Comedy Quotes - Page 15

I'd just like to retire quietly with dignity, secure in the knowledge that no more comedies will ever be made now that I'm gone.

The Parent Trap gave my career another boost, starring in family comedies.

Jackass: The Movie is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how gravity acts on the body

Right now, I'd like to just continue on a series where I am doing good work with a balance of comedy and drama. That and do occasional features and movies.

Comedy isn't polite and it isn't correct and it isn't accurate, even. It's just a mess. So that's the way that I approach it.

Even when I'm being funny, I'm deadly serious.

I can pretty much guarantee that if I do a show in a comedy club, there will be someone who will come out of the audience and tell me the worst joke ever. It's just a guarantee.

When you see Charlie Chaplin, he stays funny. He doesn't become drama, and so what really seems to endure is comedy.

It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy.

Most of the people I know in comedy are not weird or messed up.

Comedy has always been more challenging for me than drama.

I put heavy emphasis on the characters.

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.

One of the things that we love most about our comedy [ American Reunion] is that it goes all-out.

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday because I don't have to do anything except bring wine and go to my sister's all day and go to the movies with the family. So, actually, Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, but there's not much comedy material on Thanksgiving. Melatonin really isn't that funny.

When you've been doing comedy for forty years, you really do know most of the jokes. And even if you don't know a specific joke, you can pretty much guess what it's going to be.

Your anger can be 49 percent and your comedy 51 percent, and you're okay. If the anger is 51 percent, the comedy is gone.

I wouldn't say that comedy brought me away from it.I think that my idea of faith was another obligation in my life.

Comedy is just complaining in an entertaining way, Enterplaining.

Even in college I tended to get cast in the comedies more. It was what I liked doing.

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

In movies, comedy and tragedy are all the same.

I used to love comic books, and I love American comedy, and neither are afraid to tackle big themes.

I value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny.

The success of any stand-up act comes out of life experience.