Comedy Quotes · Page 61

Everybody grows up with comedy. I mean, Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just,…

— Bassem Youssef

Movies serve many purposes, and I've visited many of those genres, from the most light, frivolous comedy that is just trying to…

— Antonio Banderas

Theres nothing more difficult to do than comedy.

— Robert Evans

“He had to die someday too. He might do it on sheets with a six-hundred-plus thread count, but he'd die just the…

— John H. Matthews

I take comedy very seriously, and I feel very competitive.

— Jeff Kinney

As an actor, you don't become Meryl Streep by doing the same type of comedy. You get there by being challenged.

— Octavia Spencer

At the end of the day, stand-up comedy is like acting when the audience are the other characters that I'm acting with.

— Brett Gelman

There's a real freedom in being involved in a comedy. You can lean into the silliness of who we are as people.

— Harris Dickinson

“Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est. (Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.) [ Said on his deathbed ]”

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Stand-up comedy is tough right now. Anybody can come to a concert, tape you, and put you up on the Internet. You…

— Jeff Dunham

In some ways, comedy and something like a musical do go hand-in-hand.

— Emma Stone

What you want to do is talk about ideas, you write a novel, you have a lecture about those ideas. Satire and…

— Justin Simien

Mel [Gibson] could stage physical comedy and put the camera in such a way... I mean, we did some really funny stuff,…

— Keith Carradine

The tagline behind "House of Lies" is funny, dirty, business. The show is a comedy satire about how big business operates. Most…

— Larenz Tate

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

None of us grew up feeling like winners. So thank you to the bullies, to the popular kids, to the gym teachers…

— Steven Levitan

The majority of scripts I get are in the comedy genre.

— Varun Sharma

“What have you got in there you little bastard?”

— St. John Morris

I've always tended to write comedy, but I'd hate to just write some kind of sitcom or a lighthearted series of jokes…

— David Thewlis

There's nothing more dramatic than the comedy I've done. Because the comedy I've done is to get to the audience, get them…

— Jerry Lewis

I was never consciously rebellious but I suppose comedy is a sort of act of rebellion isnt it? Coming from a quite…

— Hugh Dennis

I never thought of myself in comedy at all... I loved going to the theatre and seeing people wearing beautiful clothes come…

— Imogene Coca

In the comedies I've been lucky enough to be a part of a world like Judd Apatow's, where I believe comedy comes…

— Jonah Hill

And the back of his anorak was leaping up and down, and people were chucking money to him. I said 'Do you…

— Tommy Cooper

“Ms. Fang is the nicest, sweetest teacher at Scary School. She only ate twelve kids last year.”

— Derek The Ghost