Comedy Quotes

• I say God is kind. So many people want to do what I do [comedy] for a living, and so he didn't have to choose me. So I don't take all the credit, but I do know that I love what I do, and I see it as a gift.

  

  Niecy Nash
  • Want
  • Kind
  • Credit

• I think, in comedy, you only hit about one or two great characters in your career. Sometimes my character will be just a sketch... what is the funniest situation to put this person in?

  

  Julia Davis
  • Character
  • Career
  • Comedy

• Dying is easy. Comedy is hard.

  

  Elaine Stritch
  • Comedy
  • Dying

• 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 still make videos in my bedroom by choice because that's the feel of my comedy, but the opportunity to make longer format content with a production company, with a team that's a bit more elevated in that sense, is really exciting for me because it's not that it's better than what I've already been doing, but it's different.

  

  Lilly Singh
  • Different
  • Opportunity
  • Team

• I want to do more comedy... I've done a couple TV shows that had some comedy going on.

  

  Sunny Mabrey
  • Want
  • Comedy
  • Shows

• Comedy is not my first go-to sort of genre.

  

  Jason Statham
  • Comedy

• I think that there's a fine line between comedy and drama.

  

  Michael Mosley
  • Think
  • Drama
  • Between

• You can't tell me the success of Kevin Bacon isn't somehow tied to his name. You're not going out to see a Kevin Hot-Dog movie.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Dog

• There's a certain truism that you can't be self-conscious in comedy.

  

  Ari Graynor
  • Comedy

• And the back of his anorak was leaping up and down, and people were chucking money to him. I said 'Do you earn a living doing that?' He said 'Yes, this my livelihood.'

  

  Tommy Cooper
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Said

• Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Writing
  • Actors
  • Difficult

• Oh, Hello. I'm Eugene Mirman, and I'm here to introduce my special. It's called An Evening of Comedy in a Fake Underground Laboratory.

  

  Eugene Mirman
  • Fake
  • Laboratory
  • Introduce

• I don't think comedy comes from hotbeds of doing shtick. I think it usually comes from some kind of childhood humiliation or darkness.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • Thinking
  • Childhood
  • Darkness

• It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me a blood-letting, and it cost yet another man the penalties of the law. Yet there was certainly an element of comedy. Well, you shall judge for yourselves.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Law
  • Tragedy
  • Penalties

• I have an inability to enjoy things, but that's why we're in comedy. If we were happy, we wouldn't be funny, I guess.

  

  Paul Feig
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Enjoy

• 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

• Ever since the first 'American Pie,' I've always been happy to just have an opportunity, I just didn't think it was going to be with comedies. Now I really like it.

  

  Sean William Scott
  • Thinking
  • Opportunity
  • Comedy

• When they first start doing comedy, new comics or even people that have only been doing it three or four years, they're doing an impersonation of a stand-up. This is what I think a stand-up should sound like.

  

  Erik Griffin
  • People
  • Should
  • Sound

• I want to go to Australia so bad, do comedy there, and see the people there. It's a great country. I have friends that are Australian that have told me all about it. I want to do comedy there.

  

  Brad Williams
  • Friends
  • Comedy
  • Australia

• At first I had no skills in writing comedy. I didn't know what a joke was, but, as someone once told me, your emotions follow your intent. If you create the intention of starting a comedy act, slowly your mind starts adjusting and you arrive at a new emotional state.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Emotional

• My most persistent memory of stand - up is of my mouth being in the present and my mind being in the future: the mouth speaking the line, the body delivering the gesture, while the mind looks back, observing, analyzing, judging, worrying, and then deciding when and what to say next. Enjoyment while performing was rare - enjoyment would have been an indulgent loss of focus that comedy cannot afford.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Mind
  • Worry
  • Judging

• I'd love to do a film with Mariah. But it would have to be a comedy. She's the funniest woman in the world, she just cracks me up all the time.

  

  Nick Cannon
  • World
  • Funny
  • Film

• I like to watch and perform the kind of comedy that comes out of the situation - where the character is really serious and in a tough situation and doesn't realize that the situation is comic.

  

  Judge Reinhold
  • Character
  • Like
  • Serious

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