Quotes of: Standup-comedy Keyword

Anybody with a sharp brain and a mic can become a comedian, but there's a need to move beyond it. The audience wants to witness the marriage of theatre, comedy and something more.

Vir Das

I was imagining films in my head and trying to gather friends together to make movies since I was a kid. I tried to do comedy skits and a horror film.

Cary Fukunaga

When I was a kid I was much happier watching old movies than kids' TV, and I ended up watching all the old Ealing comedies.

Ewan McGregor

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

I would like to get back to making people laugh. Before drama school, I did nothing but comedy.

Andrew Buchan

I think that comedy is one of the more serious things that you can do in our day, especially in the world that we're living in.

Antonio Banderas

Making people laugh is magic. I feel like if you have humility, then you can do anything in comedy.

Amanda Seyfried

'The Cosby Show' made an impact on comedy, television and culture. We rejected lowering the bar.

Bill Cosby

I have some very personal feelings about politics, but I don't get into it because I do comedy already.

Jerry Lewis

When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.

Robin McLeavy

I've mainly been in dramas, so this is one of my first comedy kind of performances in Cecil B. Demented.

Stephen Dorff

Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.

Wanda Sykes

All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.

Yahoo Serious

If I'm doing comedy, I try to improvise a lot. Even if they don't use it, it helps me loosen up and figure out the character.

Zach Woods

I have a lot more fun making comedies because there's a levity on the set, and I find it difficult to go to work and, you know, cry for 12 hours.

Megan Fox

Suffice to say, many women find their first appearance on a comedy panel show to be their last. Second chances seem to be given less often to the female of the species.

Jo Brand

Come on, shake off the covers of this sloth, for sitting softly cushioned, or tucked in bed, is no way to win fame.

The Divine Comedy

Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.

Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

At once I feel that comedy is this amazing sort of transcendent thing, and I'm also open to the fact that maybe it's just an evolutionary hiccup, something that upright apes do in their free time.

Bo Burnham

I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality.

Adam Carolla

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