Best 2389 quotes in «comedy quotes» category

Young Dr. Druthers had boasted of the fact that he was a proud and fine graduate of Slopoke Medical College in Slopoke County, somewhere on the border between North and South Carolina.

Your boss loves your ideas ... it's you he doesn't care about.

Your confidence in me is heartwarming. Makes me want to return all the money I stole from the little old ladies and kick the heroin.

You’re brave.” Lorna said. “I’m not,” I assured her, trying not to bristle. I hate being called brave. It’s almost as bad as inspiring.

You’re chasing one thing because you’re running away from something else. Even if you get what you want you’ll look back and regret this. Find out what you’re running away from and deal with that. Then maybe you can start enjoying the journey instead of fighting it out.

You’re one tough egg to crack. You know that? You’re like a Kinder egg wrapped inside a mystery wrapped inside an enigma.

Your fortune teller cursed me. Foul spirits haunt every supermarket I go to. I can't show my face in Morrisons.

Your full of yourself." "Duhh... genetics man.

Your tills are talking to me and want me to take them home. Does this often happen?

Your toaster’s a puff.

You want me to pin my entire operation, the entire revolution on some teenaged love story? I can't believe this.

You two have just reached the level of annoyingly cute.

'30 Rock' is the holy grail of comedy in my opinion.

You will be so dead, dear Sister. Make telpon dari tadi kayak Kroasia ada di sebelah Jakarta aja. Huahahaha

25, 30 years ago, that meant something, they were making some money. And they were doing all sorts of comedy, screaming at the audience, basically crowd control. And then there was the whole urban comedy scene.

A comedian has to live in his head. All this comedy comes from a lonely place. When you're surrounded by an entourage, you're not living in your head.

Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references to the spectators or to the fictive nature of the play.

Accents are funny. It sets me apart from the other girls doing comedy. It gives me more—how do you say?—pop-oo-laaarrrity.

A comedy ends with a wedding, and a tragedy ends with a funeral: you always have to juxtapose sex and death.

A comedy isn't about being funny," said Mrs. Baker. "We talked about this before." "A comedy is about character who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all. That's how I know." "Suppose you can't see it?" "That's the daring part," said Mrs. Baker.

A comedian is not funny unless he is taking his demons out for a walk.

Acting by yourself is pretty darn hard, especially having to do physical comedy.

Acting in a sitcom or a comedy movie is like a comedy routine with the setups.

Action comedy, if you can get it right, it is, for me, a particularly brilliant genre. It really is.

A famous actor, Edmund Kean, on his deathbed, was reported to have said, "Dying is easy. Comedy is hard.

A favorite film of mine is 'Office Space' and I love 'The Hangover.' That is a really good comedy from character in that film, and that is true of 'Office Space' too.

After 20 years of doing comedy, I find dramatic work more challenging.

A formula for comedy is comedy equals tragedy plus time. A difficult or uncomfortable situation takes place, and then you laugh about it later down the road.

After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get out a new book by him each year.

After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley.

After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.

After “Melancholia” and “On the Road,” I wanted to do a comedy. And I did so many comedies when I was younger, but if you’re not consistently in those movies, people don’t always think of you for them.

A good comedy with a purpose behind it is exhilarating.

A good comedy’s very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy.

A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.

A good musical comedy consists largely of disorderly conduct occassionally interrupted by talk.

A great model for this is the way that Dante calls on Virgil at the beginning of 'The Inferno,' 'The Divine Comedy,' to help guide him through the underworld.

And you can't hide in a comedy scene either. You have to give in to the scene and commit.

All comedy comes from a dark place.

All improv turns into anger. All comedy improv basically turns into anger, because that's all people know how to do when they're improvising. If you notice shows that are improvising are generally people yelling at each other.

All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.

All techniques of comedy are valid and interesting to me.

All the parts I get offered are character and comedy parts, and I probably wouldn't get them if I had a different face. So I'm glad I have a comedy face.

All these jokes have been pre-approved as funny by me.

A lot of people who do drama say comedy is the hardest thing, but, not wanting to sound like a bighead, comedy is easy for me, as I've always been fairly funny.

A lot of time with comedy stuff, half of the stuff on my feed is: 'Haha, good for you!' 'Hey, thanks for making my day!' And the other half is: 'Defund the CBC!' 'All Newfoundlanders are hoagie-hogs!' It's just left and right and there's never anything in between.

A lot of the kind of comedy that I do comes out of real human moments. For them to work, they have to be truthful kinds of things that people in the audience can go, "Yes, I've experienced that myself!

Although according to certain philosophers it is quite difficult to distinguish the jester from the melancholic, life itself being a comic drama or a dramatic comedy.

Among the masked dandies of Edwardian comedy, Max Beerbohm is the most happily armored by a deep and almost innocent love of himself as a work of art.

And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.