Comedy Quotes · Page 254

I'd always been quite wary of doing a romantic comedy. They all seem the same to me.

— Jim Sturgess

Every city has comedians who tap into local culture and have success but don't travel well.

— Les Dennis

I enjoy comedy and I hope that people enjoy watching me do it.

— David Duchovny

Humor -- the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.

— Anonymous

Humor levels the playing field. I understood that early on - that was something I had.

— Robert Mankoff

“The body's a funny thing. It's so full of surprises that it makes conventional wisdom seem silly.”

— Pat Conroy

Laughter is as good as jogging for our heart, lungs, and brain.

— Anonymous

People who do comedy really are the nastiest people on the planet.

— Sandra Bullock

I been seeing newspapers every Sunday morning, white dudes be in there in their drawers, never having no bulge in they drawers.…

— Eddie Murphy

I just wanted to be in show business. I didn't care if I was going to be an actor or a magician…

— Steve Martin

People don't want to always see a comedy or an action film. If the film in a particular genre is made well,…

— Sanjay Leela Bhansali

Doing funny scary is something that is rarely good and rarely works, and it's also something that's incredibly hard to market.

— Kevin Bacon

Even though I do a more traditional type of being funny on television, I still know a lot of comedians and stand-ups…

— Busy Philipps

Comedy is a tool of togetherness. It's a way of putting your arm around someone, pointing at something, and saying, 'Isn't it…

— Kate McKinnon

Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it…

— Agnes Repplier

“Something can be humorous without being funny. The difference is when it’s humorous, a person says, “That’s funny,” and when it’s funny,…

— Jarod Kintz

I had developed a survival skill of using my wit to score for myself. If a scene was dying, I'd lob in…

— Harold Ramis

When you're doing a comedy and you want to somehow satirise people who are taking themselves seriously, I think the most serious…

— Ben Stiller

When I say something funny, I don’t laugh, so my friends are always like, ‘Hahahahaaaa!’ so people know. When I’m not with…

— Blake Lively

When we graduated [ from Cambridge], we were grabbed right into television. I was grabbed straight into the practice of writing comedy.…

— Eric Idle

It's already years ago now, but there's that South Korean music artist Psy, who had that hit song and it was a…

— Fred Armisen

“I started to crawl off; then I remembered my leftover pizza, and I peeled off the salami, pepperoni, and anchovies and placed…

— Duffy Brown

I get that racism exists, but it's not a catalyst for my content. I don't need to talk about race to have…

— Kevin Hart

I love a good laugh as well, I think that's so important in life, which is probably why I've dabbled in comedy…

— Paul Kane

Comedy is a noble art. And every comedian who does anything is serving a noble purpose.

— Margaret Cho

What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.

— Bernard Williams

If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.

— Bob Edwards

Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form.

— Shelley Berman

Comedy is important, and I do not want to end up being recognised for just one genre.

— Pankaj Tripathi

The definition of comedy is 'unsafe space' - you can't control what people laugh at.

— Sara Pascoe

I find comedy easy, and I find drama exciting and tantalising.

— Ricky Gervais

I would lying if I said I would laugh in the face of death.

— Mitch Albom

The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks.

— Adam Carolla

I can never tell a joke, I've always found it easier to just fall over.

— Norman Wisdom

“None of us would still be here if we hadn't learned to laugh so no one could see us cry." Hiding”

— Kit Rocha

I think it's a comedian's job to make everything funny. Nothing is off-limits.

— Donald Glover

Everyone's got their own velocity, and there's no real time frame with comedy.

— Sarah Silverman

The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that's laughable is vanity.

— Henri Bergson

To be able to laugh and celebrate life is also a talent ! Don't wait for it, cultivate it .

— Ritu Ghatourey

“It’s still all “ifs” “buts” and “maybes”.’ ‘Maybe,’ I said. ‘But if what I’m saying is correct …”

— Terry Murphy