Best 2389 quotes in «comedy quotes» category

If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration.

If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces, that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it's wrong. It's just wrong.

If you make comedy, if you try and make comedy where no one gets upset or offended, you're going to fail.

If you're going through a divorce and you're in a comedy you have to find some way to find the funny side of things even though you might not want to.

If you're going to do a romantic comedy it was about housing it in something that we haven't seen before.

If you're playing things sincere in a really absurd, heightened situation, you'll achieve comedy as opposed to just saying funny lines and one-liners and stuff.

If you thought it was impossible for a film to contain less effective comedy than Date Movie, here's evidence to the contrary.

If you've never seen an elephant ski, then you've never been on acid.

If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That's the greatest sketch comedy you'll ever see on television.

I get a lot of flack from critics that my comedies are all over the place, my dramas are all over the place, they're schizophrenic - as if I don't know that!

I get stage fright with short stories. For me it feels like standup comedy: kill or die. I'm more confident when I begin a novel because I know I have space to fail.

I get to do physical comedy! When do women get to do physical comedy? Very rarely.

I got locked into a tradition [at Cambridge] of doing comedy.

I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.

I got into comedy so I could stay out all night.

I got my start in silent radio.

I got, like, Diane Keaton's manager, and she was very connected; she had power. And she was like, "Your star is in tears on this comedy. Do you even notice that at all?

I got off the plane - I was walking and cooking at the same time.

I go to a lot of stand-up comedy. I find more inspiration from observational stuff than from rap.

I gravitate towards anything that has a grain of comedy to it.

"I got up early because I wanted to." - Nobody

I grew up fascinated with comedy and with people who could capture someone's attention.

I guess funny people are attracted to funny people, and then you get comedy marriages.

I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.

I grew up watching British comedy on TV, really.

I guess I'm sort of spoiled because, most of the things that I get to do, people know that you're a good improviser, so they allow you at least one improv take, and for comedy, that's great.

I had a terrible job letting me do anything that wasn't comedy.

I guess what I always found funny was the human condition. There is a certain comedy and pathos to trouble and accidents. Like, when a driver has parked his car crookedly and then wonders why he has the bad luck of being hit.

I had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure.

I had always been - everybody kind of likes comedy. I was very interested in comedy, beyond just liking it. I had friends that took apart radios; I wanted to take apart jokes.

I had seen some shows at the Groundlings [legendary L.A. improvisational and sketch comedy troupe] and thought, "If I could ever do that, that would really mean something, that I have arrived." So I went through the program and said to myself, "I'm going to stay here until they kick me out." Seriously, they can ask you to leave at any point. Luckily, they never did that to me.

I had no musical or athletic ability, and I wasnt particularly good looking. Comedy was something I could do for attention.

I hadn't really done a comedy other than The Ape since Freaks and Geeks.

I had to have a brace because I had big teeth. If I'd gone to Africa I would have got poached.

I had some eyeglasses. I was walking down the street when suddenly the prescription ran out.

I have a lot more fun making comedies because there's a levity on the set, and I find it difficult to go to work and, you know, cry for 12 hours.

I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.

I have an inability to enjoy things, but that's why we're in comedy. If we were happy, we wouldn't be funny, I guess.

I have always been told that I was a funny, entertaining person and have always been told to give comedy a try.

I have always survived with comedy, in that I grew up very dyslexic and did not get good grades. I always thought I was dumb, and there are many people out there that would agree

I have always felt like romantic comedies are incredibly predictable. You look at the poster and you know those two are ending up together at the end of the movie.

I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival.

I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.

I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author.

I haven't seen a lot of screwball comedies, and I don't think of myself as loving the genre. To me it sounds like, okay, you're going to be in a lot of crazy situations that are unbelievable.

I have never understood people dividing things into dramas and comedies.

I have other tastes besides comedy. I love comedy. I adore it, but I love dramatic movies just as much.

I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I'm getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I'm just trying not to get into that sort of state again.

I have spiritual beliefs that I could literally go out and make an entire comedy routine about, and tour as some sort of spiritual guru, but it kind of goes against that [as] I actually believe the things, so I'm always kind of caught in the middle.

I have such a girl-crush on Reese Witherspoon. I would love to do a comedy with her.