If you're hired to be a funny person, you have to trust your judgment but also be open because sometimes you think… — Paula Pell Copy Share Image
I believe people leave a theater bonding with characters. Story is the vessel that carries character. Comedy is a very important component… — Chris Meledandri Copy Share Image
I would say I try to make my comedy really personal. I try to tell stories that happened to me, experiences from… — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share Image
I don't think it's any secret that the bigger the venue, the subtlety and artfulness of comedy declines. — Sean Lock Copy Share Image
I don't want to make a style. Not tragedy, not comedy. Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
I wish I was writing something much more heavy each time I did a film, and that the comedies just occasionally come… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
A lot of people think stand-up comedy is one person performing to an audience, but I love it more when it's a… — Rosie Jones Copy Share Image
British comedy - which has been a big inspiration to me for many years - is very different to Australian comedy and… — Jason Gann Copy Share Image
At one point when I was very young, when I was first starting out, I thought, 'Well, one day I'll be able… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
There have been 15 or 16 screenplays over the years, including one by me, but none of them has gotten made because… — Luke Rhinehart Copy Share Image
The only thing I knew in the world as a little kid was comedy. And no other kids in my school cared… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
Haven't you noticed that we women daydream infinitely less than you men? We can't anticipate pleasure in our imagination or keep suffering… — Jens Peter Jacobsen Copy Share Image
I've done a lot of serious roles, but they're, like, independent, so it's harder for them to come out. The big ones… — Tara Reid Copy Share Image
I've tried to stay away from mild satire. I want an audience to feel something more powerful for their ten bucks. If… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
Even in drama, I like to try to find the humor because I think it's very human. Even in the depths of… — Colm Meaney Copy Share Image
The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
You have to be careful what you say in front of comedy writers because they will absolutely make fun of it in… — David Alan Basche Copy Share Image
Stand-up comedy is not a man's job. It's an alpha job: To be the only person in a room with a microphone… — Katherine Ryan Copy Share Image
When comedy is good, it's jazz. The beats of it, the looseness, the improvisational part, the music-the way you hit the inflection,… — Billy Crystal Copy Share Image
We had our first meeting yesterday, and we just laughed all the way through, so if we can bottle that, then I'll… — Allan Carr Copy Share Image
As professionals, we just try to keep the jokes to a minimum, when we're in a certain situation. When we're not doing… — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
Everyone has their personal topics. My comedy has always been very strong on observational humor, it stems from what I see every… — Iliza Shlesinger Copy Share Image
Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, it's unplanned, it's full of surprises. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
When I was in Canada I shot a romantic comedy that I'm looking forward to having people see, it's called 'The Weekend.' — Y'lan Noel Copy Share Image
There's some moments in your life where you're just like, 'I need something just funny.' That's the noble thing you can do.… — Jonathan Krisel Copy Share Image
“Jokes are powerful like that, they can be both inclusive and exclusive. Can create both an Us and a Them.” — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
Little did I know that earning a living at stand-up is the hardest thing you can do. But once I started doing… — Greg Giraldo Copy Share Image
Silicon Valley,' I mean, the comedy is amazing, and it's one of the best-written shows with some of the best talent. I'm… — Jimmy O. Yang Copy Share Image
I wanted to be in Jim Carrey comedy movies before I met him. I wanted to be a comedian on Stage 19,… — Jenny McCarthy Copy Share Image
There's something vile (and all the more vile because ridiculous) in the tendency of feeble men to make universal tragedies out of… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I have a great sense of humor, I mean even when my meme came out I reposted it. I didn't care. I… — Skai Jackson Copy Share Image
I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries. — Charles S. Dutton Copy Share Image
At the time, it was a really funny joke [Fluffy] and I went back and forth with going against the joke or… — Gabriel Iglesias Copy Share Image
I feel that the work that I have done in the comedy arena, is priceless in terms of what I learned, timing,… — Khandi Alexander Copy Share Image
I'm lucky that I get to jump around, do a big-budget comedy and then a smaller film. I don't even make a… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
They signed the unwind order just to spite each other,but laugh,laugh,laugh,Hayden, because if you ever stop laughing,it might just tear you apart… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
I would never make fun of anyone who is obviously disabled who cannot defend himself, like Donald Trump. — Maurizio Cattelan Copy Share Image
e foundation to a good friendship is trust but the foundation to good comedy is by betraying your friends. — Daniel Tosh Copy Share Image
Whenever a young comic asks me for advice I only have two things to say. One is to try and do what… — Sean Lock Copy Share Image
Stand-up will always come first. I've been doing it for 22 years, and nothing compares to that connection you have with the… — Billy Gardell Copy Share Image
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