Comedy Quotes (page 15)

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• character
• thoughts
• time

He thought of his own by-now legendary novel, American Disillusionment, that cyclone which, for years, had woven its erratic path across the flatlands of his imaginary life, always on the verge of grandeur or disintegration, picking up characters and plotlines like houses and livestock, tossing them aside and moving on. It had taken the form, at various times, of a bitter comedy, a stoical Hemingwayesque tragedy, a hard-nosed lesson in social anatomy like something by John O’Hara, a... Michael Chabon

• life
• growing old
• old soul

LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy. Oscar Wilde

• manly
• tragedies
• surviving

The comedy of man survives the tragedy of man. Gilbert K. Chesterton

• funny
• women
• math

Anytime there's a bad female stand-up somewhere, some dickhead Interblogger will deduce that "women aren't funny." Using that same math, I can state: Male comedy writers piss in cups. Tina Fey

• love
• believe
• believable

I love making comedy. I never stopped loving it. I will continue to love it and I can't believe that I get to do it. Mike Myers

• phantoms
• social
• phantom

Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail. Benito Mussolini

• kids
• play
• lesson

Golf was my first glimpse of comedy. I was a caddy when I was a kid. I was on the golf course rather than being in lessons, but I can play better now than I could then. Bill Murray

• work
• thoughts
• wellness

I was really more interested in dramatic work, but I thought, 'Well, I guess I could do comedy.' Donny Most

• strong
• greatness
• kindness

I tend to play strong characters and people just assume that I would want to play romantic comedies, which I would love to do, but there are other women that do it so great and they maybe couldn't do what I do, play the kind of characters that I play. Carrie-Anne Moss

• music
• elect
• go

If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration. Robert Moses

• work
• green
• together

Together with script writers Syd green and Dick Hills, we worked on the comedy ideas for this series. Eric Morecambe

• experience
• doing
• experimenting

My portrayal of Fagin was all to do with my experience in comedy and revue. Ron Moody

• sad
• wellness
• more

I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable. Rick Moody

• creativity
• producer
• strangeness

Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries. Eugenio Montale

• men
• correction
• duties

The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them. Moliere