Best 2389 quotes in «comedy quotes» category

Immortality is a long shot, I admit. But somebody has to be first.

I'm not a comedian. I didn't study sketch comedy; my background isn't that.

I'm not a comedian so I'll probably get crucified for saying this, but I think with a lot of comedy the impetus behind it is: I've been rejected so many times and I'm bitter and now I'm going to talk about it.

I'm not a big believer in the sense of Jews having a monopoly on comedy.

I'm not afraid to take on somebody or say something that somebody will find offensive because unfortunately in comedy, you can't say anything really good without offending somebody.

I'm not on all the time. I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker.

I'm not ashamed to tell the truth about what happened in my family. I think that's what makes my comedy different.

I'm not at all funny. I can do dark comedy pretty well, but straight-up comedy, I don't know. I'm much darker. I've been like that since I was 3 years old

I'm not the guy with the enormous comedy nose or the big feet or the bad posture or the whatever; a physical comic has certain things.

I'm not temperamentally into high comedy. I'm not a Noel Coward kind of girl.

I'm sorry, but I can't make a movie with the blonde from 'ER' who is starring in every single bad romantic comedy.

I'm really attracted to authors who take on really tricky material with a very open mind and take a subject matter that you wouldn't think would be a comedy.

I’m sort of known in the comedy community as “Smooth Sailing,” just ’cause everything always goes great. I’ve always had success at every turn.

I'm still a geek on the inside, that's the important thing.

In 20 years of comedy, I've probably had a dozen good points.

I'm not opposed to doing science fiction or comedy, but there has to be respect. I refuse to be the joke, the fat woman joke, in any movie. I've turned down roles.

I'm sort of like a post-modern vegetarian; I eat meat ironically.

I'm the first one who sees every romantic comedy in theaters.

I'm the Forrest Gump of comedy.

In Bollywood, I think Boman Irani and Vinay Pathak are unbelievably good at comedy.

I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable.

In comedy, I hate that cop-out where you say, "Just kidding." I know you're just kidding. Don't insult my intelligence by spelling it out for me that much.

In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama.

In comedy timing is everything, but Betty White is the rarest of comics who seems to have mastered time itself.

I never even considered comedy genre as something to embrace or move away from.

In Australia, I'm built up as this comedy hero, which was never my intention.

In comedy, reconcilement with life comes at the point when to the tragic sense only an inalienable difference or dissension with life appears.

In comedy, you see yourself as a newcomer and then you realize you've been doing it for 18, 20 years, which is ridiculous.

In comedy, though, it's good to get feedback from the audience about what they find funny.

In comedy you work with people so often that they just become familiar faces - it's like a fraternity.

In comedy, my strengths are improvisation.

I never analyze stuff with comedy because it's boring. It makes you stop being funny. Just be who you are and do what you do, and you're either funny or you're not.

I never go see live comedy shows because I just sit in the audience thinking, "Here's what I would say. Here's what I would do if I got up there." It drives me crazy.

I never like to do parodies. I never do. It's just not my style of comedy.

I never was shy, but as far as telling jokes, I'm the worst. I like physical comedy; it's where I feel comfortable.

In every case, I find pre-planning noble, but not always that useful in comedy. You know comedy once you're doing it.

I never go about a new project as if I'm trying ot redefine myself. I just like to work, and I'm excited by material I find challenging and - if it's a comedy - exceptionally funny.

I never have broken up in comedy, ever. There's something about me that I just don't break on camera - maybe because I'm just so cheap, and I know how expensive it is to shoot - but I broke on Sordid Lives, and I broke on The Office. Those are the only two times in my life.

I never thought I'd be a comedian. But, growing up, I simply loved watching comedy. The '80s was huge for comedy in the US. Eddie Murphy blew me away with his film Delirious.

In filming you're waiting. You're waiting for lights. You're waiting for people set things up. And when you're not waiting, you're repeating. And neither is conducive to spontaneity, you know. Comedy makes you very, very neurotic because you think, I - but did I nail it?

In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.

In Hollywood, brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom.

In fact, I don't watch a lot of contemporary comedy for fear of being influenced by it.

In my experience, it's not just that serious books get a hearing on comedy shows. But serious books get a serious hearing, as well as a funny one, on comedy shows.

In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand there mute and play 25 banjo songs.

In movies, comedy and tragedy are all the same.

In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron.

In our world, all puns are beautiful and they are the highest form of comedy.

In sketch comedy, wear your character like a hat, not a suit of armor.

In the U.K. I'm probably better known as a comedy writer - or certainly that's my background is in writing comedy.