Comedy Quotes · Page 4

I wanted to write a book about two women falling in love that wasn't hinged on tragedy or that involved some horrible…

— Camille Perri

I'd played a lot of best friends, and/or bad guys, which seems to be my lot in life. In romantic comedies there's…

— Rob Corddry

I'm not being condescending, I'm too busy thinking about far more important things you wouldn't understand.

— Jimmy Carr

I believe that everyone should be treated as an individual. Women should be treated equally in the right to vote, sure. But…

— Doug Stanhope

This week's winner for best comedy line about the war is New York Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer. Referring to - well, it…

— Ann Coulter

I think if you turn down the volume on the good comedy, you should not even know if it's a comedy or…

— Peter Billingsley

We used to get 27, 28 minutes to do a story in, and now they're lucky if they get 18 or 20…

— Dick Van Dyke

The male is always the pawn in a romantic comedy. Come together, break up, go chase her, get her, roll credits. That's…

— Matthew McConaughey

I'm drawn to people who don't know who they are, because I just think that's where comedy lives, in someone with an…

— Jamie Demetriou

In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.

— Carter Burwell

In comedy, if you're going to commission something commission two series, don't commission one because so many comedies are finding their feet…

— Paul Whitehouse

All Internet comedy is niche comedy. If you do an Internet video about Halo, every Halo fan will send it to every…

— Ricky Van Veen

I hope and assume that every good comedy writer, no matter the age, has a moment where they discover how great Cheers…

— Amy Poehler

I'm a perfectionist and I love this comedy thing.

— Chris Redd

Comedy is lively, comedy is joy, and that's what keeps us [people] going, we've got to look forward to little, little happiness's.…

— Mel Brooks

If you've never seen an elephant ski, then you've never been on acid.

— Eddie Izzard

Taking a night off from comedy to go on a date with someone I'm probably not going to like anyway sounds like…

— Michelle Wolf

I love the comedy world and really grew up in green rooms, so I wanted to show the positives and negatives.

— Mae Martin

That's what comedy is like: You have to force yourself out in the world because you're always one experience away from new…

— Moshe Kasher

You know, dramas are much more expensive to do than say a comedy, so any kind of deficit like that is picked…

— Paul Guilfoyle

It happens a lot every four years, or it used to, every time the Paralympics comes around. They'll be like: 'We've had…

— Chris McCausland

I guess my height has hurt me as much as it's helped me. In comedy people don't mind casting tall women next…

— Allison Janney

When someone describes themself as a taxpayer, they're about to be an asshole.

— Demetri Martin

I've always felt that comedy doesn't just come from misery. It comes from an absurdity around that misery.

— Simon Amstell

Basically I made her [ Sara Pocock] listen to funk music for a good month, a nonstop stream of George Clinton. I…

— Baron Vaughn