Comedy Quotes

Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.

Ben Kingsley
- Work
- Comedy
- Theatre
I played an artist in a comedy called 'Rooster.' It was a zany film by Glen Larson, a friend who produced several successful television series including 'Magnum PI.'

LeRoy Neiman
- Comedy
- Friend

Real life doesn't exist on a network television comedy. They just don't let you travel down any road that is presumably 'dark.'

Jason Jones
- Life
- Real
- Dark
I think the world of comedy is a relatively small community, and especially for women in comedy, there just aren't that many people involved.

Ari Graynor
- People
- World
- Women
Stand-up comedy seems like a terrifying thing. Objectively. Before anyone has done it, it seems like one of the most frightening things you could conceive, and there's just no shortcut - you just have to do it.

John Oliver
- Up
- Done
- Comedy
I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy.

James L. Brooks
- Comedy
- Romantic
I just adored 'Shaun Of The Dead.' That's a true mashup. That's a real Romero-era zombie movie and a real Gen X indie comedy. That was before zombie movies were cool, before 'Zombieland' and 'I Am Legend,' and now it has become a whole sub-genre.

Jon Favreau
- Real
- True
- Movie
The most woeful ingredients of the Spanish civil war were its selfish motives, the hidden ambitions it served, the emphasis on hollow words used by both sides; it seemed to be a comedy - terribly bloody - but a comedy all the same.

Claude Simon