Quotes About Comedy

A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.

There's the Oxford comma, but I like the Shatner comma. It's when you pepper them in, so, you know where, to add, dramatic pauses.

To be sure, every football play is in a sense a short narrative. First come the signals of the quarterback. That is the preliminary exposition. Then the plot thickens, action becomes intense and a climax is reached whereby the mood of tragedy or comedy is established.

Q: What's a cat's favorite vegetable? A: As-purr-agus!

Saturday Night Live

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

With fronds like these, who needs anemones?

If you were half as funny as you think you are, you'd be twice as funny as you really are.

I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.

You know, I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor.

Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.

You can't be funny for funny's sake. You try to get as outrageous situation as you can but it always has to be believable and based in real character motivations and what people would really do.

The preposterous comedy of this gang of criminals branding everyone else as criminals was suddenly too much for him to take.

if i had to describe myself i would say that i was am a cross between Jack Parr aNd MicheaL J. fox.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

I'm not a believer in the pratfall. I don't think it's funny just to have someone fall down.

Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.

Golf is not just an exercise; it's an adventure, a romance... a Shakespeare play in which disaster and comedy are intertwined.

Honk, honk!

Some jokes are less agreeable than others

I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.

Pointing out the comic elements of a situation can bring a sense of proportion and perspective to what might otherwise seem an overwhelming problem.

I'd never made a teen comedy in my life.

I really, really, really want to do a silly romantic comedy where I can just have a crush on the guy, trip over myself, and laugh and be goofy. I just feel like all I do is cry, sob, and fight zombies and the bad guys.