Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clive Anderson

I do find myself surprised by the comedy shows that seem to have the same joke week in week out.

Andrew Denton

You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.

That's a wonderful film a lot of people love for the comedy and drama of it.

David Walliams

I was probably about 12 and The Young Ones wasn't meant for 12-year-olds, but there's always that element in kids where they want to watch the naughty comedy that's not for them.

Alfred Hitchcock

To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.

Anthony Anderson

Comedy is second nature for me.

Devon Bostick

I always say, 'Thank goodness 'Wimpy Kid' was a comedy because my singing in that was more humorous than professional.'

Mallory Ortberg

One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots.

Horace Walpole

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.

One hit can get the audience's faith back that a comedy can be good,

Arthur Marx

(My father) he would be surprised to know he was still popular today, ... He told me, when he was quitting the Marx Brothers, (that) their kind of comedy was old-fashioned.

Ben Kingsley

But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.

She incorporates comedy and funny songs - it's not the kind of thing you'd typically see at a folk concert, but it's really unique and fun.

Tom Stoppard

One of the attractions of translating 'Heroes' is that it's not the kind of play that I write. If it had been, I probably wouldn't have wanted to translate it. There are no one-liners. It's much more a truthful comedy than a play of dazzling wit.

Dick Van Dyke

There aren't many pratfalls in comedy anymore.

Dave Foley

Maybe we will, and we'll take the entire comedy industry with us.

Texas Battle

To all my soap fans out there, my horror fanatics, comedy lovers, I will tell you this: 'Death Valley' is an action-packed drama, comedic, horror TV series that has a non-stop adventure in each episode. It's like a huge pot of Texas gumbo. If you like all four of those genres, then you'll love this show.

Aaron Eckhart

I'd like to do a romantic comedy.

Aaron Eckhart

I don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.

Eric Idle

I think he's the most intelligent man I've ever met. Honesty, simplicity and truth are the secret to his comedy.

Al Hirschfeld

When I was about fourteen, my mother took me to see a musical comedy-and that was my first experience in the theater and I was enchanted with it. It transported me to another world-you might say that I was stage-struck. I was mesmerized by the stage.

Sally Hawkins

People are funny, and in the most tragic situations, when comedy erupts from nowhere, it can turn on its head within the space of a second or a minute. You're laughing one minute and you're crying the next and that's just life for me, and that is what people are like.

Amity Gaige

It goes without saying that before its culture and literature can continue to evolve, Latvia first must endure the political comedy of creating a stable, functioning and unthreatened democracy.

Patricia Heaton

It had a 'Moonstruck' quality to the comedy - very romantic, huge emotions. I like to think of it as a comic opera, ... It just posed this question, what is true love? Is it that sort of ecstatic, over-the-top feeling you get on meeting someone? Or is it about years of commitment and history together? Or is it both? How do you find it, and how do you know? It's a very complicated topic.

Aldous Huxley

We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look.

Joaquin Phoenix

Who would have ever thought I would win in the comedy and musical category?

Joaquin Phoenix

Who would ever have thought that I would win in the comedy or musical category? Not expected.

There was a lot of sexual comedy in there we couldn't do because of where we are.

Dinah Sheridan

A subtle comedy part, I think, requires more finesse than a heavy dramatic role.

The most encouraging development for NBC is the development of a comedy that could get viewers to take a new look at the network and 'My Name is Earl' is the type of program that has sustainability.

Kristen Schaal

The more women sit down and write something in a woman's voice for a woman, they more you'll see women in comedy because gender doesn't define sense of humor. Imagination and intelligence and perspective do.

It's just going to be a fun time. Comedy really allows you to take your mind off homework and stress. I want everyone to come and laugh and have a good time for a few hours Saturday night.