Comedy Quotes

• I was a precocious only child, and then I went through a fat, awkward stage for several years, so I learned to fall back on my humor and personality when I was growing up. It's how you survive, so I think it was more of a natural progression for me, developing into comedy.

  

  Ari Graynor
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Fall

• I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage.

  

  Patton Oswalt
  • Long
  • Comedy

• Performing music is a way to do comedy, but without the obligation to do a solid hour, hour and half of a standup. I could intersperse it with music, so it became a really good format for me.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Music
  • Hours
  • Performing

• And you can't hide in a comedy scene either. You have to give in to the scene and commit.

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • Comedy
  • Scene
  • Hide

• My ego and my vanities have nothing to do with comedy.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • Comedy
  • Ego

• I got away from comedy because it wasn't being done in the way that I loved and the way that I could do it. It made me sad because I felt like it wasn't appreciated and no one was writing it so, 'I'll abandon it.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Appreciated

• Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.

  

  Artie Lange
  • Time
  • Tragedy
  • Vegas

• You look across the board at comedy quiz shows, and they are mainly hosted by men.

  

  Jo Brand
  • Men
  • Comedy

• 'Raising Arizona' is maybe my favorite comedy of all time. What's great about it is that as slapstick as it gets, it has great moments of emotion and caring. Them bringing the baby back and Trey Wilson's character. I love that, man.

  

  Joe Carnahan
  • Time
  • Great
  • Character

• I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side. When I got to college, as I was walking across campus one day, I ripped off a little flyer for this sketch-comedy group. It ended up being one of the greatest things I've ever done.

  

  John Krasinski
  • Up
  • Done
  • College

• A woman doing comedy doesn't offend me, but sets me back a bit. I, as a viewer, have trouble with it. I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies in the world.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • World
  • Comedy

• We were the only ones interested in comedy. Everybody else wanted to be Martin Scorsese.

  

  Matt Stone
  • Comedy

• I'm not trying to be an action star, and I'm not trying to be a romantic-comedy guy.

  

  Jeffrey Dean Morgan
  • Trying
  • Guy
  • Action

• 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 first Emmys I went to was in 1990 when the five nominees for best comedy were 'Designing Women,' 'Golden Girls,' 'Murphy Brown,' 'Cheers,' 'Wonder Years.' Three and a half were created by women.

  

  Nell Scovell
  • Women
  • Comedy
  • Wonder

• People like the comedy more when they care about the characters.

  

  Judd Apatow
  • Comedy
  • Care
  • Characters

• In something like 'Frank,' which is a comedy, albeit a strange and emotional one, you can absolutely put in deleted scenes, and we did because they were just funny and great, but they weren't necessary in the overall structure.

  

  Lenny Abrahamson
  • Great
  • Funny
  • Emotional

• And what could be a hotter ticket than the improbable triumph of 'The Book of Mormon,' the musical-comedy moon shot of the season? Its creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, of Comedy Central's 'South Park,' are the most unlikely Rodgers and Hammerstein team ever to bowl a thundering strike.

  

  James Wolcott
  • Book
  • Team
  • Moon

• I love doing comedy. It's a lot of fun.

  

  Alexa Vega
  • Fun
  • Comedy

• If you're a guy over 30 by yourself in the hotel pool, you automatically look like a murderer who's just relaxing after he strangled a family. "Yeah-that dad was a tough one to kill."

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Guy
  • Funny
  • Dad

• With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.

  

  Bill Pullman
  • Fun
  • Romantic
  • Cinderella

• To do a comedy team, it requires so much extracurricular stuff, so much compromise, so much intuitiveness to know what the other guy is doing. That's why it's so hard to do it.

  

  Cheech Marin
  • Why
  • Guy
  • Team

• There are not that many roles in comedies that are completely driven by a young actress.

  

  Will Gluck
  • Young
  • Roles
  • Actresses

• In Canadian comedy, you'll almost never see guns. If you bring a gun into a scene, it's like, 'Whoa! Wow, how are we going to deal with that!' Guns in an American comedy are a given. Violence in America is used in a much more cavalier way.

  

  Scott Thompson
  • America
  • Violence
  • Gun

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