Comedy Quotes

I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.

I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots of jokes in it - I wouldn't know how to do jokes without the story.

A romantic comedy has to be funny and make you think about life; but the obstacle that has to be overcome is key.

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.

I had a terrible job letting me do anything that wasn't comedy.

Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them.

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

When I did comedy I made fun of myself. If there was a buffoon, I played the buffoon.

I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy.

I'm fascinated by comedy.

I am a big fan of the TV series 'Taxi' which combined comedy and pathos better than any other show I've seen.

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.

I definitely am a huge lover of comedy, and it's only through doing so many comedies that I've realised how much of an influence they've been on me.

There are people who like just ordinary comedy fun, and making mistakes - which I do easily - and then there are people who like the falling over.

Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor, that's my training.

I could be the Greta Garbo of comedy, very secluded, but Garbo had a man who was beyond rich to support her.

Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing, it's not usually a comedy and writing thing.

Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective.

I just thought it could make a really cool movie. It's not that it's just a buddy comedy but it's all about two guys hating each other and towards the end they're good friends. I liked that these two guys were best friends from the very beginning, and they're crazy.

For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages.

All I mean is, I'm not the kind of audience comedy directors want at a test screening because I seldom laugh, and if I do, it's not very loud. That doesn't mean I don't like the movie.

I didn't take anything from anyone - first of all. Second of all, I opened a comedy club with money that I saved over 25 years. I created jobs.

Well I sure had been looking for a comedy for years without any success.

Because I think in order to get famous you have to be known for something. Like 'You're the romantic comedy girl' or 'You're the Oscar-winning whatever girl.'

I would say that fifty percent of my show is killer comedy.

Without a doubt in sketch comedy there are fewer women than men.

To me, comedy is a great occupation because I don't really worry that much about what other people think of me.

You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show.

I'm not sure anybody's ready to see me in a drama. And loving movies so much, I've seen a lot of comics try to make that transition too fast, and it can be detrimental. And I don't think I've had as much success as I need in the comedy genre to open up those opportunities.

Good comedy is ageless.