Quotes About Comedy

Moonstruck... was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.

I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy.

But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives.

Causing active ongoing pleasure in your mate is something people tend to restrict to the sexual realm or getting attractive food on the table on time, but keeping permanent intimate comedy going is more important than any other one thing.

I think it's actually a misperception that I am a comedic actress. I do more drama than comedy but very little of it has been seen. When you are in big funny movies and they do well and your little part in it kind of explodes people perceive you as a comedian.

Laughing on what is not funny is the most craziest thing

Tragedy plus time isn't comedy,

In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

Jon Stewart hires people that he thinks are funny. That's it. That's the only requirement.

As long as I can make them laugh, it doesn't matter how, I'll be all right. If I succeed in that, the human beings probably won't mind it too much I remain outside their lives.

Así es cómo se me ocurrieron las bufonadas. Era mi última posibilidad de ganarme el afecto de las personas.

Being able to laugh at ourselves and at the comical aspects of sex will take the pressure off the whole experience.

An epigram is a gag that's played Carnegie Hall.

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

Bigamy is having one husband or wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.

A közkelet? tréfa szerint magyarnak lenni, illetve afféle kelet-, közép-, közép-kelet-európainak lenni – az pech. Ez a Hrabal azt mondja, így gondolta az író, hogy ez nem így van, nem pech, hanem tragédia, ide születni, az tragédia, sÅ't még ennél is több: komédia. Szóval dráma.

Son personajes de una comedia maligna, instalada en la traición, bordeando permanentemente el ridículo, abyectos y serviles, de esos que México produce cíclicamente con frecuencia.

Being gloomy is easier than being cheerful. Anybody can say 'I've got cancer' and get a rise out of a crowd. But how many of us can do five minutes of good stand-up comedy?" —

Hey, I gotta take a piss. Want to come with me? Said no man ever.

I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side.

I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.

doing the smoker's comedy act: he hunted automatically for an ashtray, didn't find one, tipped his ashes into the palm of his hand,...