Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Idle

I think he's the most intelligent man I've ever met. Honesty, simplicity and truth are the secret to his comedy.

Anthony Jeselnik

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

Aaron Paul

I don't really seem to gravitate to romantic comedies.

Clive Anderson

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

This would be a comedy of errors if the impact on human lives were not so tragic. How many more missing forms are there lost in the system? How many other errors have not been reported?

Albert Brooks

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

Dario Fo

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

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.

Conan O'Brien

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

Alfred Hitchcock

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

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.

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.

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.

Robin Williams

The moments of comedy are there. But the whole idea of a vacation is the stripping away of stuff and then, by the end of the vacation, (at least) in my life, you do have these moments as a group, as a family having a great time, so mellow again. It takes a while to do that but that's what this movie is about.

Mark Waters

Drama is played at the pace of chess... or billiards... or poker. Engrossing? Sure. But comedy is played at the jubilant, high-octane speed of sports like basketball or hockey.

Ray William Johnson

Sometimes, comedy and entertainment is not all about telling jokes; sometimes you just have to be you for a few moments.

Mitch Hedberg

Sometimes I wave to people I don't know. It's very dangerous to wave to someone you don't know, because what if they don't have a hand? They'll think you're cocky. 'Look what I got... This thing is useful. I'm gonna go pick somethin' up.'

Reese Witherspoon

Romantic comedy has really evolved since that time when there used to be a lot of social conventions and all sorts of reasons why people couldn't be together,

Clifton Collins, Jr.

Directors have been trying to get me to do comedy for a long time, ever since 'One Eight Seven.'

And we felt like it was just a great romantic comedy world and a great office comedy.

There was a lot of sexual comedy in there we couldn't do because of where we are.

Dinah Sheridan

A subtle comedy part, I think, requires more finesse than a heavy dramatic role.

The most encouraging development for NBC is the development of a comedy that could get viewers to take a new look at the network and 'My Name is Earl' is the type of program that has sustainability.

Kristen Schaal

The more women sit down and write something in a woman's voice for a woman, they more you'll see women in comedy because gender doesn't define sense of humor. Imagination and intelligence and perspective do.

It's just going to be a fun time. Comedy really allows you to take your mind off homework and stress. I want everyone to come and laugh and have a good time for a few hours Saturday night.

Aaron McGruder

For me, it really first has to be a good story and be funny. If you're doing sincere comedy, the edgy stuff kind of happens on its own.

Frank Kelly

It's the end of an era for a kind of comedy, a convention of comedy that seems to have moved on to an alternative form of comedy, and I would be much more of his generation.

Roberto Benigni

This is an homage to the master, because I love this movie, and, of course, making a movie -- a comedy about concentration camp, I watched this movie a lot of time,