Comedy Quote by Robert B. Weide

I was doing the work I was capable of doing with my own native talent, but when I looked at actors like Marlon Brando,…

— Ellen Burstyn

When I was a little kid, my parents would show me Marx Brothers films and westerns and stuff like that. Thats where all my…

— Alden Ehrenreich

I always find it actually funny that the analysis is that the characters I play in comedies are the manchild, the adolescent, characters that…

— Will Ferrell

I know of only six genuine comic geniuses in movie history; Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Groucho Marx & Harpo Marx, Peter Sellers, and W.C.…

— Woody Allen

I think we grew up thinking that the funniest things on TV were the old, serious movies. I always liked the Marx Brothers, but…

— David Zucker

The first comedians I became fascinated with were the Marx brothers. I couldn't get enough of them. Later in life, I thought, "Well, maybe…

— Judd Apatow

It's hard to narrow down your influences in comedy.

— Cameron Esposito

I've always taken a lot of cues from comedy minds. The guy that discovered me in the very beginning was Joseph Cates. Joe and…

— David Copperfield

I grew up and I was weaned on the Marx Brothers. They were sort of my all-time favorite. My parents showed me their movies…

— Joshua Malina

Those are my influences, really. Old movies. A lot of people ask who your comedic influences growing up were, but I don't think that…

— Cole Escola

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I'd always heard stories about how Harpo Marx was the most talkative of the Marx brothers. I found it interesting that someone you never…

— Harmony Korine