Top Comedy Quotes
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Peter Ustinov
Comedy is acting out optimism.
Robin Williams
The funny thing is, Dennis Miller got me back into comedy.
Tommy Chong
Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.
Drew Carey
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
Mel Brooks
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Stacy Keach 
Joe Klein 
Topher Grace 
Joe Rogan 
Jerry Lewis 
Michael Dorn 
Maureen O'Hara 
Jenna Elfman 
Sophie Marceau 
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It's a lot of work and I also feel like I've done it. I miss comedy. And I also think that, from purely a logistical standpoint, that the day-to-day schedule on a comedy allows you to have a life, much more of a life, than on a drama.
Adam Arkin 
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
Wislawa Szymborska
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Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Horace Walpole
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The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.
Aaron Allston
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You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.
Owen Wilson
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People don't understand that that's really what it is. They're looking for a magic phone number or something. And to a certain extent, I understand that, because comedy is treated so much as a stepping stone by a lot of people.
Todd Barry
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What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
Steve Martin
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With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.
Bill Pullman
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With comedy, you really want to work things out beforehand.
Tim Matheson
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