Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Billingham

Whether you do stand-up comedy or write a story, you have a duty to deliver. As a comedian, you walk out on stage, and you have a minute to hook them, or they'll start booing. As a writer, it's very similar. A reader doesn't have time to say, 'I'll give him 50 pages, as it's not very good yet, but I hope it'll get better.'

Aisha Tyler

I liked comedy, but didn't know it was something you could do for a living. I actually wanted to be an attorney.

Aisha Tyler

I like grown up comedy.

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.

Benjamin Walker

I'd consider myself a flailing comedy writer.

Carol Leifer

I've seen too many comics who got their own shows and were undone because they worked for an executive producer who didn't understand their comedy or their sensibility.

Katie Featherston

I have plenty of dream roles because there is so much I want to do, but my dream year would be to be in a single-camera comedy and then, on my hiatus, film a little low-budget indie drama. That would be a dream 12-month period. A dream role depends on having good material and working with people that I can learn from.

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.

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.

Ivan Reitman

Evolution ... Just the right formula of science and comedy may get moviegoers through the door

Douglas Fairbanks

Every week we had a different story and setting. Some were costume and period; some were modern. Some were comedy; some were tragedy. Some were melodrama. They were all different.

Paul Provenza

The joke is the comedy equivalent of jazz. It's raunchy, it's free of constraints, yet has a simple 'melody' to hold on to. It's about where you take it, not where it's going. If that is not a workable definition of art, I don't know what is.

Steve Carell

It's really a comedy about all these people who are looking for the loves of their lives, and struggling to find happiness during this pursuit,

Tom Sherak

Any time you have a comedy with Jim Carrey and the Farrelly brothers, you'd love to see it do more.

Jason Wiles

I like doing what I do, but I like having the opportunity to do different things, and obviously comedy would be a fun jump. I've just been lucky enough to stay working. In my case, playing intense roles or playing character roles is something that people will hire me for, but yeah, I'd like somebody to think I'm funny. I guess we all do, right?

Jeff Kinney

I'm keeping my day job, because Poptropica is something that really energizes me. I'd love to create a TV series or write a film that's not in the 'Wimpy' universe, but I know it will be difficult to create something from scratch. But I love creating good comedy for kids, so I hope to have another successful venture in the future!

Ryan Murphy

I'm like, 'No, it's not funny, but it has moments of comedy in it,'

Sterling Knight

I'm definitely a romantic comedy dude because I'm a big romantic at heart. I'm a softy, so it's always nice to watch movies that make you think that love at first sight is actually possible.

W. S. Gilbert

I like both, but there is something about comedy that is like so incredible - I don't know - there's something that I really respond to with comedy.

Derek Waters

I'm a comedy snob, and I never want anything that I do to get old.

Ralph Brown

I love doing comedy. I find comedy quite hard work. Comedy's underrated, I think, by actors, you know? It's difficult to get it right and get it funny. I really enjoy doing it. I kind of wish I'd done it more. I can't complain. I've had a fair crack of the whip.

Elijah Wood

I loved the story, the comedy and how emotional it becomes. It was also an opportunity to do something different to what I had done before.

Jeremy Irons

I'm sure that Steve Martin would love to be where I am, and I would like to be more where he is as far as the comedy stakes are concerned.

Horace Walpole

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

Horace Walpole

The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.

Horace Walpole

The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel.

The volume of comedy stuff is exploding. It's a very social genre for sharing a laugh.

Meg Myers

There's a fine line between comedy and the darkest place ever.