Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ed Speleers

Comedy is not something that had necessarily jumped out as something I'd immediately go for.

Billy Connolly

Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.

I just don't get if you have ever gotten offended by a joke, why would you go to a comedy club? That's where jokes happen.

Bradley Cooper

I've never heard of a comedy that hasn't had reshoots, especially for the ending of a movie in a comedy.

Bobby Farrelly

I feel reviewers are tougher on comedies in general. They don't take them seriously, and the ones that get great reviews are not necessarily the ones that I like.

Bobby Farrelly

In comedy, though, it's good to get feedback from the audience about what they find funny.

Aristophanes

Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.

Brittany Daniel

Comedy is so hard to do, so it was very cool to do dead pan humor.

Nina Tassler

We're doing it in drama, comedy and alternative. But right now a lot of the stuff is under the cone of silence in the development world.

Kelly Stables

When I was a little girl, the only real form of entertainment I was exposed to was theater, being raised in St. Louis, and I still love theater, and I think sitcoms are similar to that, in there's a live audience, and you know, I definitely like the comedy of it, too. I like to make people laugh, and I definitely think laughter is healing.

Ben Stiller

Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.

Ben Stiller

Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.

Mallory Ortberg

One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots.

Horace Walpole

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.

Aziz Ansari

I'm kind of obsessed with food. I like to eat. When I tour, it's like, well, like a food tour as much as a comedy tour.

Aziz Ansari

Stand-up comedy is a raunchy profession.

Ben Elton

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.

Arthur Marx

(My father) he would be surprised to know he was still popular today, ... He told me, when he was quitting the Marx Brothers, (that) their kind of comedy was old-fashioned.

George Carlin

If a movie is described as a romantic comedy you can usually find me next door playing pinball

I enjoy having fun with our history. You've got to have comedy, you've got to have drama and it all has to take place in a two and one-half hour period, with an intermission,

Ken Dodd

I feel people desperately want a laugh and what I offer them is optimistic comedy. Unlike some comics, I don't tell them what a rotten world it is. I say life is fabulous and wonderful and we should enjoy it while we can.

Diane Cilento

I did comedy Francaise acting. When I was in a play with Michael Redgrave, I learnt to take the stage and have control of what I was doing.

Joan Severance

I don't know why they wanted me-no one had ever seen me do any sort of comedy one way or another, so it couldn't have been that!

Cyndi Lauper

I am also an Emmy winning actress. Except that I gotta tell ya, it was for comedy and I've been practicing for most of my life because every job I've ever had they'd always say the same thing, 'Hey Lauper, what are ya, some kind of comedienne?' and who knew?

One hit can get the audience's faith back that a comedy can be good,

Barry Humphries

Now the point of comedy is not just looking funny, it's use of language. We have at our disposal a great language... and the imaginative, creative use of that language can be at the service of humour.

Richard Eder

This sentimental comedy by the Soviet playwright Aleksei Arbuzov is said to have had a great success in its own country. So do fringed lamp shades.

Emma Stone

Comedy was my sport. It taught me how to roll with the punches. Failure is the exact same as success when it comes to comedy because it just keeps coming. It never stops.

Eddie Izzard

Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

Andy Kindler

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.

Shane Carruth

The only thing I can ever do is make a film that I can respond to. I could not make a romantic comedy for college girls. I wouldn't know how that works.

We always look for a good piece. That sounds very simple, but it's not. We look for good writing, good characters, and if a moral is part of that, that's fine. But we're not saying a play must teach a value. Comedy is great for the creative process.