#comedy

"Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious."

"If you cannot find an element of Humour in something, your not taking it seriously enough."

"There is no greater power than that of a laugh and happiness is a force which can save a person from the horrors of the world."

"Here is my final point. About drugs, about alcohol, about pornography and smoking and everything else. What business is it of yours what I do, read, buy, see, say, think, who I fuck, what I take into my body - as long as I do not harm another human being on this planet?"

"Comedy is a necessity to get through life with the fewest scars. Humor is the best antidote to help relieve all struggles."

"When you're doing an out-and-out comedy, the notion of preparing for a character - I hope I don't reveal too much of myself here - but, uh, no, I'm not doing anything."

"I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-business film takes itself very seriously."

"Comedy is still alive, and there are still funny people. Jews are still overrepresented in comedy and psychiatry and underrepresented in the priesthood. That immigrant Jewish humor is still with us."

"Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more."

"If those at your top are weak, your bottom will be rotten"

"As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it."

"I try to give all my characters a sense of humor, so I guess I feel like I have done comedy, but maybe I'm better known for drama."

"Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end."

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

"It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen."

"Comedy is difficult for an actor. But I think I have a good sense of humor and manage to make people laugh and make them happy."

"I was a precocious only child, and then I went through a fat, awkward stage for several years, so I learned to fall back on my humor and personality when I was growing up. It's how you survive, so I think it was more of a natural progression for me, developing into comedy."

"Cause if you shoot a bullet someone dies. If you drop a bomb many die. You hit a woman, love dies. But if you say the F-word... nothing actually happens."

"One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots."

"One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don't realize there's a lot of craft behind the comedy."