Comedy Quotes · Page 231

I want to be a three-dimensional actor, excelling in comedy, negative roles and even serious roles.

— Rajpal Yadav

“Perfectly,” replied Syme; “always be comic in a tragedy.”

— G.K. Chesterton

I remember practically every joke I've ever heard in my life.

— Steven Bochco

There's a fine line between comedy and the darkest place ever.

— Meg Myers

It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.

— Plautus

These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.

— Chuck Palahniuk

It's so hard to make a comedy pilot and have a cool idea.

— David Walton

I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

— T. J. Miller

The movies and comedy that I love the most, even if there are men starring in them, often the men wrote the…

— Noel Wells

Now, because of this big backdrop that we've given ourselves, these little personal, human details take on a whole new context and…

— Jason Winer

Comedy isn't just timing; it's about rooting out the funny in the real. You just bend reality to the left a little.

— Henry Winkler

Real progress will have been made when people don't care or even notice the color of a comedian when they'll just be…

— Nipsey Russell

I just think that the people who say: 'That's not true' when someone tells a story at dinner are the people who…

— David Sedaris

“You’d be surprised how often we see this injury in New York,' he told me. The deli-flowers-rubber-band-eye-snap thing. Beware.”

— Rachel Dratch

My favorite movies are all romantic comedies. I love the romantic comedies. I'd still have to say Pretty Woman. I still think…

— Teryl Rothery

“And For You Zero, A Life Sized Vudu Doll" -Kaname Kuran "I DONT WANT IT!" -Zero Kiryu "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA" -Juri Elizabeth Marin”

— Matsuri Hino

Before I even knew what stand up was, I tried to make people laugh at school because that was how I made…

— Bill Burr

“The Dispatcher had played with his phones, calling from one to the other. Then he put them all down and announced that…

— Robert Lynn Asprin

I think physical comedy is an amazing asset because it tells a story that's more universal than just language and dialogue. I…

— Josh Gad

At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know…

— Robert Frost

I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young…

— Theodore Hesburgh

I've always just loved drawing and loved cartoons. Growing up, I loved Disney films, I loved The Simpsons, and I was a…

— Alex Hirsch

Go back and read Sinclair Lewis - It Can't Happen Here or Babbitt. For a guy or girl who's going to do…

— David Cross

That perhaps is your task--to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience…

— Virginia Woolf

I'm really good at standup. I always win at standup.

— Leslie Jones

That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.

— Gloria Vanderbilt

Comedy was never a scarcity in Kollywood. Comedians of great calibre have emerged from this land.

— Vivek

A genius of comedy His talent brought joy and Laughter to all the world.

— Oliver Hardy

There should be a rule against people trying to be funny before the sun comes up.

— Kristen Chandler

You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

In real life, people in the most dire situations must cope through humor.

— Tina Fey

Laughter has been implanted in our soul, that the soul may sometime be refreshed.

— Saint John Chrysostom

Life is tough; and if you have the ability to laugh at it, you have the ability to enjoy it.

— Salma Hayek

The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry

— Martin Landau

I'm not a big believer in the sense of Jews having a monopoly on comedy.

— Woody Allen

My job is to make people laugh. If I've upset them instead, then I haven't done my job properly.

— Dominic Holland

I feel like I have a hangover, without all the happy memories and mystery bruises.

— Ellen DeGeneres

When humor is meant to be taken seriously, it's no joke.

— Lionel Strachey

There are a lot of funny things that happen in one's life.

— Pierce Brosnan

Comedy is able to point out things in ways that more serious people cannot.

— Randy Rainbow