I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter. — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
It's a dangerous game that comedy plays. Sometimes it tells you the truth; sometimes it delays it. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
You can't study comedy; it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude. — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
Humor without sadness underneath it feels cheap and aggressive. — John Cameron Mitchell Copy Share Image
Whoever designed this frigging map was having a laugh. Just around the corner, my arse. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
If you're going through a divorce and you're in a comedy you have to find some way to find the funny side… — Alan Ruck Copy Share Image
I miss the comedy of the '70s and '80s, like 'Only Fools And Horses' and 'Fawlty Towers,' so I'm glad I'm put… — Brendan O'Carroll Copy Share Image
Tearing up a picture of the Pope comes under the heading of a Comedy Killer. It kind of breaks the spirit of… — Lorne Michaels Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of Jonathan Winters. He's influenced everyone who's ever done improvisational comedy. You look to Jonathan Winters for inspiration.… — Rob Reiner Copy Share Image
There's a fear that I don't think people are interested in my actual opinion. I just think people are interested in me… — Nick Thune Copy Share Image
Comic timing... is how to have a relationship with the camera and deal with the camera without looking like you are. — Colleen Haskell Copy Share Image
Comedy can be fun no matter what you're playing small or big comedy part. It always has the potential to be a… — Ty Burrell Copy Share Image
I've had this problem my whole life where I feel like I'm laughing all the time, and I feel like I understand… — Noel Wells Copy Share Image
Humor and laughter are not necessarily the same thing. Humor permits us to see into life from a fresh and gracious perspective.… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
I would love to play a normal human being with a little bit of a comedic bend that had a love interest.… — Reggie Lee Copy Share Image
At the Sahara, the seats are banked and most of the audience is looking down at the stage. Everybody in the business… — Buddy Hackett Copy Share Image
What comedy does, for the most part, is it voices something so simplistically that people will agree with us, and then once… — Jim Jefferies Copy Share Image
Ultimately, jokes are this really special thing that we can all share. It's exciting to have basically a thousand people in a… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
At least in making an action film, there's always going to be someone who wants to see a car chase. Even if… — Jason Statham Copy Share Image
People ask what my influences are, and for me, it's not always obvious. One of my biggest inspirations was Chrissie Hynde from… — Tig Notaro Copy Share Image
Voice actors I used to know who were starting out in comedy were guys who did a lot of voices. They were… — H. Jon Benjamin Copy Share Image