Comedy Quotes

2637 Comedy quotes by 1344 unique authors

I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand. — Katey Sagal
And this was why falling for the butterflies was never a good idea. I didn't feel all bubbly and excited now. I felt cold and… — Lindsey Kelk
I use the word totally too much. I need to change it up and use a word that is different but has the same meaning.… — Mitch Hedberg
The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's nothing worse than being an aging young person. — Richard Pryor
I think I have a natural, if I can say that, got a kind of natural ability in comedy. — Robert Carlyle
Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on 'canned' laughter, grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead… — Russell Baker
I'm not sure anybody's ready to see me in a drama. And loving movies so much, I've seen a lot of comics try to make… — Sean William Scott
A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over… — Stephen King
And the back of his anorak was leaping up and down, and people were chucking money to him. I said 'Do you earn a living… — Tommy Cooper
He said 'I'm going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a library. I thought, "That's a… — Tommy Cooper
Comedy naturally wears itself out - destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of… — William Hazlitt
Though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve. — William Shakespeare
The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially… — Wystan Hugh Auden
'Where's Bill going?' He's going to comedy death. Boom! He pops out of it with another joke. It's my particular style. — Bill Hicks
Comedy keeps the heart sweet. — Mark Twain
You never heard of a comedy team that didn't fight, did you? — Bud Abbott
When I left school I was full of angst, like any teenager, and I channeled it all into comedy. — Matt Lucas
If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards, or… — Jonah Goldberg
A thin line separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. Our lives constantly walk that line. When we slip off on one… — Barbara Johnson
People ask whether I put the politics first, journalism first or the comedy first; it doesn't really matter. I'm just playing with the cards that… — Mark Thomas
I love romantic comedies. They're for me the easiest thing to do and the most natural to do. There's nothing natural about holding an uzi… — Gabrielle Union
I'd like to come back because I really miss doing situation comedy. — John Goodman
I always try to keep in mind that while the characters in a farce may find themselves in outrageous dilemmas, and may behave in a… — Rupert Holmes
As an actor you get categorized by other people, but it's not like I arrange myself into comedy mode or serious mode. If it's good… — Sophie Thompson

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