Best 2389 quotes in «comedy quotes» category

The trouble with a series as it gets older is it can feel like a tradition, and tradition is the enemy of suspense, and it's the enemy of comedy. It's the enemy of everything, really. So you have to shake it up.

The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast.

The trick [in comedy] is always to figure out how real you're playing it and how real it's supposed to feel. That's a hard thing to figure out.

The truth is, I've denied it for years, but I love deconstructing comedy.

The truth is, I've never thought of myself as the Michael Jordan of comedy. And that's a good thing. You know why? Because I'm not. Wasn't that Richard Pryor? Yes, it was. I know what I am: I'm funny!

The understatement is the English contribution to comedy.

The Westerns I like aren't really comedies. I'm drawn to the scope of them and the land as a central character.

The whole object of comedy is to be yourself and the closer you get to that, the funnier you will be.

The whole romantic part of my life was a wipeout. I didn't even own a belt.

The whole thing with comedy is that you are always in control. Writer, director, actor, producer, and sometimes bouncer. And you are just a piece of their puzzle.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

They'll always be an England, even if it's in Hollywood.

They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.

They tend to come out a colour called 'Pants left in wash'

Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.

They [ The Simpsons] are just like the Bible to me as far as what the high-water mark of comedy.

This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I wanted to do a comedy, so this was just the right one.

This has been a learning experience for me. I also thought that privacy was something we were granted in the Constitution. I have learned from this when in fact the word privacy does not appear in the Constitution.

This is my chance to get out there and appease the fans of my music as well as show people that I do do standup comedy because a lot of people don't know that's where I started.

This hiatus coming up I'm looking at a comedy because I need the balance.

This stammer got me a home in Beverly Hills, and I'm not about to screw with it now.

This sausage roll only contains 2% of your daily intake of calories... if you lick it.

Though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve.

Timing is the essence of life, and definitely of comedy.

To me, horror and comedy never work. Never worked for me, anyway.

T.J. Miller and Kumail Nanjiani I met when I was in Chicago, learning how to do comedy.

To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat.

To love the right person is a comedy. To love the wrong person is a tragedy.

To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.

To give up my job as a temp and actually make a living doing comedy, it was staggering.

To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy.

To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It's commenting or observing or twisting life.

To me, the musical is best when it's a musical comedy. So if you have a very, very funny show, and very good, funny songs, that's what the musical does best.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to keep moving.

Tragedy dramatizes human life as potentiality and fulfillment. Its virtual future, or Destiny, is therefore quite different from that created in comedy. Comic Destiny is Fortune - what the world will bring, and the man will take or miss, encounter or escape; tragic Destiny is what the man brings, and the world will demand of him. That is his Fate.

To see a comedy in an environment where you're surrounded by other people that are laughing is great. That's probably more satisfying than just watching it by yourself.

Tragedy when ridiculed by comedy does not condescend a reply.

Tranquilizers work only if you follow the advice on the bottle - keep away from children.

Une ample Come  die a'   cent actes divers, Et dont la sce'  ne est l'Univers. A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.

Unlike typical romantic comedies, Definitely Maybe is not formulaic or predictable and it spans a decade while being set against a political background. Also, the audience doesn't know who ends up with who until the very end, which makes it a sort of "romantic mystery comedy".

Unless you're Jack Lemmon or Cary Grant, there are few guys who can do comedy and drama.

Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.

We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.

Vince Vaughn is a genuine person, awesome guy. He'll come to a lot of my shows. It's not that often that you can meet someone as cool as Vince.

We all know what tragedy is. "Yes, I'd rather not have any more tragedy, please. I'll have comedy, please." Comedy, in the Greek sense, only means that it has a happy ending.

Usually comedy is only available to us ladies in the romantic comedy. That's why I hate romantic comedies.

Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.

We actually did quite a lot of comedy on 'Xena'. The whole show was very tongue-in-cheek.

We have defeated Saddam Hussein and Iraq. The good news is Iraq is ours, and the bad news is Iraq is ours.

We "chicks" have munched our popcorn while romantic comedies became just comedies, and then each female protagonist got recast for Mathew McConaughey or Seth Rogan.