Comedy Quotes · Page 175

A lot of comedy films, there's the opinion, 'Well, if it's funny, put it in.' But I think you have to be…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

I'd like to play a mixture of Lucille Ball meets Murphy Brown meets Glenn Close on 'Damages,' to keep a little bit…

— Joelle Carter

The truth is, I've never thought of myself as the Michael Jordan of comedy. And that's a good thing. You know why?…

— Tracy Morgan

“Rare contact creates a stir. Gossip spreads. Tensions build. Denying Pissec, miserable Obelmäker and repressed Baumauer are all seething-jealous – openly or…

— Carla H Krueger

There's a fraudulent root element of comedy in that we say things night after night as though they are rolling effortlessly from…

— Doug Stanhope

What would I like? Some very silly comedy where I don't have to think about anything, but it could be a lot…

— James Callis

I'd love to do some comedy. Particularly French comedy, which I know sounds like a contradiction in terms.

— Kristin Scott Thomas

I'm not afraid to write about madness. I always figure that whatever most embarrasses you is something that everyone can relate to,…

— David Sedaris

I've been fascinated with gargoyles since I was a kid. I took a high school trip to Europe, the 8 countries in…

— Greg Weisman

A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them…

— Frank Zappa

When I want to make someone laugh in real life (as opposed to when I'm on stage where I tell one-liners), I…

— Wendy Liebman

You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.

— Anonymous

The only way to get a serious message across is through comedy

— Woody Harrelson

I'd love to do a comedy - something where a character has to use humor to navigate the absurdities of life.

— Debra Granik

I never walked the streets of New York hoping to be a musical comedy star. For one thing, they would have thought…

— Esther Williams

I wrote, I think, half a dozen films that were completely out of genre. Comedies, love stories, even one serious film about…

— Wes Craven

I've always idolized Amy Poehler, because I think she's the best of the best as far as female comedy.

— Kristen Bell

I'm not a big believer in the sense of Jews having a monopoly on comedy.

— Woody Allen

I never set out to build some behemoth comedy career. My taste in movies is far more eclectic than that so my…

— Shawn Levy

I'm writing a record of comedy songs. I'm doing all these collaborations with artists. I bring them lyrics and they write the…

— Margaret Cho

“The only thing which really seemed to pay off in life, if you went by Mary Pedersen's example, was sleeping with your…

— Jonas Eriksson

The first time I performed at the Comedy Store in Los Angeles, I was in the back of the room doing vocal…

— Maz Jobrani

People like me doing comedy, especially after 'Khatron Ke Khiladi,' where they got a glimpse.

— Sana Khan

With Comedy Central, they produced it and did everything - I just had to walk up there and tell the jokes -…

— Jo Koy

I'm not afraid to take on somebody or say something that somebody will find offensive because unfortunately in comedy, you can't say…

— George Lopez

Life is a comedy when watching and a tragedy when experiencing. I try and share anything I have.

— Eric Idle

“There was Arctic John, a businessman from Salisbury who doesn’t hold water, Bruce Knott, a social worker from Cumberland who spends his…

— St. John Morris

I don't think comedy is something you learn. I think it's something that's either there or it's not.

— Jessica Walter

Comedy's my outlet for my ridiculous emotions.

— Michael Che

I find that I'm just drawn to anything that's going to challenge me as an actress. So any time I get a…

— Audra McDonald

My family has been deeply affected by the split of Korea, which divided it in half, basically, before I was born. There's…

— Margaret Cho

I've been in very few flat-out comedies. But I feel like I've always made comedies.

— Willem Dafoe

The comedy in 'Star Trek' is always very subtle, if it's there at all.

— Robert Duncan McNeill

In comedy timing is everything, but Betty White is the rarest of comics who seems to have mastered time itself.

— Brian Williams

I think that... I would say that sometimes people get afraid of when you're balancing comedy and drama.

— Jim Rash

“If those at your top are weak, your bottom will be rotten”

— Benny Bellamacina

I kind of consider myself... I mean, I try to have my comedy be accessible, and if people are paying $30 to…

— Jim Gaffigan

To me, Fight Club was a comedy. When [David] Fincher sent me the book and I read it, the first thing I…

— Edward Norton

I was always worried with comedy - what if I came to work and I wasn't in a funny mood? That hasn't…

— Jeremy Sisto

“Eunice had deposited St John upon the balcony of the first-floor apartment of former Liberal MP, The Rt. Hon. Leonard Cossins, the…

— St. John Morris