Comedy Quotes

As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.

Most parts in comedy, they're not really written for men. They're written for, like, these boy-men.

I love comedy and I would write things to myself as an exercise in writing. I didn't do well for years, and I quit. I started to break down why I was afraid and started to look at people I admired, like Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Freddie Prinze, George Carlin and all.

People always call me a comedian. And I don't really see myself like that. I guess I just consider myself an actor who does comedy. But who wants to do other things as well.

It seems easier to make a career out of comedy now than it was in the 1980s.

When writing comedy, you have to have the confidence to believe that there is only one type of relationship in the world, and we are all having it, that all men behave in the same way and so do all women.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

Then my first film was something called Cannibal Girls, which sounds like a horror movie but was actually kind of a goofy comedy with horror elements. Like a horror spoof.

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

Fox came to us with the concept for ICE AGE and they came to us with the first draft of the script. They also gave us a mandate to make it into a comedy from what was previously a rather dramatic action concept.

Comedy is hard to do. All the cliches about it are true.

Comedy is a very approval-oriented field.

I don't really like comedy.

A lot of critics object to what I do, but I got into comedy to make people laugh, and I've always worked hard.

Comedy is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right, it's not funny.

When I read the script, I liked the script very much and I thought it was a marvelous part for her, because I think it is a change of pace. I mean, we know how wonderful she is in romantic comedy.

Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on 'canned' laughter, grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years.

I never thought of myself in comedy at all... I loved going to the theatre and seeing people wearing beautiful clothes come down the staircase and start to dance.

Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive.

It's fun to do a comedy and hook people in and then hoodwink them into watching a serious movie. I like to lead in with the comedy and then hit them over the head with a drama.

I wouldn't feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy - I'd be bored to death.

My theory is, if you can do comedy and you can be in a scene with someone like Brad Garrett and hold your own, you've really got a future in this business.

The best way to ruin a comedy is to throw a lot of money at it.

I used to go to the Cleveland Comedy Club all the time. If there was a comic I liked, I'd go see him two or three times that week. Bob Saget was one of those guys.

I love a good laugh as well, I think that's so important in life, which is probably why I've dabbled in comedy writing as well as horror. I think if you can make someone laugh or smile it's the most special thing in the world.

Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it.

I haven't had a lot of comedy come my way as a performer.

Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded.

Sometimes I would like the opportunity to do character-driven comedy and that's really what I was trying to do in Meet The Parents. I think in a way this is a more old fashioned type of comedy.

I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.