Comedy Quotes · Page 151

They all laughed when I said I wanted to be a comedian. Well, they're not laughing now.

— Bob Monkhouse

When I think of myself, I'm definitely... I'm not like a comedian.

— Dave Franco

I have good laugh every day. I enjoy life. I'm surrounded by love and positivity.

— Kevin Hart

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.

— Herman Melville

If I see someone down, I'll try to give him a good laugh.

— Joe Cowley

If you're funny, if there's something that makes you laugh, then every day's going to be okay.

— Tom Hanks

You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.

— Ethel Barrymore

..don't show anyone your fake sympathy..when all u can do is laugh behind their back!

— Sifar_heart

I'm not at all funny. I can do dark comedy pretty well, but straight-up comedy, I don't know. I'm much darker. I've…

— Rooney Mara

Everybody thinks I'm so serious and the dark side is very accessible to me, so of course it's a challenge to do…

— Stellan Skarsgard

People hate it when they're tickled because laughter is not pleasant, if it goes on too long. I think it's a desperate…

— Kurt Vonnegut

When you do stuff as a comedian, Hollywood sees you as a comedian and so most of the calls I get are…

— Cedric the Entertainer

Only laughter can blow [a colossal humbug] to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

— Mark Twain

To people who don't get what we do, I say I create entertainment and comedy videos on YouTube - and they usually…

— Joe Sugg

But I think funny and talent will always win out; I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're…

— Wanda Sykes

It's harder when people are playing along, because it's just not as funny. They're trying to be funny, and it sort of…

— Steve Carell

I want people to just be paying attention even if they're not necessarily laughing at something, or if it takes them a…

— Anthony Jeselnik

To perform stand-up comedy in a club, that's the most exciting profession in the world. You're like Spartacus going into battle because…

— Soupy Sales

My thing was always more character-driven comedies, not sketch comedy - not that there's not room for both or one isn't enjoyable,…

— Vince Vaughn

Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke,…

— Carol Burnett

Every human being can relate to wanting their thoughts and their feelings to be accepted and rewarded and validated. So in that…

— Pete Holmes

There's no one on the road that I tried to pattern myself after. There's no one in history that I tried to…

— Charlie Murphy

Jackie Chan is a very good comedy/martial arts star. He does one kind of martial arts that Jet Li doesn't know how…

— Jet Li

I've always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but you can't tell to an audience.…

— Billy Connolly

It's just something that's sort of funny, sort of not.

— Max Cannon

The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.

— Mark Twain

In comedy, you work with people so often that they just become familiar faces - it's like a fraternity.

— Michael Che

Laughter is the representative of Tragedy, when Tragedy is away.

— Wyndham Lewis

“Why is it, Reverend Hale, that we must always laugh at our book, but always revere yours?”

— James A. Michener

I'm not a comedian, but I do make people laugh. I'm good at it.

— Miriam Margolyes

“If you cannot laugh frequently and genuinely, you have no soul.”

— Idries Shah

I loved stand-up, but I never thought you could do it as a job.

— Romesh Ranganathan

Joking around is part of my personality, just who I am.

— Novak Djokovic

You have to be able to laugh at yourself. Attitude is almost more important than what happens to you.

— Dick Van Dyke

But I really believe that if you have the ability, there is an obligation to make people laugh

— Bob Newhart

If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you.

— Oscar Wilde

What I say is stupid. Who takes a comedian seriously? I'm doing sophisticated knock-knock jokes.

— Carlos Mencia

I love broad comedy. It has its place. If I were to do that, I'd love to do physical comedy.

— Rashida Jones

I have done comedy on stage so when I got the chance to do it in cinema, I was extremely thrilled.

— Atul Kulkarni

But I've never looked at myself as being particularly funny

— Tea Leoni