Best comedy & play Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Shakespeare wrote great plays that we're still watching all these years later. Charlie Chaplin made great comedies and they are still as funny today as they ever were.”

Years Made Stills Play Today Comedy Charlie Chaplin Great Comedy

Author:Leonard Maltin

“When you're a stand-up, you play in front of 600 people, and it's all about timing. I could never do stand-up comedy; it would be way too hard for me.”

People Way Hard Play Would Be Comedy Fronts Timing Stand Up Comedy

Author:Dean Norris

“I have to say I enjoy physical comedy and I've always loved to kind of take risks. I don't like worrying too much about how I look or how I come across, so that can sometimes... You know, I like to play those kinds of deluded but fun characters.”

Knows Looks Kind Sometimes Play Character Fun Enjoy Worry Comedy Too Much Risk Deluded Physical Comedy Worrying Too Much

Author:Amy Poehler

“As someone who's been doing a lot of classical theater recently, I loved the idea of getting to run around in Steven Alan, and not be in a corset and a wig, and not have a dialect, and get to be in a 90-minute play with no intermission, and get to do real comedy.”

Ideas Real Play Running Comedy Minutes Theater Wigs Dialect Corsets Intermission

Author:Lily Rabe

“I'm not interested in parts where they are looking for a good-looking guy. I want to be a weird little sidekick in a crazy comedy and then play like a dark drama or a thriller.”

Want Littles Play Guy Dark Comedy Crazy Drama Not Interested Looking Good Thrillers Sidekicks Good Looking Guys

Author:Alexander Skarsgard

“I tried real hard to play golf, and I was so bad at it they would have to check me for ticks at the end of the round because I'd spent about half the day in the woods.”

Real Ends Hard Play Half Comedy Golf Rounds Woods Checks Golfing Tick Funny Golf Playing Golf Great Golfing Funny Golfing

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended.”

Done Play Wanted Acting Comedy Havens Tvs Areas Passages Detectives Rite Rite Of Passage

Author:Olivia Williams

“Comedy has sort of been my life-long obsession. I literally obsessed over comedy. I really didn't play sports - for me it was just comedy, computers and chess club; those were my big things.”

Long Play Bigs Sports Comedy Computer Clubs Chess Obsession Obsessed Big Things Long Life

Author:Chris Hardwick

“When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy.”

Firsts Play Character Desire Acting Comedy Theater Musical Tragic Opera Musical Theater

Author:Leslie Easterbrook

“I don't do comedy. I think if a situation is funny you just play it for real and if it's funny, it's funny.”

Ifs Thinking Real Play Situation Comedy

Author:Morgan Freeman

“It's fun for me to couple emotion with comedy. I think it helps comedy. I think a lot of times American comedies don't play on emotion too much.”

Thinking Play Helping Fun Emotion Comedy Too Much Couple

Author:Zach Galifianakis

“Anything has a rhythm to it, comedy or drama. There has to be a musicality to it. And everybody can't play the same instrument, ideally. But I think that we all have the same comedic tendencies, and that's why it works. We all sort of agree with what's funny.”

Thinking Play Comedy Drama Agree Instruments Tendencies Rhythm Comedic Musicality

Author:Bradley Cooper

“There's quite an overlap between musicians - especially drummers - who have an affection and a proclivity towards comedy and comedians who fantasize about being in a band. And a lot of comics play instruments.”

Play Comedy Band Musician Instruments Affection Comedian Drummer

Author:David Cross

“I always knew I wanted to do comedy. I like making people laugh. I started out young just making my family laugh and trying to make kids laugh in school and getting into plays. I think it's the only thing I know how to do so hopefully it works out.”

People Thinking Knows Trying Play Kids Wanted School Young Laughing Know How Comedy My Family Work Out Hopefully Making People Laugh

Author:Jillian Bell

“One of the things that makes any good entertainment, whether it's a play, drama, comedy, television, film, whatever, is that you feel a certain amount of spontaneity.”

