Famous Quotes & Sayings

Katherine Parkinson

You do develop a taste as an actress: Chekhov, Ayckbourn: it's the combination of comedy and human drama. I would never want to do anything without comedy.

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?

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.

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.

Conan O'Brien

My favorite comedy is comedy where nothing is achieved and there is no point.

Joan Rivers

Comedy is learning to be funny, and you learn to be funny in small rooms with young audiences.

Joan Rivers

I truly think comedy is - being funny is DNA. My dad was a doctor, a wonderful doctor, and people still come up to me today, 'Your father helped my mother die.' You know what I'm saying? He made her laugh 'til she died. My father was always very funny.

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.

Albert Brooks

I, sort of, got into comedy accidentally, and it got bigger than I wanted it to.

Clive Anderson

I do find myself surprised by the comedy shows that seem to have the same joke week in week out.

Andre Braugher

I just like the joyous aspect of playing comedy.

Chuck Jones

Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.

Andrew Denton

You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.

Alison Brie

I feel like any time John Oliver is added to something, the comedy is instantly there. He's so funny.

Alice Lowe

Ironically, there isn't much comedy film in Britain, which is quite surprising seeing that we're quite good at it.

Dave Attell

I'm a stand-up comic. Anything else I do besides that is a plus, but stand-up comedy is what I do, it's what I've been doing and it's what I'm going to keep doing.

Dario Fo

Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible.

Alfred Hitchcock

To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.

Anthony Anderson

Comedy is second nature for me.

Daniel Handler

I was interested in finding ways to do dark comedy that were actually dark and comic.

Cameron Boyce

Kevin Hart. He's the man! I like his style. He's short, so I can relate. All the stories he tells are real. I respect that, and he's just a really funny dude - great comedy instincts. To do stand-up on a stage for an hour and tell stories and make people laugh is incredible.