Comedy Quotes · Page 22

I think TV remotes should have a button that allows you to kill the person on the screen.

— George Carlin

Classic comedy is classic comedy, and it will go on for years.

— David Jason

Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.

— Jason Reitman

People love authenticity in comedy and, coming from a region, you get a very strong sense of place. They can place you…

— Ardal O'Hanlon

I don't think people understand what comedy is supposed to do. We will observe things, we will make fun of things.

— Neal Brennan

Sometimes I make very selfish choices; like I did 'Once Upon A Time' for my inner 8-year-old and my hypothetical future child.…

— Ginnifer Goodwin

I think I'm not uber into the comedy scene, but I love to laugh, especially in our business, where you're always front…

— John Cena

Comedy doesn't come easy for me. I've only done 2 movies that are really comedy-style films and I have to work at…

— Channing Tatum

I'm a huge fan of comedy. I write material whenever I can.

— Dolph Ziggler

Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I…

— Ben Kingsley

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of…

— Horace Walpole

I'm actually into the idea of doing stand-up comedy, as a joke. You know how people do karaoke for fun? Well it…

— Keeley Hazell

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

— Todd Phillips

I love being around people who love to do what I love to do, which is comedy.

— Tracy Morgan

I found doing that kind of comedy without an audience is just... for me, it's almost impossible. You need the audience to…

— Dick Van Dyke

Science would like to tell us that people laugh because of the benign violation theory, but comedy doesn't have hard rules.

— Pete Holmes

I think that every piece has its challenges. I love going back and forth between one and the other. I'll always pick…

— Sigourney Weaver

I have a little sister, and I'm constantly annoyed [by] how terribly written most females are in most everything - and especially…

— Jay Baruchel

“People keep making excuses, that’s why everthing happens for a reason.”

— Roy Saputra

I learned everything that I know about comedy and about show business and a lot about life from Carl.

— Dick Van Dyke

In comedy, when you bomb, especially at The Comedy Store in front of a sold-out house? I think it would have been…

— Brendan Schaub

A lollipop is a cross between hard candy and garbage.

— Mitch Hedberg

I think that's part of being a comedy writer. You have to be confident. If you're sitting around worrying about, like, oh…

— David Mandel

I've mainly been in dramas, so this is one of my first comedy kind of performances in Cecil B. Demented.

— Stephen Dorff

Models never say, "I'm hot." They say, "Look at these clothes." Whereas, with comedy, you have to say, "I'm hot."

— Neal Brennan