Comedy Quotes · Page 176

I think in life, the sense of humor and comedy always exists.

— Mike Epps

Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don't really see…

— Beck

If you ask me right now, you've seen the last of Mind of Mencia. I don't want to be a one-trick pony.…

— Carlos Mencia

A lot of my early pictures are, I think, quite funny. And these days I tend to look for comedy more and…

— Helen Levitt

In comedy terms, usually when the weather's bad, it goes much better. When it's sunny, people don't come to see comedy gigs…

— Julian Barratt

“Good man and bad man with money goes a long ways." ~ Amunhotep El Bey”

— Amunhotep El Bey

“I still believe that sketch may be a cure for low-level depression if watched regularly.”

— Amy Poehler

To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into a whirling machine.

— Marshall McLuhan

Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.

— Aristophanes

I think, a lot of times when you do a comedy show, people will turn out for a name they know. So,…

— Wyatt Cenac

Burlesque is beautiful: It's art, it's fun, it's done with a lot of comedy - an awful lot of big wink-wink and…

— Imelda May

I grew up with Morecambe and Wise, they were part of Christmas, part of Easter, part of our lives. They were the…

— Nigel Havers

A mind is like a parachute. If it doesn't open, you're fucked!

— Don Williams Jr

Hypocrisy is great fodder for comedy.

— Mo Rocca

I love comedy and drama equally and music too. I just sort of follow my nose to whatever seems really exciting at…

— Jack Black

But my problem was that I did an hour for Comedy Central and nobody seemed to care.

— Neal Brennan

I want to see good-quality comedy shows, not the slapstick ones or where people imitate others.

— Jennifer Winget

'School for Wives' is Moliere's first step toward grand comedy, but he still has one foot in commedia.

— Dakin Matthews

Like, your body has to get used to being in front of people. Like - and you have to be like -…

— Neal Brennan

I'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof of Biography.

— Kathy Griffin

I think you're bound to get a sense of any character that you play. It's not something you often do in comedy.

— Rowan Atkinson

There's nothing wrong with doing comedies, and I'm not against comedies, either, but I always want to do stuff that keeps me…

— Patton Oswalt

'Gutur Gu' is a silent comedy, which I had never done. I wanted to do something out of the box. It's exciting,…

— Anita Hassanandani Reddy

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 have spiritual beliefs that I could literally go out and make an entire comedy routine about, and tour as some sort…

— Jim Carrey

Finally the world would see my full range of comedy characters - from grouchy librarian to Russian librarian.

— Tina Fey

Natural Born Killers' is really a misunderstood romantic comedy.

— Woody Harrelson

When I started out in comedy, it was common knowledge that it took about 10 years to get good. And that was…

— Chris Rock

The best comedy is truthful. So if you say something in a way that is amusing, but is rooted in truth, you…

— Randy Rainbow

The landscape is television has changed so much, because there are so many outlets, that the odds of getting a zeitgeisty hit…

— Bill Lawrence

I know Jonathan Van Ness from comedy, and he's got this wonderful show on Funny or Die called 'Gay of Thrones.'

— Nicole Byer

Whatever the best scripts are and you just want to play roles that you can really sink your teeth into. That's always…

— Stanley Tucci

I came to the conclusion that in comedy, everybody gets what they need, whereas in horror, everybody gets what they deserve. I…

— Neil Gaiman

I'm proud of everything I've done. If it's comedy, it's 'cause I think it's funny. If it's a drama, it's impactful. I'm…

— Miles Teller

The problem with comedy audiences - it's like the Coliseum - when they see someone struggling, they don't feel altruistic towards them.…

— Jo Brand

The best kind of comedy to me is when you make people laugh at things they've never laughed at, and also take…

— Bill Hicks

Almost all comedy is of its time. You can't expect audiences now to laugh at what amused people 60 years ago.

— Denis Norden

These days, the House Republicans actually give John Boehner a harder time than they give me. Which means orange really is the…

— Barack Obama

Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama.

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

I considered the years in Hollywood nothing but an interim. What I always wanted was to be was a musical comedy star.

— Arlene Dahl