Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Freeman

Comedy can't be about continuous success.

Paula Patton

Comedy is not supposed to be funny. Its supposed to tell the truth and then that's funny.

Paula Patton

You just can't take yourself too seriously, especially in comedy.

Nick Cave

I love being manipulated by what I see. I love weepies and romantic comedies where you're reaching for the Kleenex at the right moment.

Matt LeBlanc

And if you have great writing, it's really easy, but if it's not so great and you have to work a little harder, I could tell where the work needed to be done but comedy is just fun.

William Shakespeare

And I did laugh sans intermission an hour by his dial. O noble fool, a worthy fool -- motley's the only wear.

Elayne Boosler

For me, comedy is a day-to-day report on the human condition. It's what's happening right now. I get maybe 20 minutes of my act straight from the newspaper.

Leslie Mann

I like more grounded comedy. I enjoy broad comedies also, but I like Shirley MacLaine.

Jon Hurwitz

One of the things that we love most about our comedy [ American Reunion] is that it goes all-out.

John Cleese

Bureaucrats shouldn't be in charge of comedy.

Kelli Berglund

I would love to get into feature films; Im willing to do an action flick, Im willing to do a romantic comedy.

Norman Lear

Next up [new TV stars] was [Dean] Martin and [Jerry] Lewis on 'The Colgate Comedy Hour.'

Norman Lear

Ed Simmons and I became stars in the emerging medium of television. We were new and fresh, just like TV at the time, so we automatically became 'THE' comedy writers for television.

This is nice counter-programming for T3, but with comedy sequels, you never know what you're going to get. If 'Legally Blonde' doesn't come up big, they're hurting for this year.

Jo Koy

This is my 11th year (doing comedy). That's the whole thing -- if you wait 10 years, pay your dues and do your time, it'll come.

This is a great comedy. It is just like any family. One minute they are fighting, and the next minute they are loving each other.

Eric Idle

I got locked into a tradition [at Cambridge] of doing comedy.

Eric Idle

Executives do not on the whole do well with comedy. They can't understand it, they can't read it, they can't spot it.

Eric Idle

I don't necessarily know much about comedy, I don't spend a lot of time watching it. Mainly because all my life for about 50 years I've had comedy.

Eric Bana

If a great comedy landed on my doorstep, I would find it hard to say no.

Eric Bana

I would never say never to returning to comedy.

Jack Kenny

All we really want to do is tell a good story about a good man and his family and the struggle to get through life. It's a family drama with some dark comedy in it about this wonderful family that's just struggling like any other American family.

Jo Brand

Madness isn't altogether a bad thing in comedy.

Eric Andre

They [ The Simpsons] are just like the Bible to me as far as what the high-water mark of comedy.

Reese Witherspoon

I don't have a lot of physical comedy instincts. I'm more verbal.

Tim Allen

Comedy is the ultimate anarchist.

Shelley Berman

I will always love to perform standup comedy.

Sean O'Casey

We couldn't live without comedy.

Peter Farrelly

Movie 43 is about the hardest R Rated comedy ever.

Pauly Shore

Comedy wasn't something I chose - it chose me.

Kevin Hart

In comedy, my strengths are improvisation.

Morgan Freeman

Doing comedy is as easy as doing anything else. You're dependent totally on the material.

Vince Vaughn

You know, the better scripts I've seen lately have been comedy scripts.