Comedy Quotes - page 3

Every time is a time for comedy in a world of tension that would languish without it. But I cannot confine myself to lightness in a period of human life that demands light... We all know that, as the old adage has it, "It is later than you think."..., but I also say occasionally: "It is lighter than you think." In this light let's not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness. (James Thurber)
The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it. View quote
James Thurber
Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh. View quote
Vivien Leigh
I believe in the future a new Dante will write a new Divine Comedy. View quote
Ba Jin
I don't think I'd have done comedy if I was born eighty years ago [...] I'd have been a lord. Shooting people that were on my land [...] With a wig, yeah. And some crisps. View quote
Noel Fielding
The earliest stand-up comedy I was aware of was Bill Cosby ... I watched Saturday Night Live as soon as I was aware of it, and Monty Python used to be on PBS at weird hours, so I used to try to watch that. And I loved George Carlin on SNL, that was the first stand-up I ever really remember seeing on TV. And then Steve Martin. I guess I was in fifth or sixth grade when Steve Martin showed up, and he was instantly my idol. And Richard Pryor around the same time too, I sort of became aware of him, though I don't remember the first time I saw him. View quote
Louis C.K.
You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors. View quote
Owen Wilson
I approach a comedy the same way I do a drama. I try to make it as real as possible. View quote
Mark Wahlberg
Comedy is not pretty. View quote
Steve Martin
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. View quote
Ben Kingsley
Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat. (Peter Sellers)
And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity. View quote
Miguel de Unamuno
once you laugh at you own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Mabye........ combat some the ugliness in the world. View quote
Goldie Hawn
I hadn't done just a straight-out comedy in a long time, just letting an ensemble do really good character acting, having them carry the movie as in my earlier pictures. View quote
Brian De Palma
I like to take chances, and that's the key to comedy -- dancing like an idiot but doing it with wild abandon. View quote
Megan Mullally
I want to write a book which is the history of comedy. View quote
John Cleese
I hope I am pigeonholed with comedy. I'm really not interested in writing the darker stuff, the emotional stuff. View quote
Jane Espenson
Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations. View quote
Horace Walpole
A tragedy can never suffer by delay: a comedy may, because the allusions or the manners represented in it maybe temporary. View quote
Horace Walpole
I am in no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company, yet in one dream I can compose a whole Comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof. View quote
Thomas Browne
My idea as far as comedy goes has always been to push the limits of what's acceptable for a woman to do or say or be. My hero in that would be Lenny Bruce, who teaches us that words have no meaning. It's the intent behind them that is what's important. (Lea DeLaria)
Life is funny. Life isn't categorized into comedy, drama, action, is it? So I don't know why they try to categorize everything. It drives me crazy-why it would have to be just a romantic comedy or... I want to have a little integrity, a little story, you know? View quote
Jennifer Aniston
Comedy is obviously a matter of personal taste and the world always needs a clown and some people have no taste at all and any clown will do. View quote
Marc Maron
The entire Bible, viewed as a "divine comedy," is contained within a U-shaped story of this sort, one in which man, as explained, loses the tree and water of life at the beginning of Genesis and gets them back at the end of Revelation. View quote
Northrop Frye
I'm a pretty funny guy, and I would love to do a comedy with a bunch of funny guys - movie-star guys, where they could help me through it. View quote
LeBron James