Quotes About Comedy

I fit well in the comedy zone. A plump and chubby figure goes well with most onscreen characters... it adds more value to what I say.

I'm very quiet off stage. I think I'm a pretty boring person. I'm not super talkative; I spend a lot of my time running and zoning out. I spend so much time trying to write jokes and 'be on,' so when I'm finally off stage, I just want to sit.

Comedians are the monkeys of acting. When you go to the zoo, everybody loves the monkey exhibit.

With me, traveling for work is arriving at the airport, checking into the hotel, leaving the hotel the next morning at 4 or 5 to do something like 'The Jimmy and Jackie Captain Crazy Morning Zoo,' doing a bunch of those in a row, then going back to the hotel, and then finally going to the club.

With the collapse of vaudeville new talent has no place to stink.

Satire is what closes Saturday night.

Cynicism is humour in ill health.

I knew I was drunk. I felt sophisticated and couldn't pronounce it.

Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.

Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually have comic touches to the victim. Happiness probably consists largely in the capacity to detect and relish them.

My husband wasn't listening when the doctor asked for "a urine, stool, and semen sample" . . . so I just told him they wanted his shorts.

The difficulty with humourists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't; whichever seems likelier to win an effect.

Comedy is tragedy - plus time.

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

You encourage a comic man too much, and he gets silly.

Humour is just another defence against the universe.

The great humorist forgets himself in his delighted contemplation of other people.

The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.

You can pretend to be serious, but you can't pretend to be witty.

The love of truth lies at the root of much humour.

The best comedy is truthful. So if you say something in a way that is amusing, but is rooted in truth, you can get away with it.

And you know, whether it's drama or comedy, the best work is based on truth. It's just that, with comedy, the circumstances are just crazy-heightened, and you have these crazy things thrown at you. But you still have to do it truthfully, because that's where the humor comes from. So it's not that difficult to cross over.

Truthfully, I almost avoided 'While You Were Sleeping,' because I find those romantic comedies kind of precious, and they're full of lines that leave you feeling a little bewildered when you say them.

It's just that, with comedy, the circumstances are just crazy-heightened, and you have these crazy things thrown at you. But you still have to do it truthfully, because that's where the humor comes from.