All Quotes

Comedy is very controlling - you are making people laugh.
‐‐ Gilda Radner

Comedy is very difficult. I love it because when you do it right, it's the best feeling in the world.
‐‐ Brandon Jay McLaren

Comedy is very hard, but you have to learn the art and science of it.
‐‐ Marlon Wayans

Comedy is what I really want to do and propel.
‐‐ Marisa Tomei

Comedy is wonderful when you really nail it and you hear people laughing, but it's not always that easy.
‐‐ Sandra Bullock

Comedy isn't necessarily all dialogue. Think of Buster Keaton: the poker face and all this chaos going on all around him. Sometimes it's a question of timing, of the proper rhythm.
‐‐ Clint Eastwood

Comedy isn't polite and it isn't correct and it isn't accurate, even. It's just a mess. So that's the way that I approach it.
‐‐ Louis C. K.

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

Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.
‐‐ Marty Feldman

Comedy lives on in the web and TV, but nobody's pressing comedy albums anymore.
‐‐ Jason Alexander

Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible.
‐‐ Dario Fo

Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.
‐‐ Steve Martin

Comedy needs to happen naturally and be in touch with the character. When you see that guy in your office that everybody laughs at, he doesn't think he's funny. He's just being him, and that's the joke.
‐‐ Terry Crews

Comedy, not screaming at someone, can make someone lift their legs higher. There is a way to do a push-up and a sit-up, and it doesn't have to be so complicated. Everyone is putting a difficult twist to it and making you do way too much.
‐‐ Richard Simmons

Comedy often comes at the expense of others, and to do that smartly, you don't want to make fun of vulnerable people. You want to make fun of people in power, and so you need to really understand the dynamics of power.
‐‐ Elizabeth Banks

Comedy people like other comedy people. People hang out and are friends and do shows together, and when you get something going like a TV show or a movie, you want your friends to be in it and make it funnier. That's just the way it should be.
‐‐ Rob Huebel

Comedy requires a lot of energy.
‐‐ Gael Garcia Bernal

Comedy's about opening up and being unique, but to a point where the audience can relate to what you're saying.
‐‐ Kevin Hart

Comedy's my first love. I love that so much. You play comedy in drama, too. The difference between genres doesn't really change the method of acting.
‐‐ Emma Stone

Comedy's really about not being afraid to look terrible, look ugly, look silly, make fun of yourself. And that's something that women are just not socialized to do. But more women are doing it, and more women have examples of women doing it brilliantly.
‐‐ Aisha Tyler

Comedy's really subjective, you know.
‐‐ Karl Pilkington

Comedy's really subjective, you know; that's why it's so hard.
‐‐ Karl Pilkington

Comedy's so subjective, and if someone comes to watch, doesn't get it, doesn't find it funny, then fine.
‐‐ Johnny Vegas

Comedy scares me a lot. I feel like it's way harder than drama. I think my safety net is definitely drama, and I would love to kind of be able to be able to push into the comedy world and do something kind of like a Christopher Guest kind of style show. That, to me, is my kind of comedy. Like, Ricky Gervais comedy. That's my kind of thing.
‐‐ Tatiana Maslany

Comedy should be a source of positivity. I don't want to bully people, and I don't want people to come to my show to feel terrible about something. So I'm actually very open to having a conversation about what I should or shouldn't say.
‐‐ Bo Burnham

Comedy should be easy, not laboured.
‐‐ Tracy Morgan

Comedy shouldn't be restrained under the belt of normality.
‐‐ Rhys Darby

Comedy takes a very specific technique, specific skills.
‐‐ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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

Comedy to me is all about the bumps and bruises and weird tics.
‐‐ Melissa McCarthy

Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn't been a satirist or a political satirist who's done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign. But I think it's a good thing. Some people thought that it was an odd career arc, but to me it made absolute sense.
‐‐ Al Franken

Comedy unites, it doesn't divide!
‐‐ Mike Birbiglia

Comedy was a secret want, but it wasn't anything I pursued.
‐‐ Tig Notaro

Comedy was all I ever wanted.
‐‐ Margaret Cho

Comedy was my sport. It taught me how to roll with the punches. Failure is the exact same as success when it comes to comedy because it just keeps coming. It never stops.
‐‐ Emma Stone

Comedy was something I picked up trying to perfect my art through spoken word. I got on YouTube just to show off my poetry, and then people thought I was funny, so I ran with it.
‐‐ Spoken Reasons

Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than it naturally unfolded. I cheated myself out of a childhood but then got a running headstart into adulthood that no one else could keep up with.
‐‐ Margaret Cho

Comedy was why I got into acting the first place. Peter Sellers was a huge influence on my wanting to act. I grew up with him and found him hysterical. The Pink Panther films were an inspiration, from my earliest childhood days, when I was watching them with my brother and my dad.
‐‐ Sally Hawkins

Comedy wasn't something I chose - it chose me.
‐‐ Pauly Shore

Comedy wasn't something I chose - it chose me. I was just inherently funny when I was a kid.
‐‐ Pauly Shore

Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
‐‐ J. B. Priestley

Comedy, when it works, is light on its feet and has the illusion of complete spontaneity: as if there is no film, no camera. You are standing there experiencing it all in real time. This illusion, I believe, is why so many people think comedy is easy.
‐‐ David Dobkin

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.
‐‐ Ben Elton

Comedy works best when people recognise themselves.
‐‐ Jason Alexander

Comedy writers have the most fragile egos.
‐‐ Mindy Kaling

Comedy writing is taking the brief thought and going with it.
‐‐ Chris O'Dowd

Comedy, your funny bone, is formed in childhood.
‐‐ Paul O'Grady

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.
‐‐ Billy Graham

Comfort came in with the middle classes.
‐‐ Clive Bell