Comedy Quotes

2637 Comedy quotes by 1344 unique authors

Dogs have fleas; people have each other. We are born to die. Life is a continuing tragic comedy. Everything and everyone we love suffers. Anybody… — Frederick Lenz
I realized, dumb people don't know they're dumb. When people try to make me laugh and they try to be funny, that's when they lose… — Nathan Fillion
Now it looks like I'll be known as the musical comedy guy. Which is good news for me. Or I'll be known as the New… — Bret McKenzie
Music often happens even faster than comedy in terms of the creation. — Harry Shearer
Sometimes, songs spill out of you very fast, and sometimes you have to wrangle them to the floor. But the same thing is true of… — Harry Shearer
I think in most cases, if you're with good people, comedy creation happens faster in collaboration. That's how I can tell if it's a good… — Harry Shearer
Knowing comedy is knowing human nature. — Patton Oswalt
I'm so beyond genre, drama, comedies, I just want to do really good, interesting projects. — Patton Oswalt
I had two projects that fell apart during preproduction. The first one was this movie that Judd Apatow and I had written about two guys… — Ben Stiller
When I was growing up, This is Spinal Tap [1984] was the ultimate comedy, and it was the kind of thing I wanted to do.… — Ben Stiller
There was something about that form of comedy that's just difficult. It never really felt like you could just fully commit to all the colors… — Donal Logue
When you're doing a comedy and you want to somehow satirise people who are taking themselves seriously, I think the most serious genre is the… — Ben Stiller
Doing comedy is as easy as doing anything else. You're dependent totally on the material. — Morgan Freeman
I don't do comedy. I think if a situation is funny you just play it for real and if it's funny, it's funny. — Morgan Freeman
I don't remember what my favourite comedy film is - truthfully! I saw Borat and I thought I was not going to be able to… — Morgan Freeman
What turned me on to comedy was - well, first of all, I like being able to laugh, I like people who can make me… — Nathan Fillion
Music has always helped my films. In 'The Curse Of The Jade Scorpion,' you can hear 'Sunrise' by Glenn Miller, an idol of my childhood,… — Woody Allen
Is not the decisive difference between comedy and tragedy that tragedy denies us another chance? — John Updike
Comedy is a socially acceptable form of hostility and aggression. That is what comics do, stand the world upside down. — George Carlin
I felt a comedy ego beginning to grow, which gave me the courage to begin tentatively looking into myself for material. — Joan Rivers
A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach. — Alexander Pope
The comedy gods are smiling on me tonight... — Bill Maher
When someone who is known for being comedic does something straight, it's always "a big breakthrough" or a "radical departure." Why is is no one… — Carol Burnett
Linda Brewer's example is inspiring, colorful and potentially very funny. Her journey also exists firmly in the Heartland tradition of American success stories and comedies. — David Duchovny
There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close. — Barbara Stanwyck

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