Quotes About Comedy

I'd love to do something funny. Our work often deals with tough subjects. You do your research and it can be quite dark. So after all these years of drama, I'd like to go to work someday with the sole intention of making people laugh.

I have worked in comedies and romance genre, so I wanted a change. I wanted to do some tough work.

To ask a pratfall comedian, a dishes-in-the-face comic like me, to lay back and bring none of that stuff to the script because it doesn't call for it? That's tough.

I have a tough time with stand-up because I am an improviser. I can riff; I can do crowd work, so I don't prepare.

The characters I play are tough, but I love laughing and humor.

I never approach comedy thinking 'I know it all.' Comedy is tough. To make people laugh is not easy.

The important thing, once you get 'em laughing, is to keep 'em laughing until you're through. With a 90-minute feature, you've got to stop the laughter and then pick it up again, which is tough.

When I first started, it was a dare. Someone basically said, 'You're a tough guy... but I'll bet you won't get on a microphone in front of a bunch of people.' I was terrified, but I did it. Once I broke the ice and got onstage and got some laughs, I thought, 'That's not so bad.'

Standup is a tough job and a gritty job.

I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I'm naturally accustomed to putting myself into the headspace of a girl who can take care of herself.

I feel reviewers are tougher on comedies in general. They don't take them seriously, and the ones that get great reviews are not necessarily the ones that I like.

I'm not a stand-up comedian by any means, but I do think it's tougher for a woman to go to that territory because it does make people go, 'Aww,' instead of laughing.

I believe it is tough to be funny and tougher to make people laugh. And it needs to be been done effortlessly. A joke can be comedy, but one can kill the joke if it is delivered badly.

I do feel it's tougher to make a comic scene work than performing an intense scene, for example.

I realized comedy is toughest thing to handle, although I started with theatre and did several stage plays.

Comedy is the toughest. If it goes little bit here and there, and your partner doesn't cover up for you, then everything can go wrong.

Comedy is one of the toughest genres. It is so essential to get the timing right, failing which the humour can fall flat.

I think playing a comic role is the toughest job for an actor; to put glycerin and cry is easy, but to make people laugh is difficult.

Getting up in front of the toughest crowds, you know, playing pubs in South Armagh - where people didn't necessarily even know what stand-up comedy was - you had to force yourself to do it. It went against every instinct in your body, but you did it anyway.

Comedy is very tough to do, it never gets the awards but it's the toughest task.

I believe comedy is the toughest genre to bring alive onscreen, but it's something that I really enjoy doing as an actor.

Black audiences are probably the toughest for me to make laugh. I've gotten pretty good at performing for them, but it's still a challenge.

I genuinely like to make people laugh. It is one of the toughest things to do.

As everyone knows, comedy is the toughest emotion to handle. Everything about it is difficult - writing, directing and acting.