Comedy quotes

“- Vivian Orkin: This is my friend Libby. She thinks you're a genius. Libby just did a definitive cinematic study of Gummo Marx. She did!
- Dick Lobel: Interestingly, he's the one Marx brother that never made any movies.”
Helen Hanft - Vivian Orkin
Roy Brocksmith - Dick Lobel

“The best comedy, I feel, comes in a drama because it balances each other out.”
Ray Romano

“- Fouquet: His Majesty's executioner will provide the tragedy when this charming little comedy is finished.
- Colbert: His Majesty's executioner could provide the tragedy before the comedy is finished.”
Joseph Schildkraut - Fouquet
Walter Kingsford - Colbert

“You can't do comedy with a beard. ”
Alexei David Sayle

“- Terry Randall: The trouble with you is you're all trying to be comics. Don't you ever take anything seriously?
- Judith: After you've sat around for a year trying to get a job, you won't take anything seriously either.”
Katharine Hepburn - Terry Randall
Lucille Desiree Ball - Judith

“- Manny: You are going to need a co-pilot.
- Sam Sparks: You are a pilot, too?
- Manny: Yes. I am also a particle physicist.
- Sam Sparks: Really?
- Manny: No, that was a joke. I am also a comedian.”
Benjamin Bratt - Manny
Anna Faris - Sam Sparks

“- Jack Payne: You know what they say is the first thing that a man feels when he shoots a civilian?
- Bob Lee Swagger: The recoil of the rifle?
- Jack Payne: [snickers] Yeah.
- Bob Lee Swagger: Very original.”
Elias Koteas - Jack Payne
Mark Wahlberg - Bob Lee Swagger

“A good comedy's very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy.”
Colm Meaney

“I don't get considered for true comedies because I'm a 'dramatic' actor.”
Noah Emmerich

“I wasn't planning on being a comedian; I just liked to laugh.”
Jamie Kennedy

“I love doing comedy, and I don't get a chance to much. I get to play lots of serious people and killers.”
William Sadler

“I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.”
Héctor Elizondo

“I'm an actor, I'm not a comedian, I never was a comedian.”
Jonah Hill

“I enjoy taking off the uniform once in a while, especially when I get a chance to do some comedy.”
Dale Dye

“Drama and comedy, to me, are all about being surprising, coherent, and true, all at once.”
Tim Blake Nelson

“Good comedy is ageless.”
Ted Levine

“That's comedy. It's never the line itself.”
Jeffrey Tambor

“It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy.”
Vince Vaughn

“The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry.”
Martin Landau On Sir Charlie Chaplin

“I see parody as another form of comedy.”
Bruce Campbell

“It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done.”
Dame Judi Dench

“Doing comedy is still in my veins; that's my first love.”
James Hong

“I think the first rule of comedy is that it has to be funny.”
Nigel Cole

“Ever since I was a kid, I just loved those comedians on TV who would just have fun with the language.”
Alan Rudolph

“No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.”
Harold Ramis