Comedy Quotes

I think that people who do enjoy my stand-up comedy and the people who get it and the people who are taken in by it, they see that I'm a guy that has love of the game.

Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred.

Yes, they allowed us to play around a lot because, like we said, the director's such a good comedy director.

Now people want what the movie was about, which is violent comedy. And that's really what The Aristocrats is based on - what will a family do out of desperation.

All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.

I'd love to do a romantic comedy. And perhaps, if the character was right and I had a good gut instinct, a Bollywood movie. And I'd love to direct. One day. I'm learning a lot on the set of 'The Good Wife.'

I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side.

If you want to be an actor, you need to learn how to act first, even in sketch comedy.

I love Benny Hill. He one of my favourites of aaall time. Like, the way Benny did it, he was just amazing. Just seeing how he put songs together and comedy and the timing and the sketches. He was way ahead of his time.

You know, I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor.

I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer.

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.