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Quotes About Comedy

Let's shake hands and be friends, but please, I beg you, stop farting like that, because I'm beginning to hallucinate and in my dreams I see Comrade Joseph Stalin doing the Charleston.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
La comedia nos enseña que la vida no hay que tomarla en serio y la tragedia nos enseña lo que pasa cuando no hacemos caso de lo que la comedia nos enseña —explicó Cervantes.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Erzählen Sie Don Antoni das mit Ihrer Komödie, ermunterte ihn Sancho. Eigentlich ist es eine Tragödie, nuancierte Cervantes. Und worin besteht der Unterschied, wenn der Meister meine grobe Unwissenheit in den feinen Dichtungsgattungen entschuldigt? Die Komödie lehrt uns, dass man das Leben nicht ernst nehmen darf, und die Tragödie lehrt uns, was geschieht, wenn wir dem keine Beachtung schenken, was uns die Komödie lehrt, erläuterte Cervantes.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The year Alicia Gris arrived in Madrid, her mentor and puppet master Leandro Montalvo taught her that to keep your sanity, you must have a place in the world where you can lose yourself if necessary. That place, that last refuge, is a small annex of the soul, and when the world reverts to its absurd comedy, you can always run there, lock yourself in, and throw away the key.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
La comedia nos enseña que la vida no hay que tomarla en serio y la tragedia nos enseña lo que pasa cuando no hacemos caso de lo que la comedia nos enseña.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
to keep your sanity, you must have a place in the world where you can lose yourself if necessary. That place, that last refuge, is a small annex of the soul, and when the world reverts to its absurd comedy, you can always run there, lock yourself in and throw away the key.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Komedia uczy nas, i? nie nale?y bra? ?ycia nazbyt serio, tragedia za? uczy nas, co si? dzieje, kiedy nie bierzemy na serio tego, czego nas uczy komedia.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
el último refugio, es un pequeño anexo del alma al que, cuando el mundo naufraga en su absurda comedia, uno siempre puede correr a encerrarse y extraviar la llave.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
relamiéndose los labios como si aquello le pareciese un chiste
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
cualquiera que aspire a conservar su sano juicio necesita de un lugar en el mundo en el que pueda y desee perderse. Ese lugar, el último refugio, es un pequeño anexo del alma al que, cuando el mundo naufraga en su absurda comedia, uno siempre puede correr a encerrarse y extraviar la llave.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Comedy shows us that one must not take life too seriously, and tragedy teaches us what happens when we pay no attention to what comedy teaches us
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Ese lugar, el último refugio, es un pequeño anexo del alma al que, cuando el mundo naufraga en su absurda comedia, uno siempre puede correr a encerrarse y extraviar la llave.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Then Brian stopped so quickly that she had to grab her hand brakes to keep from plowing into him. Hey, you want me to bump my head against a tree, too? she asked.
~ Carole Marsh
If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.
~ Carrie Fisher
If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.
~ Carrie Fisher
She a natural born comic, but she didn't know it. That was her gift, she didn't know it.
~ Catherine Cookson
A kitten is the delight of a household. All day long a comedy is played out by an incomparable actor.
~ Champfleury
Come on, I said, taking his hand. Clutching the afghan with the other hand, he trailed down the hall after me, a snow white giant in tiny red underwear.
~ Charlaine Harris
It's called Two and a Half Men," Dermot was telling his guest. "I understand," Bellenos said. "Because the two brothers are grown, and the son isn't." "I think so," Dermot said. "Don't you think the son is useless?" "The half? Yes. At home, we'd eat him," Bellenos said.
~ Charlaine Harris
The ladies of comedy now are comfortable dressing up. It's not forbidden anymore.
~ Tina Fey
Usually comedy is only available to us ladies in the romantic comedy. That's why I hate romantic comedies.
~ Sandra Bullock
Dressing up as decrepit old ladies, and even decrepit young ladies, was one of our staples.
~ Graham Chapman
I know these jokes aren't great, ladies and gentlemen, see this is the problem you run into when you're between impeachments.
~ David Letterman
I've played a lot of weird women. I play crazy ladies, and I've played a lot of insane women and weird best friends that are not sexually desirable.
~ Jennifer Coolidge