Comedy Quotes
2637 quotes by 1344 authors
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Comedy is difficult for an actor. But I think I have a good sense of humor and manage to make people laugh and make them…
— Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
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I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-business film takes itself very…
— James Franco
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I want to be able to infuse some youthful energy and comedy while appreciating the generations before.
— Neil Patrick Harris
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To give up my job as a temp and actually make a living doing comedy, it was staggering.
— Kathy Griffin
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Science fiction and comedy are generally a pretty bumpy mix.
— Matt Groening
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When people write comedy from neutrality, it just gets kind of silly.
— Mort Sahl
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I wanted to be on Broadway, but in musical comedy.
— Carol Burnett
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My school was 90 percent white, but 90 percent of the kids I played with were black. So I got the best of both worlds.…
— Will Smith
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Comedy is the ultimate anarchist.
— Tim Allen
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When I started out in comedy, it was common knowledge that it took about 10 years to get good. And that was okay because it…
— Chris Rock
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Comedy is learning to be funny, and you learn to be funny in small rooms with young audiences.
— Joan Rivers
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It takes up enough of my time and interest just working on comedy. I just enjoy it and love doing it.
— Jerry Seinfeld
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I think the most important thing about learning comedy is to start from who you are. If you begin the process by imitating what you…
— Rita Rudner
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It seems that two of the most basic forms of comedy are jokes and stories. And, of course, they are not mutually exclusive.
— Demetri Martin
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I feel like being a door person was like college in a sense. I could watch comedy on a professional level seven nights a week…
— Mike Birbiglia
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Everything about starting out in comedy is pride-swallowing, from handing out fliers to bombing in front of audiences.
— Mike Birbiglia
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The Comedy Central CDs combined with the TV specials are what led to my stuff being traded and passed around, and a lot more people…
— Mike Birbiglia
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In some sense, Comedy Central has made their audience into comedy connoisseurs.
— Mike Birbiglia
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I always try to attack the most honest issues I can in my comedy.
— Mike Birbiglia
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The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.
— Mike Birbiglia
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