Comedy Quotes - Page 18

It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for comedy.

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.

They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.

I've mainly been in dramas, so this is one of my first comedy kind of performances in Cecil B. Demented.

Don't get me wrong, there are sometimes if I go and see a really funny comedy, that I wished I had smoked a joint. I'll be honest with you. That's the truth.

I will always love to perform standup comedy.

Maybe I'll just become a cartoon character because there's nothing left for me to do in an R-rated comedy.

I used to binge-eat and make myself throw up. I was a fat kid. Obviously I didn't quite master the bulimia.

My portrayal of Fagin was all to do with my experience in comedy and revue.

If there's anything I hate more than a stupid action comedy, it's an incompetent stupid action comedy. It's not so bad it's good. It's so bad it's nothing else but bad.

I consider myself a sit-down comedian really, as much as anything else. I love comedy. Life is a cosmic joke.

In comedy laughter settles all arguments.

I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author.

To me, horror and comedy never work. Never worked for me, anyway.

When you go out there to do comedy, you feel like you're doing battle with the audience a lot of the time. You're either going to get 'em, or you're not.

I didn't really feel 100 percent comfortable until we started working on the 2004 election.

The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.

Dark comedy is very difficult. You have to bring the audience in and push them away at the same time.

Comedy is tragedy revisited.

Comedy wasn't something I chose - it chose me.

I always loved comedy, but I never knew it was something you could learn to do. I always thought that some people are born comedians ... just like some people are born dentists.

I remember being fascinated by the very nature of comedy from the age of 10; why is this funny, and that isn't?

The whole romantic part of my life was a wipeout. I didn't even own a belt.