Comedy Quotes

• If you're trying to be an actor, sometimes you get lucky, and you end up on 'The Office', but if you don't, and you know that you have something to say, it's really, really fortunate to be able to get to write and star in your own comedy.

  

  Riki Lindhome
  • Comedy
  • Really
  • Fortunate

• From the onset of the 'Live-Read' series, we wanted to hit all the major writers and Woody Allen is simply one of the greatest screenwriters of all time. He has ability to match pathos and comedy and drama and then turn it all on a dime. If you're going to make a series based on dialogue, you can't find much better than Woody Allen.

  

  Jason Reitman
  • Time
  • Live
  • Drama

• I'd love to do comedy.

  

  Lauren German
  • Comedy

• Historically, a successful life in comedy is a dream that's as equally pondered and unpursued as being an astronaut.

  

  Artie Lange
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Astronaut

• 1600 Penn is an ensemble comedy about a family. It just happens to utilize the fact that my character is now being forced into this world as a jumping off point. But, in no way is it the crux of the series. It's simply an introduction to the world.

  

  Josh Gad
  • World
  • Character
  • Facts

• When I watch a comedy that's just hitting you over the head with jokes constantly, some really hit, but if they miss, you're like, 'Eh.'

  

  David Walton
  • Comedy

• When I started acting, my whole focus and intention was to work as a stage actor in a company where you're asked to different roles - do a comedy, do a tragedy, etc. I haven't had any reservations about jumping from one type of genre to another.

  

  Kyle MacLachlan
  • Work
  • Different
  • Focus

• Comedy is like music. You have to know the key and you have to find players with good chops.

  

  Christopher Guest
  • Good
  • Music
  • Comedy

• Old radio comedy makes me laugh, as well as 'I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue' and comedians like Paul Merton.

  

  Lynne Truss
  • Comedy
  • Sorry

• I think with drama, at least for me, my process, there's a lot of thought. I do a lot of back story. I listen to a lot of music. I'm very committed to a process when it comes to drama, but with comedy, I think it's really about letting loose.

  

  Jamie-Lynn Sigler
  • Music
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• I will do comedy until the day I die: inappropriate comedy, funny comedy, gender-bending, twisting comedy, whatever comedy is out there.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Dies
  • Gender
  • Inappropriate

• My mother was very wary at first. And now she's come around 180 degrees. She's, like, one of my biggest fans now. Like, she'll come over to my house, and she'll be like, 'OK, listen. I need two T-shirts from the comedy show, and give me three DVDs. The neighbors are asking for them.'

  

  Maz Jobrani
  • She
  • Mother
  • House

• Probably spending 12 years at boarding school - comedy became a survival gene. But I think some people are funny right off the bat, as soon as they can speak or be naughty.

  

  Eric Idle
  • People
  • School
  • Funny

• Something like 'Without a Paddle' does really well at the box office and I'm like, 'Oh, here we go.' In 'Without a Paddle' I'm the romantic lead - great! A comedy and that's what America wants. Then it did nothing for me and I went into kind-of a work abyss. I just didn't get another shot.

  

  Matthew Lillard
  • Work
  • Great
  • America

• I like dramatic stuff, and I have a goofball side, too. I like to do comedy and off-beat things as much as something really, really serious.

  

  Martin Henderson
  • Comedy
  • Serious

• The nice thing about 'Futurama' for me personally was that it was a way to honor some of the traditional ideas in literary science fiction, not so much movie or television science fiction - although we have that too, obviously. Our situation, a workplace comedy, led to all sorts of stuff.

  

  Matt Groening
  • Movie
  • Science
  • Nice

• My whole life, growing up, I always wanted to be in comedy. I never felt comfortable doing the 'teen hunk' thing.

  

  Dustin Milligan
  • Life
  • Up
  • Growing

• I just feel like there's something to be said about feeling comfortable with what you have and don't have. And - for instance, I don't think I'm particularly a great singer, but I feel like I write songs that complement my voice, you know, and I feel like it's unique. And I don't feel like I'm particularly a great actor, for instance, but I feel like I approach each thing that I do with some level of sensitivity. And I would say that comedy in general is the most disarming.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• 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. You can both go to two Chinese restaurants, but both can have different kinds of food.

  

  Jet Li
  • Good
  • Different
  • Art

• I think that... I would say that sometimes people get afraid of when you're balancing comedy and drama.

  

  Jim Rash
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• It's interesting because with a lot of people who I've met in comedy, it seems not to matter what your background is. In terms of formal schooling - I feel like that's a nineteenth century term - but in terms of where you went to high school or college, or wherever, all that really is irrelevant, I have found, in comedy.

  

  Ellie Kemper
  • People
  • School
  • High

• In the '90s, comedy was at a very low point, but these days, you've got people like Hannibal Burress, Ron Funches, Maria Bamford - people who can play any club, anywhere.

  

  Andy Kindler
  • People
  • Comedy

• I think stand-up comedy is this - it's this kind of indulgence and narcissism.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Thinking
  • Kind
  • Narcissism

• 'Parental Guidance' combines comedy and pathos in the best way.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Comedy

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