Analyzing Quote by James Lipton Download Open image “Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not.” — James Lipton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Analyzing Busy Busy life Comedian Funny Laughing Too busy
I hate trying to analyze comedy in some deep way. If it gets laughs, it's funny. — Rachel Dratch Copy Share Image
As far as I can tell, comedians are pretty serious people, and that's why they make fun of things all of the time. — Maria Bamford Copy Share Image
“Comedians aren't funny, because comedians try to be funny, and people who try to be funny aren't funny.” — Anonymous Blog Post Copy Share Image
Comedians are great at laughing at themselves, we really are. We mock everyone else and we can take it as well. — Paul Whitehouse Copy Share Image
“A sense of humor is a serious business; and it isn't funny, not having one. Watch the humorless closely: the cocked and furtive way… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
As comedians, we are all laughing because life is so horrible. Life is so difficult, and I cope with it by making jokes about… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
Professional comedians, surprisingly, have a lack of humor. They're insensitive to the insanity of our times. — Mort Sahl Copy Share Image
“I don’t think being a comedian gives you any fucking insight into what makes people laugh.” — craig ferguson Copy Share Image
Comedy is not supposed to be funny. Its supposed to tell the truth and then that's funny. — Paula Patton Copy Share Image
With comedians, you have that understanding that we're trying to get laughs. — Colin Quinn Copy Share Image
What I didn't know that by sticking to craft we would blow open some doors that I never saw opened before. — James Lipton Copy Share Image
The studio is meant to be always a place where, first of all, they can be out of spotlight, and second, where they could… — James Lipton Copy Share Image
I may be writing well, I may be writing poorly, but I enjoy the act of writing and sometimes when it turns out okay,… — James Lipton Copy Share Image
And I thought if I don't pre-interview - first of all, we couldn't afford it - but the second thing was it would force… — James Lipton Copy Share Image
I'll miss it until the day I die, and I'm convinced to this day that I can get on a horse and jump a… — James Lipton Copy Share Image
The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do. — James Lipton Copy Share
They will take a role that scares them over a role that doesn't. That's another thing I like about actors. — James Lipton Copy Share Image
I thought we would have at most an audience of 5,000 devotees because I made the decision to stick to craft, not to gossip,… — James Lipton Copy Share Image
Our language, one of our most precious natural resources, deserves at least as much protection as our woodlands, streams and whooping cranes. — James Lipton Copy Share Image
We are the only school in America, drama school in America that trains actors, writers and directors side by side for three years in… — James Lipton Copy Share Image
When you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong. — James Lipton Copy Share Image
I stopped writing at the age of 18. I had written incessantly before that. I read, of course, because I was in university, but… — James Lipton Copy Share Image
If there's a lot of fear that's going on, if there's a lot of anxiety, it's manifesting itself in your nocturnal world so that analyzing it can help open up basically thoughts about what you need to do during the day. So a lot of people who subscribe to the psychoanalysis, the Jungian thought will really focus a lot on… — Shelby Harris Copy Share
People, I am actually fairly smart. Why has this not occurred to anyone? The information is all out there, if you go looking for… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
“I need to ask, are you afraid of spiders?" Nicholas blinked, suddenly caught off guard, "Yes, I'm afraid of spiders." "Were you always?" "What are you, a psychiatrist?" Pritam took a breath. He could feel Laine's eyes on him, appraising his line of questioning. "Is it possible that the trauma of losing your best friend as a child and the… — Stephen M. Irwin Copy Share
In issues of recent ethnic wars and genocides - particularly if you look at Darfur - one of the most remarkable things is our… — Stephen Daldry Copy Share Image
I'm usually one of these guys analyzing what does happen and putting it in focus and context. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
A popular cliche in philosophy says that science is pure analysis or reductionism, like taking the rainbow to pieces; and art is pure synthesis,… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Whenever you study composition you inevitably encounter Bach right off the bat. You can't get across the room without running into him and the… — Howard Roberts Copy Share Image
My brain power depends on my retained mastery of analyzing in detail what's happening in my world and in my mind and body. I… — Michael Merzenich Copy Share Image
My most persistent memory of stand - up is of my mouth being in the present and my mind being in the future: the mouth speaking the line, the body delivering the gesture, while the mind looks back, observing, analyzing, judging, worrying, and then deciding when and what to say next. Enjoyment while performing was rare - enjoyment would have… — Steve Martin Copy Share
I want to be my usual painstaking, cautious, slow, conservative self in analyzing it. — Bud Selig Copy Share Image
I have not spent years in therapy; I tried therapy in my mid-twenties, and it did not go very well. I just thought, 'This… — Hope Davis Copy Share Image
I started playing jazz by slowing down Tal Farlow records and analyzing his runs — Lenny Breau Copy Share Image
