Comedy Quotes
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If you're not doing something or saying something in comedy, the camera is going to go somewhere else.
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Remember, we really grew up separately; our life experience was very different because of segregation. So I think comedy is a good space to work those things out and educate everyone about the different experiences and different race groups in South Africa.
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When our bed is made, it's covered in 40 pillows-like we're stockpiling ammo for the global pillow fight.
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I think comedy is the hardest actual form of writing there is.
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Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.
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There's a certain truism that you can't be self-conscious in comedy.
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Physical comedy and musical theatre were never actually in my main focus at school. I was more of a dramatic actor. I always thought I was better at that.
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Nobody should try to play comedy unless they have a circus going on inside.
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For me, comedy is a day-to-day report on the human condition. It's what's happening right now. I get maybe 20 minutes of my act straight from the newspaper.
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That, to me, is what comedy is all about: keeping fresh and keeping current and changing with the times.
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Comedy doesn't really have any meaning without sadness. The most meaningful comedy comes from some really serious pathos.
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What I really need is a woman who loves me for my money but doesn't understand math.
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I don't like comedy. I like funny things. I don't like comedy. Like, comedy movies are just, 'Oh Jesus.'
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There weren't roles for females in comedies for a really long time.
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Comedy, your funny bone, is formed in childhood.
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Оf course you can only write comedy when you're smoking weed.
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Comedy is not my first go-to sort of genre.
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My goal in life is to be as happy as a studio audience.
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I didn't come from a wealthy family. I had no money. Maybe it goes back to naivete which is your greatest asset when you're young. If I was starting in comedy today and if it didn't work the first time, I'd probably quit. But I kept at it, kept at it.
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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.
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I just wanted to be in show business. I didn't care if I was going to be an actor or a magician or what. Comedy was a point of the least resistance, really. And on the simplest level, I loved comedy.
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I was actually looking at comedies and wondered, 'Why is every comedy for a women a romantic one? I was so done! Then I said, 'Could I look at every script Jim Carrey rejected?' It didn't center around me getting a man.
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I think the most horrible name for a crime has to be manslaughter. ... "I slaughtered a man! Just like a pig! Put him on a spit and put an apple in his mouth!"
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I was this extremely dramatic actress. And then, suddenly, I was doing comedy.
