Comedy Quotes

One of my favorite films is 'Dumb and Dumber.' I'd love to do some really silly comedy someday.

I want to do drama, light comedy, the whole range.

I think that for the most part, when I started doing comedy, it had become very commercialized.

It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy.

Stand-up keeps you alive. It is definitely the most specialized field in comedy because you need to stay sharp and well-tuned every night.

I don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.

I'd like to do a romantic comedy.

The comedy I like the best is comedy I can't do, stuff that doesn't touch my arena.

I am not sure gender ever won't be an issue in comedy, because I think that women do have different priorities in some respects.

I know the new comedy god is surrealism, but it doesn't touch my heart.

Most modern comedy is crap.

You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.

I came back to New York after college like any number of struggling performers, and you just find that niche where you can have some sort of impact. And for me that turned out to be comedy.

I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer.

I love doing comedy.

In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama.

It proved to me, though, that comedy is so much harder.

Comedy is much more challenging, because you have to have the same level of belief but you have to make people laugh, and that's definitely a challenge.

Especially while television I think is going through some growing pains or is in need of - I think current comedy is a bit, uh, not happening, you know?

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

You're at the top of your game if you do comedy.

Hugh Grant is the main man. He's the number one romantic comedy man in the world.

I don't know what it must be like to be a writer in general, but to be a comedy writer, it's got to be something - it's a very special kind of talent.

I feel really grateful that I am in comedy, and I love doing it.

My comedy does not come from a place of deep cynicism, and I tend to play characters who are naive in some way.

I did sketch comedy for years. I've always enjoyed it.

In comedy, though, it's good to get feedback from the audience about what they find funny.

'Movie 43' is about the hardest R Rated comedy ever.

Women comedy is different than men comedy. Guy comedy is very aggressive, it's about insulting each other, name-calling, and kind of busting each other's chops, and that's not what women's comedy is.

My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.

As an entertainer, a comedy guy, whatever, you're never gonna be truly 100-percent happy with anything.

Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.

I think comedy comes more from a low sense of self-esteem, and I certainly have that.

I think a lot of the instincts you have doing comedy are really the same for doing drama, in that it's essentially about listening. The way I approach comedy, is you have to commit to everything as if it's a dramatic role, meaning you play it straight.

So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix.

If you can have heart as well as the comedy, it takes you a lot further. I think that that's what we were trying to do with 'Gigi.'

I came to Hollywood originally writing comedy and writing satire.

There is that stereotype of a nerd with the high pants and pocket protector and that kind of thing. That can sustain comedy for maybe a movie - hence the 'Revenge of the Nerds' franchise - but not for hopefully years on the air. It's a sight gag, not a story.

That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.

It's not good for comedy to be like, 'Thanks for liking me.' Being popular is poison.

And you can't hide in a comedy scene either. You have to give in to the scene and commit.

Tina Fey is part of a generation of women who have changed the face of comedy at 'Second City,' 'SNL,' in sitcoms and in film.

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

Comedy is my passion. I'm going to do this until I drop.

I'm a comedian who happens to be Latino. What's the difference? The difference is, my special will air on Comedy Central, not Telemundo.

I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

I wanted to be less well-known in comedy.

Well, comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job.

'30 Rock' is the holy grail of comedy in my opinion.

You know, stand-up comedy is where I pretty much started out.

Every few months I'll pop into a comedy club or go to Vegas.

It's a comedy thriller, brilliantly written and it's full of twists and turns at every page. When I was reading it I was desperate to get to the end to find out what happens, it really hooks you.

In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

I'm doing comedy development at National Lampoon.

Comedy writers have the most fragile egos.

Fast food is hugely important in the life of a comedy writer. All we do is order in, and what we're going to eat is hotly debated.

'Rubberneck' has nothing to do with comedy, nor does it follow comedic people.

I was drafted and went to Korea where I had an opportunity to create a production team that did dramatic and comedy shows. I had also done a little disc jockeying.

It sounds gross to say that I like myself more. But not everyone likes themselves that much. Especially in the comedy world.

I think so. I can't think of anything that requires more finesse than comedy, both from a verbal and visual point of view.

I think people are always looking for a good comedy.

With a play, you do it and it's gone. Films always date. Television drama always dates. Television comedy, for some reason, seems to go on.

I am into comedy.

Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call to take the audience for a tumble.

Directors, like actors, get typecast. And because I've had great success with comedy and horror and TV shows, that's basically what I'm kind of offered.

You cannot say, because I am from Naples so I like the mixture of drama and comedy all together.

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.

With any half-hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself.

The comedy of class, played so straight, is a wonderful thing for an actor to sink their teeth into.

For me, comedy and drama are all the same thing.

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

I want to entertain people, whether it be with a comedy, a drama or a movie. An idea's an idea.

I really think if you take away a character's obstacles then there's no comedy.

I really don't want to do anything that resembles stand-up comedy. But I will agree to say that I am doing it, and I will hope that people expect it to be that, so I can thwart those expectations.

I played an artist in a comedy called 'Rooster.' It was a zany film by Glen Larson, a friend who produced several successful television series including 'Magnum PI.'

Well I was much too practical to presume to have a career in comedy.

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 take a bite out of somebody's face. On the other hand, with a comedy, you yell at Billy Crystal for an hour, and you go home.