Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Carell

It's really a comedy about all these people who are looking for the loves of their lives, and struggling to find happiness during this pursuit,

Tom Sherak

Any time you have a comedy with Jim Carrey and the Farrelly brothers, you'd love to see it do more.

Ivan Reitman

Evolution ... Just the right formula of science and comedy may get moviegoers through the door

Douglas Fairbanks

Every week we had a different story and setting. Some were costume and period; some were modern. Some were comedy; some were tragedy. Some were melodrama. They were all different.

Mekhi Phifer

It's called 'Easier, Softer Way,' ... It's a comedy starring Danny Masterson, Ronnie Warner, John C. McGinley. I have a small part in it.

Rove McManus

Doing that (the comedy gig) has been very enjoyable,

Jeff Daniels

It is what it is. He's trying to make a big family comedy. The characters, even if they're big and broad, don't know they're big and broad.

Aaron McGruder

For me, it really first has to be a good story and be funny. If you're doing sincere comedy, the edgy stuff kind of happens on its own.

I'm not sure if it's going to be a tragedy or comedy, or how it will play out.

Sterling Knight

I'm definitely a romantic comedy dude because I'm a big romantic at heart. I'm a softy, so it's always nice to watch movies that make you think that love at first sight is actually possible.

W. S. Gilbert

I like both, but there is something about comedy that is like so incredible - I don't know - there's something that I really respond to with comedy.

Drake Bell

Everyone is going to love it. It's not just a kid movie. It has romance between Helen and Frank, comedy from the younger kids, a love triangle between the teenagers. It's very broad.

Horace Walpole

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

Horace Walpole

The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.

Horace Walpole

The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel.

The volume of comedy stuff is exploding. It's a very social genre for sharing a laugh.

Andy Kindler

In the '90s, comedy was at a very low point, but these days, you've got people like Hannibal Burress, Ron Funches, Maria Bamford - people who can play any club, anywhere.

Albert Brooks

Even if you didn't see the movie, you'd see two words you'd never seen put together before - comedy and Muslim. Comedy is friendly - it's the least offensive word in our language.

Ashley Tisdale

'Scary Movie' was a different type of comedy than I'm used to. I've mostly done sitcoms, so working with David Zucker, who wrote the film and who directed the last two 'Scary Movie's and 'Airplane' and 'Naked Gun,' was a lot of help.

Adam McKay

For some reason, people with comedy, any time they can detect a pattern, it kind of freaks them out. 'Those guys are always together!' Yeah, they're a comedy team. Anything they can recognize as a pattern they think is a hole.

Mel Brooks

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.

Conan O'Brien

My favorite comedy is comedy where nothing is achieved and there is no point.

Joan Rivers

Comedy is learning to be funny, and you learn to be funny in small rooms with young audiences.

Joan Rivers

I truly think comedy is - being funny is DNA. My dad was a doctor, a wonderful doctor, and people still come up to me today, 'Your father helped my mother die.' You know what I'm saying? He made her laugh 'til she died. My father was always very funny.

Stephen Graham Jones

We watch a romantic comedy because we want to cry, say, or an action movie so we can participate in heroics. Horror's different. It can hit you with a moment of revulsion so hard you might want to erase the last five minutes of your life, please.

Barry Humphries

Now the point of comedy is not just looking funny, it's use of language. We have at our disposal a great language... and the imaginative, creative use of that language can be at the service of humour.

Richard Eder

This sentimental comedy by the Soviet playwright Aleksei Arbuzov is said to have had a great success in its own country. So do fringed lamp shades.

Shane Carruth

The only thing I can ever do is make a film that I can respond to. I could not make a romantic comedy for college girls. I wouldn't know how that works.

Dave Attell

I'm a stand-up comic. Anything else I do besides that is a plus, but stand-up comedy is what I do, it's what I've been doing and it's what I'm going to keep doing.

Dario Fo

Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible.

Eddie Murphy

Ultimately, when I go back to the stage, I want to be able to do everything. I want to be able to do music and comedy and all that stuff; that's what all this stuff is leading to.

We run the gamut from drama to sports to comedy to reality-type programming.

This year we're using two terrific venues we haven't used in the past; the Hartford Stage Company and The Bushnell. We'll be doing stand-up comedy in the Bushnell Theater, which is a first for First Night in 17 years.