To be honest, Im a little tired of playing bad guys. I long to do a comedy. But it was fun knocking… — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
One thing that I have noticed is that whatever be the function, however poignant or serious, the audience always prefers a speech… — Balachandra Menon Copy Share Image
Comedians like to see people smile. With acting, I love giving people a feeling, an emotion. I like to give people a… — Keke Palmer Copy Share Image
I have always felt like romantic comedies are incredibly predictable. You look at the poster and you know those two are ending… — Jason Segel Copy Share Image
“Dostoyevsky described hell as perhaps nothing more than a room with a chair in it. This room has several chairs. A young… — Bruce Robinson Copy Share Image
I'm not saying writing comedy's brain surgery, but there is a certain pressure to it. It's the equivalent of doing homework that's… — Miranda Hart Copy Share Image
The male image has been so pulled down by situation comedy in the last 15 years, it is frightening. I don't like… — Bill Bixby Copy Share Image
The whole experience of doing a sitcom is... Telling jokes with such precision is really exciting, but it's also terrifying. — Lea Thompson Copy Share Image
I think it's a slightly crazy time actually, it's very difficult to satirise because each of politicians is in their own way… — Armando Iannucci Copy Share Image
It's not easy to make people laugh. You can make people cry, there are are universal things that we all feel; a… — Asim Chaudhry Copy Share Image
Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
“Laughter paves the way for many things. It's one way to build intimacy between people, something every healthy team needs. Humor has… — Berkun, Scott Copy Share Image
“He said he wouldn’t stay, as he didn’t care much for the smell of the paint, and fell over the scraper as… — George Grossmith Copy Share Image
Humor is the spiciest condiment in the feast of existence. Laugh at your mistakes but learn from them, joke over your troubles… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
The great thing about stand up is you get to do other things. You get to do your stand up tours but… — Josh Widdicombe Copy Share Image
For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
It's never wise to laugh at things you don't understand...If you're not careful, they might start laughing back at you. — Sally Nicholls Copy Share Image
“He had to die someday too. He might do it on sheets with a six-hundred-plus thread count, but he'd die just the… — John H. Matthews Copy Share Image
It's really not my thing to go after what comedians are doing. Because I always feel like we're jesters at the end… — Larry Wilmore Copy Share Image
People think that my favorite roles to do are villains, but I find comedy to be the most challenging and rewarding. — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
Comedy was my sport. It taught me how to roll with the punches. Failure is the exact same as success when it… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
Comedy has been my way to reconcile with the world. I didn't really set out to do this, but comedy has served… — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
A bunch of comedians have gotten in 'trouble' for sharing their views. When an actor or an artist or might come out… — Craig Robinson Copy Share Image
“Even when you are happy to see your friends again and laugh at their jokes, the relief is mixed with sadness and,… — Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Copy Share Image
“Being gloomy is easier than being cheerful. Anybody can say ‘I’ve got cancer’ and get a rise out of a crowd. But… — Pam Grout Copy Share Image
“chuckling—the sound he made when any force in the world defeated him. He had an idea that even when beaten he could… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The thing about For Better or Worse is the only thing that made me an okay director for that is that I… — Jason Alexander Copy Share Image
With stand-up, I can have an idea, go down the street to a comedy club and work on it, flesh it out,… — Aziz Ansari Copy Share Image
Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter; is he not also the only one that deserves to be… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
Honestly, it's hard to learn about comedy from comedians. Comedy is not something that you necessarily learn or can imitate. You're funny… — Jane Levy Copy Share Image
Ford Prefect suppressed a little giggle of evil satisfaction, realized that he had no reason to suppress it, and laughed out loud,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
When things go right (and they go right a lot - you just got to keep trying) there is nothing to really… — Ronnie Apteker Copy Share Image
What I loved about 'The 40 Year-Old Virgin,' the title is the easy sell, but when you see the movie, the comedy… — Peyton Reed Copy Share Image
I never made a success of a lecture delivered in a church yet. People are afraid to laugh in a church. They… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Laughter is the jam on the toast of life. It adds flavor, keeps it from being too dry, and makes it easier… — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
Im not the voice of reason; Im more the guy using these offensive topics as fodder to raise tension in a joke. — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
Right now, I'm hankering for new adventures... Ninety percent of the time I'm having romantic-comedy fantasies in which I'm wearing little pencil… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
“It’s not a joke if it’s not entirely clear. But most jokes play off of ambiguity and sudden juxtaposition, so a joke… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I'm a taker in terms of jokes. I love to hear a good joke, but I don't retain jokes. I'm not a… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
