Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Walton

Chemistrys a funny thing. It can be instantaneous, but it helps when you know someone.

Benedict Cumberbatch

What makes a good animated movie is being able to balance adult and knowing in-jokes and also just out and out funny things that make all people laugh. The idea that it's actually something that will appeal to a family, that's the trick.

Louis C. K.

There's nothing that beats proving you're funny by making a funny thing, and right now there are huge outlets for that, with You Tube and all the other stuff online.

Ed Wynn

A comic says funny things. A comedian says things funny.

Brandon Sanderson

That’s the funny thing about arriving somewhere, Vin,” he said with a wink. “Once you’re there, the only thing you can really do is leave again.

Arthur Miller

The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman, and you don't know that.

C. S. Lewis

It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.

Buster Keaton

A comedian does funny things. A good comedian does things funny.

Dean Koontz

And the funny thing was if you made the best of it, if you smiled through every storm, the bad things were never as terrible as you expected them to be, and the good things were better than anything you could have wished for yourself.

Alan Moore

Well, what do you expect? The Comedian is dead.

Eddie Murphy

I started out as a stand-up comedian. And that's what I'm most comfortable doing.

Eddie Izzard

If you get too well-known, you can never be a comedian's comedian, it just won't sit well. But I'm fine with that. I'm fine with that label.

Denis Leary

George Carlin was great right up to the end of his life. But Richard Pryor was probably the best, most gifted stand-up comedian who will ever live.

Nica Burns

The Perrier is about helping to discover new talent. In years to come, this generation of young comedians who are stepping into the spotlight will be setting the heather alight.

Nica Burns

The Perrier is about helping to discover new talent, ... In years to come, this generation of young comedians who are stepping into the spotlight will be setting the heather alight.

Maria Bamford

As far as I can tell, comedians are pretty serious people, and that's why they make fun of things all of the time.

Louis C. K.

Comedians work great as actors because they're good under pressure. With a lot of actors, you have to make them feel like everything's going really well to get a good performance out of them. But, if you have a comedian on the set, you can tell them, 'Hey, you really are screwing this up,' and then they just get better.

Bill O'Reilly

Whenever I go on a show with a comedian I just counter punch.

Alan Moore

I despise the comic industry, but I will always love the comic medium.

Alan Moore

No. Not even in the face of Armageddon. Never compromise.

Lucien Smith

I started thinking about how rain is depicted in illustrations. In comics that use gouache or watercolor, they use light blue, so I started using that color.

Lee Bermejo

I think that comics can do things movies can't and vice versa. In my opinion, you only expose their weaknesses if you try too hard at making one exactly like the other.

Louis C. K.

When you're young as a comic, you don't have a lot of leverage.

Charles M. Schulz

If you're going to draw a comic strip every day, you're going to have to draw on every experience in your life.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

I feel sorry for people who only know comic books through movies. I really do.

David Roland

We're seeing comics in Hollywood, ... and we're also seeing Hollywood in comics.

Kenneth Choi

Comic fans are some of the toughest fans to please, and I'm one of them.