come in with speech. - Aslan, The Magician's Nephew

— Anonymous

I have such a girl-crush on Reese Witherspoon. I would love to do a comedy with her.

— Jenna Dewan

I can handle heckling on evolution because it's my own field.

— Richard Dawkins