Famous Quotes & Sayings

Todd Phillips

With comedy especially, it feels like such a clear-cut thing to be a writer-director. There is so much nuance and tone in a comedy that it's hard to contextualise it in a script.

Albert Brooks

Even if you didn't see the movie, you'd see two words you'd never seen put together before - comedy and Muslim. Comedy is friendly - it's the least offensive word in our language.

Ashley Tisdale

'Scary Movie' was a different type of comedy than I'm used to. I've mostly done sitcoms, so working with David Zucker, who wrote the film and who directed the last two 'Scary Movie's and 'Airplane' and 'Naked Gun,' was a lot of help.

Adam McKay

For some reason, people with comedy, any time they can detect a pattern, it kind of freaks them out. 'Those guys are always together!' Yeah, they're a comedy team. Anything they can recognize as a pattern they think is a hole.

Mel Brooks

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.

Mark Billingham

While the subject matter of my novels could not be further removed from the stuff I used to trot out at the Comedy Store, the delivery of the material employs many of the same techniques.

Tim White

We've got a full schedule, ... We're excited because we're on the verge of releasing our fifth CD. We will have a lot of comedy on it, and songs about chickens. We love to make people laugh.

Eddie Murphy

Ultimately, when I go back to the stage, I want to be able to do everything. I want to be able to do music and comedy and all that stuff; that's what all this stuff is leading to.

We run the gamut from drama to sports to comedy to reality-type programming.

This year we're using two terrific venues we haven't used in the past; the Hartford Stage Company and The Bushnell. We'll be doing stand-up comedy in the Bushnell Theater, which is a first for First Night in 17 years.

Aldous Huxley

We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look.

Joaquin Phoenix

Who would have ever thought I would win in the comedy and musical category?

Joaquin Phoenix

Who would ever have thought that I would win in the comedy or musical category? Not expected.

Stephen Graham Jones

We watch a romantic comedy because we want to cry, say, or an action movie so we can participate in heroics. Horror's different. It can hit you with a moment of revulsion so hard you might want to erase the last five minutes of your life, please.

Yael Grobglas

I feel like if I consider myself comfortable in something, then that's not exactly where I want to be. And in 'Jane the Virgin' specifically, I feel like I don't have to choose... We get to do drama and comedy sometimes within the same thirty seconds.

Colm Meaney

I love doing comedy. You don't get many good comedy scripts. They're rare. But, I do love playing comedy. Even in drama, I like to try to find the humor because I think it's very human.

Emma Roberts

I'd love to do a comedy like 'Bridesmaids;' I think that would be so fun. I would play the Kristen Wiig character.

Colin Firth

Some people would say comedy draws from some dark places, from your dark stuff. Life's great optimists aren't necessarily the funniest people.

Natasha Leggero

I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up on stage and did it without thinking.

Lauren Lapkus

Comedy is my first love; that's my main goal in life - to keep doing comedy.

Bill Hader

I'm never going to say, 'Well, I'm never going to do comedy again.' I love comedies, and it's what people know me for, so I love doing it... I don't really think about it in terms of 'Well, I should do this because it's comedy or drama.'

Dax Shepard

Now, where does my comedy come from, like, as a human being? Yeah, when I was a kid I was dyslexic and had to go to special-ed every day and felt stupid about that and got very witty to defend myself.

Ginnifer Goodwin

Sometimes I make very selfish choices; like I did 'Once Upon A Time' for my inner 8-year-old and my hypothetical future child. I've done some movies because I would regret them if I didn't, but other projects I've done because they've scared me or if I felt I needed to do a big romantic comedy to help me professionally.

Tracy Morgan

No one set that I ever do is the same. I mean, if I go to a comedy club, and I perform three sets, all three sets are different because anything can happen in between sets.

Mike Birbiglia

When I was starting out, I thought I would go into comedy and there would be a mentor, like the Philip Seymour Hoffman character in 'Almost Famous,' in my life, and there just wasn't. It was really frustrating for me because I desired that so much.

Cayden Boyd

I like comedy a lot, and dramatics show how I can really act. Because a lot of people can do comedy - I'm not saying it's easy, but dramatics are very hard.

Casey Wilson

Molly Shannon, for example, is someone I've always really looked up to, because her comedy is so physical and wild and unembarrassed and brave.

(Webb) is our humor. She's our humor when we need to be funny, she's our comedy influence when we need to be serious.

Rutina Wesley

I'd like to do a romantic comedy like 'Notting Hill,' which is one of my favorite movies.

Johnny Depp

Tim and I have known each other for 15 years, so when we go back to doing a film every few years, it's like going home again. He walks this fine line between darkness and comedy like nobody else.

Honeysuckle Weeks

I've had a wonderful time in 'Foyle's War' and I don't mind being typecast. But I'm not prim. I'm chaotic, happy, and desperate to have some laughs. I'd love to do a comedy next, or something modern.

We haven't done a comedy show in Rose since Dane Cook last year in the spring.

Hannibal Buress

I remember 'Def Comedy Jam' being a big deal and kids talking about it in school, but it was never, 'I want to do that.'