Comedy Quotes · Page 51

In humor, almost always, less is more.

— Ken Weber

Laughter is the spark of the soul.

— Anonymous

I keep myself amused and others confused

— Benedict Cumberbatch

When in doubt, make funny faces.

— Amy Poehler

You can't spell 'slaughter' without 'laughter'

— Anonymous

You can laugh with me or at me. I don't care.

— Nate Bargatze

A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I just want to be really good at doing stand up.

— Lee Evans

I think I'm comedy-attractive, but it's never gonna be me and Charlize Theron up there.

— Jennifer Coolidge

Not with wrath do we kill, but with laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“If you feel suddenly so anxious for laugh, then it's too late to find ha-ha in dictionary.”

— Toba Beta

The hardest thing in the world to depict dramatically is stand-up.

— Alex Borstein

When you do comedy, you get impervious to good and bad reviews.

— Adam McKay

There's nothing worse than trying to be funny and not being funny.

— Neal Brennan

I buy flowers for myself all the time. I'm comedy's Elton John.

— Joe Lycett

I love to write humor. If I could make a living doing it that is all I would write.

— W. E. B. Griffin

You don't want to keep on mentioning being blind because it stops being funny - if you are just talking about that,…

— Chris McCausland

If your master is surly, from getting up early (And tempers are short in the morning), An inopportune joke is enough to…

— W. S. Gilbert

A lot of people have got into it because of money, but true comedians do it because they can't help it, and…

— Peter Kay

One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I, like all artists in Western cultures, am a shaman...come in the guise of a comic...to heal perception by using...'jokes'...

— Bill Hicks

I got into stand-up because I love stand-up. Specifically in stand-up, I love jokes. I love short, structured ideas and a punch…

— Demetri Martin

[Mel Gibson] played this kind of sadistic motorcycle cop. He was terrific. And he had this great sense of visual comedy.

— Keith Carradine

I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to…

— Laurence Sterne

Instead of improvisers who want to be funny by themselves, we aim to try and make the scene itself as funny as…

— Matt Besser

Social media has definitely changed the game for me. I am able to connect to my fans on twitter and interact with…

— Gabriel Iglesias

Jokes are great capsules of information. I think they should never be censored. They often are offensive - and we're offended by…

— Lynne Tillman

I would never stop watching film. The reason why I say I like the old ones is I like the subject matter…

— Debbie Reynolds

I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience.…

— Rowan Atkinson

When you see a comedian on stage, the best comedians make it feel like a conversation. But it's not. We have very…

— Hari Kondabolu

I always try to stick to the script because I want to respect the writers, and I want to respect the director.…

— Rob Riggle

Do you think it's funny to be so serious when I'm not even out of high school?' she asked. 'I don't see…

— John Steinbeck

It's funny because it's funny.

— David Spade

“Laugh until you cry, don't cry until you laugh.”

— Karen Bishop

I did standup comedy. I opened once for Jay Leno.

— Alan Colmes

“They already looked at us funny anyway.”

— Kiera Cass

I see parody as another form of comedy.

— Bruce Campbell

Comedy is all about that, it comes from fear.

— Lee Evans

I've always wanted to do a romantic comedy.

— Paula Patton

Life is so much easier with a sense of humor.

— Anonymous