My early days in Broadway were all comedies. I never did a straight play on Broadway. — Gene Hackman Copy Share Image
I can't believe in humorless women. I think there's humor even in everyday tragedy. — Jean Marsh Copy Share Image
I draw from the most pompous people, who are the people that make me laugh the most. — Matt Berry Copy Share Image
Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If you are too busy to share an occasional laugh with someone, you are too busy. — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
I think there are so many little hurdles and impediments with stand-up that you'd need to have this insane desire to do… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a… — Katharine Hepburn Copy Share Image
Comedy itself is based upon very old principles of which I can readily name seven. They are, in short: the joke, exaggeration,… — Jack Benny Copy Share Image
I probably wouldn't have pursued comedy further if my friends didn't tell me that my getting kicked off the stage was the… — Jermaine Fowler Copy Share Image
“They laugh when they're embarrassed, they cry when they're happy, and they try to choke you to death when you do something… — Heather Burch Copy Share Image
I would be really excellent in a horror film because I have a great scream. I'd be really good in a comedy… — Serena Williams Copy Share Image
So many people have no sense of humor, whatsoever! Everyone knows that it is my job to tell the jokes, that's what… — Kathy Griffin Copy Share Image
Laugh with people laughing, cry with people crying, but don't fall into the river of world illusion. Stay on the banks. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Life involves effort and growth. You won't grow by watching a situation comedy, though you can grow by reading a book. I… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
But the truth of the matter is, that was fairly, fairly early on in Goebbels' 800 movies that he made in Germany.… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I put the storyboard down and came back to it like two weeks later and saw that I had written 'Butt-Head' next… — Mike Judge Copy Share Image
Stupidity really gets me going, when it's just plain stupid, obvious stupidity. And I think that's the reason my act has become… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
I just love entertaining. I will do anything - stand-up comedy, video games, fencing, internet shorts - I just want to keep… — Matthew Gray Gubler Copy Share Image
Tragedy dramatizes human life as potentiality and fulfillment. Its virtual future, or Destiny, is therefore quite different from that created in comedy.… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
Anything has a rhythm to it, comedy or drama. There has to be a musicality to it. And everybody can't play the… — Bradley Cooper Copy Share Image
Great short stories and great jokes have a lot in common. Both depend on what communication-theorists sometimes called "exformation," which is a… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
