Comedy Quotes

• As long as I get to be doing what I love, which is making comedy and that kind of thing, I feel lucky that I get to.

  

  Andy Samberg
  • Long
  • Kind
  • Feels

• My preference is for people who can do sketch comedy or situational comedy, where it's not a joke, but it's telling a story.

  

  Carol Burnett
  • People
  • Comedy

• 'Rubberneck' has nothing to do with comedy, nor does it follow comedic people.

  

  Alex Karpovsky
  • People
  • Comedy

• With every movie, I try to do something different, whether it's action, comedy or drama.

  

  Andrew Lau
  • Different
  • Movie
  • Action

• There's a sort of magic and music to comedy. Some words, some numbers even, are funnier than others. A Caramac bar, for instance, is funnier than a Milky Way.

  

  David Walliams
  • Music
  • Words
  • Magic

• It feels bad to play a bad guy. I did George W. Bush for years, and I hated him. But you have to give full voice to the villains. You have to have really convincing villains, or it's not worth anything as drama or comedy.

  

  James Adomian
  • Bad
  • Guy
  • Drama

• Because it's uncensored cable, I think we'll be able to do the kind of sketch comedy that really hasn't been seen before. We can actually finish jokes.

  

  Aries Spears
  • Comedy

• I started doing little amateur nights at the comedy club that was right next to the restaurant that I waitressed in when I was in university. I was probably 22 years old. I didn't do it with any intention of making a career out of it; I had just always valued comedy.

  

  Katherine Ryan
  • Career
  • Comedy

• You're at the top of your game if you do comedy.

  

  Hector Elizondo
  • Game
  • Comedy

• I didn't know I was cool, but I was very flattered that some of the younger comedy writers came up to talk to me at the Emmys. I found that gratifying.

  

  Bob Newhart
  • Up
  • Comedy
  • Cool

• People think that my favorite roles to do are villains, but I find comedy to be the most challenging and rewarding.

  

  Christopher Walken
  • People
  • Comedy

• Comedy is the difference between how you see a person and how they see themselves.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Comedy

• I would love to get into feature films; I'm willing to do an action flick, I'm willing to do a romantic comedy.

  

  Kelli Berglund
  • Action
  • Comedy
  • Romantic

• What I love is the comedy of the body. It's a little highfalutin', but you can even say pre-verbal comedy. People laugh differently at stuff that isn't brought to them via the spoken word. It's from a different place; it's a different quality of laughter.

  

  Bill Irwin
  • People
  • Different
  • Quality

• I'm not a comedian, I'm not a stand-up and I don't come from a comedy background. I am an actor, but I've had a very fortunate foray into comedy, and it seems to have become a bit of a strength, and you can't complain when you become known for something.

  

  Darren Boyd
  • Up
  • Comedy

• I like to invest as a performer in the director's vision and then bring a sense of reality to whatever I'm doing, whether it's comedy or whether it's drama, and trust that they're going to tell me if something's reading as funny or if it's reading as dramatic or reading in the right tone.

  

  Amy Seimetz
  • Reality
  • Funny
  • Reading

• My dream role is Richard Pryor, no question about that. I'm a big Richard Pryor fan. I've always been intrigued about the darkness behind his comedy; that would always be a dream role for me.

  

  Dorian Missick
  • Dream
  • Question
  • Comedy

• The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).

  

  Dawn Powell
  • Power
  • War
  • Death

• I never wanted to be a model. I never wanted to be a serious actress. I started off doing comedy. I did a stand-up comedy camp at the Laugh Factory, and I started out on Nickelodeon.

  

  Amanda Bynes
  • Up
  • Serious
  • Model

• 'Bunk' is a comedy game show where, each week, three of my favorite comedians compete in a series of bizarre and meaningless challenges all for my entertainment. Ethan T. Berlin and Eric Bryant created 'Bunk.'

  

  Kurt Braunohler
  • Game
  • Comedy

• My idea as far as comedy goes has always been to push the limits of what's acceptable for a woman to do or say or be. My hero in that would be Lenny Bruce, who teaches us that words have no meaning. It's the intent behind them that is what's important.

  

  Lea DeLaria
  • Important
  • Words
  • Hero

• I am a stage actor. I do mostly improv comedy. The only national television stuff is 'Archer' and' Frisky Dingo.'

  

  Amber Nash
  • Comedy
  • Archer

• Because comedy is cheap to put on: if you've got a play or an opera, there's a whole load of people and a set, but comedy is just one man or woman. And because TV has learned to love comics - there's so many more around now than when I started out.

  

  Arthur Smith
  • People
  • Comedy

• It's almost like a self-fulfilling prophecy: the great comedy that comes from great pain.

  

  Brian Dunkleman
  • Great
  • Comedy
  • Pain

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