Best 2389 quotes in «comedy quotes» category

I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen.

I think the best comedies came out during the Depression. Personally.

I think the possibility of continuing on a comedy is greater than a drama.

I think there's a difference between making comedy and reporting comedy. When you're a joke teller you can easily fall into the second, you can show up and just say the jokes.

I think the things that I enjoy most about directing theater, or works that are really visceral in terms of comedy and have a sort of rock and roll aesthetic.

I think, through comedy, sometimes we're allowed to discuss things that you'd never be able to talk about in a drama.

I think what's dangerous [about comedy] is that you're coming into the room announcing your intentions.

I think when I feel I'm at my best is when I'm on stage, and it's my version of jazz because it's just riffing or something.

I think when you dissect a joke too much, you have ruined whatever there is in comedy.

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

I think with romantic comedies it's a lot about tone, because different romantic comedies have different tones.

I think, you know, a lot of the business of comedy is taking your personal experiences and making them relatable to other people.

I thought I'd be living a much more bohemian life and be very poor. I never thought I'd do comedy or be married living in the suburbs. Every time I try to plan my life out it just doesn't come to pass, and I think that's a great experience.

I thought comedy would be the hardest thing I could do, and if I could do that, I could do anything.

I thought, "I don't want to be the only unfunny guy in this movie. I really would like to be somehow involved in the comedy if I'm going to do it.

I thought 'Borat' was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasn't some studio-produced script with 14 writers.

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

It is hard enough to be good at all, but to be good in comedy speaks for your character.

It is quite true - in fact, obvious on the surface - that the vast majority of dramatic shows and comedies, as well, advocate a liberal and humanistic and relativistic lifestyle and concept.

I touched an Oscar once. Friend of mine has one, for writing. As soon as I touched it, he said, Now you'll never win one.

It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot of hitting notes precisely

It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.

It really was a unique experience to me to have a television show, Comedy Bang! Bang!, that I really cared about so much, and to know that it was the end, and know that that was the ending of it. We had a wrap party, and we thanked everybody. You don't get that a lot, especially in comedy.

I try not to make social consciousness a massive part of my music or comedy because I prefer to be an entertainer first and foremost, then do actual grassroots work when I can.

It's a dangerous game that comedy plays. Sometimes it tells you the truth; sometimes it delays it.

It's always been a dream of mine to be in a Woody Allen comedy.

It's a no-win situation with politics, it's always going to be stressful. I'm more into the comedy of life.

It's definitely easier for a woman to do a romantic comedy than a war movie. It's assumed a woman doesn't have a sense of what action is.

I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines.

I try to measure the amount of truth in a work rather than just looking at the generic distinction between comedy and drama.

It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy.

It's always been said that comedy comes mostly out of the dark side anyway.

It's a pragmatist's business, comedy. Start off with good intentions and references to the Pompidou Centre and you end up with boiled sweets and a pantomime cow.

Its consistency of what comedy can do and what comedy can be.Growing up with that show [The Simpsons] shaped my worldview.

It's easier to do comedy with an audience, because their reactions tell you whether or not what your saying qualifies as comedy.

It's easy to smile when you have a squirrel's intellect.

It seems that two of the most basic forms of comedy are jokes and stories. And, of course, they are not mutually exclusive.

It's frightening and exhilarating. It's like combat. Look at the metaphors: You kill when it works; you die when it doesn't.

It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for comedy.

It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out.

It's hard for me to even watch comedies I'm in.

It's hard to learn about comedy from comedians. Comedy is not something that you necessarily learn or can imitate. You're funny or you're not, and you hope what you're doing is funny.

It's interesting, in the U.K., I'm known for doing comedy things, which often doesn't translate to the U.S.

It’s funny, I can sit through the worst horror film ever made! But even a quite good romantic comedy.

It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy.

It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.

It's hard to get fired from the government. You have to, like, kill people.

It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.

It's just, you can get very complacent if you do the same thing all the time and especially the comedian, it gives me you know different things to react to and respond to, and it stimulates me.

It's like love making, the foreplay is the biggest part, the same thing as comedy. If you can frame your show in such a way that the funny jokes become funnier.