I've tried to create a comedy that doesn't look like any other comedy. Maybe traditionally in TV there has been a kind… — Melina Matsoukas Copy Share Image
If the audience is responding very well to comedians that are hacks, and I don't do well, I don't feel as bad,… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
Scott and I had just worked with Jimmy Pardo doing a live show over the summer. And it was a lot of… — B. J. Porter Copy Share Image
When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
I find it incredibly boring when people are mean about some individuals, especially if the individual has no power. I can understand… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
Better to operate with detachment, then; better to have a way but infuse it with a little humor; best, to have no… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
If someone in a work environment says a racist joke, I'm the kind of person who says, 'I'm sorry, I don't find… — David Schwimmer Copy Share Image
“One of the study's authors, Dr. Lee Berk, is actually a humor researcher because, when you get right down to it, laughter… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A thin line separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. Our lives constantly walk that line. When we slip… — Barbara Johnson Copy Share Image
“Hey Circe, how come your horoscope predictions are never that a hot girl is gonna fall madly in love with me forever… — Charlie Fey Copy Share Image
In keeping with the theme of "I got my hands on," my brother and I would listen to The Diceman Cometh. That… — Moshe Kasher Copy Share Image
There's something strange about comedy requests. I guess if you enjoy something, why not hear it again? But there's something weird about… — Paul F. Tompkins Copy Share Image
Standups have all the talk shows, but you never see a sketch group on a talk show. Even on so-called variety shows,… — Matt Besser Copy Share Image
I used to think of myself as a comedian. I've always admired comedians. Their minds, the way in which they se the… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
As someone who's been doing a lot of classical theater recently, I loved the idea of getting to run around in Steven… — Lily Rabe Copy Share Image
I first did stand-up when I was 17, and then I passed out fliers for a comedy club (in New York City)… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
The whole character of Super Dave is a takeoff on people who pontificate. So one thing I never want to do is… — Bob Einstein Copy Share Image
The woman is skin covered prozac I like to call her. Half the trick to a film like this is keeping a… — Ryan Reynolds Copy Share Image
My abject hatred of actors and the acting world. I went to college as an actor, and halfway through, I switched to… — Christian Finnegan Copy Share Image
“Dodger made haste towards the house of the Mayhews while in his mind he saw the cheerful face and hooked nose of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Laughter is a pleasant sound, it spreads joy all around Whether you're young or old, laughter can be like Magic to our… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
The skill of a good actor is to make it always seem like you're in that fantastically spontaneous moment. Very often, a… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
Quite often, intent on conveying how things can go wrong for a culture (science fiction) or an individual (horror) or all of… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Often, when you're in some of these writing rooms for... and the most restrictive is network television, right? They say, 'Wow, that's… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
I like broad comedy. If I had an idea tomorrow for a film that was all slapstick and broad comedy, and it… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Even actresses that you really admire, like Reese Witherspoon, you think, 'Another romantic comedy?' You see her in something like 'Walk the… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
I started when Chris Rock did 'Bigger & Blacker.' I used to watch that before I went onstage as inspiration to get… — Retta Copy Share Image
“Why, not much as yet, sir, on accounts I suppose of not being able to walk much; but he goes about the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I think it's actually a misperception that I am a comedic actress. I do more drama than comedy but very little of… — Octavia Spencer Copy Share Image
We're having so much writing some of the sillier stuff that never would have been on Mr. Show. And that's not a… — B. J. Porter Copy Share Image
I don't know if there is a gene for comedy, but my dad was a very funny man. He just didn't know… — James Belushi Copy Share Image
“Wrinkles was her big gray cat. Sierra named him Wrinkles because when he was a little baby he had a wrinkly face.… — Karen Kingsbury Copy Share Image
“You like telling your stories,” said my friend in that coffee shop, “because you’re secure enough in your current self, the self… — Elizabeth Bristol Copy Share Image
To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
As a freshman in college, I was dating this guy who said he was a stand-up, all he really did was open… — Rachel Sennott Copy Share Image
I use myself as a template for my comedy. So first my background as a Muslim man, my being a doctor, I… — Riaad Moosa Copy Share Image
I'm not offended. Lenny Bruce taught me that everything's funny. You can make everything funny. I don't think that assassinations are funny,… — Larry King Copy Share Image
Some people think that when they say something and they think its funny but its not. They think that the person they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I never wanted to do just comedy or just drama; sometimes, going back and forth you can get yourself in trouble which… — Mike Binder Copy Share Image
When you're at a comedy club, if you're not funny, you don't work. People will let you know, whether it's by booing… — Brad Stine Copy Share Image
