Comedy Quotes - page 4

There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets? (Dick Cavett)
If you feel irritated by the absurd remarks of two people whose conversation you happen to overhear, you should imagine that you are listening to a dialogue of two fools in a comedy. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
When I tried to branch out into comedy, I didn't do very well at it, so I went back to doing what I do naturally well, or what the audience expects from me - action pictures. View quote
Sylvester Stallone
Comedy is the blues for people who can't sing. View quote
Chris Rock
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed. View quote
Wisława Szymborska
Dicaepolis: Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true. (tr. Athen. 1912, Perseus) View quote
Aristophanes
Before seeing Truffaut's Small Change, I was afraid it was going to be one of those simple, natural films about childhood which I generally try to avoid - I'm just not good enough to go to them. But this series of sketches on the general theme of the resilience of children turns out to be that rarity - a poetic comedy that's really funny. View quote
Pauline Kael
If future society assumes the contours foretold by Marxism, if the jungle of our cities turns to the polis of man and the dreams of anger are made real, the representative art will be high comedy. Art will be the laughter of intelligence, as it is in Plato, in Mozart, in Stendhal. View quote
George Steiner
The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't. View quote
Lenny Bruce
Tragedy dramatizes human life as potentiality and fulfillment. Its virtual future, or Destiny, is therefore quite different from that created in comedy. Comic Destiny is Fortune-what the world will bring, and the man will take or miss, encounter or escape; tragic Destiny is what the man brings, and the world will demand of him. That is his Fate. View quote
Susanne Langer
I don't devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit. (Ben Stiller)
Selling pot allowed me to get through college and make enough money to start off in comedy. View quote
Bill Maher
My oldest brother used to take me to the theater. The first play he took me to see was 'Black Comedy,' then he took me to see 'Butley.' We'd see all these British plays. And 'Hello, Dolly,' with Pearl Bailey. I was unconsciously thinking, 'Gee, I would love to be able to do that. View quote
Nathan Lane
First of all, to defend my work, I had to believe that I am doing a totally silly, stupid, innocent comedy. View quote
Miloš Forman
About 25 years ago, I was in an apartment, and next door, they put on the radio, so I struck the wall with my fist, but they did not put the radio down. I took a tool and banged until I made a hole through the wall. It was like a comedy movie. View quote
Klaus Kinski
Basically I'm a very serious person, but I think the form it takes with me is comedy. I see the amusing side of all potentially pompous situations. View quote
Peter Ustinov
The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them. View quote
Molière
If you thought it was impossible for a film to contain less effective comedy than Date Movie, here's evidence to the contrary. View quote
James Berardinelli
A comedy is just a tragedy interrupted, I once said. Do you finish with the kiss or when she opens her eyes to tell him she loves him and sees blonde hairs on his collar? View quote
Alan Ayckbourn
There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy. (Mark Twain)
It always seems to someone outside the business that it is very difficult to write for a comedy show because it must be done quickly. Actually, it is much easier to write this humor than to do a joke or a show from scratch, because the audience knows the plot. Just mention what is going on and then deliver the punch line. View quote
Robert Orben
If the psychic energies of the average mass of people watching a football game or a musical comedy could be diverted into the rational channels of a freedom movement, they would be invincible. View quote
Wilhelm Reich
Think about yourself at least once in your life otherwise you may miss the best comedy in this world. View quote
Charlie Chaplin
Comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent crashes, to make the correctness of the representation convincing. View quote
George Meredith