Funny Quote by Sacha Guitry

Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny parts, and the other way…

— Christopher Walken

I guess the more serious you play something, if the context is funny, then it will be funny and it doesn't really require you…

— Jesse Eisenberg

Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious.

— Malcolm Muggeridge

If you play comedic scenes like they're really serious, then it's so much more funny than if you're going for a laugh.

— Patton Oswalt

In comedy, you have to do all of the same stuff you do in drama and then put the comedy on top of it.…

— Jon Lovitz

Now the point of comedy is not just looking funny, it's use of language. We have at our disposal a great language... and the…

— Barry Humphries

What reaches an audience is honesty. If you're saying something truthful that's supposed to be a funny line, it's going to be funny. And…

— Barbra Streisand

One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humor.

— Marshall McLuhan

Comedy is serious - deadly serious. Never, never try to be funny! The actors must be serious. Only the situation must be absurd. Funny…

— Mel Brooks

If you're playing things sincere in a really absurd, heightened situation, you'll achieve comedy as opposed to just saying funny lines and one-liners and…

— Jeff Baena

When you do comedy in front of an audience, they are the ones who tell you whether it's funny or not and which bits…

— John Cleese

English humor is hard to appreciate, though, unless you are trained to it. The English papers, in reporting my speeches, always put 'laughter' in…

— Mark Twain