Comedy Quotes

Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded.

~ Mike Myers

If I had to design a career for myself, I would have done comedy.

~ Rene Russo

I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.

~ Jeff Bridges

I've actually always wanted to write like a one-person show that was sort of a romantic comedy - a show that was kind of cynical about romance and marriage but ultimately embraced it. Because I feel like comedy is always cynical, inherently, because it's contrarian.

~ Mike Birbiglia

All I know how to do is take what's on my mind and spit it out funny. I don't know what else I could do besides comedy.

~ Ron White

When I tell people I'm a comedian they say, 'Oh, are you funny?' I say, 'No, it's not that kind of comedy.'

~ Susan Sarandon

If you look at shows like 'Def Comedy Jam' in its heyday, there were so many really funny, talented black comics that never would have gotten on that show because they just weren't doing comedy that fit that mold.

~ Aisha Tyler

What's interesting about Laurel and Hardy is that in most comedy teams, there's a straight man, and then there's the funny guy. And with Laurel and Hardy, they're both the funny guy.

~ Christopher Guest

I would call it a comedy variety show. We have some people just doing straight standup. We usually try to have one musical act of sort. So its just people being funny in different ways, not just sketch, not just standup, not just characters, all of those things.

~ Todd Barry

I'm doing a pilot for Comedy Central with the band Steel Panther. They're faux heavy metal. They started as kind of a tribute band out here, or a cover band, and they're funny guys, and they just sort of morphed into their own thing.

~ Brian Posehn

I've never gotten to do romantic comedy like most of the girls. Maybe because I'm fit, people assume that I'm not funny?

~ Jessica Biel

I mean, sometimes... a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don't deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of acting is to be truthful, and they get that mixed up sometimes, or don't even notice that that's the thing.

~ Eddie Izzard

It just so happens that people aren't doing comedy about abortion or cannibalism or waterboarding. And that to me doesn't necessarily mean that there aren't aspects of those subjects that are funny, it just means that people are too uptight.

~ Rob Mcelhenney

I do as much comedy as I possibly can, but I'm basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions.

~ Rufus Sewell

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

~ Steve Martin

I have some very personal feelings about politics, but I don't get into it because I do comedy already.

~ Jerry Lewis

It's a no-win situation with politics it's always going to be stressful. I'm more into the comedy of life.

~ Jordan Peele

I had to choose, I'd be so sad. They are flip sides of the same coin. I love both comedy and drama.

~ Dianne Wiest

My comedy is for children from three to 93. You do need a slightly childish sense of humour and if you haven't got that, it's very sad.

~ Norman Wisdom

Comedy helped me out in my teenage years. It saw me through puberty and helped me to deal with dating.

~ Rhys Darby

At least in making an action film, there's always going to be someone who wants to see a car chase. Even if a lot of the people don't like it, there will be a lot of people that do. But bad comedy is just garbage.

~ Jason Statham

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

~ Charlie Chaplin

In terms of level of difficulty, it would go comedy, thriller, and then romantic drama.

~ Sydney Pollack

The male is always the pawn in a romantic comedy. Come together, break up, go chase her, get her, roll credits. That's what happens in all of them.

~ Matthew Mcconaughey

I think romantic comedy, when done right, is my favorite genre. It's just a genre that's very human.

~ Lena Dunham

Usually comedy is only available to us ladies in the romantic comedy. That's why I hate romantic comedies.

~ Sandra Bullock

I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy.

~ Carter Burwell

I love a good romantic comedy.

~ Joss Whedon

I like romantic comedy as a genre, but I think it can get stuck in its ways.

~ Zooey Deschanel

I'm always trying to perfect the romantic comedy, though.

~ David Duchovny

As it is, I have a limited range as an actor - light comedy. I have never been a fan of romantic comedies, and yet that is what I have ended up mostly doing.

~ Hugh Grant

Romantic comedy has come to mean a couple of moderately talented actors placed in implausible situations obliged to go through a set of paces that are all too familiar, the end result being neither romantic nor comedic.

~ Edward Zwick

In 1998, it was possible to make a big-screen romantic comedy about email. Yep, email - the same medium we often think of now as boring and even annoying.

~ Walt Mossberg

I've done romantic comedy, and I don't get to flex that muscle often.

~ Hill Harper

There is always something I gain from watching a movie, whether it's a silly romantic comedy or an art film.

~ Gia Coppola

I don't get a lot of romantic comedy scripts.

~ Ryan Reynolds

The most contemporary film I can think of is your standard romantic comedy, but the minute you make them, they already look so aged.

~ Rupert Friend

The only thing I would unequivocally say is that I have never had any interest in romantic comedy I just couldn't do it. I think I'd be terrible.

~ Christian Bale

The dark comedies tend to be in a non-releasable area. There can be romantic comedies. There can be dramas. But there's no 'dark comedy' inbox for the advertising.

~ Gus Van Sant

'Natural Born Killers' is really a misunderstood romantic comedy.

~ Woody Harrelson