Quotes about "Humor & Comedy"

Whether it's viewers of the show or readers of my columns and books, I'm consistently impressed with their wit, humor and insight. That goes for about 95 percent of the audience. The other five percent are why the 'Delete' option and restraining orders were invented. ”

Cuvier had preceded Lamarck in specifying the kinds and degrees of variation, which his own observations and critical judgment of the reports of others led him to admit. ”

Life's too short to be working with divas. ”

It's funny: I can never sleep between shows; I think it's because I don't like to switch the motor off. I'll probably have some chicken or pasta, though never the two together, and maybe go out for a quick wander around. ”

What's odd is that I've never been asked to do any comedy in film. That's something I could certainly do. ”

It's funny: what one tends to think of as the best work you've done is not what other people think is the best you've done. ”

It's funny; Luther and I have written many songs together, but we've never written songs in the same room. ”

I'm lucky that I get to jump around, do a big-budget comedy and then a smaller film. I don't even make a big distinction between them. ”

I wrote a script - a script about a guy working on the automobile assembly line; I never could get money for that. I did a pilot about minimum wage workers for HBO that didn't get picked up; they thought it was depressing, even though it was a comedy. ”

I never wanted to do observational humor because I never wanted to tell people what they were seeing. ”