Comedy Quotes · Page 250

I only lie for sex or money or to practice for when I need to lie for sex or money.

— Stephen Schneider

“Laugh and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone.”

— Chan-wook Park

My sense of humor has saved me more than a couple of times in my life.

— John Prine

Most people are dead. Hitler. Ray Charles. Some other guys. But mostly those two.

— Anonymous

I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater.

— Emma Stone

If I am old-fashioned, it's not a conscious decision. I just do material that I think is funny.

— Lee Mack

I just like doing standup, that's all I'm interested in or good at.

— Norm MacDonald

I'm a comedian. You have to understand that my brain doesn't work like a politician's brain.

— Beppe Grillo

When I watch a comedy that's just hitting you over the head with jokes constantly, some really hit, but if they miss,…

— David Walton

But let us laugh carelessly like other men. Let us be timid even among fools. Let us knot silence around our throats.…

— Glenway Wescott

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humour teaches tolerance, and the humorist, with a smile and perhaps…

— W. Somerset Maugham

I really don't know what makes a comedian. I think it's a family background and environment. Yet if you put the same…

— Bob Newhart

There's one golden rule to keep before you: laugh about everything and don't bother yourself about the others!

— Anne Frank

Often, joking for me is a way of diffusing the awkwardness of a situation, so it's kind of exhilarating to be a…

— Emma Stone

I identify myself as a stand-up first. Even though lately there's been an explosion of acting on my schedule.

— Patton Oswalt

I enjoy making people laugh, but what I find funny and put online, others might misconstrue and find jerkish.

— Josh Rosen

If I'm really considering doing film from now on then that is the smart thing to do, or you can go either…

— Ray Romano

Eventually I was saying to myself, maybe it would be better, instead of trying to become an American comedian in France, to…

— Gad Elmaleh

I think the essence of humor has not changed. It's all about surprise, facilitating follows. But the context of humor has changed.…

— Bette Midler

I'm tired of explaining to Hollywood that people would laugh at me, because I go around America making them laugh every week.…

— Jen Kirkman

Humor is not an unconditional virtue; its moral character depends on its object. To laugh at the contemptible, is a virtue; to…

— Ayn Rand

Mike Myers as Austin Powers makes me laugh - that was genius - and Daffy Duck makes me laugh, but I like…

— Nicolas Cage

“In the broadest sense, there are at least two ways to use the danger of norms for comedic effect. The first is…

— Kevin Simler

The point with me is that it's always been, even with the stand-up, that the music has to be right. You have…

— Bill Bailey

The only comedy in romantic comedies is the romance part.

— Nikhil Saluja

I'll continue to make the typical Adam Sandler comedies.

— Adam Sandler

Frame your mind to mirth and merriment which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.

— William Shakespeare

I had a flair for comedy and could give a sustained performance.

— Jessie Matthews

He's the sort of guy that gets a laugh out of people.

— Ken Kesey

Not laughing at a joke because you don't like the person who told it.

— Anonymous

Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer. And to do it with style.

— Jim Butcher

If boys say something that's not funny, you don't have to laugh.

— Amy Poehler

It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.

— Vaclav Havel

I don't laugh that much, but I do like humorous books, and I like to entertain readers that way.

— Jonathan Ames

Comedy born of bewilderment is the only comedy that should be in magic.

— Dai Vernon

I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.

— Pierre Beaumarchais

I'm so lucky that I've always been able to laugh about things, even at my very lowest times.

— Katie Piper

By the time I started doing stand-up, the club scene had died.

— Jen Kirkman

I think that sometimes only comedians can reach the peaks of tragedy.

— Roberto Benigni

I first started as an actor, but there was no money in it, which is why I drifted into comedy.

— Bradley Walsh