Comedy Quotes · Page 163

One day in '61, I was looking in the Santa Monica phone book for a number, and there it was: Stan Laurel,…

— Dick Van Dyke

I spend most of my time catching up on classic comedy - things you absolutely have to see.

— Michael Cera

I always knew that someone was going to come at me with a script to play God. It's just one of those…

— Morgan Freeman

I think if anybody had a roll of dice with a lot of money at stake, they would not want Wes Craven…

— Wes Craven

My secret to comedy is don't offend anybody. Don't offend anybody ever. That's my secret.

— Justin Roiland

If you're in scenes with a guy you know really well in a comedy, you tend to crack each other up too…

— Billy Bob Thornton

Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies…

— Aberjhani

If you have no tragedy, you have no comedy. Crying and laughing are the same emotion. If you laugh too hard, you…

— Sid Caesar

When the American people get through with the English language, it will look as if it had been run over by a…

— Finley Peter Dunne

I feel like there is something about having a copacetic world POV that helps in making a comedy. Like, David Wain has…

— Kathryn Hahn

To me, comedy is a game.

— Demetri Martin

I'm thinking of doing a marital comedy for one of the studios, but I want it to be so painful that it'll…

— Harold Ramis

I see myself touring internationally - everywhere, every theater, every arena - and putting out stand-up comedy specials until I can't even…

— Jermaine Fowler

I think everyone's different but in comedy, I try to do my scene to make the director and the other actors laugh.…

— Ken Jeong

When I left school I was full of angst, like any teenager, and I channeled it all into comedy.

— Matt Lucas

I thought I should forget Hollywood and go back to Hong Kong. I'm so lucky that finally Hollywood accepts my comedy fighting.

— Jackie Chan

It doesn't matter if it's a drama or a comedy, the need to get the emotion and the character arc across is…

— Colin Farrell

I think actual death will be a lot easier than dying on stage. Cause - you know - if you do [actual…

— Joan Rivers

I think that crowdfunding has become such a powerful tool to tell stories that might not find financing otherwise - like a…

— Kit Williamson

I can do more than just stand-up comedy, and the only way I'll be able to show that is if I do…

— Dane Cook

We have a gameshow called survivor in this country. It's a game in our country. Where you can win a million dollars…

— Daniel Tosh

I'll tell you why we make fun of midgets: We're not afraid of them.

— Sarah Silverman

I wasn't into making classmates laugh - or any of the comedy cliches. I wanted to disappear. I was a nonentity. I…

— Josh Widdicombe

There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.

— Kate McKinnon

'Tangerine' taught me that if you win an audience over with comedy, then hopefully have a soulful message at the same time.

— Sean Baker

Comedy comes easily to me.

— Ranvir Shorey

When I tour, it's like, well, like a food tour as much as a comedy tour. I try to eat at all…

— Aziz Ansari

For me, comedy is constantly presented as this fake casualness, like a guy just walked on stage going, 'This crazy thing happened…

— Bo Burnham

“Beetroot Cossins had moved to Kuala Lumpur where she had died of lethargy and pie.”

— St. John Morris

I had two projects that fell apart during preproduction. The first one was this movie that Judd Apatow and I had written…

— Ben Stiller

I don't go to see many comedies anymore, because I guess it feels like another day at the office.

— Zach Woods

There's a show on Comedy Central that I love called 'Nathan for You,' which is kind of a reality show, almost a…

— Randall Park

I like physical comedy. And I like the old comedies.

— Patrick Dempsey

Comedy is a wonderful device for distance that allows us to look at what we're talking about with some degree of distance…

— Alexander Payne

The funniest thing about comedy is that you never know why people laugh. I know what makes them laugh but trying to…

— W. C. Fields

Something about New York, man: You can do more comedy there probably than you can anywhere in the world. If you're interested…

— Dave Chappelle

My comedy comes from pain. I can't stand to see someone hurting.

— Bernie Mac

When you do your comedy and your drama, your acting style doesn't change. If it's a comedy, the situations and the characters…

— Jonah Hill

People are constantly saying, 'How's it feel to have such an impact?' I just want to be funny. I'm a comedian, not…

— Stephen Colbert

I don't want to take a pill. Go to Africa, go follow some bushman around. He's being chased by a lion. That's…

— Ellen DeGeneres