Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anthony Anderson

Comedy is second nature for me.

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.

Anthony Jeselnik

I always loved comedy, but it never seemed like something that I could do professionally.

Al Hirschfeld

When I was about fourteen, my mother took me to see a musical comedy-and that was my first experience in the theater and I was enchanted with it. It transported me to another world-you might say that I was stage-struck. I was mesmerized by the stage.

Eric Idle

We're all over 60. I'm sorry to say this, but comedy is really a young man's game. It's sort of about what you had to say when you were fresh and young. And I'm perfectly happy to get drunk with the rest of them.

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.

Texas Battle

To all my soap fans out there, my horror fanatics, comedy lovers, I will tell you this: 'Death Valley' is an action-packed drama, comedic, horror TV series that has a non-stop adventure in each episode. It's like a huge pot of Texas gumbo. If you like all four of those genres, then you'll love this show.

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.

Bob Newhart

I feel more comfortable in comedy.

Bernie Mac

The one thing about comedy, making it become a part of you, the audience loves it, because you become part of them.

Bernie Mac

Comedy has been so good to me.

Bernie Mac

Whatever success I've had, I always like to top it.

Eddie Izzard

I wanted to be less well-known in comedy.

Eddie Izzard

I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.

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.

Ari Graynor

Comedy is funny when it comes from truth, and that's always the rule of them. It's about how far you can push that boundary.

Desi Arnaz

One of my biggest problems with comedy was that I did not understand some of the jokes.

Demetri Martin

The reason you often get in comedy is because you're not getting laid.

Craig Ferguson

Fat is where comedy is stored,

Ed Speleers

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

We were trying to make a movie that was funny, but also trying to be smart about being funny. We just wanted to make people laugh,. If you want to make a comedy you just don't want to hit people in the groin for two hours, even though that's really funny too. We wanted our jokes to have a little weight to them.

David Suchet

Deep inside, I am desperate to do comedy.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

American comedies about Asians have never been funny to me. That always kind of pissed me off.