Famous Quotes & Sayings

(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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.

Jason Wiles

I would love to do a comedy, but comedy probably in the sense of a dark comedy like 'Californication,' that sort of thing. Yeah, sure, I think I'm funny.

Adam Sandler

My comedy is different every time I do it.

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.'

Hal Sparks

If I could sew comedy and philosophy together, then I've done a good job. The primary goal is always going to be laughs and the secondary goal is always going to be saying something without it being a lecture. I think it's important to have substance for what you're saying.

Sally Hawkins

People are funny, and in the most tragic situations, when comedy erupts from nowhere, it can turn on its head within the space of a second or a minute. You're laughing one minute and you're crying the next and that's just life for me, and that is what people are like.

Alice Lowe

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

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.

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.