Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jesse Ventura

'The David Letterman Show' is a show of comedy.

Candice Bergen

I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it.

Mike Birbiglia

Comedy unites, it doesn't divide!

Mike Birbiglia

The one thing you're most reluctant to tell. That's where the comedy is.

Keenen Ivory Wayans

You do what it takes. It was on me to deliver.

Ivan Reitman

Well, actually, I did start out in comedies. Very, very early.

Hugh Hefner

I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and such, which probably explains why, since the end of my marriage, I've dated nothing but a succession of blondes.

If 'Grapes of Wrath' were a musical comedy, this is what it would look like.

Jon Stewart

If I had to go out there and surf, that would be a problem. But you know, it's just comedy.

Dwayne Hickman

I feel like a part of me is gone, too. We were a comedy team and I was proud to be his straight man. He was a wonderful comedian. Underrated, really.

Ciaran Hinds

I'd love to get into some comedy, but people keep saying, 'You're not funny!' And I say, 'Well, fair enough.' I have done comedy on stage.

Chelsea Peretti

I do feel like guys feel pressure to be funny with me, which is kind of annoying. It's a turn-off if someone's trying hard to be funny because it feels like they're auditioning for a comedy job or something. It doesn't feel romantic to me. I get so much comedy from my life that, from a guy, I'm more looking for something sweet or romantic.

Nina Tassler

Comedy was really our first priority heading into development season, and we wanted to reinforce Monday. And with Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Jenna Elfman, we have two big star vehicles for mid-season.

William Hazlitt

Comedy naturally wears itself out -- destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at.

Jamie King

Comedy is what we do, curling is just a sideline.

Gilda Radner

Comedy is very controlling - you are making people laugh. It is there in the phrase 'making people laugh.' You feel completely in control when you hear a wave of laughter coming back at you that you have caused.

Dave Coulier

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

Harvey Weinstein

I'd never made a teen comedy in my life.

Jack Whitehall

I only got into comedy to get laid

James Gandolfini

I like idiotic comedies.

Honesty, simplicity and truth are the secret to his comedy,

Jane Levy

Honestly, it's hard to learn about comedy from comedians. Comedy is not something that you necessarily learn or can imitate. You're funny or you're not, and you hope what you're doing is funny.

Natasha Richardson

I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material.

Morgan Freeman

Doing comedy is as easy as doing anything else. You're dependent totally on the material.

Kelli Berglund

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

Jo Brand

Madness isn't altogether a bad thing in comedy.

Eric Andre

They [ The Simpsons] are just like the Bible to me as far as what the high-water mark of comedy.

Matt LeBlanc

And if you have great writing, it's really easy, but if it's not so great and you have to work a little harder, I could tell where the work needed to be done but comedy is just fun.

William Shakespeare

And I did laugh sans intermission an hour by his dial. O noble fool, a worthy fool -- motley's the only wear.

Elayne Boosler

For me, comedy is a day-to-day report on the human condition. It's what's happening right now. I get maybe 20 minutes of my act straight from the newspaper.

Norman Lear

Next up [new TV stars] was [Dean] Martin and [Jerry] Lewis on 'The Colgate Comedy Hour.'

Norman Lear

Ed Simmons and I became stars in the emerging medium of television. We were new and fresh, just like TV at the time, so we automatically became 'THE' comedy writers for television.

Michael Caine

One of the great things with comedy is that there's no such thing as a mediocre comedy; it's either uproarious or crap. That's the problem.