Comedy Quotes · Page 92

It's very weird trying to imagine yourself as a 'comedy character.'

— Mae Martin

“The gods we ourselves have created ruled us for centuries! What a great comedy! And what a great tragedy!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

If you're doing a job, and you secretly want to do a different job, you start to blame the job. I was…

— Greg Davies

I want to do all kinds of things. I want to do some comedy. I'd love to do a romantic comedy, and…

— Kevin Alejandro

Just by nature, I think in comedy. I think in sketches and what have you. In every drama or action movie I've…

— Michael Jai White

I believe comedy should be free to go anywhere. I believe that there is tasteful and untasteful, I think they're very close…

— David Dobkin

I want to keep all the comedy to interviews and outside-the-ring work.

— William Regal

My thinking is, if we're setting out to make comedy in which nothing is off limits, then everybody is fair game.

— Nick Kroll

In my opinion, where comedy sequels tend to go bad is that they get sillier and lighter.

— Craig Mazin

Comedy is really exciting to me.

— Luke Perry

I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre, and that's really where my training is.

— Christopher Walken

I don't want to make a style. Not tragedy, not comedy. Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and…

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

Music is like comedy in that you can enjoy a very - for want of abetter word - sophisticated classical piece as…

— Kate Bush

I grew up watching 'Ghostbusters.' I loved that movie before I knew it was a comedy! As a kid, I lived between…

— Sam Richardson

Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn't been a satirist or a political satirist who's done that. So, that really was…

— Al Franken

I would like to look funny on screen, doing comedy.

— Fahadh Faasil

A boring speech can be just a boring speech. But a speech with a joke that falls flat is awful. I hate…

— Jon Lovett

We are a nation that has always gone in for the loud laugh, the wow, the yak, the belly laugh, and the…

— James Thurber

Keenser is a smart alien. I try to bring a little bit of comedy into it, but he's a great thinker.

— Deep Roy

To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy.

— Elayne Boosler

Latinos, Asians, African-Americans, women - we're all trying to find our place in this world of cinema and television and theater. And…

— Sandra Bullock

I have the greatest appreciation for [producers] Matt Alvarez and Ice Cube. They put me in Friday after Next, and now this,…

— Terry Crews

I do find comedy difficult. I don't know why. Maybe I think about it too much. There's a tremendous amount of pressure…

— Michelle Pfeiffer

“Tragedy and comedy involve an audience, so they must give--sharing themselves to elicit tears and laughter. Melodrama is not such a strategist.…

— Yiyun Li

I mean, comedy's hard. If you go back and look at the first season of 'Seinfeld,' it's a work in progress and…

— Zachary Knighton

I don't look at comedy as a sliding scale of offensiveness.

— Lee Mack

You have to be careful what you say in front of comedy writers because they will absolutely make fun of it in…

— David Alan Basche

I wasn't a trained actor, I was trained in musical comedy theater, and when you do that, the audience is completely part…

— Christopher Walken

I gravitate towards dark comedy, because I'm a huge fan of dark comedy. I always think the most painful thing that you…

— Jamie Babbit

My parents both had a great sense of humor, and always laughed a lot. One night, when they were watching 'Candid Camera,'…

— Howie Mandel

Comedy is much more challenging, because you have to have the same level of belief but you have to make people laugh,…

— Jenna Elfman

That's one of the things about comedy that annoys me the most from a comedian perspective. Comedy has gotten so segregated. Now…

— Michael Che

The more Keystone comedies I make, the more convinced I become that comedy is an art, and a high one at that.

— Mack Sennett

In comedy you have to be prepared and be specific and have a vision so your comedy feels organic and relatable and…

— Sal Vulcano

Comedy is all about the character. When you're too focused on the gags, the character suffers, and you don't get the laugh.…

— Brett Gelman

I was lucky to start working when German cinema was having an interesting moment. Now the quality is going downhill again because…

— Daniel Bruhl

In Britain people might know me more for my comedy writing background, things like that.

— Charlie Brooker

I lasted seven years as a journalist, and I've been doing comedy for twenty years.

— Lisa Lampanelli

If Dante was writing The Divine Comedy in 2013, he might very well have set part of it in the suburbs.

— Joshua Mohr

I ain't no movie star, man. I'm a booty star.

— Richard Pryor