I think with comedy I get very sort of critical of myself and try and do the best I can and it… — Elisha Cuthbert Copy Share Image
When you're accustomed to doing stand-up, so often you're the only person onstage and it's all your thing. It's very gladiatorial. Obviously,… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
I believe that people, more often than not, act with the best possible intentions. And when they don't, that's funny to me.… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
I was seeing this girl and she wanted to get more serious. But I wasn't ready to, I had just gotten out… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
“People of Panem, we fight, we dare, we end our hunger for justice!” There‘s dead silence on the set. It goes on.… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“Shorn of intimacy and seen from a considerable distance, we are all comic characters, farcical buffoons who bumble through our lives, making… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Once I was in college, I was actually trying to write a comedy screenplay and I wrote basically the worst movie ever… — Scot Armstrong Copy Share Image
For me and most of my friends who are comedians, if you've been doing comedy for a while, your tolerance for things… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
For the Baul, life is not a serious thing. It is fun, it is laughter, it is joy. So you cannot find… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Horror is like comedy. Woody Allen's comedy is going to be very different from Ben Stiller's comedy which is going to be… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
Comedy Central wanted to do a show with me, I had a couple failures under my belt with them already, but they… — Daniel Tosh Copy Share Image
I always get a little bit pissed off when stand-up comedy is not recognised as being as good a craft as being… — Jim Jefferies Copy Share Image
The tone of 'On My Block' has you going from bent-over laughter to shedding thug tears from scene to scene, and even… — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
“Oh really?’ said Mayes raising a mocking eyebrow which put Rob in mind of a poor man’s Roger Moore. ‘And what on… — Dougie Brimson Copy Share Image
I'm always fighting with profanity and Christian comedy. I'm telling you, it's always a fight. Because my father said to me, he… — Kym Whitley Copy Share Image
“An emotional man with bushy eyebrows tells us that if the proposed mosque is built in Bendigo 'the foundation of Australia will… — John Safran Copy Share Image
I'm not terribly well read. My wife forces books into my hands and insists I read them, which I'm grateful to her… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
They are cheaper to make and easier to do; you can just cram in loads of talent into a format that works… — Natasia Demetriou Copy Share Image
The ones [comedies] that I always liked, whether it's Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News, or Fast Times of Ridgemont High, they were… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
It's when I make a joke about Indian people and then a white person comes up to me and says, "That's wrong.… — Brad Williams Copy Share Image
The great thing about stand up is you get to do other things. You get to do your stand up tours but… — Josh Widdicombe Copy Share Image
“He said he wouldn’t stay, as he didn’t care much for the smell of the paint, and fell over the scraper as… — George Grossmith Copy Share Image
Humor is the spiciest condiment in the feast of existence. Laugh at your mistakes but learn from them, joke over your troubles… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
It's not easy to make people laugh. You can make people cry, there are are universal things that we all feel; a… — Asim Chaudhry Copy Share Image
I think it's a slightly crazy time actually, it's very difficult to satirise because each of politicians is in their own way… — Armando Iannucci Copy Share Image
“Laughter paves the way for many things. It's one way to build intimacy between people, something every healthy team needs. Humor has… — Berkun, Scott Copy Share Image
Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
A lot of people think that comedy is sort of a cop out to not wrestling seriously, but I actually would argue… — Kenny Omega Copy Share Image
A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different… — Paula Patton Copy Share Image
Standups always like the room cold, and if you're shooting a sitcom live you want it a little bit chilly for the… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
I like what a third man brings. A kind of oblique vision, seeing something in the material that you didn't know was… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“Just as someone in pain is linked by his groans to the present moment (and is entirely outside past and future), so… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The Syfy channel was looking for a show to run alongside 'Ghost Hunters' and investigate the paranormal in a different way. For… — Josh Gates Copy Share Image
For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
I've done some movies because I would regret them if I didn't, but other projects I've done because they've scared me or… — Ginnifer Goodwin Copy Share Image
My teacher in the seventh grade told me that if I didn't fool around during class, I could have 15 minutes at… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
“Another of Keaton’s strategies was to avoid anticipation. Instead of showing you what was about to happen, he showed you what was… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Oftentimes, a funny situation is funny because it's uncomfortable or weird. The most memorable stories, or the stuff that you repeat to… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
To be a comic, you must reveal yourself in your most grotesque nudity. And it's only then, when the truth gets told,… — Melissa Leo Copy Share Image
My kind of childhood comic ideal was Tim Conway. And just because I always loved that he could do so much without… — Tony Hale Copy Share Image
![“Shorn of intimacy and seen from a considerable distance, we are all comic characters, farcical buffoons who bumble through our lives, making fine messes as we go, but when you get close, the ridiculous quickly fades into the sordid or the tragic or the merely sad. [p. 73]” quote by Siri Hustvedt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/330/siri-hustvedt-860_comedy_shorn-of-intimacy-and-seen-from-a-consid_522206.jpg)
![“The ones [comedies] that I always liked, whether it's Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News, or Fast Times of Ridgemont High, they were all about two hours, or a little bit over two hours. With that extra 15 or 20 minutes, you can get to real character and you're not just stuck in plot.” quote by Judd Apatow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c3e/judd-apatow-1471_bits_the-ones-comedies-that-i-always-liked-wh_1025167.jpg)
