Comedy Quotes

I approach a comedy the same way I do a drama. I try to make it as real as possible.

Mark Wahlberg
- Real
- Comedy
- Drama
After I saw a couple of pictures put out by my fellow comedy-directors, which seemed to have abandoned the fun in favor of the message, I wrote Sullivan's Travels to satisfy an urge to tell them that they were getting a little too deep-dish, to leave the preaching to the preachers.

Preston Sturges
- Fun
- Couple
- Deep

Being gloomy is easier than being cheerful. Anybody can say 'I've got cancer' and get a rise out of a crowd. But how many of us can do five minutes of good stand-up comedy?

P. J. O'Rourke
- Up
- Good
- Cancer
Comedy is free therapy. And if it's done well, the audience and the comic take turns being the doctor as well as the patient.

Maysoon Zayid
- Done
- Free
- Comedy
In 1998, it was possible to make a big-screen romantic comedy about email. Yep, email - the same medium we often think of now as boring and even annoying.

Walt Mossberg
- Think
- Romantic
- Same
Stand-up can take you in so many different places, man. So many doors can be opened up from stand-up comedy, and the first one that was opened up for me was acting. But you can go from acting to being a TV personality to being a radio personality to being a writer to being a producer, to just being a visionary, to voiceover work.

Kevin Hart
- Up
- Work
- Different
I feel like a lot of serious music lives in generalizations - 'Love is a flower,' 'The sky is so dark' - but comedy lives in specifics.

Rachel Bloom
- Music
- Serious
- Feel
People are funny, and in the most tragic situations, when comedy erupts from nowhere, it can turn on its head within the space of a second or a minute. You're laughing one minute and you're crying the next and that's just life for me, and that is what people are like.

Sally Hawkins
- People
- Life
- Funny