Feels Play Film Certain Comedy Television Amount Drama Entertainment Spontaneity

Author:Glenn Howerton

“I have always considered The Merry Wives one of the worst plays, if not altogether the worst, that Shakespeare has left us. The wit for the most part is dreary or foolish; the tone is coarse and farcical; and the characters want the fine distinctive touches he so well knew how to give. If some luckless wight had written such a comedy in our time, I should like to see what the critics would say to it?”

Ifs Want Giving Should Wells Play Character Left Comedy Wife Written Worst Fine Critics Foolish Wit Tone Our Time Merry Distinctive Dreary Coarse

Book:Dramatic Essays

Source: Dramatic Essays

“I don't care if you hate me or if you like me, as long as somebody gives me a character that is really a character to play. It's fun to be able to have a character and have a director that can direct you into a character. I'm just so happy that I got a good role. I don't care if it's bad or if it's good, and I don't care if it's drama or comedy. They are just so rare to come across.”

Ifs Giving Long Play Character Care Able Hate Fun Roles Comedy Drama Directors Direct Give Me Don't Care Like Me I Don't Care Hate Me You Hate Me If You Like Me If You Hate Me

Author:Salma Hayek

“Low comedies are written for the drawing-room, the kitchen and the stable, and if you cut out the kitchen and the stable the drawing-room can't support the play by itself.”

Ifs Play Rooms Support Comedy Cutting Written Lows Drawing Kitchen Stable

Book:Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)

Source: Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)

“Sit the comedy out, and that done, when the Play's at an end, let the Curtain fall down.”

Ends Done Play Death Fall Comedy Curtains Falling Down

Book:Poems and songs

Source: Poems and songs

“I've done a number of these My Name is Earl shows. I play Earl's father. It's a half-hour comedy. And I'll be doing some more of those. I have a movie coming out that I did with Misha Barton, called Don't Fade Away.”

Done Play Shows Father Names Hours Numbers Half Comedy Coming Out Fades Fade Away Half Hours

Author:Beau Bridges

“There wasn't a big tradition of comedy at Dartmouth. More than that, there wasn't really anything artsy going on in Hanover, or even in New Hampshire. The cool thing about the school is that there's nothing for people to watch, so if you were to do a play or a sketch or an improv troupe, it was always packed. There's nowhere else for anyone to go. But there was no comedy.”

People Ifs Play Bigs School Watches Comedy Tradition Cool Things Hampshire New Hampshire Dartmouth Troupe

Author:Mindy Kaling

“You can bring truth to anything, whether it's a dance movie or an incredibly poignant indie drama or a really broad comedy. As long as you show up to play, I don't think you can go wrong.”

Thinking Long Play Shows Comedy Drama Broads Poignant

Author:Josh Peck

“Sometimes with a comedy it's just having the instinct of how real you play it and what level you want it.”

Want Real Sometimes Play Levels Comedy Instinct Real You

Author:Robin Williams

“The more serious the situation, the funnier the comedy can be. The greatest comedy plays against the greatest tragedy. Comedy is a red rubber ball and if you throw it against a soft, funny wall, it will not come back. But if you throw it against the hard wall of ultimate reality, it will bounce back and be very lively. Very, very few people understand this.”

People Ifs Hard Play Reality Situation Comedy Serious Wall Red Ultimate Balls Tragedy Lively Bounce Rubber Ultimate Reality

Author:Mel Brooks

“In a business that has exploited and ignored our people I have only found dead-ends. We need romantic comedies, gross-out and mockery comedies, horror and thrillers, teen movies and love-stories. All these and more will be a positive step towards the future of Native Americans in the world and film industry; an industry that that offers us not only the chance to play the parts of heroes, love interests and warriors, but also of villains, dorks and dangerous, brokenhearted products of circumstance.”

“In television, and especially in a situation comedy, you kind of play yourself, or at least the essence of yourself.”

