W. C. Fields Quotes About Comedy

Quotes about: Comedy

• I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.

  W. C. Fields

  New Year, Home, Worry

• There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Crazy, Silly

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

• Comedy is merely tragedy happening to someone else.

  W. C. Fields

  Tragedy, Comedy, Happenings

• The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.

  W. C. Fields

  Men, Lucky, Alive

• Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.

  W. C. Fields

  Children, Comedy, Should

• I'm looking for loopholes. (Said when caught reading the Bible.).

  W. C. Fields

  Reading, Comedy, Caught

• I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

  W. C. Fields

  Witty, Sunday, Thinking

• No one likes the fellow who is all rogue, but we'll forgive him almost anything if there is warmth of human sympathy underneath his rogueries. The immortal types of comedy are just such men.

  W. C. Fields

  Sympathy, Men, Forgiving

• Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.

  W. C. Fields

  Drinking, Lunch, Comedy

  You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (motion picture) (1939).

• I must have a drink of breakfast.

  W. C. Fields

  Breakfast, Comedy, Drink

• Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.

  W. C. Fields

  Trying, Rest Of Your Life, Comedy

  W.C. Fields (2016). “Fields for President”, p.21, Rowman & Littlefield

• The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.

  W. C. Fields

  Humor, Men, Lazy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• The funniest thing about comedy is that you never know why people laugh. I know what makes them laugh but trying to get your hands on the why of it is like trying to pick an eel out of a tub of water.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Humor, Hands

• Comedy is a serious business. A serious business with only one purpose--to make people laugh.

  W. C. Fields

  Business, People, Laughing

• Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butler.

  W. C. Fields

  Feet, House, Littles

  W. C. Fields (1970). “I Never Met a Kid I Liked”

• I'm free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.

  W. C. Fields

  Hate, Prejudice, Comedy

  Quoted in Saturday Review, 28 Jan. 1967

• Never give a sucker an even break.

  W. C. Fields

  Drinking, Wine, Break Even

  Quoted in Boston Daily Globe, 9 Sept. 1923.

• When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

  W. C. Fields

  Hope, Lost Everything, Comedy

• Women are like elephants to me. I like to look at them, but I wouldn't want to own one.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Marriage, Women

  "Drat! Being the encapsulated view of life".

• Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?

  W. C. Fields

  Vat, Comedy, Whiskey

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  W. C. Fields

  Comedy, Prosperity, Behinds

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

• I would rather be living in Philadelphia.

  W. C. Fields

  Comedy, Whole

  "Vanity Fair" Magazine, 1925.

• The work I'm doing on the screen differs from that of anyone else. My comedy is of a peculiar nature...no writers have been developed along the lines of my type of comedy and this is why I sometimes have differences with writers, supervisors and directors alike.

  W. C. Fields

  Differences, Directors, Peculiar

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