Comedy Quotes

• I don't play comedy as comedy. That would be the biggest trap. I think about the characters and their situations. Then you don't have to worry where the laugh is going to be. But comedy is harder than drama.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • Comedy
  • Worry
  • Drama

• Comedy is the most difficult. Comic timing is something which you either have it in you, or you don't. You have to have a good sense of humour to be able to understand it. A split second can make you lose the punch.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • Good
  • Comedy

• Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references to the spectators or to the fictive nature of the play.

  

  Paul Watzlawick
  • Nature
  • Comedy

• I've always felt that in a comedy script the stage directions should also have a comedic value.

  

  Bruce Robinson
  • Comedy
  • Value

• The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language.

  

  Dominic Chianese
  • Comedy

• Comedy is a shared experience, and I think it's great to open that to a wide demographic.

  

  Dave Coulier
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Comedy

• Selling pot allowed me to get through college and make enough money to start off in comedy.

  

  Bill Maher
  • Money
  • College
  • Comedy

• I've always done comedy, and I've always wanted to do a dramatic role. I wanted to be a sheriff.

  

  Jerry Van Dyke
  • Done
  • Comedy

• As a kid, I was always inspired by the comedy of Carol Burnett. I loved Dick Clair and Jenna McMahon's 'Mama's Family'.

  

  Del Shores
  • Family
  • Comedy
  • Inspired

• I don't know if there is a gene for comedy, but my dad was a very funny man. He just didn't know it. He was a naturally funny character, and when my brother and I would laugh at things he said and did, he would say, 'What do you think is so funny?'

  

  James Belushi
  • Character
  • Funny
  • Dad

• 'Jackass: The Movie' is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how gravity acts on the body.

  

  Matthew Barney
  • Great
  • Movie
  • Relationship

• I find painting a much slower process than comedy, where you can go a mile a minute verbally and hope to God that some of the people out there understand you.

  

  Jonathan Winters
  • People
  • God
  • Hope

• Jackie Chan is a very good comedy/martial arts star. He does one kind of martial arts that Jet Li doesn't know how to do, and Jet Li does a martial art that Jackie Chan doesn't know how to do.

  

  Jet Li
  • Good
  • Art
  • Star

• I went to a public high school and most of the comedy was coming from the black kids and the Asian kids and the Hispanic kids. And, the coolest kids to me where always the black kids. They were always fashion forward and they always dressed the coolest. They were always the best dancers, and just the coolest people.

  

  Brett Ratner
  • People
  • School
  • Kids

• I love to do comedy, and I don't think of things as drama or comedy. I think that if it's a funny line, it's a funny line. If it's a funny moment, it's a funny moment.

  

  Kathy Baker
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• I am the comedy version of ambidextrous. I'm working with my left and right hand. I'm the two-sided coin. I'm all of those metaphors you can think of. I'm the interracial couple. I'm BET and CBS.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Thinking
  • Hand
  • Couple

• I'm always fighting with profanity and Christian comedy. I'm telling you, it's always a fight. Because my father said to me, he said, 'Well, Kym, I feel like comics and people that use profanity, you have a lack of vocabulary, actually, a whole lot.'

  

  Kym Whitley
  • People
  • Father
  • Fighting

• I like a certain style of show, I like a certain pace, I like a rhythm, I like a lot of comedy in with my drama.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Style
  • Drama
  • Certain

• Comedy is far more difficult, as it involves improvisation and impromptu acting, and as an actor, that came as a welcome break for me.

  

  Divyanka Tripathi
  • Comedy

• My family's always been really funny. I feel like comedy's hard. I feel like it's so important.

  

  Christine Taylor
  • Important
  • Family
  • Funny

• 'Taxi' made a big difference because it got me into comedy.

  

  Carol Kane
  • Comedy

• I've gotten very cynical and kind of anhedonic about all the things I have to do to get to do comedy: all the travel, hotels, and airports.

  

  Patton Oswalt
  • Comedy
  • Travel

• Dicaepolis: Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true. (tr. Athen. 1912, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
  • True
  • Comedy

• I think you can write very good comedy without a partner, but what I love about it, working with a partner, is that you get to places you'd never get on your own. It's like when God was designing the world and decided we couldn't have children without a partner; it was a way of mixing up the genes so you'd get a more interesting product.

  

  John Cleese
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

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