Comedy quotes
68 comedy quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines“Comedy is only funny when there's real pain.”
- La trovi in Actors and Art
“Silences are the most underrated part of comedy.”
- La trovi in Actors and Politics
“I have some very personal feelings about politics, but I don't get into it because I do comedy already.”
“The idea of a Japanese comedian was not only a rarity, it was non-existent.”
- La trovi in Career in Cinema
“It's really challenging to play comedy.”
“People who can dance and sing are often very good at comedy.”
“There is certainly a higher percentage of wit in British comedy than in American comedy.”
- La trovi in Actors and Art
“I guess ultimately a lot of comedians just wanna be taken seriously.”
- From the TV Series: Modern Family
“When life gives you lemonade, make lemons. Life will be all, ‘Whaaat?'”
- From the TV Series: Modern Family
“With great hotness comes great responsibility.”
- La trovi in Career in Cinema
“I suppose comedy is my first love, in a way.”
- From the movie: Joker
“Comedy is subjective Murray, isn't that what they say? All of you, the system that knows so much: you decide what's right or wrong the same way you decide what's funny or not.”
- From the movie: Joker
“I used to think that my life was a tragedy, but now I realize, it's a comedy.”
- From the movie: Late Night
“Comedy is the three and a half minute chunks of filler on TV between the commercials you sell.”
- From the movie: Roadie
“- Jerry: People just don't know how to do chase scenes any more.
- Hank: You're right. Now, in Mack Sennett's chase scenes, people actually got killed.
- Jerry: That's what I mean. Nobody dies for comedy any more.” - From the movie: Comedian
“The equivalent for a normal person would be to go into work each day in your underwear and try and do your job that you normally do. All of a sudden you can't do anything. That's how a comedian feels when he's doing a new bit.”
- From the movie: Crimes and Misdemeanors
“Comedy is tragedy plus time!”
“The great comedians imitate children. That's their ability.”
- La trovi in Life and Death in Hollywood
- La trovi in Actors and Art
“Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron.”
- From the movie: Stardust Memories
“- Vivian Orkin: This is my friend Libby. She thinks you're a genius. Libby just did a definitive cinematic study of Gummo Marx. She did!
- Dick Lobel: Interestingly, he's the one Marx brother that never made any movies.” - La trovi in History of Cinema in Quotes
“The best comedy, I feel, comes in a drama because it balances each other out.”
- From the movie: The Man in the Iron Mask
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