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Quotes About Comedy

I've been doing comedy since I was two. You know, kids who make other kids laugh. The sickness had set in! I could make my friends' parents laugh; I had a sense of what was silly and funny.
~ Albert Brooks
People know who I am or are fans of 'Chelsea Lately,' and that makes my shows more fun. People know I'm silly and are on board with what I'm bringing to the table. I see the boyfriends who got dragged to the show by their girlfriends, and by the end, they're laughing harder than anybody. That's the best feeling: 'I knew I was going to get you.'
~ Fortune Feimster
Comedy came early. I knew when I was a kid that I was silly, and I knew that I liked people who were funny, but I don't think I knew I was funny. I didn't really think about it.
~ Milana Vayntrub
Hollywood comedy has gotten really silly and absurd, and I like that.
~ Alan Tudyk
I like that 'Scrubs' is very funny and silly and broad, but also emotional and real - sometimes within the same scene.
~ Brett Goldstein
I think it's harder to go from comedy to drama than from drama to comedy. Seeing you dramatic all the time, they crave to see you being silly or funny. But, seeing you in comedy all the time, it's hard to see that person go be serious, for some reason.
~ Evan Peters
I'd love to be able to do a comedy like 'Dr. Strangelove.' I'm not a very serious person. Really, I'm very silly.
~ Denis Villeneuve
When I was a kid, I would make kung fu movies with the kids in the neighborhood, and I would be the guy behind the camera directing everybody, but they were all very silly little shorts and comedy bits.
~ Dan Fogler
I was a bit of a goofball. I was always silly. I think that lends itself to being an actor.
~ Rob McClure
Every time I do something silly, it comes off really funny because it's natural.
~ Shaquille O'Neal
Anything that was perverse and silly would be Kids in the Hall.
~ Kevin McDonald
I love to make fun of fashion because it is just so silly.
~ Kathy Griffin
I guess my silly dream is to be on 'Game of Thrones.' I don't think that I can do that, but that's my silly dream. And there are a lot of American comedies, particularly on NBC, that I would, I would love to do.
~ Anna Kendrick
As a little kid when I would watch 'Monty Python'... that would just blow me away because it was just so silly and absurd, but so intelligent, and I loved that.
~ Reggie Watts
The more comedic roles come easier to me though because I see myself as a silly, easy-going person.
~ Sara Paxton
I'm an eccentric, silly, observational guy, but I'm not gonna frighten off social conservatives.
~ Jim Gaffigan
I've always wanted to do a real comedy. I haven't done enough, and it seems silly not to do more, considering the fact that people tend to laugh at me.
~ Tom Hollander
It's such fun to take a lot of people and create something silly.
~ Eric Idle
I've been a stand-up comedian for years, and I can be silly.
~ Diane Neal
My turn on 'Letterman' turned out to be a blast. The audience were delightful, and they lapped up my silly Kiwi humour. Even the big man himself came over to shake my hand after my set.
~ Rhys Darby
I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
~ Tamala Jones
People like light and silly, and they like stuff that's really energetic, and you get a character in a film bouncing around and screaming, people laugh. That's all it takes. I don't find that funny. To me, what's funny is dialogue and nuance of character and performance.
~ Terry Zwigoff
I feel like comedy is where I'm most at ease, but I also have an allergy to silly jokes.
~ Jonathan Levine
There was a lot about the military that I thought was pretty silly, but these cartoons weren't meant to take a poke at anybody or anything. They were meant to make people laugh.
~ Shel Silverstein