Comedy Quotes

• And if you can offer an explanation as to why it doesn't work then you've got to the whole root of comedy.

  

  Denis Norden
  • Work
  • Why
  • Comedy

• I was, and am, a frustrated filmmaker and film student, and my passion and love for movies was so broad that, in the earlier part of my career, I stumbled into doing 'Sports Night' and was a comedy director.

  

  Alex Graves
  • Career
  • Night
  • Passion

• I am so happy because I want more people to like martial arts movie not just martial arts audience. Even martial arts can be used in comedy, in drama, in horror movies, in different kinds of movies.

  

  Jet Li
  • People
  • Different
  • Movie

• I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.

  

  John Cleese
  • Book
  • History
  • Comedy

• I did a 'Last Comic Standing' audition in 2006, where you're just performing for three people in a comedy club, in a big comedy club, and I remember them cutting me off, asking about my name in the middle of one of my jokes. Yeah, it's just real weird when you're doing stand-up in that type of sterile, unnatural setting.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • People
  • Remember
  • Jokes

• There have been 15 or 16 screenplays over the years, including one by me, but none of them has gotten made because Paramount is a huge studio. The Dice Man is an anti-establishment cult novel and you don't normally make studio films from such dark comedy material.

  

  Luke Rhinehart
  • Men
  • Dark
  • Film

• I had just done a movie called 'How to Beat the High Cost of Living,' and it didn't get a good review. And the same people sent me the script for 'Airplane!' for the Robert Hays part. I read it, and there were a lot of plays on words, and I said, 'I don't like this kind of comedy.'

  

  Fred Willard
  • People
  • Good
  • Done

• The main thing about doing a comedy is that you spend most of your days really happy and laughing.

  

  Chris Messina
  • Happy
  • Comedy

• I loved Peter Sellers. I thought he was the perfect mix of physical comedy with out-of-the-box humor. I loved his tone; I loved his physicality; I loved everything about what he was doing as a comedic actor.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Perfect
  • Thought
  • Humor

• Between us and the writers, it was comedy hour the whole time. We could hardly get through it.

  

  Buddy Rice
  • Time
  • Comedy

• My younger sister's a comedian. She has a sketch comedy group in Chicago called Schadenfreude and I look at her with such admiration and envy because it's such an amazing thing to make someone laugh.

  

  Brian d'Arcy James
  • She
  • Amazing
  • Sister

• In actuality, 'Sammy's House' can and should be read as an entirely fictional comedy set in a fascinating political world.

  

  Kristin Gore
  • World
  • House
  • Political

• I grew up in Iowa, and the improv comedy club Comedy-Sportz across the river in Illinois held auditions. They took me even though I was only 16 - you really had to be 18, but they never checked me for ID.

  

  Eric Christian Olsen
  • Up
  • Comedy
  • River

• Especially with comedy, you take massive risks because ultimately you're trying to be funny. If you're not funny, then it's really embarrassing and you look stupid.

  

  Dominic Cooper
  • Trying
  • Funny
  • Stupid

• I'm a female in comedy, so of course I want there to be more women on 'SNL', and women of color.

  

  Kathy Griffin
  • Women
  • Comedy
  • Color

• I feel so fortunate to have been able to work so much, particularly in the horror-thriller genre, but I would love to be able to do something perhaps a little more dramatic or even a romantic comedy.

  

  Danielle Panabaker
  • Work
  • Comedy
  • Romantic

• I really love writing comedy. Writing romantic comedy is even nicer because you get to write about how insane we all act when we're falling in love.

  

  Pearl Cleage
  • Writing
  • Comedy
  • Romantic

• My teacher at RADA said I was going to have trouble when I left because I wasn't an obvious juvenile lead, although I could do both comedy and drama. But I understood enough to know that my career was going to be a marathon, not a sprint.

  

  Anne Reid
  • Career
  • Teacher
  • Drama

• I think that people who do enjoy my stand-up comedy and the people who get it and the people who are taken in by it, they see that I'm a guy that has love of the game.

  

  Dane Cook
  • People
  • Up
  • Love

• 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

• I got into comedy at exactly the right moment.

  

  Katherine Ryan
  • Comedy

• 'Zorn' goes to some pretty ridiculous places, but the real comedy is coming from these little observations about life that are not as outlandish as some of the bigger moves in the story. This is a guy who has magical relics and fights weird monsters and is also dealing with very basic work and family things.

  

  Phil Lord
  • Life
  • Work
  • Real

• I think I would do a much better job if I had a chance to do things that were edgier than I get to do in comedies.

  

  Sean William Scott
  • Thinking
  • Chance
  • Jobs

• I enjoy comedy and drama. A nice balance of both is great.

  

  Chris Owen
  • Great
  • Nice
  • Drama

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