Comedy Quotes · Page 233

A good laugh is all it takes to put you back on track.

— Nishan Panwar

The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.

— Bennett Cerf

I used to think that laughter would solve everything and I would never be lonely.

— Simon Amstell

When human beings say they have power, it always makes me laugh a little bit.

— Courtney A. Kemp

In his life, [Dalton] Trumbo uses wit and comedy to fight these very high-stakes battles.

— Jay Roach

Comedy always came easier for me. But I would have loved to have been an action hero.

— Fred Willard

He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.

— John Steinbeck

I like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I'm an old-fashioned gal.

— Zooey Deschanel

I'd love to do something dark, something that has nothing to do with music or comedy. Anything, but I'm still learning what…

— Beyonce Knowles

I don't want to be with someone boring because I'm always laughing. I like to play jokes on people and be sarcastic.

— Ashley Benson

If you're hired to be a funny person, you have to trust your judgment but also be open because sometimes you think…

— Paula Pell

At the time, it was a really funny joke [Fluffy] and I went back and forth with going against the joke or…

— Gabriel Iglesias

I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries.

— Charles S. Dutton

I'm lucky that I get to jump around, do a big-budget comedy and then a smaller film. I don't even make a…

— Richard Linklater

I feel that the work that I have done in the comedy arena, is priceless in terms of what I learned, timing,…

— Khandi Alexander

Silicon Valley,' I mean, the comedy is amazing, and it's one of the best-written shows with some of the best talent. I'm…

— Jimmy O. Yang

“Wrinkles was her big gray cat. Sierra named him Wrinkles because when he was a little baby he had a wrinkly face.…

— Karen Kingsbury

To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love…

— Woody Allen

“You like telling your stories,” said my friend in that coffee shop, “because you’re secure enough in your current self, the self…

— Elizabeth Bristol

We're having so much writing some of the sillier stuff that never would have been on Mr. Show. And that's not a…

— B. J. Porter

I'm not offended. Lenny Bruce taught me that everything's funny. You can make everything funny. I don't think that assassinations are funny,…

— Larry King

As a freshman in college, I was dating this guy who said he was a stand-up, all he really did was open…

— Rachel Sennott

I use myself as a template for my comedy. So first my background as a Muslim man, my being a doctor, I…

— Riaad Moosa

I never wanted to do just comedy or just drama; sometimes, going back and forth you can get yourself in trouble which…

— Mike Binder

In my opinion, where comedy sequels tend to go bad is that they get sillier and lighter.

— Craig Mazin

You never heard of a comedy team that didn't fight, did you?

— Bud Abbott

Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.

— Carl Reiner

When you laugh with good-hearted innocence at your own creations, you are free.

— Barbara Marciniak

“The funniest part of that joke is, 'say what you will about Hitler.”

— Jerry Seinfeld

We have always had gross humor. But we try for funny, not gross.

— Shawn Wayans

Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.

— Malcolm McDowell

I didn't want to be selling insurance at 40, wondering what would it have been like to do stand-up.

— Steven Wright

I'm not a professional comedian. Nobody comes to my comedy shows. That's just a little hobby.

— David Rees

Sometimes I say some things people may think are just outlandish, but I'm going to have the last laugh.

— Riff Raff

“Smile makes women smarter, humour makes men handsome.”

— Amit Kalantri

Laugh like mad, and you'll figure out the answers to the most difficulties in life.

— Akila Sultana

What is wrong with me i just bought a bag of weed from an infant.

— Dave Chappelle

It's a real primal thing, watching someone get hurt. It's funny and accessible.

— Johnny Knoxville

My brain is a factory of punchlines which never stops producing

— Static Flow

When you make fun of people just to get a laugh, it can become very dangerous.

— Marky Ramone