Comedy Quotes - Page 33

• It's just, you can get very complacent if you do the same thing all the time and especially the comedian, it gives me you know different things to react to and respond to, and it stimulates me.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Giving, Different, Complacent

  "Ellen DeGeneres Gets Us Pumped for Ellen's Somewhat Special Special". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. June 10, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My childhood was lonely. Both my parents were away a lot, working, and the maid basically raised me. And I think that's where a lot of my comedy comes from. Not only was the maid very funny and witty, but when my mother came home I'd use humour to try and get her attention. If I made mommy laugh, then maybe everything would be all right. I think that's where it [my comedy] all started.

  Robin Williams

  Mother, Witty, Lonely

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• If I'm not on tour, I can run down to the comedy club and do a little stand-up. If you're an actor, you can't go - I guess there's forms of it.

  Louis C. K.

  Running, Actors, Clubs

  Source: www.avclub.com

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I want my name to be a brand in comedy. I hope my name stands for comedic excellence.

  Chris Rock

  Names, Excellence, Want

  Source: www.oprah.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• You can't fake comedy - it's not like a movie, where a director can just cast a pretty face.

  Chris Rock

  Fake, Directors, Faces

  Source: www.oprah.com

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• For the most part, comedy is the only fair part of show business.

  Chris Rock

  Shows, Show Business, Fairs

  Source: www.oprah.com

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• A comedian has to live in his head. All this comedy comes from a lonely place. When you're surrounded by an entourage, you're not living in your head.

  Chris Rock

  Lonely, Comedian, Entourage

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's definitely easier for a woman to do a romantic comedy than a war movie. It's assumed a woman doesn't have a sense of what action is.

  Julie Delpy

  War, Action, Easier

  "ndieWIRE INTERVIEW | "2 Days in Paris" Director Julie Delpy". Interview with Erica Abeel, www.indiewire.com. August 8, 2007.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The tagline behind "House of Lies" is funny, dirty, business. The show is a comedy satire about how big business operates. Most Americans that work in corporate America should be able to relate to this show.

  Larenz Tate

  Lying, Dirty, America

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• To me, being brave is an element that is so important with stand-up comedy. It's not essential. There are many comics who were just funny, and that's fine, too. But that's never been what I was trying to do in comedy. I was always trying to do something that involved not pandering to the audience.

  Bill Maher

  Always Trying, Brave, Important

  Source: www.usatoday.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Awkwardness and feeling alienated are always going to be a part of comedy.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Feelings, Awkwardness

  Source: www.motherjones.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Right now I'm sick of acting, so it's like, Maybe I'll do writing for a bit. Then, when I'm tired of writing, I'll go work on my music. When I'm sick of music, I'll be like, I'm going to start performing comedy now. So it's good. It's not like I want to be famous or anything.

  Charlyne Yi

  Writing, Tired, Sick

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. March 1, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I did Scottish footballer of the year this year, attempted to do some comedy at that. Not the brightest people in the world. There were seven O-Levels in that room, and they were all mine.

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Humor, Years

  6 Copy quote

• For me, stand-up comedy is a conversation between me and the audience. I have to keep them listening. When I'm making jokes about cake for twenty minutes, I have to make sure my audience is interested and following where I'm going.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Humor, Cake

  4 Copy quote

• I've always thought that comedy was just another dramatic expression. I try to measure the amount of truth in a work rather than just looking at the generic distinction between comedy and drama. There's a lot of bullshit drama that leaves you totally cold. And there's a lot of wasted comedy time too. But when you get something honest, it doesn't matter what label you give it.

  Harold Ramis

  Drama, Expression, Giving

  "Harold Ramis, Seeker" by Ray Pride, newcityfilm.com. February 24, 2014.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Comedy is grievances. It's a recitation of grievances - whether they're inconsequential, superficial - like "my wife shops too much", or "kids today", all those old-fashioned themes - or, if it's deeper, and somewhat more thoughtful, about social imbalance and inequities, and the folly of human behavior. It's usually a complaint.

  George Carlin

  Kids, Thoughtful, Wife

  Source: mavericksofthemind.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Comedy, although it is not one of the fine arts - it's a vulgar art, it's one of the people's arts, it's the spoken word, the writing that goes into it is an art form - it's certainly artistry.

  George Carlin

  Art, Writing, People

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Don't associate me with comedy. And please don't say actress. I would never call myself any of those things. I hate it when people call me that.

  Amy Sedaris

  Hate, People, Actresses

  "Amy Sedaris: The Believer Interview". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. March, 2004.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I just hate the whole idea of labeling anything as a comedy. If you tell me something's funny, I'll want to rebel against it. When I go to a bookstore and see books categorized as humor, I get furious. Don't tell me that a book is funny. Let me decide if it's funny. It's the same with sitcoms. You call something a sitcom and people expect it to be funny. And that ruins everything.

  Amy Sedaris

  Hate, Book, Ideas

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. March 2004.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Awkwardness is where tension is, and tension is where the story is. It's also where the comedy is, which I'm interested in; when it resolves it tends to resolve toward melancholy, a certain resignation, which I find interesting as well.

  Lorrie Moore

  Interesting, Stories, Melancholy

  The Believer interview, www.believermag.com. October 2005.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Stand-up comedy had an interesting effect on me in terms of how I started to think about constructing things, because I really loved the interstices, the linkages, or lack thereof.

  Mark Leyner

  Thinking, Interesting, Linkages

  Interview with Brian Joseph Davis, www.believermag.com.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think horror comedies tend to skew more comedy than horror, for the most part.

  Elijah Wood

  Thinking, Horror

  Source: screenrant.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Like, I'm trying to make a statement that clean comedy is somehow better or loftier than dirty comedy, and I don't feel that way at all. I just think it's different. It's different. There's rock music, there's jazz music, there's reggae music: All of those forms are different.

  Brian Regan

  Dirty, Thinking, Rocks

  Source: www.vulture.com

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• People need to write articles and they need to have angles in them and I'm grateful when people are doing articles, but I always say there's not a great mystery to stand-up comedy.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Grateful, Writing, People

  "Jim Gaffigan Talks to Brian Regan About Hating Being Called a 'Clean' Comedian, Resisting Hollywood, and Playing Big Venues". Interview with Jim Gaffigan, www.vulture.com. September 23, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't want to be a TV star for the sake of being on TV. I want to have a TV show that's based around my comedy.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Stars, Tv Shows, Want

  Source: www.vulture.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source