Comedy Quotes

I think comedy is more my instinct and more what I'm geared towards.

When I tried to branch out into comedy, I didn't do very well at it, so I went back to doing what I do naturally well, or what the audience expects from me - action pictures.

We love the Stooges, and young kids today don't watch them. They think it's their dad's comedy. So we thought we could reintroduce them to a new audience.

Every day is a surprise. There are confirmations of an interconnectivity and synchronicity which inspire, titillate and confirm the inherent comedy of the universe.

Hypocrisy is great fodder for comedy.

I hadn't done just a straight-out comedy in a long time, just letting an ensemble do really good character acting, having them carry the movie as in my earlier pictures.

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

Well, being a Canadian, I love SCTV, and I think it's the basis for all good North American comedy, so I compare everything to that.

I still do my comedy and my performance stuff and my acting so it's not all-consuming. But I do find myself drawing more and more these days.

Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.

I've never directed before, so I need to make sure that people know that I can. The movie that I've written, 'The Sophisticates,' is a... small ensemble comedy and I hope it's charming and funny.

Comedy tends to come out of things which are quite painful and serious.

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

I got everybody on my side through comedy.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

I was in the Air Force and was a boom operator (in-flight refueling). I got my comedy start in the Air Force.

Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play.

The comedy of class, played so straight, is a wonderful thing for an actor to sink their teeth into.

Eddie Murphy was the Michael Jordan of comedy. He had a full range of abilities.

The best comedy I ever did was when people didn't know who I was.

It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for comedy.

There's always been physical suffering in comedy.

Comedy can be, especially in a writer's room, really aggressive, kind of a very male-dominated room, and it would be hard for women. It's not a nurturing place. It's not like a lot of women are going to say, I can't wait to live that lifestyle and be in a writer's room until 2 or 3 a.m.

I've been pitching a show of five female stand-up comedians through the generations, from Phyllis Diller to Amy Schumer, so when I got an e-mail asking me if I would participate in the Women in Comedy Festival, I was thrilled.

In comedy, though, it's good to get feedback from the audience about what they find funny.

Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.

I always loved comedy but I didn't start formally until I was in college.

I wanted to be less well-known in comedy.

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

In a comedy, after the day is done, you can figure out ways of how to make it even funnier for the next day. In dramas, it's very different - the mindset that you're in.