Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.'

Katie Featherston

I have plenty of dream roles because there is so much I want to do, but my dream year would be to be in a single-camera comedy and then, on my hiatus, film a little low-budget indie drama. That would be a dream 12-month period. A dream role depends on having good material and working with people that I can learn from.

Benjamin Walker

I'd consider myself a flailing comedy writer.

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.

Nina Tassler

We're doing it in drama, comedy and alternative. But right now a lot of the stuff is under the cone of silence in the development world.

Kelly Stables

When I was a little girl, the only real form of entertainment I was exposed to was theater, being raised in St. Louis, and I still love theater, and I think sitcoms are similar to that, in there's a live audience, and you know, I definitely like the comedy of it, too. I like to make people laugh, and I definitely think laughter is healing.

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.

Aisha Tyler

I like grown up comedy.

Bob Newhart

I feel more comfortable in comedy.

Katherine Parkinson

You do develop a taste as an actress: Chekhov, Ayckbourn: it's the combination of comedy and human drama. I would never want to do anything without comedy.

Bill Hader

Comedy is incredibly hard. You have to be loose. You have to be not afraid to fail.

Bruce Campbell

I see parody as another form of comedy.

Brion James

You know, stand-up comedy is where I pretty much started out.

Brett Ratner

I'm a laugher and a lover of comedy.

Brandon T. Jackson

I really have a love for comedy. I can't express it enough.

Ari Graynor

Comedy is funny when it comes from truth, and that's always the rule of them. It's about how far you can push that boundary.

Desi Arnaz

One of my biggest problems with comedy was that I did not understand some of the jokes.

Demetri Martin

The reason you often get in comedy is because you're not getting laid.

Billy Connolly

Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.

I just don't get if you have ever gotten offended by a joke, why would you go to a comedy club? That's where jokes happen.

Bradley Cooper

I've never heard of a comedy that hasn't had reshoots, especially for the ending of a movie in a comedy.

Bobby Farrelly

I feel reviewers are tougher on comedies in general. They don't take them seriously, and the ones that get great reviews are not necessarily the ones that I like.

Bobby Farrelly

In comedy, though, it's good to get feedback from the audience about what they find funny.

Aristophanes

Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.

Brittany Daniel

Comedy is so hard to do, so it was very cool to do dead pan humor.

Ed Speleers

Comedy is not something that had necessarily jumped out as something I'd immediately go for.

Aziz Ansari

I'm kind of obsessed with food. I like to eat. When I tour, it's like, well, like a food tour as much as a comedy tour.

Aziz Ansari

Stand-up comedy is a raunchy profession.

Ben Elton

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.

Craig Ferguson

Fat is where comedy is stored,

Mike Birbiglia

When I was starting out, I thought I would go into comedy and there would be a mentor, like the Philip Seymour Hoffman character in 'Almost Famous,' in my life, and there just wasn't. It was really frustrating for me because I desired that so much.