Comedy Quotes - page 7

There are a lot of questions I keep asking myself about why I do comedy. I guess I laugh to keep from crying. And I guess if you ever get me crying, I might not stop. This is the way I look at tragedy or else I'll cry. (Bob Newhart)
I just finished 'Butter' for Weinstein, a comedy with this incredible cast - Hugh Jackman, Olivia Wilde, Alicia Silverstone - all-star cast and it was a fun set to be on. I've gotten really lucky to get all these down-to-earth cast members. 'Butter' is about butter carving in Iowa. View quote
Ashley Greene
Something about New York, man: You can do more comedy there probably than you can anywhere in the world. If you're interested in being funny, New York is the place to go. View quote
Dave Chappelle
I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing. View quote
Dan Harmon
Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field. View quote
Jerry Stiller
I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn. View quote
Yvonne De Carlo
I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival. View quote
Robert Englund
Girls are supposed to be feminine and demure. Comedy isn't about that, so you just have to unlearn it. Certain women are so pretty, they can't go weird enough to be funny. You have to be willing to be ugly. I'm lucky my face can look so hideous. View quote
Jennifer Coolidge
Music and comedy are so linked. The rhythm of comedy is con­nected to the rhythm of music. They're both about creating tension and knowing when to let it go. I'm always surprised when somebody funny is not musical. View quote
Conan O'Brien
My favorite comedy is comedy where nothing is achieved and there is no point. View quote
Conan O'Brien
It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is. (Jack Lemmon)
Although according to certain philosophers it is quite difficult to distinguish the jester from the melancholic, life itself being a comic drama or a dramatic comedy. View quote
Comte de Lautreamont
Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it. View quote
Maureen O'Hara
I think it's harder to go from comedy to drama than from drama to comedy. Seeing you dramatic all the time, they crave to see you being silly or funny. But, seeing you in comedy all the time, it's hard to see that person go be serious, for some reason. View quote
Evan Peters
I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side. View quote
Parker Posey
The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace. View quote
Rainn Wilson
I think we're the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. It's not a joke show. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great part of what it is to be human. View quote
Rainn Wilson
When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that flavor. View quote
Terry Southern
Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them. View quote
Twyla Tharp
Women comedy is different than men comedy. Guy comedy is very aggressive, it's about insulting each other, name-calling, and kind of busting each other's chops, and that's not what women's comedy is. View quote
Paul Feig
Comedy. I think that's something I'd really like to do. (David R. Ellis)
I never walked the streets of New York hoping to be a musical comedy star. For one thing, they would have thought I was too tall, because l was five feet eight and a half, and they were all little bitty things running around in the studio at that time. View quote
Esther Williams
Combining music, theater and comedy is a new and broader form of expression. In certain combinations you can make people laugh one moment, cry the next, and then be astounded by the beauty of the music. View quote
Aleksey Igudesman
I don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy. View quote
Aaron Eckhart
I'd like to do a romantic comedy. View quote
Aaron Eckhart