Comedy Quotes · Page 27

Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

“You had to laugh, if you wanted to survive.”

— Deborah Spungen

Laughter survives... it has to survive.

— George Lopez

Ive actually done a lot of comedy.

— Natalie Zea

Laughter is what connects pretty much all pain.

— Jim Breuer

I love physical comedy. I adore comedy of any kind.

— Marcia Gay Harden

A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Laughter is a tranquilizer without after-effects.”

— Arnold Glasgow

I tend not to be someone who's on all the time, or is always trying to make other people laugh.

— Steve Carell

“The difference between actually very serious and actually very funny is actually very thin.”

— William Powers

Good-humor is allied to generosity, ill-humor to meanness.

— Sir Fulke Greville

Acting in a sitcom or a comedy movie is like a comedy routine with the setups.

— Bill Burr

With any half-hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself.

— Seth MacFarlane

But he won’t let the pain blot out the humor no more’n he’ll let the humor blot out the pain.

— Ken Kesey

People who do comedy are always underrated because they make it look so easy.

— Jennifer Aniston

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?

— George Carlin

My brand of humor is trying to play the situation as real as possible because I'm not the type of guy who…

— Dave Franco

Ask anyone the best part of the classic comedy, 'My Cousin Vinny,' and they'll likely say Mona Lisa Vito.

— Mary Katharine Ham

I hate comics who look at comedy as therapy. But at least it gets things out of my system in a funny…

— Lisa Lampanelli

We started off in improv and sketch comedy, and with improv the most important thing is to listen and make sure you're…

— Sal Vulcano

Humour in its highest reach mingles with pathos: it voices sorrow for our human lot and reconciliation with it.

— Stephen Leacock

Health-wise, I couldn't have said what my life expectancy would've been if I'd just carried on doing solid blocks of stand-up.

— Johnny Vegas

“When you are having a really crappy day, and life seems to be kicking your ass, try to force your self to…

— L.F. Young

Any comedic-type person will tell you there's no greater high in the world than someone to laugh at a joke or tell…

— Randy Rainbow

For me, something that's been always really important to me, that's also really served me well in hindsight, is doing different things,…

— Michelle Monaghan

If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at…

— Vince Vaughn

A lot of comedians get a bad rep once they have kids and that's all they talk about, and people are like,…

— Tig Notaro

For a lot of comics who aren't as silly or physical but more intellectual, we get looked at as 'alt comics.' No,…

— Amanda Seales

I've made a way to allow myself to do big films, small films, dramas, comedies, action films, horror films, or whatever interests…

— Samuel L. Jackson

Back in the 1970s, male prime-time comedians mainly resembled Mr Potato Head. The terrifically popular 'Wheeltappers and Shunters Club' was a comedy…

— Grace Dent

“She had her own barometer for knowing when a man was getting too close: as soon as he felt comfortable enough to…

— Stephanie Bond

Gian Luigi Polidoro and his girlfriend had written this script, it was an American comedy, and they decided I was the guy…

— Brent Spiner

I had always been heavily influenced by stand-up.

— John DiMaggio

Fat is where comedy is stored,

— Craig Ferguson

Don't take yourself too seriously - learn to laugh.

— Ronnie Apteker

I never get offered comedy.

— Sarah Lancashire

Babies aren't dishwasher-safe.

— Daniel Tosh

It's hard to go back and be constantly funny.

— John Belushi

I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.

— Ted Levine

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.

— Henry Ward Beecher