Comedy Quotes - Page 17

Comedy is second nature for me.

To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.

All improv turns into anger. All comedy improv basically turns into anger, because that's all people know how to do when they're improvising. If you notice shows that are improvising are generally people yelling at each other.

When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.

I am convinced that nothing will happen to me, for I know the greatness of the task for which Providence has chosen me.

You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.

But comedy is like music, it appeals to some people. Some people like Creed, those people are usually pretty stupid. But they probably also like Carrot Top. I would say that they're part of the same ilk.

I fed my ego, but not my soul.

All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.

Though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve.

Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.

If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.

Well I sure had been looking for a comedy for years without any success.

I had a terrible job letting me do anything that wasn't comedy.

Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them.

Jerry Bruckheimer creates comedy, he just doesn't realize because he's a turd.

It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.

I'm a creature of adaptation. I take advantage of the second and the moment. My comedy breathes; it's not really that predictable. I do have a linear style, but other than that, there's a lot of abstract. I just go off on what I'm thinking. I'm not that topical. I like to talk about me and my experiences.

With comedy, you really want to work things out beforehand.

I think if I have any kind of unique gift, it's more in the comedy area than it is in the dramatic area.

Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.

I can juggle. I started juggling as a kid. And when I worked at Disneyland, I knew a juggler there named Christopher Faire, and he taught me how to juggle. I used it in my comedy act for a while.

In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand there mute and play 25 banjo songs.

With comedy, you have no place to go but more comedy, so you're never off the hook.

Comedy is not pretty.