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But I just think I was lucky enough to figure out early on that I wanted to do comedy, so that's what I put all my effort into. — Donald Glover

You know, stand-up comedy is where I pretty much started out. — Brion James

I'm not temperamentally into high comedy. I'm not a Noel Coward kind of girl. — Kelly Reilly

I like romantic comedy as a genre, but I think it can get stuck in its ways. — Zooey Deschanel

Morning, Bill,' said Lord Tidmouth agreeably.
'Go to hell!' said Bill.
'Right-ho,' said his lordship. — P.G. Wodehouse

My gift was in comedy. I found out I could make jokes. I could tell jokes. I could write them. So over the years, that's what I've done. — Woody Allen

Comedy wasn't something I chose - it chose me. I was just inherently funny when I was a kid. — Pauly Shore

Love is the canvas covering the furniture that you've become a part of — Josh Stern

I actually love Scorsese comedies. He's an underrated comedy director. I think his comedies are some of the best comedies ever made. — Julie Delpy

I would like to explore comedy, I want to do more theatre, and I definitely want a future in film. — Jessica Raine

hi my name is luke, it rhymes with puke! — Mary Amato

I just think 'Broad City' - Comedy Central's answer to 'Girls' - is the best thing that's been put on television in years. It's amazing. — Mackenzie Davis

Comedy is something that we can all share, no matter what language we speak or our background, it has the power to unite us all. — Paul Goodman

I can only write what makes me laugh, and what makes me laugh is the comedy I grew up on. — Brendan O'Carroll

Comedy is a serious business. A serious business with only one purpose
to make people laugh. — W.C. Fields

You know, Taylor, I told his manager that your reputation in this firm is that you can go head-to-head with any man. And win. — Julie James

Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded. — Mike Myers

Good comedy is ageless. — Ted Levine

I think a lot of the romantic comedies need to catch up with what's actually kind of happening. — Elizabeth Meriwether

The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like. — Rachel McAdams

The Room is a drama that is also a comedy that is also an existential cry for help that is finally a testament to human endurance. — Greg Sestero

She wished now she'd brought that vibrator as a flashlight instead of leaving it on the couch. — Jill Shalvis

The act of creation fascinates me. You can only sit with blank page and wait. You cannot press a button, cannot program it. — Joan Rivers

-"He loved her ... It was noble of him. It was beautiful."
-"It was stupid. — Lloyd Alexander

At CBS, I'm in your house. I'm mindful of that. When I do standup, you're in my home and I can say what I want to. — Craig Ferguson

All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy. — Martin McDonagh

Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it. — Maureen O'Hara

I want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy. — Benedict Cumberbatch

Now women in comedy is a trendy topic, and people are hungering for women's voices in a way that they haven't before. — Rachel Bloom

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy. — John Lithgow

The more Keystone comedies I make, the more convinced I become that comedy is an art, and a high one at that. — Mack Sennett

There's probably been very few people in comedy that have a diversified background as I do. — Ron Shock

Comedy is funny when it comes from truth, and that's always the rule of them. It's about how far you can push that boundary. — Ari Graynor

Comedy is so subjective, you know what I mean? To sit there and technically pick it apart is so stupid. — Nick Swardson

I think comedy has to be very fearless, or it just gets bland. — Elizabeth Banks

Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with. — Drew Carey

If I find a comedy club where no one's camera works, I'll go. — Chris Rock

I'd love to continue my career in Hollywood - I'd love to do another action film, or a romantic comedy, or horror. I love horror films. — Rain

These thoughts only scare me because I'm not afraid of them. I don't want to die. I don't want to kill myself. But I'm not afraid of it. — Josh Nealis

I've never been a shirt-off, pants-off kind of comedy guy. — Jason Sudeikis

'The Dice Man' is an anti-establishment cult novel, and you don't normally make studio films from such dark comedy material. — Luke Rhinehart

I like the honesty of standup comedy. People don't fake laugh. If they're truly laughing at you, you know they like you. — Brian Regan

Most of my comedy is accidental, I would say. If I don't know what the joke is, I'm going to play it better than if I do. — Aya Cash

Comedy tends to come out of things which are quite painful and serious. — Helen Fielding

Comedy strikes here... just to reduce pressure and depression. — Deyth Banger

Your toaster's a puff. — St John Morris

I'm a big comedy fan, and a fan of films. — Dan Scanlon

I'm a comedy snob, and I never want anything that I do to get old. — Derek Waters

You can not have comedy unless people are behaving badly. You can't have it. — Keegan-Michael Key

You want me to pin my entire operation, the entire revolution on some teenaged love story? I can't believe this. — Victoria Aveyard

