Comedy Quotes

• I learned early on that in the real world, the masks of tragedy and comedy adorn the proscenium of every life.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Life
  • World
  • Real

• I want to go play a villain or an action hero or a nice, light, romantic comedy or something. That would be good.

  

  Dash Mihok
  • Good
  • Light
  • Action

• Drama comes more naturally to me. It's the comedy you really have to delve into.

  

  Kathy Bates
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• Perhaps I've been perceived more as a romantic comedy actor, but overall, I enjoy acting in any shape or form.

  

  Jaime Federico Said Camil Saldaña da Gama
  • Comedy
  • Romantic

• I totally love to act. I don't care if it's a musical, a comedy. I just like to work and interact with other people.

  

  Reba McEntire
  • People
  • Work
  • Comedy

• I'm not saying that I'm on some crusade to change people's minds. I'm just doing what I do. I'm a comedian, I'm trying to be funny... I think when they see a comedy show with an Iranian and an Egyptian and two Palestinians, I think they go, 'Oh wow, these guys are just like us.'

  

  Maz Jobrani
  • People
  • Trying
  • Funny

• Between pets, comedy and toys, I try to surround myself with as much fun stuff as I can. That's how I pick projects. It's about whether I'm going to enjoy myself, enjoy the other actors, and enjoy the other people that I'm working with.

  

  Eric Stonestreet
  • Enjoy
  • Actors
  • Projects

• Comedy Central was really impressed by how quickly we got everyone to sign the releases for the CD. They've never seen anything that quick.

  

  B. J. Porter
  • Comedy
  • Release
  • CDs

• I'd like to do a comedy, actually. I think it would be great to do a sitcom or something like that. I'm pretty much open to anything.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Great
  • Think
  • Pretty

• I just made the decision that I was going to try comedy, and if didn't work, then I knew it didn't work. Then I would go back and do whatever. But at least I wouldn't torture myself the rest of my life, wondering whatever would have happened.

  

  Bob Newhart
  • Life
  • Work
  • Rest

• I use myself as a template for my comedy. So first my background as a Muslim man, my being a doctor, I talk about my family quite a lot, my kids. Anything that resonates with me I talk about. The important thing is it should be able to work in a family setting.

  

  Riaad Moosa
  • Family
  • Myself
  • Should

• A solid base for any comedy is just honesty and truth, and it coming from a real place. As surreal as this show gets and is, ultimately, we're dealing with a character that most can't see the way that I can see it.

  

  Elijah Wood
  • Real
  • Character
  • Truth

• After doing comedy for a while and knowing how hard it is to do physical comedy right, I learned how incredibly talented the Three Stooges really were after re-watching old episodes. They still stand up!

  

  Carly Craig
  • Up
  • Doing
  • Stand

• I think the physical comedy in action sequences is fantastic. Like, '21 Jump Street' did a great job with that.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Great
  • Job
  • Action

• Because I think in order to get famous you have to be known for something. Like 'You're the romantic comedy girl' or 'You're the Oscar-winning whatever girl.'

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Girl
  • Winning
  • Famous

• Comedy can take you a lot further in getting your point across. People are entertained, and then, by being entertained, they get your point.

  

  Maz Jobrani
  • People
  • Comedy

• In real life I'm very low-key. A wallflower. One of the reasons I went into comedy and acting was that I was sick of being shy.

  

  Jemaine Clement
  • Life
  • Real
  • Sick

• There's truth in comedy, and that resonates with people of all races.

  

  Jessica Williams
  • People
  • Truth
  • Comedy

• I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what things are funny and not.

  

  Keenen Ivory Wayans
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Funny

• In a comedy, after the day is done, you can figure out ways of how to make it even funnier for the next day. In dramas, it's very different - the mindset that you're in.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Different
  • Done
  • Day

• It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows.

  

  John Lithgow
  • Time
  • Long
  • Running

• When I was little, I had this old video camera, and I set it up, and I would pretend that I was on comedy shows and soap operas and things like that.

  

  Christina Grimmie
  • Up
  • Comedy

• Suffice to say, many women find their first appearance on a comedy panel show to be their last. Second chances seem to be given less often to the female of the species.

  

  Jo Brand
  • Women
  • Comedy

• I've always been more of a nerdy, academic type. I loved 'Star Wars' growing up. I have three older brothers, so they were a big influence on me. We loved 'Danger Mouse,' and we love 'Monty Python'. We loved any kind of British comedy and 'Wallace and Gromit' and all of that stuff.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Star
  • Influence
  • Nerdy

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