Comedy Quotes · Page 252

I don't see myself as part of an acting fraternity or a comedy fraternity.

— Ricky Gervais

Laughing in the cultural industry is mockery of happiness.

— Anonymous

For all of those depress people find a bunny and sing, and dance with it.

— Logan Fitzgerald

“I didn't wait for Luck. I raced after it with a truck.”

— A.A. Bell

It's funny how we sometimes laugh at others mistakes...and always cry at our own.

— Ritu

Laugh and your life will be lengthened for this is the great secret of long life.

— Og Mandino

The jackdaw, stript of her stolen colours, provokes our laughter.

— Horace

I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke.

— Spike Milligan

This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I…

— Anonymous

“Because he knows you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep…

— Ken Kesey

The people you like when you meet them and while you know them, and the people you remember fondly, are invariably people…

— William Saroyan

I think there's something really thrilling to having to get people laughing about something, and then, when you have them in that…

— Uzo Aduba

To me, if something makes you laugh, that's heart-warming. It doesn't necessarily have to be friendly; it might just be the weirdest…

— Julia Davis

I definitely am a huge lover of comedy, and it's only through doing so many comedies that I've realised how much of…

— Bradley Cooper

I have to laugh because despite the destruction, we cannot let 'them' steal our pleasure. That is always the theme of my…

— Lydia Lunch

Probably one of the reasons I became a comedian is that you get a chance to control when people laugh at you.

— Ben Miller

I wanted to be a part of an ensemble cast. It's such a wonderful, beautiful thing to be in a comedy where…

— Danny Pudi

What would I like? Some very silly comedy where I don't have to think about anything, but it could be a lot…

— James Callis

I feel very blessed in my career to have been able to bounce back and forth between different things, television and film,…

— Geoff Stults

If I could make the same amount of money doing standup it would be no contest. The problem is that if you…

— Joe Rogan

“Oh, well, I know that Libby." He rolls his eyes. "I've never met anyone more committed to, well, life that you are."…

— Lucy Holliday

Jackie Chan, Jet Li and Bruce Lee are my masters; they're the inspiration for my work. Bruce Lee was a heavy fighter…

— Anonymous

It's very interesting, the joke comes first and then the wording comes within five seconds, maybe ten seconds. My thing is to…

— Steven Wright

Sometimes just being an immigrant, I read things the wrong way, and that can be funny. Or I'll put the emphasis on…

— John Cho

I love the fact that I have a show where you can run over a kid and everyone busts out laughing.

— Dave Chappelle

A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.

— Anonymous

“Laugh whenever possible. It's the best solution to happiness.”

— Avery Stocking

I always say, if you want to judge a person, see what he/she laughs at.

— Manini Mishra

I think Mitch Hedberg is one of the great comedians of the past 20 years.

— Mike Birbiglia

I'll go back to comedy clubs when they get a real no-camera policy, the same way they did with smoking.

— Chris Rock

I have a couple of really hard, weird laughs every day.

— Ben Falcone

Laughter or crying is what a human being does when there's nothing else he can do.

— Kurt Vonnegut

A comedy club is a place where you work out material, you're trying material.

— Chris Rock

I honestly think comedy is probably the hardest stuff to do.

— Chris Messina

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

— Charles Dickens

Stand-up is the scariest thing - whether it's TV, movies, improv - stand-up is the worst.

— Melissa Peterman

It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh.

— W. Somerset Maugham

If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.

— Anonymous

The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.

— Jacob August Riis

It's always funny to watch the scene that you know took a thousand takes.

— Annie Murphy