Comedy Quotes · Page 193

To me, in life, if you have a sense of humor about it, that's how you deal with anything.

— Ralph Macchio

If fatigue is a faint laugh laugh, you do not get time to mourn

— Mak_786

It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity.

— Louise Erdrich

In Maori culture there's a lot of humor and just as quickly we are able to express grief.

— Rachel House

I don't know if it's better to have people laugh at what you are or just not understand.

— Heidi W. Durrow

I used to like humorous people in the past, but these days, I like serious people more.

— Park Shin-hye

Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.

— Allen Klein

If you can't get up in the morning and laugh at yourself, don't get out of bed.

— Chris Collins

I always enjoy the scenes with Dennis Waterman, particularly when we're playing comedy, we're always finding stuff together and he's very immediate.

— Denis Lawson

The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

— James Thurber

“Jokes in the face of calamity made one feel dirty, guilty; they also dissolved the fear and lessened the weight of uncertainty,…

— Elif Shafak

Humor is a great defense, and an offense too. Usually the recipient isn't too happy about it, but the people around are…

— Robin Williams

Comedians are sociologists. We're pointing out stuff that the general public doesn't even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion…

— Steven Wright

“If someone cracks up, what does that mean? At what point does a person about to fall to pieces say: I'm cracking…

— Doris Lessing

I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which…

— Oliver Goldsmith

If you look at footage of the Newfoundland Regiment, you see they are at rest and giddy and being silly with one…

— Michael Winter

“Chancellor Gerhard Schröder has several times made statements to the effect that we Europeans should not cultivate a superficial anti-Americanism. But mine…

— Anonymous

You have to be very cautious that you're hitting the right beats and making sure it's funny, but at the same time…

— LeToya Luckett

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

Comedy, when it works, is light on its feet and has the illusion of complete spontaneity: as if there is no film,…

— David Dobkin

Like in comedy, you know the names of the people who steal things that others work really hard on. It really sucks.…

— David Copperfield

Don't you understand how dramatic it is to be a comic? To be a fool, to get people to laugh at this…

— Jerry Lewis

For some reason, people with comedy, any time they can detect a pattern, it kind of freaks them out. 'Those guys are…

— Adam McKay

No matter how much makeup I wore, people just kept saying "Yes, sir! Would you like tea with that, sir?" "Yes, I…

— Eddie Izzard

Most comedians come from a dark past and have a lot of sadness.

— Molly Shannon

Writing and telling jokes is my favorite thing to do, and I want to be able to do that forever.

— Michelle Wolf

Funny how life is! I sit back and laugh cause its better then crying.

— Shirley Ramos

In standup, you don't have anything near you except a microphone.

— Tig Notaro

There is never hesitation about doing stand-up. It's just me doing my thing.

— Hal Sparks

He who laughs last thinks slowest? How do you know he isn't laughing first???

— John Alejandro King Aka The Covert Comic

Vomit and feces are two reason I have decided not to procreate.

— Chelsea Handler

“laughing is good. so long as you are not insulting anyone.”

— A Gentlemen

I'd like to do a romantic comedy like 'Notting Hill,' which is one of my favorite movies.

— Rutina Wesley

Comedy is my first love; that's my main goal in life - to keep doing comedy.

— Lauren Lapkus

A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way.

— Allen Klein

Homer, lighten up. You're making 'Happy Hour' bitterly ironic.

— Marge Simpson

I like to laugh, I like to smile, and I don't take myself too seriously. I can be a goofball.

— Boris Kodjoe

We're living on the Planet of the Apes. Is that funny or serious?

— Robert Anton Wilson

I usually tame my off-kilter sense of humor for novels.

— Eden Robinson

I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed! Gen.

— George S. Patton