Best 2389 quotes in «comedy quotes» category

Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution.

Dad loved movies and I grew up with British comedy. My ultimate favourite is Peter Sellers.

Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call to take the audience for a tumble.

Dark comedy is very difficult. You have to bring the audience in and push them away at the same time.

Dave! Relax! Close your buttcheeks!

Deep inside, I am desperate to do comedy.

Did you know babies are nauseated by the smell of a clean shirt?

Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!

Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.

Discussion in America means dissent.

Doing stand-up comedy is in the middle of a traffic jam getting everybody moving again.

Doing a film and saying, I've done a really dark film and now I have to do a comedy... That's not me. If a script comes along and it's dark I'll absolutely do it and take the consequences. I'm not fussed about the image that goes along with it.

Doing comedy is as easy as doing anything else. You're dependent totally on the material.

Do it [stand-up comedy] because it feels like the right thing to do. Do it because you don't want to do anything else. There is something in you that does not want you to do anything else other than comedy.

Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?

Do unto others, then run

Donald Trump had a university. Well, the state attorney general decided that the Donald Trump University was an unlicensed sham. And I thought, you know you're at a bad university when your commencement speaker is Whitey Bulger.

Don't bite his face, Eleanor told herself. It's disturbing and needy and never happens in situation comedies or movies that end with big kisses.

Don't get it right, just get it written.

Don't get me wrong, there are sometimes if I go and see a really funny comedy, that I wished I had smoked a joint. I'll be honest with you. That's the truth.

Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter?

Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.

Drama and comedy, to me ,are all about being surprising, coherent, and true, all at once.

Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there's been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you.

Drama is this incredibly vulnerable thing, but with comedy, you have to have a sense of rhythm and be very sensitive to the pace of things.

Dying is easy. Comedy is hard.

Dying's tough - but not as tough as comedy.

Entourage [movie] really is established as a genre unto itself, much like the thriller or the horror movie or the comedy. And those things trend.

Eddie Murphy was the Michael Jordan of comedy. He had a full range of abilities.

Editing and post-production is so important with comedy.

e foundation to a good friendship is trust but the foundation to good comedy is by betraying your friends.

Entertainment Weekly said that Parks and Rec is the smartest comedy on tv. Call me when it's the funniest.

Even if you get a joke right you've done it a thousand times and sometimes there's times where it just doesn't work or someone doesn't agree with you. And I want to show that. I have had more hecklers because that's part of comedy is arguments, you know?

Endings of television shows are sometimes such depressing things. I think shows that have more of a narrative and are about what's going to happen next, those need to wrap up as a complete story. But it's weird when a goofy comedy show needs to end, and we knew it was going to be the end, and sometimes it's just better if a comedy show ends and goes away and they never had a series finale.

Even in comedy it's important to get your body acquainted with what you're going to do.

every actor knows that tragedy, being linear and inevitable, is taxing - but comedy, which depends on the element of surprise, is the hardest act of all.

Ever since I started to get recognition I've picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.

Every few months I'll pop into a comedy club or go to Vegas.

Everybody is different. Some comedy is more musical like Steven Wright. His is a pillar of comedy to me. He invented a whole form and all his jokes are poems. So it's different. I wanted to do it like George Carlin. Now I do it like me.

Everybody grows up with comedy. I mean, Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing.

Everybody needs some good sketch comedy.

Every day is a surprise. There are confirmations of an interconnectivity and synchronicity which inspire, titillate and confirm the inherent comedy of the universe.

Every movie I do, or when I'm on the sketch comedy show, I don't really get into it until I have an outfit or something funny with my head or face or something.

Everyone has their personal topics. My comedy has always been very strong on observational humor, it stems from what I see every day in my life.

Everyone in comedy thinks if you go to the U.S. you become a global star but, unfortunately, I've always been a bit anti-American - so I never did.

Everyone's got their own velocity, and there's no real time frame with comedy.

Everything I do, in the middle of it, I lose all objectivity. The business of comedy is kind of ridiculous in that respect. Your job is to have a lot of fun in a jar, then sell it. There's something inherently illogical and impossible about that, but that being said, this is as good as it gets.

Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.

Every time I go and shave, I assume there's someone else on the planet shaving. So I say, 'I'm gonna go shave, too.'

Fictional comedy tells us that the writer is remarkable. Factual comedy tells us that the world is remarkable. I suppose I prefer to live in a remarkable world.