Comedy Quotes

• I never wanted to do just one thing. There's even other things in comedy that I want to do. For me, it's always been that I have to have the vision first.

  

  Craig Robinson
  • Comedy
  • Vision

• People know me. I'm not going to produce any cartwheels out there. I'm not going to belong on Comedy Central. I'll always be a tennis player, not a celebrity.

  

  Pete Sampras
  • People
  • Player
  • Celebrity

• If you're not doing something or saying something in comedy, the camera is going to go somewhere else.

  

  Jay Chandrasekhar
  • Comedy

• The essence of comedy, drama, and horror is surprise. I have an uncanny ability to surprise people because they look at my face, and they don't know where I'm going.

  

  John Lithgow
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• Fear is what makes comedy funny.

  

  Paul Rudd
  • Fear
  • Funny
  • Comedy

• Jimmy Kimmel has proven to be a preeminent voice in comedy, with 15 seasons of 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' under his belt and successfully tackling the herculean task of hosting both the Emmys and the Oscars in the same season.

  

  Channing Dungey
  • Live
  • Comedy

• When you do comedy, the audience is not your boss. They are your collaborators and when you collaborate with someone you don't have to listen to everything they think or say. Sometimes you're not getting the laughs you want or at the place you want but that doesn't mean it's not funny. It means you haven't explored it enough. I'll get laughs in the places I don't want them and that makes me realize the direction I want to go in.

  

  Baron Vaughn
  • Sometimes
  • Realizing
  • Laughing

• I let the comedy come through the character and just try to make sure that everything is kind of rounded in a truth, in a reality, because that's what I need to make a character work.

  

  Eugene Levy
  • Work
  • Character
  • Truth

• My comedy has no color, it's for everybody, black, white, Latino, Asian. It's not a pro-black show, not a def jam show; it's just straight, wholesome type of humor.

  

  Bruce Bruce
  • Color
  • Humor
  • Asian

• I can juggle. I started juggling as a kid. And when I worked at Disneyland, I knew a juggler there named Christopher Faire, and he taught me how to juggle. I used it in my comedy act for a while.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Kids
  • Taught
  • Disneyland

• There's something so naked about being on stage as a musician. I think about that even with standup comedy or something - like, 'This is it, this is what I got.'

  

  Chris Pine
  • Comedy

• We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character - her characters are vigorous and elementary; not for comedy - hers is grim and crude; not for a philosophic view of life - hers is that of a country parson's daughter; but for her poetry. Probably that is so with all writers who have, as she has, an overpowering personality, so that, as we say in real life, they have only to open the door to make themselves felt.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Character
  • War
  • Personality

• I started to develop my comedy skills when I became resident singer at the Boggery Folk Club in Solihull. My career blossomed from there, and I became a big draw on the folk-club circuit.

  

  Jasper Carrott
  • Career
  • Comedy

• Comedy is something that we can all share, no matter what language we speak or our background, it has the power to unite us all.

  

  Paul Goodman
  • Comedy
  • Language
  • Unite

• I don't think comedy will ever die.

  

  Kevin Hart
  • Die
  • Comedy

• There's good action stars. I'm a bad-guy action star. What disappoints me is when you all of a sudden you get a good action star and then he wants to play a comedy with kids, you know? That upsets me, and that's not being true to your fans.

  

  Vinnie Jones
  • Kids
  • Action
  • Upset

• I wanted a half-hour, single-camera comedy with a great lead where I could be No. 2 or 3 on the call sheet, and it was going to get on the air. Those were my criteria, and they sent me 'Cougar Town.' I read it and loved it.

  

  Busy Philipps
  • Great
  • Single
  • Air

• I've been in the director's chair for 'Battlestar Galactica' since its first season. I directed the only comedy that's ever been done in Galactica history.

  

  Edward James Olmos
  • Done
  • History
  • Comedy

• Yes, it's tough, but not as tough as doing comedy.

  

  Edmund Gwenn
  • Comedy
  • Tough

• Really I'm a fan of any movie, whether it's suspense, action, or comedy, anything that has a good story.

  

  Scott Eastwood
  • Movie
  • Action
  • Story

• I was a big fan of how Johnny Carson hosted awards shows. Dick Cavett, as well, I think did a really great job of providing a nice blend of comedy, wit and class.

  

  Neil Patrick Harris
  • Great
  • Job
  • Nice

• I don't think so much about verbal comedy. I always think about visual comedy. I was raised watching silents, and I'm always thinking about how to make cinema, not good talking - although I want good talking. I'm much more interested in framing, composition, and orchestration of bodies in space, and so forth.

  

  Alexander Payne
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Space

• In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.

  

  Carter Burwell
  • Hair
  • Difficult
  • Genre

• Trouble is, some accents lend themselves to comedy.

  

  Martin Freeman
  • Comedy

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