Comedy is hard. Any idiot can have an opinion.

I usually try not to sound like an idiot but it's really hard because I am an idiot.

— Nikhil Saluja

I think it's an uphill battle in every field. You hear late-night comedy is hard on women. And then you hear investment banking is…

— Nell Scovell

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

— Ben Stiller

I live for comedy. I've been doing it for such a long time. Comedy is hard in itself.

— Victoria Justice

You know, comedy's hard. With drama, you have a responsibility to the emotional truth, but with comedy, you have emotional truth and you have…

— Julianne Moore

It didn't have to be a newfound respect for the craft, I knew that it's notoriously difficult and frightens a lot of people off.…

— Colin Firth

Comedy is very hard, but you have to learn the art and science of it.

— Marlon Wayans

A famous actor, Edmund Kean, on his deathbed, was reported to have said, "Dying is easy. Comedy is hard."

— Melvin Helitzer

A good comedy's very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy.

— Colm Meaney

Drama is easy. Comedy's hard.

— Peter Bogdanovich

“But even this gives rise to another central tenet, attendant to the Comedy Is Good myth: Comedy Is Hard. Certainly well-rendered comedy is hard.…

— David Rakoff

“MarkBaynard: You know what they say- dying is easy; comedy is hard.”

— Teresa Medeiros

With comedy especially, it feels like such a clear-cut thing to be a writer-director. There is so much nuance and tone in a comedy…

— Todd Phillips

Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.

— Larry Hagman

Stand-up comedy is a very hard thing on the spirit. There are people who transcend it, like Jack Benny and Steve Martin, but in…

— Mike Nichols