To my family and friends, I'm very definitely a clown. But do you know what? Doing a drama would almost seem easy… — Ashley Jensen Copy Share Image
I continue to do standup because there's a connection with a live audience - there are skills that you do learn as… — Bobcat Goldthwait Copy Share Image
I don't see a film as comedy or thriller or any other genre. If I like the script, I say yes, what… — Arshad Warsi Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I used to make up all these characters. I love comedy a lot, and I don't get… — Omar Dorsey Copy Share Image
“I dearly love a laugh... I hope I never ridicule what is wise or good. Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“He laughed, a sinister sound that made some of the people outside the restaurant shudder without knowing why.” — Aldous Mercer Copy Share Image
There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Most actors can't write. Most writers can't act. Most comedians can't act. I can do all three, so why wouldn't I do… — Charlie Murphy Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it is his goofy laugh and silly grin that made people underestimate him; certainly his playfulness contributed to that perception. At… — Richard Brandt Copy Share Image
“If we do not laugh, we will cry. Crying will only make us hotter and sweatier. We Jews like to joke about… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
I love doing comedy, and that's the thing I will always go back to, really, but I'd love to have the freedom… — Alice Lowe Copy Share Image
I know this is going to sound very self-serving, and I apologize for it, but if you can write comedy, you can… — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
“Even here is something sad and terrible. But the impression is fleeting, and serves only to give a greater acuteness to the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
No matter what else you came up against, if you could smile and laugh while a monkey did you with chestnuts in… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Recognizing absolutely depends on the public that I'm out with. If I'm in Atlanta, it's definitely Why Did I Get Married. If… — Michael Jai White Copy Share Image
As a comedian, you're making so many observations, so many measurements. You might catch someone's eyes as you're telling a joke, and… — Sean Lock Copy Share Image
People kept passing our [ with Robert Ben Garant] script around, and suddenly we had this reputation as screenwriters, which we're not… — Thomas Lennon Copy Share Image
My stand-up act? I combine the fact that the world is a violent place with the fact that each person is responsible… — Colin Quinn Copy Share Image
I gravitate towards dark comedy, because I'm a huge fan of dark comedy. I always think the most painful thing that you… — Jamie Babbit Copy Share Image
At its best, alt comedy can be challenging, surprising, and innovative. And at its worst, alt comics think that being awkward.com/FAQS is… — Phoebe Robinson Copy Share Image
I used to take someone with me for the chemotherapy so I could do jokes. You always try and find something absurd. — Jennifer Saunders Copy Share Image
I'll speak for myself, but there's a lot of humor to be found in sarcasm and darkness. You talk to any paramedic,… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
People can cry much easier than they can change, a rule of psychology people like me picked up as kids on the… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Once anyone who has a sense of humor can do what they want, they want to do funny bits as much as… — Gavin McInnes Copy Share Image
I will laugh at the world. And most of all, I will laugh at myself for man is most comical when he… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
If you can laugh at yourself, you are going to be fine. If you allow others to laugh with you, you will… — Martin Niemoller Copy Share Image
I've remained friends with all of them. We'remaking a fun kids movie and it's a comedy so we're just having fun and… — Carter Jenkins Copy Share Image
I feel that a lot of British comedy is often too bombastic, too obvious, dressing up and shouting and pulling funny faces. — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
How long is it polite to continue to be interested in what someone says after they reveal they've got a boyfriend? — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Life is hard. It is not too short, it is too long. But you have to learn how to live; you have… — Carolina Herrera Copy Share Image
I think people who do comedy tend to do it well, and to do it painfully and truthfully. So making the leap… — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
It is tough to make people laugh, but when there is comfort level with co-stars and director it all works well. — Gurmeet Choudhary Copy Share Image
Ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep. — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Comedy came early. I knew when I was a kid that I was silly, and I knew that I liked people who… — Milana Vayntrub Copy Share Image
There's terrific merit in having no sense of humour, no sense of irony, practically no sense of anything at all. If you're… — Peter Cook Copy Share Image
Writing a comedy script is a difficult thing. I think if someone is attempting a comedy and then they fail then it's… — Paresh Rawal Copy Share Image
“Plus, humor was a good way to hide the pain. And if that didn’t work, there was always Plan B. Run away.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The plays that I performed in the '70s are not the same plays that I perform today. However, what they have in… — Y. G. Mahendran Copy Share Image
Compared with what's happening in, say, Darfur or South Ossetia, finding an audience for your comedy show is not that significant. — Paul Whitehouse Copy Share Image
It's hard to complain when you say, 'We're gonna go to the clip where Helen Hunt and Will Ferrell are on 'Saturday… — Isaac Hanson Copy Share Image