Act Quote by Cynthia Ozick

I think that's part of being a comedy writer. You have to be confident. If you're sitting around worrying about, like, oh my God,…

— David Mandel

The thing you realize pretty quickly, though, is that being in front of an audience whose job it is to laugh is a big…

— Eric McCormack

It's terrible to write what are essentially comedies for people with no sense of humor. Everyone thinks they have a sense of humor, but…

— Whit Stillman

After the first few readings in comedy venues I did begin to write for laughs. There's something so gratifying about stimulating laughter.

— Aaron Belz

I think comedy is so much easier to do on the page than it is in real life. When I'm writing, comedy is an…

— Joshua Ferris

After my first novel, my mother said to me, 'Why don't you make your writing more funny? You're so funny in person.' Because my…

— Jonathan Ames

I don't have any writers. I never get a laugh with somebody else's jokes. I can't do it justice.

— Michael McIntyre

Writing is such lonely work that I try to keep myself cheered up. If something strikes me as funny in the act of writing,…

— William Zinsser

I never aim to be funny. I'm always just focused on telling the story authentically, and if that affects people sometimes through laughter, then…

— Da'Vine Joy Randolph

What it is is that comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write. Anyone can write, and then…

— Michael Caine

As a writer, I haven't delved into dramatic writing. As an actor, I could always, even more so than comedy, do drama. When you…

— Jonah Hill

At first I had no skills in writing comedy. I didn't know what a joke was, but, as someone once told me, your emotions…

— Steve Martin