Top 232 Comedies Quotes

The BBC say we need more working-class comedies, which is rubbish. We need funny comedies; it doesn’t matter where they come from.

I think the kick to doing comedy is just to get in a film with really funny people and let them do their jobs. I find that in most comedies, I’m not the funny one, which works out great.

With comedies, often shorter is better. You don’t want to outstay your welcome.

I like the days when all the filmmakers had was a film roll, a camera and a gangster. The Mack Sennett comedies were all like that. They’d create little teams to go out and shoot films.

I would love to do a small indie comedy, like a Wes Anderson movie or, like, an ensemble comedy like ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ or ‘Little Miss Sunshine.’ I like comedies like that, that have a lot of heart and are about family dynamics.

My dream was never necessarily comedy. I really wanted to make film or television and was interested in darker stuff over comedy, but I knew I liked dark comedies.

I don’t want to be known as this goody-two-shoes who can only do comedies where puppies are licking peanut butter off my face.

It’s something that people relate to – and I hope my kid doesn’t relate to – but there’s a level of believability in playing complex characters. You know, Christopher Walken has done some hilarious comedies, De Niro. There’s great room for complexity and darkness to do well in comedies.

Mohanlal and I have done nearly 40 films together, many of them comedies.

A lot of modern comedies are difficult to watch too, because they’re so ironic and so detached and so quote-unquote clever. They kind of keep you at arm’s length. They can be really funny, but they’re not really nourishing.

You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn’t find anybody to deliver it correctly.

I wonder if Shakespeare ever had to write a play in 10 days while suffering from jet-lag? Probably. It would explain why his comedies are so crap.

I’m never going to say, ‘Well, I’m never going to do comedy again.’ I love comedies, and it’s what people know me for, so I love doing it… I don’t really think about it in terms of ‘Well, I should do this because it’s comedy or drama.’

I grew up on romantic comedies and love watching those films. They were, like, a real joy and a source of great pleasure and an escape.

It is difficult to pinpoint my favorite comedies.

I love the NBC comedies. I DVR ‘Parks and Recreation,’ ‘Community,’ ‘The Office,’ ’30 Rock.’ I love most of the HBO shows. I love ‘Archer.’ ‘Archer’s a great show. I’m big on Netflix; I’ve seen every episode of ‘Freaks and Geeks.’ We need more shows like that.

One of my favorite comedies is ‘Three Amigos!’ Oh my gosh, me and my brother quote that all the time.

I could never understand, when I watch romantic comedies, the notion that for some reason, unattractive or heavy people don’t fall in love. If they do, it’s in some odd, kooky, roundabout way – and it’s not. It’s exactly the same.

I love romantic comedies more than anything.

I went to drama school. I’m classically trained; I studied Shakespeare, blah blah blah. But I always preferred to do Oscar Wilde, or Shakespeare’s comedies over his dramas.

I started off with films similar to ‘Blood Money’ – intense, emotional dramas. But as is often the case, the industry and audience typecast me and I decided to break away. Hence, followed a spate of comedies.

In my own country, I play light comedies and funny parts.

What I really want to do is comedy. I would love to do some guest star spots on some single-camera comedies.

Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.

I started with light hearted comedies and good stories with real-life treatment; then TV went glossy, especially with the K-series.

Sometimes I watch the broad comedies coming out of Hollywood and I think, ‘You know, sex is a big part of people’s lives, but is that really the only thing men are ever concerned about?’ People are more complicated than they appear in film or television.

I have always been intrigued with singing and I actually started my career in musical comedies.

In ‘Night At The Museum 3,’ with Ben Stiller, I was only given a couple of lines. If you are in guys’ comedies, it’s not like you are ever going to just get handed some jokes and a brilliant role.

The best comedies are the ones where the person who’s in charge is the one with the vision who’s said, ‘I’m staying with this till the very end.’

I’d see movies, comedies, and I loved ‘Animal House’, I loved all the John Hughes stuff, but I never saw me and my friends totally represented.

I think the best romantic comedies are hard funny – no soft jokes, but ones that make you, like, guffaw. I also think that they have to make you feel good, ideally, and make you feel warm inside at the end.

I want to do more action adventures and more romantic comedies.

I always find it actually funny that the analysis is that the characters I play in comedies are the manchild, the adolescent, characters that refuse to grow up. And yet, if you look back in the history of comedy all the way back to the Marx brothers, that’s a big part of comedy.

Today’s generation likes stand-up comedies in which the performers give their take on a number of subjects. Some of them are a taboo, but youngsters enjoy them. However, when we act in a drama, what is uppermost on our mind is the people’s perceptions and opinions.

I don’t like high concept movies very much, and the kind of scripts that I would occasionally get offered tended to be really high concept comedies or romantic comedies. I just don’t like it. I like much more realistic movies with actual psychology and behavior in them.

I played comedies and dramas.

I’m staying in my wheelhouse, not making any romantic comedies in a hurry.

For me, the comedies that truly work are the ones that are grounded in some way. If it’s all heightened, it’s really hard. It’s a little slippery. It’s hard to get purchase on the side of the wall.

The entertainment industry is humungous, and people have so many choices right now – they can watch web series, movies, stand-up comedies, and plays.

There’s plenty of room for all sorts of movies and all sorts of comedies, so I never saw that as a competitive thing. I think there’s room in the marketplace for everything.

There are as many great superhero movies as there are comedies and dramas and cartoons. People just want to see good movies.

Ever since the first ‘American Pie,’ I’ve always been happy to just have an opportunity, I just didn’t think it was going to be with comedies. Now I really like it.

A lot of Christmas episodes of comedies are comedies trying to be dramas.

I did comedies for 10 years and I learned a great deal.

I’ve never really been a television watcher, so I never watch comedies.

It’s too bad that there aren’t as many light comedies around in the movies as there were when I was making pictures like ‘The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer.’ The boys are just not writing them. Many writers are more serious now than they used to be, and that’s showing up in all phases of entertainment.

I won’t ever stop working in comedy films because all the comedies that I’ve worked in are different from each other.

When I do watch things, they tend to be a lot of comedies. I actually like some of the British comedy series. But, on the whole, I’m not a huge viewer of anything.

To be honest, romantic comedies are one of my favorite type of movies ever. I’ve seen most of them that are under the sun.

I’d just like to retire quietly with dignity, secure in the knowledge that no more comedies will ever be made now that I’m gone.

I was inspired by Cary Grant. I wanted to do the kind of work he did and to work in light-hearted roles, in comedies.

What’s nice about a lot of Wes Anderson’s films is that there’s a patience to it. I think that patience brings out a lot more funny things that you would miss otherwise if you just had to make quick cuts and keep the pace, whatever that pace is that bigger budget comedies have to have.

The thing you can’t let go of is gravity. The reality of gravity in writing. If someone says something really mean in a sitcom, and the next wave isn’t a reaction to the reality of that, you start losing relatability. In a lot of romantic comedies, they throw out the rules of life.

The background score plays an important role in black comedies.

Audiences know the form in their bones, they know that romantic comedies end in an uplifting way.

I’m biased toward romantic comedies; they’re probably my favorite genre.

My parents loved comedies, so we saw Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, the Ritz Brothers, and the Marx Brothers. I wanted to be one of them.

My dream career would be to be in things that have real heart and are telling real stories but while doing that, you’re getting really big laughs. I don’t necessarily love the straight crazy comedies. ‘Caddyshack’ is amazing, but there’s not a lot of new ‘Caddyshack’s.