Comedy Quotes - Page 2

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

  Susan Sullivan

  Unique, Thinking, Kind

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Jeff Bridges

  Tragedy, Stuff, Terrific

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• If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.

  Roger Ebert

  Teenager, Mean, Hollywood

  Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

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• If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.

  Richard Russo

  Jokes, Ifs

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• It takes intelligence to make real comedy, and it takes a reality base to create all that little stuff I like to do that makes you giggle inside.

  Chris Tucker

  Real, Stuff I Like, Littles

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• The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

  James Thurber

  Taste, Dignity, Libel

  1961 Lanterns and Lances,'The Duchess and the Bugs'.

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• It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy.

  Corbin Bernsen

  Real, Soap, Physical Comedy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Tim Matheson

  Want

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• I left Indiana, and I ain't been back since. I've been doing comedy and paying my bills.

  Mike Epps

  Bills, Indiana, Left

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. September 19, 2003.

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• In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

  Christopher Fry

  Time, Eternity Of Life, Tragedy

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• Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.

  Eugenio Montale

  Creative, Height, Divine

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• I had to choose, I'd be so sad. They are flip sides of the same coin. I love both comedy and drama.

  Dianne Wiest

  Drama, Two Sides, Coins

  "Dianne Wiest at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival". Interview with Leslie Rigoulot, www.filmscouts.com. January 20, 1996.

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• Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.

  Chuck Jones

  Chuck Jones, Maureen Furniss (2005). “Chuck Jones: Conversations”, p.163, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Dying is easy. Comedy is hard.

  Edmund Gwenn

  Dying, Easy, Hard

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• I always loved comedy but I didn't start formally until I was in college.

  Ana Gasteyer

  College

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• My son complains about headaches. I tell him all the time, when you get out of bed, it's feet first!

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Family, Time

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• At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Humor, Glasses

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• Gay people got a right to be as miserable as everybody else.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Humor, Gay

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• I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Home, Humor

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• Now, it's true I married my wife for her looks... but not the ones she's been givin' me lately.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Wife, Funny Marriage, Looks

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• My girlfriend bought a cook book the other day called 'Cheap and easy vegetarian cooking'. Which is perfect for her, because not only is she vegetarian.

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, Girlfriend, Book

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• My father always used to say, "What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger," - 'til the accident.

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, Father, Humor

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• Every time I go and shave, I assume there's someone else on the planet shaving. So I say, 'I'm gonna go shave, too.'

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Shaving

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• If you've never seen an elephant ski, then you've never been on acid.

  Eddie Izzard

  Funny, Elephants, Acid

  "Eddie Izzard: Definite Article". Documentary, Comedy, 1996.

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• Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.

  John Guare

  Tragedy, Humiliation, Avoiding

  John Guare (2002). “The House of Blue Leaves and Chaucer in Rome”, p.5, The Overlook Press

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