I think I'm interested in these kinds of character dramas, psychological dramas, domestic dramas, whatever you want to call them - comedy dramas. — Lisa Cholodenko

I do find things funny. When you see life through the eyes of someone with a good sense of humor, which my grandmother did, life is a human comedy. — George Takei

There's so much I want to do. I love emotions, I love drama, I love comedy and I also want to take action up to another level, I love comics. — Gina Carano

My wife happens to be probably the greatest working woman in comedy. I can't think of anyone who even approaches her achievements and her abilities. — Nick Offerman

It was just at the end of the golden era of BBC comedy, which was fantastic. — John Leeson

It takes up enough of my time and interest just working on comedy. I just enjoy it and love doing it. — Jerry Seinfeld

I wasn't even a big comedy nerd. A lot of the comedians I know - a lot of my friends are comedians - they knew a lot about comedy growing up. — Demetri Martin

I've never been bothered with my conduct. I've only been bothered by people that don't get it correct when they gossip about me. — Shannon L. Alder

You are the soul of comedy, Mrs. Emerson. — Sylvain Reynard

Oh, Hello. I'm Eugene Mirman, and I'm here to introduce my special. It's called An Evening of Comedy in a Fake Underground Laboratory. — Eugene Mirman

It's just fun to be on a movie set and looking to find the comedy in sweet, simple family moments. — Sean Astin

I find it very difficult to be funny, it's much easier to do tragedy than it is to do comedy. — Eric Drooker

I'm not a big believer in the sense of Jews having a monopoly on comedy. — Woody Allen

It is always exciting when you find someone who is really enthusiastic about being half of a comedy team. — Seth Rogen

I want to do drama, light comedy, the whole range. — Bobby Darin

The principles of comedy are the principles of comedy. I can hear funny. — Stephan Pastis

Comedy is not my world. It's difficult for me, but sometimes you just have to go with it and have a good time. — Jonathan Banks

I would love to play the lead in a big romantic comedy. That's definitely a dream of mine. — Rosamund Pike

In the midst of tragedy we start the comedy. — Agatha Christie

Great Gates almighty," HARV said inside my brain. "I go off-line for a few nanos and the whole world goes to DOS. — John Zakour

That's what's nice about being on Comedy Central. You can't show your boobs even if you wanted to. — Ilana Glazer

You just can't take yourself too seriously, especially in comedy. — Paula Patton

As a comedian I appreciate every kind of comedy. You decide for yourself what you're going to do. — Jeff Foxworthy

Nobody mountain bikes anymore - or ever did - in comedy, so I have to go by myself. — Kyle Kinane

I love Stewart Lee's 'Comedy Vehicle' on BBC2. The guy is a genius. — Jez Butterworth

Nothing like a great comedy. I love to laugh! — Drew Sidora

Unless you're Jack Lemmon or Cary Grant, there are few guys who can do comedy and drama. — Steve Guttenberg

To most Christians, the Bible is like a software license. Nobody actually reads it. They just scroll to the bottom and click 'I agree'. — Bill Maher

It's fun once in a while to do a serious part but I really enjoy doing comedy because I love to laugh. — Betty White

Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations. — Chuck Jones

I wear so many disguises on the show that only a real comedy fan might spot me. — Paul Putner

I believe in physical comedy, because that reaches out most to people. — Norman Wisdom

I got my start in silent radio. — Bob Monkhouse

Nice driving, ya doomed fucks! — Daniel Younger

The only thing I miss from the sitcom format is that immediate gratification of when you're, if we're talking about comedy, of the live audience. — Ray Romano

Two Strapping Alpha Billionaires. One Girl Looking For A Fresh Start. A Heck of A Wild Ride! — Scarlett Avery

Deep inside, I am desperate to do comedy. — David Suchet

In our world, all puns are beautiful and they are the highest form of comedy. — Greg Proops

I remember 'Def Comedy Jam' being a big deal and kids talking about it in school, but it was never, 'I want to do that.' — Hannibal Buress

As you can see, I speak many languages, including the language of sex. — Kristen Schaal

I could have carried on in comedy. But my life was dark. — Charlotte Rampling

Well my biggest dream is to be in a romantic comedy. — Izabella Scorupco

Tragedy is what happens to me; comedy is what happens to you. — Mel Brooks

The strongest should come first in comedy because once a character is really established as funny everything he does is funny. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I've been in very few flat-out comedies. But I feel like I've always made comedies. — Willem Dafoe

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy. — Mark Twain

Get up every day and consider the stage you're on. Only you can decide whether it will be a tragedy, a comedy or a drama. — Maryln Schwartz

Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel. — Jean Racine

You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy. — Adrian Edmondson