Comedy Quotes - Page 10

Hypocrisy is great fodder for comedy.

The embarrassment of a situation can, once you are over it, be the funniest time in your life. And I suppose a lot of my comedy comes from painful moments or experiences in life, and you just flip them on their head.

The more Keystone comedies I make, the more convinced I become that comedy is an art, and a high one at that.

Nobody is here without a reason. I always had a different sensibility. I like a huge range of comedy - from broad and farcical, the most sensitive, the most understated - but I always wanted my comedy to be more embracing of the species rather than debasing of it.

I'd like to do more comedy, but i think my forte is still in the heavy. I'd love to do a comic lead, a musical.

I've got a lot of nervous energy and I trip a lot. I don't have a good equilibrium. In the places where the physical comedy was necessary, it came very naturally and it was fun.

I love romantic comedies. I like to watch them and I like to be in them.

I never go about a new project as if I'm trying ot redefine myself. I just like to work, and I'm excited by material I find challenging and - if it's a comedy - exceptionally funny.

Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.

I find painting a much slower process than comedy, where you can go a mile a minute verbally and hope to God that some of the people out there understand you.

Discussion in America means dissent.

Don't get it right, just get it written.

I've never laughed a woman into bed, but I've laughed one out of bed many times.

She's been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.

Me and my roommate wrote and directed a little short comedy called 'The Elevator.

The only way I would go back to hosting would be if it were something entirely new. It would prevent me from wanting to host a standard-fare kind of talk show.

Comedy is my passion. I'm going to do this until I drop.

Ball-tampering. There, I've said it. Things that shouldn't be said: the judge in the Saddam trial appears to be wearing comedy specs and moustache.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me.

I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.

If comedy is about surprises, about tension, there's a lot of tension and surprise there, in the fact that people are expecting this to be natural.

Every day is a surprise. There are confirmations of an interconnectivity and synchronicity which inspire, titillate and confirm the inherent comedy of the universe.

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

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.

Comedy is allied to justice.