Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eddie Izzard

I wanted to be less well-known in comedy.

Ben Stiller

Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.

Ben Stiller

Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.

Carol Leifer

I've seen too many comics who got their own shows and were undone because they worked for an executive producer who didn't understand their comedy or their sensibility.

Mark Billingham

Whether you do stand-up comedy or write a story, you have a duty to deliver. As a comedian, you walk out on stage, and you have a minute to hook them, or they'll start booing. As a writer, it's very similar. A reader doesn't have time to say, 'I'll give him 50 pages, as it's not very good yet, but I hope it'll get better.'

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

American comedies about Asians have never been funny to me. That always kind of pissed me off.

Aisha Tyler

I liked comedy, but didn't know it was something you could do for a living. I actually wanted to be an attorney.

Bob Newhart

I feel more comfortable in comedy.

Bernie Mac

The one thing about comedy, making it become a part of you, the audience loves it, because you become part of them.

Bill Griffith

I always thought of Levittown as a joke.

James Schamus

It's essentially flattering, It says more about those making of the jokes than about the movie.

Ronde Barber

It's not like we're messing with some jokes at wideout here,

Matt Roth

You don't want to make him mad. He's not one for jokes or antics.

David Cross

I just often find myself getting shrill, angry and the jokes get more incredulous.

Ben Falcone

I'm not much of a joke writer.

Ricky Gervais

I can't find someone funny whom I don't like. Hitler told great jokes. I didn't find it funny at all.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.

Brad Williams

Everyone just wants to hear the exact jokes that apply to them and want to - everyone wants a perfectly crafted joke for them.

Billy Connolly

I've always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but you can't tell to an audience. There's a fine line you have to tread because you don't know who is out there in the auditorium. A lot of people are too easily offended.

Brad Williams

Everyone's extremely and easily offended now.

Tucker Max

If you make comedy, if you try and make comedy where no one gets upset or offended, you're going to fail.

Patsy Cline

Oh, I offended you with my opinion? You should hear the the ones I keep to myself.

Toby Shook

Obviously, the tactics offended some people and he quit doing it after that.

Ezra Taft Benson

Our enmity toward God takes on many labels, such as rebellion, hard-heartedness, stiff-neckedness, unrepentant, puffed up, easily offended, and sign seekers. The proud wish God would agree with them. They aren't interested in changing their opinions to agree with God's.

Chris Hardwick

Be offended by everything or be offended by nothing.

George Herbert

None is offended but by himselfe.

Noam Chomsky

If you are not offending people who ought to be offended, you're doing something wrong.