Comedy Quotes - Page 13

A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.

Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.

Fictional comedy tells us that the writer is remarkable. Factual comedy tells us that the world is remarkable. I suppose I prefer to live in a remarkable world.

He is, most of all, l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

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.

For the most part, comedy is the only fair part of show business.

I'm not the biggest fan of comedies where nothing is real.

I think when you dissect a joke too much, you have ruined whatever there is in comedy.

Everybody needs some good sketch comedy.

Comedy is very strange to me and I don't fully understand it's purpose or function.

I chose to do comedy instead of going to college.

I'm friends with a lot of comedians, but we don't talk about material. Most comedians I know don't watch a lot of other comedy.

I think when I feel I'm at my best is when I'm on stage, and it's my version of jazz because it's just riffing or something.

One reason [of Andy Griffith Show popularity] is because of the formula. It had comedy, but it also had tender moments. The other reason is because it was therapeutic. It helped people relax and unwind.

Because it's uncensored cable, I think we'll be able to do the kind of sketch comedy that really hasn't been seen before. We can actually finish jokes.

Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

It's the Power of the Almighty, the Splendor of Nature, and then you.

When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation.

I must have a drink of breakfast.

More than just romantic comedy, I like romances: drama romance, romance comedy, comedy romance. I also go to the movies to escape. There are times when you go to learn, when you go to be moved, you go to be transported, and there are really times when you go to escape. And I personally escape more happily into a romance than I do violent movies.

I tend to find comedy in dark places. I also tend to find comedy in taking on the status quo - which has always been something I find important.

I like to find comedy or something interesting to look at with whatever I'm working on.

When I tried to branch out into comedy, I didn't do very well at it, so I went back to doing what I do naturally well, or what the audience expects from me - action pictures.