Comedy Quotes

• Only in America could you get away with the kind of comedy I did.

  

  Pat Morita
  • America
  • You
  • 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

• If you do something that is not gags and punchlines and is character-based, where there are no jokes as such, then it all has to come from a place of truth, and I love that - I love nothing more than getting very serious about my comedy.

  

  Darren Boyd
  • Character
  • Truth
  • Serious

• Comedy did a lot of things for me. I mean, 'SNL'? Not too bad. Not too shabby with this comedy thing. I have really worked on my comedy and really upped it some notches.

  

  Jay Pharoah
  • Bad
  • Comedy

• One of the first times I wrote about Robin Williams for 'The New York Times,' I interviewed him for a feature about 'World's Greatest Dad,' a dark comedy he starred in for his friend, the writer-director Bobcat Goldthwait.

  

  Dave Itzkoff
  • World
  • Dad
  • Friend

• The Divine Comedy is a political poem and when you say poetry is not about - he's always quoted out of context, that "poetry makes nothing happen," that doesn't mean you shrug your shoulders and don't try to make anything happen. And Dante felt that poetry was engaged, there was a point of view; it's not my point of view, it's orthodox medieval Christianity, and I have my troubles with that. He didn't feel that you could just rule out so important a section of life - we care about these things, and it's out of caring about them that we write poetry.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Life
  • Important
  • Political

• I wanna do some more goofy comedy stuff; I really enjoyed doing 'A Touch of Cloth.'

  

  Charlie Brooker
  • Comedy

• I am very proud of what 'Johnny' achieved in stand-up comedy because he believed entirely in giving an audience the best kick he could. But he was someone who was quite detrimental to my health, both emotionally and physically.

  

  Johnny Vegas
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Health

• I hate to let people down. I was like that in sports and I was like that in comedy. I was like that at work. When I worked General Motors and stuff like that, when I say something, I mean it.

  

  Bernie Mac
  • People
  • Work
  • Hate

• I was doing a college show for the first time, and there was this 20-year-old gay male who's been diabetic his entire life. He said, 'I really wanna get into stand-up.' I was like, 'Oh, my God, do you realize how interesting and inherently funny you are? Go do all the comedy that you wanna do.' I care about that.

  

  Jessica Williams
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I always tell people if you want to do something, go to a great comedy show. And that's what I try to do: give people a really good comedy show.

  

  Loni Love
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• For some reason, people with comedy, any time they can detect a pattern, it kind of freaks them out. 'Those guys are always together!' Yeah, they're a comedy team. Anything they can recognize as a pattern they think is a hole.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Time
  • Together

• Is it spoken word? Kinda, but that's a weird area. Is it comedy? Well, it's funny but no, it's not comedy.

  

  Bruce McCulloch
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Weird

• If I were given a choice between two films and one was dark and explored depraved, troubled or sick aspects of our culture, I would always opt for that over the next romantic comedy.

  

  David Schwimmer
  • Culture
  • Dark
  • Sick

• I have a side of me that doesn't care. I really enjoy physical comedy, thinking of an idea and pitching it to the director.

  

  Isla Fisher
  • Comedy
  • Idea
  • Director

• To me, comedy is a great occupation because I don't really worry that much about what other people think of me.

  

  Joe Rogan
  • People
  • Great
  • Worry

• I love the satire and skewering of comedy writing.

  

  Kristin Gore
  • Writing
  • Comedy

• In particular, what I loved about 'Creep' and 'The One I Love' was the combination of naturalism, horror, and comedy that felt kind of new and fun.

  

  Mark Duplass
  • Fun
  • Comedy

• In comedy it helps if there's a friendly atmosphere on the set.

  

  Chris O'Dowd
  • Comedy

• I've had varying luck with comedy in the past, but I'd really like to give that another go. I don't know if I'd chase down a part, but if the right thing came along I could certainly see myself stepping into that zone.

  

  Dennis Quaid
  • Past
  • Comedy
  • Luck

• I don't think I could compare myself to Macaulay Culkin, because we're pretty much two different kinds of actors. He's done a lot of comedy. He does mostly just comedy like 'Uncle Buck' and 'Home Alone' and 'Home Alone 2.' And I've done a lot of different stuff, like sad movies, like the movie about the kid with AIDS.

  

  Brian Bonsall
  • Different
  • Done
  • Home

• Tragedy when ridiculed by comedy does not condescend a reply.

  

  Xenocrates
  • Comedy
  • Doe
  • Tragedy

• The more women sit down and write something in a woman's voice for a woman, they more you'll see women in comedy because gender doesn't define sense of humor. Imagination and intelligence and perspective do.

  

  Kristen Schaal
  • Women
  • Imagination
  • Perspective

• I just always wrote songs as a side hobby. So it was sort of a natural thing to write comedy songs. But when I started writing songs, I wrote very serious songs. Or things that a 13-14 year-old would think are very serious issues.

  

  Kyle Dunnigan
  • Writing
  • Comedy
  • Serious

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