Kind Play Situation Comedy Television Essence

Author:Shelley Long

“I think people were not expecting us [with Robert Ben Garant] to, they were just like, "Well here come the writers," but we both were coming out of a sketch comedy background, so when we pitch a movie, we play every character in the film. You act it out, you perform it - you do a 10-minute performance of the movie.”

People Thinking Wells Play Character Film Comedy Minutes Performances Backgrounds Coming Out Expecting Sketch Comedy

Author:Thomas Lennon

“It's really challenging to play comedy.”

Play Challenges Comedy

Author:Michelle Monaghan

“There's good action stars. I'm a bad-guy action star. What disappoints me is when you all of a sudden you get a good action star and then he wants to play a comedy with kids, you know? That upsets me, and that's not being true to your fans.”

Knows Want Play Kids Action Guy Stars Comedy Fans Being True Upset Bad Guys Disappoint Good Actions

Author:Vinnie Jones

“I'd like to play a mixture of Lucille Ball meets Murphy Brown meets Glenn Close on 'Damages,' to keep a little bit of the darkness in there. I like dark comedy a lot.”

Littles Play Bits Dark Darkness Comedy Little Bit Balls Damage Brown Mixtures Murphy Dark Comedy Murphy Brown

Author:Joelle Carter

“We're taking part in a divine comedy and we should realise that the play is always a comedy, in that we're all ultimately ridiculous.”

Should Play Comedy Divine Ridiculous Realising Divine Comedy

Author:Max Hastings

“Im fascinated by failure, and Im fascinated by finality. Shakespeares historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to the finality of life. Without finality, life would not be beautiful.”

Play Beautiful Comedy Universal Historical Relate Fascinated Finality

Author:George Hickenlooper

“I love Buster Keaton and I love physical comedy when it's done in an emotionally understated way. I just like to play it, and I need the attention.”

Way Needs Done Play Attention Comedy Busters Physical Comedy Understated

Author:Demetri Martin

“If you're gonna tell a story from beginning to end, I always think you have to have a great structure in a script. If it gets you excited and it's something you've never read before that's another plus. I think also with improv and that whole world of stand-up, that's a whole other organism of comedy that still needs a story, but it's more free-form. On the set, it is the combination of both those worlds coming together: a great script and an allowance to play with it.”

Ifs Thinking World Needs Stills Ends Play Whole Stories Together Form Comedy Structure Scripts Excited Whole World Combination Plus Organisms Coming Together Allowance

Author:Sandra Bullock

“I've always loved comedy and growing up it was the comedies that I really responded to. So I don't know how it turned out that once I started acting that I started getting a certain kind of role, that I never saw myself as growing up, so I really love when I get an opportunity to play a [comedian] role.”

Knows Kind Play Certain Opportunity Acting Roles Know How Growing Up Saws Comedy Growing Comedian

Author:Steve Buscemi

“What reaches an audience is honesty. If you're saying something truthful that's supposed to be a funny line, it's going to be funny. And if it's supposed to be a serious line, it's going to be serious. But, I don't think there's a distinction between how you play drama or comedy, if it's based in the truth.”

Ifs Thinking Play Lines Audience Comedy Honesty Serious Drama Supposed To Be Distinction Truthful

Author:Barbra Streisand

“Most of our occupations are low comedy.... We must play our part duly, but as the part of a borrowed character. Of the mask and appearance we must not make a real essence, nor of what is foreign what is our very own.”

Real Play Character Comedy Lows Essence Theater Appearance Mask Occupation Borrowed

Book:The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters

Source: The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters

“God always comes up with a third act twist -- and we won't know until we die whether the play was a comedy or a tragedy.”

Knows Play Dies Comedy Thirds Tragedy Come Up Twists

Author:Joan Rivers

“Fate cast me to play the role of an ugly duckling with no promise of swanning. . . . I have played my life as a comedy rather than the tragedy many would have made of it.”

