Comedy Quotes - Page 12

I left Indiana, and I ain't been back since. I've been doing comedy and paying my bills.

Romantic comedies are built to be light. They're built for a certain buoyancy.

I don't like forcing comedy and people just trying to do things just to find a funny beat all the time.

I like that kind of 'straight-faced' comedy. I like to be straight-faced and outrageous.

Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you; it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth.

I feel like I've done a bunch of period stuff and then a bunch of romantic comedies.

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.

Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.

Nobody wants to see sketch comedy that's the same sketch they've seen time and time again, or that's just a rehash of that thing.

By watching the great, old comedians I picked up a few tricks about how to do physical comedy. And whenever I could learn something, I sort of added that to my repertoire.

Did you know babies are nauseated by the smell of a clean shirt?

Comedy and horror are cousins; they're related. They both come from storytellers who want to specifically affect the audience and elicit specific reactions during the movie.

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.

The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

We were a very small circle of writers. Everybody brought to the table their own life experience.

This world is a comedy, not Life.

Comedy is essentially made by young men, or older men with some form of arrested development, for young men or immature older men.

Comedy breaks down walls. It frees us for just a moment from the ugliness of this world.

But I really like hosting, I think it's a strength of mine. It allows me to improvise, and I love the spontaneity of that, and I think I'm funny behind the desk when interviewing someone.

My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?

Don't order one for the road, because the road is already laid out.

You know, I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end.

I feel the acting conservatory taught me how to be a working actor in the 1700s. We learned stuff like 'to the back of the auditorium, to the back of the auditorium' and the liquid "u." 'The payment is duuue on Tuuuesday.' I also learned how to fence. If anything, when I moved to Los Angeles, I didn't fit in, in any way. I had to do comedy, because I was talking so pretentiously.

Drama is this incredibly vulnerable thing, but with comedy, you have to have a sense of rhythm and be very sensitive to the pace of things.