Comedy Quotes
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There's comedy in tragedy, and tragedy in comedy. There's always light and dark in most jobs. Whether it's framed as a comedy, drama or tragedy, you try to mix it up within that. You can work on a comedy and it's not laugh-a-minute off set. You can work on a tragedy that's absolutely hilarious.
Harry Treadaway
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People will remember a good comedy song a lot longer than they would some of the so-called straight love songs.
Ray Stevens
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I just loved comedy as a kid and I think at some point, it just occurred to me that you could try it, and I did.
Eugene Mirman
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I don't consider myself, you know, in real life one of those funny guys. My comedy comes through my work.
Eugene Levy
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I think it sort of dawns on you that if you're not gigging constantly you're not actually relevant. You may be relevant to a different part of the media now, to television commissioners and editors, but to a young live-comedy audience you're not, really.
Johnny Vegas
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I've been in very few flat-out comedies. But I feel like I've always made comedies.
Willem Dafoe
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But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.
Ben Kingsley
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What kind of life are you leading where you consider ketchup fancy? "Well, we ain't rich folk, but on special occasions, I'll break out the ketchup. Grandma's birthday, make her feel special"
Jim Gaffigan
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I, sort of, got into comedy accidentally, and it got bigger than I wanted it to.
Albert Brooks
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When I go to the movies, I like romance, comedy, and thrillers. I hate gore.
Peter Weller
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I've been to Canada, and they love - oh my God, they love their stand-up comedy in Canada. I've been overseas to do shows for the troops all over the Middle East, and I actually went to China recently and did shows, not for the troops, but just for local Chinese people, and Americans that have moved there, and things like that. It was fantastic. They got it. They're way smarter than we give them credit for.
Brad Williams
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It was very serious and I wanted to do something really different so there was this comedy called TOP SECRET.
Val Kilmer
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I would love to do comedy. I think I'm funny and that comedy is my strong suit, at least in real life. I have yet to prove myself in the movies, but I'd love to get the opportunity to do that.
Evan Peters
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I would love to continue to challenge myself by trying different things. Action, Drama, Comedy... I would be grateful to do any and all of it if someone is kind enough to hire me! I have such a wonderful time on The Originals though, because I get to play Rebekah in so many different periods. I'm a little spoiled.
Claire Holt
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Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.
Josh Lucas
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I like to describe my stuff as observational comedy.
Lilly Singh
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I remember reading Dave Barry for the first time and being like oh my God I can't believe you can do this. Watching Mel Brooks and Monty Python and SNL and all that stuff really informed me as a writer and then at high school I started a satire magazine and the college like The Lampoon really introduced me to like you know a lot of very like-minded people who really wanted to like comedy was the center of their lives.
Nicholas Stoller
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The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.
James Thurber
