Comedy Quotes · Page 38

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

— Mel Brooks

If you aren't laughing, you aren't living!

— Carlos Mencia

I'd much prefer to have a laugh instead of a fight.

— Mike Connors

Jews have a tendency to become comedians.

— Sacha Baron Cohen

Comedy is hard. Any idiot can have an opinion.

— Ann Coulter

I love standup and I haven't given it up.

— Ray Romano

Comedians play off of social commentary.

— Jermaine Fowler

Sometimes I was so funny I couldn’t stand myself.

— Moira J. Moore

I feel that I'm a stand-up comedian more than anything else, that's my job.

— Lee Mack

Reality is the scary thing. Not my work, not comedy.

— Tracy Morgan

“Just as true humour is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.”

— Alan Wilson Watts

When people write comedy from neutrality, it just gets kind of silly.

— Mort Sahl

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

— Carl Sandburg

“But 'tis a fine line between silliness and supreme beauty, no more than a hair's breadth wide.”

— Novala Takemoto

“I am Vigalig the Destroyer. Except during the day, and then I am Gigalig the Giggler.”

— Jarod Kintz

I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.

— Jeff Bridges

We have home videos that are really great tape on my parents being hysterical. So I think I always knew that my…

— Briga Heelan

But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and…

— Parker Posey

I like to play characters that get to do it all - to have a bit of comedy here and a bit…

— Michael Shannon

When I'm 70 I might be a man in a park just wandering around, speaking in tongues with kids throwing bread at me.

— Noel Fielding

One would understand a ban on surrogate advertising, but to completely ban [smoking] is ridiculous, a joke taken too far.

— Mahesh Bhatt

I think any decent comedy worth its salt has to have heart, otherwise it's just a bunch of jokes. I think people…

— Tom Bennett

Growing up, I was certainly drawn to comedy, but my goal was just to be as well-rounded an actor as possible. I…

— Paul Rudd

Somebody will occasionally give me a line or a tag or something like that. It's rare that someone will give me a…

— Josh Blue

When television killed comedy and love stories, the movie makers went in slugging. They offered the downbeat, the degenerate as competition. This…

— Joan Crawford

“There's something about courting the darkness that makes some people see the truth in raw, twisted ways, as though they were shining…

— Nadia Bolz-Weber

It was Sultan Qureshi, the character of 'Gangs of Wasseypur,' which brought success as a baddie, but it were the TC and…

— Pankaj Tripathi

“I'm sitting at the bar, rearranging the order of my jokes. I'm under the delusion that I'm having bad shows because of…

— Patton Oswalt

Women always think that I'm Chandler, so if I don't joke around for half an hour, they think that something's wrong. Then…

— Matthew Perry

Everything in comedy's got to be exactly right, which is why making a comedic film is kind of a difficult process, because,…

— John Cleese

Rory is very established in England, which you are seeing right now with Bond. But his father Roy Kinnear was a very,…

— Simon Pegg

A laugh lifestyle is predicated upon our attitude toward the daily stuff of life. When those tasks seem too dull to endure,…

— Marilyn Meberg

Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.

— Barbara Mertz

Human life is a fine blend of comedy and tragedy.

— Sreenadh

Laughter is the closest distance between 2 people.

— Alexia

If you can't laugh at yourself, you're cooked!

— Elizabeth Taylor

Learn weeping, and thou shalt laugh gaining.

— George Herbert

“Laugh up to the end and through it.”

— Hosho McCreesh

It is really tough acting in a comic role.

— Kirron Kher

We've all been the brunt of jokes at times.

— Jonathan Banks