Comedy Quotes (page 28)

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• romantic
• death
• feeling

I wouldn't feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy - I'd be bored to death. Joaquin Phoenix

• work
• thing
• want

With comedy, you really want to work things out beforehand. Tim Matheson

• music
• star
• consider

I considered the years in Hollywood nothing but an interim. What I always wanted was to be was a musical comedy star. Arlene Dahl

• study
• calculator
• coming

My comedy doesn't come from any calculations and studies. Jackie Mason

• great
• philosophical
• inspirational

I can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes philosophical about humour doesn't know what he's talking about. Jackie Mason

• goals
• heart
• reaction

To me the goal of comedy is to just laugh, which is a really high hearted thing, visceral connection and reaction. Louis C. K.

• sports
• expectation
• writing

Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing, it's not usually a comedy and writing thing. Louis C. K.

• nature
• great
• time

I think with comedy I get very sort of critical of myself and try and do the best I can and it doesn't come as second nature. I work at those kinds of films. It doesn't mean I can't do them - I've done two now, and I have a great time doing them, but I just find myself a little bit more neurotic. Elisha Cuthbert

• taxi
• comedies
• others

I am a big fan of the TV series 'Taxi' which combined comedy and pathos better than any other show I've seen. Douglas Wood

• world
• hard
• needed

We need comedies in the world! We need to laugh, it's all so hard. Joan Cusack

• song
• play
• justly

In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand there mute and play 25 banjo songs. Steve Martin

• funny
• thoughts
• script

I thought 'Borat' was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasn't some studio-produced script with 14 writers. Steve Martin

• emotional love
• love
• emotional

I loved doing 'Pennies from Heaven.' Because you have to understand that I'd been doing comedy for 15 to 20 years, and suddenly along came the opportunity to do this beautiful film. It was so emotional to me. I loved it. I don't think it was a good career move, but I have no regrets about doing it. Steve Martin

• success
• learning
• wild

I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic. Steve Martin

• die
• hard
• hardness

Dying is easy; comedy is hard. Donald Wolfit