Comedy Quotes - Page 31

There's a general sense that women are more relaxed and less defensive in comedy than they used to be. I think it's easier than it was but underlying it all there is still a pretty sexist view of women on stage, which to me hasn't changed that much.

As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.

My goal in life is to be as happy as a studio audience.

I've never tried fatback. Probably 'cause it's called fatback. I don't know which word creeps me out more: fat or back. Why don't they just throw in "hairy" while they're at it? "This is some delicious hairy fatback."

I do whatever [comedies] I'm attracted to. It's like the woman who stands out in the crowd, who for some reason you notice, that's the one you're supposed to dance with at that time in your life. That's just what it is with scripts... they find you when you're emotionally in the right place to do them.

The whole object of comedy is to be yourself and the closer you get to that, the funnier you will be.

I've never been a shirt-off, pants-off kind of comedy guy.

Action comedy, if you can get it right, it is, for me, a particularly brilliant genre. It really is.

From the onset of the 'Live-Read' series, we wanted to hit all the major writers and Woody Allen is simply one of the greatest screenwriters of all time. He has ability to match pathos and comedy and drama and then turn it all on a dime. If you're going to make a series based on dialogue, you can't find much better than Woody Allen.

It’s funny, I can sit through the worst horror film ever made! But even a quite good romantic comedy.

I'm really attracted to authors who take on really tricky material with a very open mind and take a subject matter that you wouldn't think would be a comedy.

We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.

I feel like L.A. is more of a showcase, and Chicago is a pure comedy scene where you're doing comedy for comedy. You're doing comedy actually for the audience that's there.

I only got into comedy to get laid

Comedy is a very delicate business, especially comedies that sort of attempt to do things in an honest way and in a very naturalistic way the way that 'No Strings Attached' is.

My point of reference is life, in everything that I do.

You can go home with a lot of money with absolutely no skill.

Music often happens even faster than comedy in terms of the creation.

America's biggest failure is its inability to take comedy seriously.

My early days in Broadway were all comedies. I never did a straight play on Broadway.

A married philosopher belongs to comedy.

Fate never knows when comedy ends and tragedy begins.

I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone.

I like to watch comedies; the most dramatic that I used to get was 'Forrest Gump.'

But sometimes it's good to dare yourself to do the unthinkable. And rather than stand in front of an audience with no clothes on, I decided to have a go at stand-up comedy.