1,680 Quotes About Comedy

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

Whether you do stand-up comedy or write a story, you have a duty to deliver. As a comedian, you walk out on stage, and you have a minute to hook them, or they'll start booing. As a writer, it's very similar. A reader doesn't have time to say, 'I'll give him 50 pages, as it's not very good yet, but I hope it'll get better.'

While the subject matter of my novels could not be further removed from the stuff I used to trot out at the Comedy Store, the delivery of the material employs many of the same techniques.

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.

We rest our case on the production numbers.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.

I only direct in self-defense.

He who hesitates is poor.

When I was starting out, I thought I would go into comedy and there would be a mentor, like the Philip Seymour Hoffman character in 'Almost Famous,' in my life, and there just wasn't. It was really frustrating for me because I desired that so much.