If you have any sense, if you're any good at comedy, you…

I always love to come to Austin.

— R. Lee Ermey

“He had come to Austin because he needed something, and she wanted him as uncomfortable as possible while he asked for whatever it was.”

— Laura Griffin

I'm not playing a comedy. I want to be playing the truth of the moment, and then have the comedy come out.

— Zooey Deschanel

I was taught by a lot of great comedy writers to go for the reality in a role, and the comedy will come through.

— Carol Kane

Comedy is all about the character. When you're too focused on the gags, the character suffers, and you don't get the laugh. Comedy has…

— Brett Gelman

I haven't had a lot of comedy come my way as a performer.

— Tommy Lee Jones

I don't have that kind of Southern experience, of the fire-and-brimstone preacher type of thing. Certainly not in my comedy. I come more from…

— Larry Wilmore

It's tough to do comedy. After 'Mister', my inhibitions with respect to comedy have come down.

— Varun Tej

I think comedy has to come from a real place. It has to come from an honest place.

— Tim Heidecker

“As regards structure, comedy has come a long way since Shakespeare, who in his festive conclusions could pair off any old shit and any…

— Martin Amis

I vary from issue to issue and Im not party political at all. I think its important in comedy not to come from any…

— Hugh Dennis

“Good poetry isn't born, When everything makes sense. Good poetry is born, When nothing makes sense.”

— Abhijit Naskar

If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst.

— Joan Crawford

Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.

— Joseph Joubert

“For when you realized that God is Everything you know that you've got to love everything no matter how bad it is, in the…

— Jack Kerouac