Comedy Quotes - page 6

I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it. (David Walliams)
An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa. View quote
Desi Arnaz
I'd love to do a comedy. I'm terrified of comedy. I don't think I'm funny, but I guess that's why it's so thrilling. View quote
Jared Padalecki
I'd like to do a comedy with Emma Thompson. I admire her as an actress so much. I love her. And I didn't know it until recently that her whole career started in comedy. View quote
Gene Wilder
'Funny People' is my favorite performance of myself to date. Even though it's a comedy and there are serious moments, I really felt like Leo felt like a real person. It didn't feel like I was playing myself. Whether it's a comedy or drama, I just try to make it as realistic as possible. View quote
Jonah Hill
It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do. It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world. Not that I'm great or good at it or anything, it's just that I've done a bunch of them, so you're not shocked. View quote
Jonah Hill
Nobody wants to see sketch comedy that's the same sketch they've seen time and time again, or that's just a rehash of that thing. View quote
Jordan Peele
Oh, well, my first love is comedy or singing and dancing. View quote
Dick Van Dyke
I'm the first one who sees every romantic comedy in theaters. View quote
Elizabeth Olsen
Comedy's my first love. I love that so much. You play comedy in drama, too. The difference between genres doesn't really change the method of acting. View quote
Emma Stone
Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries. (Eugenio Montale)
Haven't you noticed that we women daydream infinitely less than you men? We can't anticipate pleasure in our imagination or keep suffering out our lives with some imaginary consolation.Whatever is,is.Imagintion! It's so paltry!Yes,when you've grown older,as I have,you occasionally make do with the poor comedy of the imagination. View quote
Jens Peter Jacobsen
I was very serene, and I still am, until I start talking in another voice, then suddenly I have a lot of volume and I'm frantic. But I didn't want to be one of those people who's always talking in accents in real life, so I started doing sketch comedy. View quote
Kate McKinnon
If you look at any successful skit comedy show, ever, there is that format of introducing you to the player in the beginning, and then going on to see those sketches. View quote
Keegan-Michael Key
A poet can feel free, in my estimation, to write a poem for himself. Or a painter can paint a painting for himself. You can write a short story for yourself. But for me, comedy by its nature is communal. If other people don't get it, I'm not sure why you are doing it. View quote
Keegan-Michael Key
I like that kind of 'straight-faced' comedy. I like to be straight-faced and outrageous. View quote
Leslie Nielsen
The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and you're doing one thing. That is, you're going to make the audience laugh. View quote
Leslie Nielsen
I've always been part of comedy. One of the things about our family was that if we were reasonably funny with each other, particularly my two brothers and myself, when my father was upset with something you'd want to make sure in some way you made him laugh. Because when he didn't laugh, you were in trouble! View quote
Leslie Nielsen
Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas. View quote
Michael Caine
Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write. View quote
Michael Caine
Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end. (Sid Caesar)
Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort of two headed tradition of doing comedy, of doing sketches, and that kind of thing. View quote
Rowan Atkinson
When I tour, it's like, well, like a food tour as much as a comedy tour. I try to eat at all the weird places, the obscure barbecue joints, burger places. There are a few spots in L.A. that I'm obsessed with - one of them is the Taco Zone taco truck on Alvarado. There are secret off-menu items that are amazing. View quote
Aziz Ansari
I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up. View quote
Ann Brashares
Why would they have gone to the trouble to hire the best comedy writers in the business to write funny material for us to play straight, if the children in our audience were the only audience. View quote
Burt Ward