Comedy Quotes
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I love my comedy too much to bastardize it with bad romantic comedy.
Sandra Bullock -
I think musicians should stay off television generally. I get asked all the time. Those shows are just promoting insipid comedies. Who watches those shows? And whoever does I don't think my music would speak to those people. I don't even want those people to hear what I'm doing.
Sufjan Stevens
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People who do comedy really are the nastiest people on the planet.
Sandra Bullock -
One thing I'm a big fan of is the theater of the absurd. That's what I come from, that's what I love to do more than anything. What I love about absurdity is the words "comedy" and "drama" get thrown out the window and it's just life, which is absurd.
Michael Shannon -
One of the things I was taught was how you deal with language. It's important, very important in comedy.
Brett Gelman -
Do it stand-up comedy because it feels like the right thing to do. Do it because you don't want to do anything else. There is something in you that does not want you to do anything else other than comedy.
Russell Peters -
I think that's something that people don't realize enough about when they get into comedy - it's not just about sitting back and observing and saying something funny.
Brett Gelman -
I love the romantic comedy genre. It's a genre rich with many of the best movies ever made and I try to treat it with the respect that Shakespeare treated it with.
Nicholas Stoller
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I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy.
Steve Martin -
Comedy deals with a lot of the same areas where our defenses are the strongest - race, religion, politics, sexuality.
Chris Bliss -
The ultimate objective of comedy is to get a laugh, so if you can get a laugh off the fact that you did not get a laugh, then you've kinda saved the moment. Other professions don't have that luxury. You don't want to hear a brain surgeon say, "Man, am I so stupid! I cut on the wrong side of your head!!"
Brian Regan -
Comedy's about things the way they are. It's about the world as it is, not the world as we would like it to be, and science is the same, really.
Ben Miller -
As with anything that involves emotional pain, comedy isn't too far behind. There's that element of no matter how painful something is - as long as it is not you that is going through it - it can be funny.
Ben Miller