Comedy Quotes · Page 464

Action films are emotionally and physically draining, and you're dirty and sweaty. In a romantic comedy, you have to have your fingernails…

— Morris Chestnut

Yet there are some people - Steve Allen would dissect comedy forever; he's a really funny guy, but he would love talking…

— Bob Saget

I'm a comedian and there are a lot of things I'm still learning. I love one liners because I love smart jokes.…

— Anthony Jeselnik

Peter Dinklage doesn't care. He's so cool so you can laugh at it. Most actors, if you laugh they'd just have a…

— Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Chuck Lorre and everyone else on 'Mom' did such a great job of balancing that line that rides tragedy and comedy. They…

— Emily Osment

There's so many ways to do stand up, and I think for awhile, people weren't really maximizing the freedom of it.

— Greg Fitzsimmons

Pope Francis said that atheists are still eligible to go to heaven. To return the favor, atheists said Popes are still eligible…

— Conan O'Brien

Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it's painful, and if…

— Dick Cavett

I have no idea how it got so big. I was just trying to find something to do while I was living…

— George Meyer

Sometimes, comedy feels like the kid brother of drama, trying to get attention by being the class jokester. But it's actually really…

— Christopher Miller

It's just not funny to disrespect other people's beliefs, backgrounds, cultures, or identities when those are deeply rooted in longstanding oppression. Jokes…

— Franchesca Ramsey

I don't know who I touch and who I don't. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do…

— Adam Sandler

A story, in which native humour reigns, Is often useful, always entertains; A graver fact, enlisted on your side, May furnish illustration,…

— William Cowper

once you laugh at you own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good,…

— Goldie Hawn

I really can't describe what my stand-up is like - people see it and they say it's like that, or it's like…

— Dylan Moran

I like doing live stand-up because that's where I started. If you do TV and radio you just send it out into…

— Hugh Dennis

If you watch the 'Blue Collar Comedy Tour,' don't expect that when you come see me by myself, 'cause it's a little…

— Ron White

“One must see how no attack is so feared as that of laughter... because more than any other this attack isolates the…

— Soren Kierkegaard

My influences are a wide variety: from Dave Chappelle stand-up comedy specials on YouTube, to watching chick-flick comedy movies, to scrolling through…

— Rich Brian

Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label…

— Peter Sellers

“Perhaps the way to proceed is to think of life on Earth as a colossal joke, a creation of such immense stupidity…

— Meg Rosoff

I think people don't understand that comedy is an outlet for me. Comedy allows me to get outside of myself, and exercise…

— Will Ferrell

After having edited numerous shorts, earning award nominations for it, and then 4 features edits, the director inside me is now burning…

— Kyle Cassie

I don't think comedians make an active decision to be a certain "persona." Comedians write the way they're going to write.

— Jim Gaffigan

Seriousness is equated with responsibility, when, in fact, I think we would be much more responsible if we had more joy and…

— Deepak Chopra

More than an adult comedy, 'Great Grand Masti' is a naughty horror comedy, more on the lines of 'Masti.'

— Urvashi Rautela

I'm not the loudest person in the room, but I'll speak up when something isn't right. And try to make everyone laugh.

— Jason Collins

Sometimes you have to laugh about what gets published; sometimes it's annoying, but in general I don't care.

— Olivier Martinez

I'm sure I've all but lost friends by maintaining that, despite their love for it, I always saw Stanley Kramer's 'It's a…

— Dick Cavett

“Laugh at yourself. It's the single most important aspect of surviving this crazy business. And that's from the man that gave Cap[tain…

— Rob Liefeld

I've got a lot of laughter lines. You don't get laughter lines on your face without having a lot of fun in…

— Deborah Meaden

“I guess like most natural health and nutrition researchers, my background comes from a professional career in stand-up comedy.”

— T.C. Hale

Humor is hope's companion in arms. It is not brash, it is not cheap, it is not heartless. Among other things I…

— Ogden Nash

And so long as I can laugh, never will I be poor. This then, is one of nature's greatest gifts and I…

— Og Mandino

I hope in my lifetime we can all continue to laugh at ourselves and not put down anyone for what they weigh.

— Richard Simmons

Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy…

— Alvar Aalto

The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television…

— Marc Maron

Bits are fake conversations comedians have because they are uncomfortable being vulnerable with other human beings in any way.

— Chris Gethard

“now that I know the soft magic of your laugh and how your body moves like art, why would I ever go…

— Upile Chisala

If you became a comedian in the '80s, you had to work the circuit and make people laugh. Canned laughter is cheating.

— Paul Merton