Comedy Quotes
2637 Comedy quotes by 1344 unique authors
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I wanted to be in Jim Carrey comedy movies before I met him. I wanted to be a comedian on Stage 19, yukking it up.
— Jenny McCarthy
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The male is always the pawn in a romantic comedy. Come together, break up, go chase her, get her, roll credits. That's what happens in…
— Matthew McConaughey
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I personally don't like to go see romantic comedies. But people do want to see them, and they seem to want to see me in…
— Matthew McConaughey
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I don't love comedy but I can watch someone who's kind of interesting forever. I think a waitress who's having a bad day is a…
— Bruce McCulloch
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I totally love to act. I don't care if it's a musical, a comedy. I just like to work and interact with other people.
— Reba McEntire
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Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.
— Bryant H. McGill
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I'm always amazed to hear of air crash victims so badly mutilated that they have to be identified by their dental records. What I can't…
— Paul Merton
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Never ever discount the idea of marriage. Sure, someone might tell you that marriage is just a piece of paper. Well, so is money, and…
— Dennis Miller
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A recent police study found that you're much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run.
— Dennis Miller
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I'm a comedian, for God's sake. Viewers shouldn't trust me. And you know what? They're hip enough to know they shouldn't trust me. I'm just…
— Dennis Miller
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The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
— Moliere
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As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
— Moliere
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Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.
— Eugenio Montale
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I've had fun doing romantic comedies, but I just can't anymore. There's nothing fulfilling creatively, there's nowhere to grow, nothing to learn from it or…
— Mandy Moore
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I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely…
— Dylan Moran
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It's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning to write a book.
— Dylan Moran
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My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out…
— Eric Morecambe
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Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.
— Benito Mussolini
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Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded.
— Mike Myers
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Dad loved movies, and I grew up with British comedy. My ultimate favourite is Peter Sellers.
— Mike Myers
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I love making comedy. I never stopped loving it. I will continue to love it and I can't believe that I get to do it.
— Mike Myers
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
— V.S. Naipaul
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I'd like to do a comedy, actually. I think it would be great to do a sitcom or something like that. I'm pretty much open…
— Rachel Nichols
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When you make a drama, you spend all day beating a guy to death with a hammer, or what have you. Or, you have to…
— Robert De Niro
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One's dream is constantly evolving, rising and falling, changing course. This happens in every job, but because I have worked in comedy for twenty-five years,…
— Conan O'Brien
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