I like very dry humor. I don't like things that are over the top. I like subtlety. I like things that are… — Emily Rios Copy Share Image
I love the stuff that makes you laugh and cry. It kind of sucker-punches you a little bit. That's the thing that… — Matt McGorry Copy Share Image
They laughed. Things were funny. They weren't afraid to care. There was no sense to life, to the structure of things. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I love being a part of a romantic comedy. I've done a lot of comedies but haven't always had a ton of… — Anna Faris Copy Share Image
Spies have the same kinds of needs and desires that everybody does, which is funny. The best kind of comedy derives from… — Matt Nix Copy Share Image
All comedians are preoccupied with one thing and with one thing only-themmm-selllves. It's a horrible lot in life. — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Educationists are entertaining. We can always find a good laugh in their prose, with its special, ludicrous combination of ignorance and pretentiousness. — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
I think everyone is born with humor, but your life can beat it out of you, sadly, or you can be lucky… — Catherine O'Hara Copy Share Image
Nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the onset;… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
'Pootie Tang' may be raw and slovenly - hey, it often is raw and slovenly - but it succeeds as a laugh… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
All you have in comedy, in general, is just going with your instincts. You can only hope that other people think that… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
I need to keep my ad-libbing skills honed and make sure I'm able to banter with people and treat topics a bit… — Jon Richardson Copy Share Image
There is material among us for the broadest comedies and the deepest tragedies, but, besides money and leisure, it needs patience, perseverance,… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
Most jokes are based on surprise. They take advantage of a confusion of language, or a twist in logic, or a contradiction… — Richard Herring Copy Share Image
I'm currently working on a romantic comedy between me and Philip Seymour Hoffman. So my next step is to write something so… — Haley Webb Copy Share Image
One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
Even with the most horrendous things that happen and the tremendous pain that people have to deal with, they still laugh, because… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
What does it matter whether I am shown to be right! I am right too much!--And he who laughs best today will… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Among the masked dandies of Edwardian comedy, Max Beerbohm is the most happily armored by a deep and almost innocent love of… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
I just hope to tell stories that help change people's minds about loving and accepting others. And one of the best ways… — Annaleigh Ashford Copy Share Image
I think that Ionesco's greatest weapon is that he's able to make us laugh at the darkest corners of our souls. — Geoffrey Rush Copy Share Image
There's something therapeutic about connecting with an audience - when there's something really sort of odd or silly that you think is… — Eugene Mirman Copy Share Image
Will Ferrell is a dangerous man. If he thinks you're in his way in show business, he will crack your head open.… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
I love watching the romantic comedies of the late '50s and early '60s. I used to have a rule that if Tony… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
With a horror movie, you want to know where the engine of the fear is coming from. Like in comedy, you want… — Jordan Peele Copy Share Image
The only thing I would unequivocally say is that I have never had any interest in romantic comedy I just couldn't do… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
“Laugh and fear not, creatures. Now that you are no longer dumb and witless, you need not always be grave. For jokes… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
One of the things I like about comedy in general is that it affords Asian Americans the opportunity to not be noble. — John Cho Copy Share Image
I think comedy does have that powerful thing that doesn't seem too preachy because you're also making people laugh, so it's really… — Zach Galifianakis Copy Share Image
“What's wrong with you, Daniel? How can you laugh about these things?" And I'm like, 'Cause crying only gets you halfway there,… — Cara Hoffman Copy Share Image
I came into comedy to make people laugh. If the fact that I can't stop eating Hobnobs in any way helps, I'm… — Greg Davies Copy Share Image
“Seeing how sorrow eats you, defeats you. I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.” — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
There are probably about 50 comedians who would come to my 50th birthday party but I'm not sure how many of them… — Lee Mack Copy Share Image
I laugh, and it's laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive,… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Yet the best determining factor of how comfortable we are with ourselves, is our ability to laugh at ourselves.” — Wes Adamson Copy Share Image
Whatever you do, whether you're doing a television drama or a romantic comedy, you want to be relevant, to some degree. — John Ridley Copy Share Image
As a kid, I saw a lot of scary movies, but they were mixed with comedy, like 'Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein.' — Michael Rooker Copy Share Image
As I get older, I think I'm more interested in comedy that doesn't take cheap shots. But I watched some of that… — Zach Woods Copy Share Image
I always feel bad laughing at people who act crazy. But sometimes the things they do are so damned funny. I wonder… — Martha Manning Copy Share Image