Made Play Roles Comedy Fate Promise Tragedy Casts Ugly Ducklings Ugly Duckling

Author:Marie Dressler

“I always knew that someone was going to come at me with a script to play God. It's just one of those things, the way your career is unfolding and all the talk about gravitas etc etc, so I had a strong feeling that someone was going to offer me the part of God. I was totally prepared to say, 'Thanks but no thanks,' unless it was a comedy.”

Way Play Feelings Strong Careers Comedy Offers Prepared Scripts Thanks Just One Etc Unfolding Strong Feeling Gravitas

Author:Morgan Freeman

“I really like the stuff that is very absurd and very real at the same time. I think Anton Chekhov is the greatest comedy writer of all time. I think he would make a great addition to The Office staff. If you look through Chekhov plays there is a lot of awkward pauses in there. His mixture of pathos, absurdity, truthfulness and whimsy is just mixed together perfectly.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Real Play Together Stuff Comedy Office Absurd All Time Awkward Staff Pauses Absurdity Mixtures Truthfulness Pathos Chekhov Whimsy

Author:Rainn Wilson

“I think it would be so fun to do some kind of comedy, something - I'm not exactly sure, but something like I just did Moliere's "Tartuffe" in class, and wow, what a stretch. Why go to classes? I get to play in Moliere's "Tartuffe," and I could never - nobody would ever think that they would be, I'd be right for that.”

Thinking Kind Play Would Be Fun Class Comedy Wow

Author:Eva Mendes

“Whatever the best scripts are and you just want to play roles that you can really sink your teeth into. That's always the goal no matter if it's a good guy or a bad guy, or a comedy, or a drama. It doesn't matter, you just want something that's substantial you can sink your teeth into and that you haven't done before, something that's really going to challenge you.”

Ifs Want Matter Done Play Guy Goal Challenges Roles Comedy Havens Drama Scripts Teeth Bad Guys Want Something Good Guy

Author:Stanley Tucci

“With the Tonys it's a little tricky because a lot of the funnier jokes are more insider, so people watching at home may not get a Julie Taymor reference the way that New Yorkers would. So you have to figure out what comedy plays to a large audience and still respect the individuals who are there.”

People Way May Littles Stills Play Home Individual Audience Comedy Figures Jokes Tricky New Yorkers Insiders

Author:Neil Patrick Harris

“I would love to continue to challenge myself by trying different things. Action, Drama, Comedy... I would be grateful to do any and all of it if someone is kind enough to hire me! I have such a wonderful time on The Originals though, because I get to play Rebekah in so many different periods. I'm a little spoiled.”

“What is our life? A play of passion. Our mirth the music of division. Our mother's wombs the tyring houses be, Where we are drest for this short Comedy.”

Life Play Mother Passion House Comedy Our Lives Division Womb Mirth

Book:Sir Walter Raleigh: Selected Prose and Poetry

Source: Sir Walter Raleigh: Selected Prose and Poetry

“My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.”

Play Girl Comedy Sweet Fool Warm Very Sweet

Author:Salma Hayek

“The actress (Heidi Swedberg) is this wonderful girl, and ... I love her! i couldn't figure out how to play off of her. Her instincts for doing a scene - where the comedy was - and mine were always misfiring.”

Love Play Girl Comedy Wonderful Figures Mines Scene Instinct Actresses Heidi

Author:Jason Alexander

“Movies serve many purposes, and I've visited many of those genres, from the most light, frivolous comedy that is just trying to make you laugh, to movies that explore the most complicated side of the human soul. As an actor, I play all of those things, and I still like it.”

Trying Humans Stills Soul Play Light Purpose Actors Sides Laughing Comedy Complicated Genre Human Soul Frivolous Make You Laugh

Author:Antonio Banderas

“To have a friend and a comrade as your co-star, especially in a romantic comedy, is really important. It gives you the room. It's easier to give yourself and the other person permission to play.”

Giving Persons Important Play Stars Rooms Comedy Easier Permission Comrade

Author:Alex O'Loughlin

Comedy Quotes

Related topics

Comedy Quotes