Sometimes you have to suffer a little bit in your youth to motivate yourself to succeed in later life. If Bill Gates… — Greg Giraldo Copy Share Image
To me, even in the most miserable times, I've always found ways to laugh and enjoy myself and time with my family… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
Laughter was like a fresh breeze - it cleaned its way through the body making everything feel good. Did other species have… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them. — Simon Wiesenthal Copy Share Image
Parodies are hard to do well, as is shown by the mediocrity of so many recent attempts. No matter how ripe a… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
I'm a comedian. I can't get a spray tan. I can't get a weave. I can't get my teeth done. Can you… — Alan Carr Copy Share Image
I work with a lot of kids. Every year, for the past fifteen years, I work at Comedy Camp where I work… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
You go to any Jay-Z concert, and he plays his hits. Comedians don't have hits. You have to have a whole brand-new… — Aziz Ansari Copy Share Image
You must not be afraid of small bits of silence. To use it well is the height of confidence and skill for… — Franklyn Ajaye Copy Share Image
Anyone who takes themselves very seriously, or is in any way pompous, or thinks of themselves quite highly, as soon as you… — Natasia Demetriou Copy Share Image
My family has been deeply affected by the split of Korea, which divided it in half, basically, before I was born. There's… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
I think women like to laugh, to have doors opened for them, to have a man walk behind them when they're going… — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
After having, I think, rather successfully mined the horror-comedy aspects of this concept over the course of Bride of Chucky and Seed… — David Kirschner Copy Share Image
Being in a smaller environment - sometimes I like that. As a comic, we start off in comedy clubs, and there are… — Sinbad Copy Share Image
Music is very similar to comedy: It's all about texture, timing, context, vocabulary, performance. When someone's onstage doing a solo, essentially it's… — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
Being on a comedy tour is like traveling with family, everyone is all having a great time... then all of a sudden… — Steve Harvey Copy Share Image
These guys Steve Harvey and Cedric the Entertainer and Bernie Mac claim they're the Kings of Comedy. They may be funny, but… — Rudy Ray Moore Copy Share Image
I drink Peet's Coffee, and they're a very authentic company. They don't try to be something that they're not, and I think… — Iliza Shlesinger Copy Share Image
Life's funny. You have to find a way to keep going, to keep laughing, even after you realize that none of your… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
I've always had fun looking forward, seeing where technology is going, and finding interesting ways of applying that to comedy. — Tom Green Copy Share Image
I'd like my super power to be puns; I'd like to be great at puns: pun power. Then I could go on… — Chris O'Dowd Copy Share Image
I never was obsessed with comedians. When I was a little, little boy, I'd watch, like, George Carlin on 'Dinah Shore.' — Bobcat Goldthwait Copy Share Image
Animation is awesome because there's a really bold type of comedy you can get away with that you couldn't get away with… — Christopher Miller Copy Share Image
The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a… — Leslie Nielsen Copy Share Image
I hate when people make jokes about cutting, suicide, or eating disorders because you don't know what the people around you have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I never want readers to be comfortable, to feel like we're in a comedy or a drama. Life is never just one… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
“In the 1970s, after the Damansky Island clashes, a joke began circulating: 'Optimists study English; pessimists study Chinese; and realists learn to… — John Vaillant Copy Share Image
“All of them began to laugh spontaneously because they knew it was still last night while the people in the streets had… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
First of all, I find everything funny, which is upsetting to my children sometimes, and to people in my life, in general. — Jenji Kohan Copy Share Image
Perhaps I am just a coward who loves to laugh at life better than I do cry with it. But when I… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
If you got somebody's heart, baby, you got their ear. And if you get their ear, honey, then they can get laughter,… — Tabitha Brown Copy Share Image
I became a dancer in self-defense. I was doing a comedy monologue and didn't know how else to get off, so I… — Ray Bolger Copy Share Image
To the extent that there is anything properly identifiable as dignity in our society today, our present writers of comedy would be… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
The more you're able to understand how to do a good dramatic performance, that can inform your comedy. It all informs one… — Nick Kroll Copy Share Image
People are making these jokes about ours being the PC 'Snow White,' where it's like, yeah, it is - because it needed… — Rachel Zegler Copy Share Image
I think people when they think of comedic actors they forget that they are people with a point of view and experiences… — Channing Tatum Copy Share Image
If I've inadvertently become some sort of role model for failed comedians, then it's really backfired very badly on me. — Jack Dee Copy Share Image
Don't do it! Stay away from your potential. You'll mess it up, it's potential, leave it. Anyway, it's like your bank balance… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
There's only one true superpower amongst human beings, and that is being funny. People treat you differently if you can make them… — Jeff Garlin Copy Share Image
“A breath of laughter will blow a Government out of existence in Paris much more effectually than a whiff of cannon-smoke” — Robert Barr Copy Share Image
