Comedy Quotes

I guess what I always found funny was the human condition. There is a certain comedy and pathos to trouble and accidents. Like, when a driver has parked his car crookedly and then wonders why he has the bad luck of being hit.

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

What a sad business, being funny.

Making fun is serious business.

If a few slapstick comedies could arouse such excitement, was there not something bogus about all celebrity?

My tramp is made up of mimicry.

I could kill laughs more quickly by overdoing something than by any other method.

In the creation of comedy, it is paradoxical that tragedy stimulates the spirit of ridicule; because ridicule, I suppose is an attitude of defiance.

Think about yourself at least once in your life. Otherwise you may miss the best comedy in this world.

In this desperate way, I started many a comedy.