1,680 Quotes About Comedy

A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.

America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.

There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.

There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.

We couldn't live without comedy.

I don't really seem to gravitate to romantic comedies.

I do feel like guys feel pressure to be funny with me, which is kind of annoying. It's a turn-off if someone's trying hard to be funny because it feels like they're auditioning for a comedy job or something. It doesn't feel romantic to me. I get so much comedy from my life that, from a guy, I'm more looking for something sweet or romantic.

Long before the idea of a writer's conference was a glimmer in anyone's eye, writers learned by reading the work of their predecessors. They studied meter with Ovid, plot construction with Homer, comedy with Aristophanes; they honed their prose style by absorbing the lucid sentences of Montaigne and Samuel Johnson.

Who would have ever thought I would win in the comedy and musical category?