Comedy Quotes · Page 286

I used to think it was clever to confuse comedy with tragedy. Now I wish I could distinguish them.

— John le Carre

Comedy is one area that it's - it's all around me in my house.

— Jamie Brewer

The best-laid plans of mice and comedians usually wind up on the cutting-room floor.

— Jon Stewart

Female roles in comedies are usually quite silly, I think.

— Naomi Watts

I laugh in the face of danger.It's a silent laugh and I usually wait until danger turns around.

— Anonymous

I don't want to think I'm making fun of anything ever, especially my characters.

— Riley Stearns

Finding the funny is the key to never losing your edge

— Marie Forleo

Classic comedy is classic comedy, and it will go on for years.

— David Jason

I think for a heroine to do comedy and action and also be glamorous is a big thing. That's why 'Supreme' will…

— Raashi Khanna

As a comedy writer, I'm always praying for the day I can tell a self-aware/break-the-fourth-wall style of joke.

— Nicholas Stoller

I love romantic comedies. When I am at home, and if I want to watch something, I would probably watch a romantic…

— Shruti Haasan

The element of surprise - where you think you know where a joke is going, and then you're wrong. Those are my…

— Riki Lindhome

During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.

— Jerry Stiller

I recently went to the hardware store and I bought some used paint... it was in a shape of a house. I…

— Steven Wright

I don't see myself as a stand-up comic doing cynical, mean-spirited or disrespectful stuff. I'm very aware that I don't like to…

— Tracey Ullman

And if you can offer an explanation as to why it doesn't work then you've got to the whole root of comedy.

— Denis Norden

One thing as a comedian, even though throughout your entire year, you're growing and working on your material... you can feel like…

— Matt Rife

“My number one fear is heights. Well, not so much the heights but the falling from heights. Actually the falling isn’t that…

— John Zakour

At Murry Bergtraum [High School] if you were really funny you sat at this table at with all of the funniest dudes,…

— John Leguizamo

You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, it's like, I…

— J. J. Abrams

We've all seen comedians look like they're reaching just a little bit too much for the laugh. This is counterproductive. The conceit…

— Romesh Ranganathan

At least in making an action film, there's always going to be someone who wants to see a car chase. Even if…

— Jason Statham

At the Sahara, the seats are banked and most of the audience is looking down at the stage. Everybody in the business…

— Buddy Hackett

What comedy does, for the most part, is it voices something so simplistically that people will agree with us, and then once…

— Jim Jefferies

“You know you're down and out when the Okies laugh at you.”

— Jeannette Walls

It's a great compliment when the beautiful ones laugh.

— Jennifer Coolidge

Laughing together is as close as you can get to a hug without touching.

— Gina Barreca

If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.

— Alan King

I always approach every role through a lens of comedy.

— Laura Benanti

When Richard Pryor did comedy, it was like he was having a conversation.

— Tracy Morgan

That's the key to comedy: allowing yourself to look stupid

— Megan Mullally

I used humor as survival, as a weapon and as comfort.

— Joel McHale

“Do short people reach their full potential quicker?”

— Benny Bellamacina

I laugh all the time. I'm an easy laugher. You can find me on any set, because I'm always laughing.

— Quentin Tarantino

There's so much history amongst ourselve that reminds us of something, and we start cracking up.

— Nikki Sixx

How about a good comedy? 'Raising Arizona.' Remains the funniest movie I've ever seen in my life.

— Lee Unkrich

“A joke is never a joke if it is at the expense of another person's feelings”

— Heather Wolf

You're an old man who dresses like a Hooter's waitress.

— Greg Giraldo

There's nothing worse than people talking about theories and humor.

— John Currin

As soon as I heard the term 'comedy nerd,' I'd hoped there was a lot of them.

— Pete Holmes