Comedy Quotes

You know, comedy's hard. With drama, you have a responsibility to the emotional truth, but with comedy, you have emotional truth and you have technique on top of it.

This is my chance to get out there and appease the fans of my music as well as show people that I do do standup comedy because a lot of people don't know that's where I started.

Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.

I think when you dissect a joke too much, you have ruined whatever there is in comedy.

I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable.

It's a comedy thriller, brilliantly written and it's full of twists and turns at every page. When I was reading it I was desperate to get to the end to find out what happens, it really hooks you.

Most modern comedy is crap.

Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets.

Is it spoken word? Kinda, but that's a weird area. Is it comedy? Well, it's funny but no, it's not comedy.

I did sketch comedy for years. I've always enjoyed it.

A lot of stand-up comedy guys, when they get a little famous, just give up their stand-up career, and it cancels out the thing that set them apart.

The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.

When you get down to it, at it's root, Comedy is truth, absurdity, and pain. One of my little mottos is: 'Do you remember the Peanuts cartoon where Charlie Brown kicked the football and kissed the Little Red Haired Girl? Neither do I.'

Mean comedy is not really something that I personally gravitate towards or something that I do.

I like to see love stories: romantic comedy or romantic drama.

I don't devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.

I went to art school for fine art and then I started doing performance art, and then I started making fun of performance art, and it turned into comedy.

Nobody should try to play comedy unless they have a circus going on inside.

I really don't take any interest at all in contemporary comedy.

I've been very fortunate to be able to jump around. I just did this really wonderful film called Map of the World. That was a real, amazing, dramatic story. Then I did a movie called Company Men, a little comedy about the Bay of Pigs.

The secret of writing comedy is to know where it's all going, then get ahead of it.

With comedy I can search for the profound.

I played an artist in a comedy called 'Rooster.' It was a zany film by Glen Larson, a friend who produced several successful television series including 'Magnum PI.'

Something about New York, man: You can do more comedy there probably than you can anywhere in the world. If you're interested in being funny, New York is the place to go.

It's a director's job to tell a story and he's very well versed in telling stories with a bit of comedy in them and keeping the pace of the movie right and that's exactly what he did. He was observant of a world he didn't understand but he told a wonderful story.

People know me. I'm not going to produce any cartwheels out there. I'm not going to belong on Comedy Central. I'll always be a tennis player, not a celebrity.

Acting can be pretty challenging. I can't say making a romantic comedy is challenging, but to do anything well, you have to put yourself into it.

John was the smartest and most amazing comedian I've ever worked with. I think more than teaching me about acting or comedy, he taught me about life and the love of people and respect of people.

Comedy is tragedy plus time.

And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.