Best 2389 quotes in «comedy quotes» category

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

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

I had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure.

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

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

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

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 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 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 an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival.

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

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 haven't seen comedy as popular as it is now since when I started, in the late 1980s boom. It feels like that again, in that it's everywhere, and it's great to see.

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

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.

I have some very personal feelings about politics, but I don't get into it because I do comedy already.

I have to be careful not to do so many comedy airhead roles from now on. I've turned down a couple already.

I have weird aspirations. Like, I really want to kick a pigeon.

I have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn't include someone the size of the Hindenburg.

I invented the cordless extension cord.

I hope and assume that every good comedy writer, no matter the age, has a moment where they discover how great Cheers is.

I hope I don't just do the exact same thing my whole life. I also feel like it's really hard to make comedy. It's almost impossible for comedy filmmakers and directors to stay relevant as they get older.

I just don't get if you have ever gotten offended by a joke, why would you go to a comedy club? That's where jokes happen.

I just like comedy in general. My film work, which has been at times more dramatic, has been satisfying. But I never feel quite as good and as light and blissful as when I'm doing comedy.

I just love that part of comedy, where you see somebody's jokes develop. They try something new to see what works, and I just love that part.

I just like the joyous aspect of playing comedy.

I know I can never work in a comedy because I can't keep a goddamn straight face.

I just want to continue to do comedy. Comedy, I'm discovering, is my niche. It's what I'm born to do, so I would love to have my own sitcom one day in the future.

I kind of was raised at The Comedy Store by comedians. When you see my dad on stage before me and then you see me, you'll see where I got a lot of my stuff.

I know a lot of girls in the comedy world who are kind of like me. I don't know where the slutty girls hang out, but it's not the comedy world as far as I know.

I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.

I know it's going to sound cheesy, but I love show business. I love doing comedy, I love that I get to do all this with my friends.

I know nothing about love and romance, so I prefer to stick to just comedy.

I know the new comedy god is surrealism, but it doesn't touch my heart.

I learned a few things on my own since, and modified some of the things he taught me, but everything, unequivocally, that I learned about comedy writing I learned from Danny Simon.

I know these jokes aren't great, ladies and gentlemen, see this is the problem you run into when you're between impeachments.

I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvelous. It must be very inexpensive.

I learned more about elections on election night 2000 than I ever did during my 16 years of schooling.