Comedy Quotes · Page 69

I was very young, and I kind of decided I wanted to do comedy. My parents were musicians, so we traveled on…

— Trevor Moore

I think some people just don't know that much about comedy. It would be like a person who didn't know anything about…

— Anthony Jeselnik

My dad is funny in his own way, and so is my brother, but in terms of legitimately making a lot of…

— Mindy Kaling

I think a good comedian was probably bullied a little bit. Probably felt doughy and oblong and rhombus-shaped and strange and a…

— Pete Holmes

I try to look on the sunny side of life. If something dramatic happens to me, I always try to recount it…

— Suzanne Shaw

I love comedy. Comedy is one of my favourite things to do.

— Lauren Ashley Carter

George Lopez has to get a physical comedy checkup every year to make sure his bulging eyes don't get out of control...…

— Andy Kindler

People have very specific opinions of comedy. Slapstick was an art form in the '20s and the lowest form of show business…

— Martin Short

I think the Dutch certainly get British comedy. And let's face it; a lot of it is pretty low-hanging fruit for the…

— Rhianna Pratchett

I feel like L.A. is more of a showcase, and Chicago is a pure comedy scene where you're doing comedy for comedy.…

— Anonymous

Disney did well with human characters but only in dramas, not comedy.

— William Hanna

Comedy is best when it's a reaction to something. When you're talking about a topic, and when your friend says something funny…

— Mark Critch

Comedy isn't subjective like music. You either get the laughs or you don't.

— Rob Beckett

I think being an outsider in general always helps you in comedy. I think it helps to have an outsider's eye. And…

— John Oliver

I wouldn't mind having another shot at doing comedy, but I'm not sure that's the way I'd want to go.

— David Morse

I'm hypersensitive to negativity and duplicity, and I want to push it away by writing comedy. Maybe that hypersensitivity comes across and…

— Bob Odenkirk

The thing that still exists is that if it's at all possible for me to step outside the club after the show,…

— Doug Benson

The Parent Trap gave my career another boost, starring in family comedies.

— Maureen O'Hara

I am a wild orchid of comedy, so I can only do well under specific conditions... There are people who I think…

— Maria Bamford

Everybody that you can think of that does comedy, I have met or worked with almost all of them.

— Cameron Esposito

I love doing comedy. Absolutely love it. After 'Wedding Crashers,' people suddenly realized that it was something I could do.

— Jane Seymour

Comedy is the drug, when they laugh it's like I'm a jazz musician and they hear it, and they get it. It's…

— Alonzo Bodden

“Driving is boring," Rabbit pontificates, "but it's what we do. Most of American life is driving somewhere and then driving back wondering…

— John Updike

Well Washington DC what are you going to do. They think the capitol steps are the state of the art in comedy.…

— Harry Shearer

Some of my favorite series from the past - like those by Norman Lear - are able to show care and comedy…

— Quinta Brunson

I like idiotic comedies.

— James Gandolfini

I do love comedy, I have to say. That's one of the greatest things about being an actor: You get to try…

— Stuart Townsend

I enjoy doing comedy for the fact that you go to work and you laugh. That's a good combination.

— Bryan Cranston

Everything Will Be OK

— Anonymous

Going from drama to just straight-up comedy with Tommy Davidson and Jamie Foxx - what a blast.

— Vivica A. Fox

A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged…

— Alexander Payne

I moved out to L.A. to be a filmmaker or director. I didn't even think about doing comedy or even acting. I…

— Bill Hader

Ellen DeGeneres is a huge influence in my life. She's one of the reasons why I wanted to do stand-up comedy. I…

— Nico Santos

"I got up early because I wanted to." - Nobody

— Jim Gaffigan

Comedy is a man in trouble. And without it, there's no humor.

— Jerry Lewis

I've always been a figure skater and ballet dancer. I love physical comedy, and any chance that I get to do that...…

— Allison Janney

I mean we certainly always shoot a lot of extra material, but our goal was to make kind of like a big…

— Nicholas Stoller

I don't have to fear that if I do more comedy I'm not going to get to do everything I want. I'll…

— Ari Graynor

All Rise' isn't your typical legal procedural, nor is it a straight comedy either.

— Simone Missick

I don't have that kind of Southern experience, of the fire-and-brimstone preacher type of thing. Certainly not in my comedy. I come…

— Larry Wilmore