"Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field."

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"I got everybody on my side through comedy."

Ruth Buzzi, American Actress

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"I had to stop myself from laughing. Who needs help taking a pill?"

Kiera Cass, American Novelist

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"Comedy is only as stupid as you are smart."

Brian Celio, American Novelist

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"I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed."

Carl Reiner, American Actor

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"I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room."

Steven Wright, American Comedian

Comedy, Humor, Accident, Irony, Reading

"When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that."

Jim Dale, British Musician

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"Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear."

James Thurber, American Comedian

Comedy, Famous, Obscurity, Satire

"I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable."

Rick Moody, American Novelist

Comedy, Sadness, Trying

"Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort of two headed tradition of doing comedy, of doing sketches, and that kind of thing."

Rowan Atkinson, English Comedian

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"I want to do drama, light comedy, the whole range."

Bobby Darin, American Musician

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"My father and mother - I figured if I could make them laugh, they'd stop fighting. I stole all their material."

Mother

"It can make you sad to look at pictures from your youth. So there's a trick to it. The trick is not to look at the later pictures."

Youth

"Anne is very forgiving. She doesn't care about money, being rich, or clothes. We never argued about finances."

Money

"We managed to hang in there. Today when people get married there's a tendency to run away when things get tough. There is a lot of strength in hanging together."

People

"Money is sensual."

Money

"I've been around the block a lot and I've had a merry trail for 55 years."

Years

"I ask myself why I do it. Maybe it's to prove I'm still around. It takes a lot out of my body. I'm not an NBA player anymore. At my age, very few people can handle it."

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"I got everybody on my side through comedy."

"I had to stop myself from laughing. Who needs help taking a pill?"

"Comedy is only as stupid as you are smart."

"I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed."

"I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room."

"When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that."

"Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear."

"I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable."

"Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort of two headed tradition of doing comedy, of doing sketches, and that kind of thing."

"I want to do drama, light comedy, the whole range."

Explore more quotes by Jerry Stiller

"My father and mother - I figured if I could make them laugh, they'd stop fighting. I stole all their material."

"It can make you sad to look at pictures from your youth. So there's a trick to it. The trick is not to look at the later pictures."

"Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie."

"The worst thing in this business is to be thought of as a no-talent."

"Being on a sitcom stops me from getting Alzheimer's."

"Anne is very forgiving. She doesn't care about money, being rich, or clothes. We never argued about finances."

"We managed to hang in there. Today when people get married there's a tendency to run away when things get tough. There is a lot of strength in hanging together."

"Money is sensual."

"I've been around the block a lot and I've had a merry trail for 55 years."

"I ask myself why I do it. Maybe it's to prove I'm still around. It takes a lot out of my body. I'm not an NBA player anymore. At my age, very few people can handle it."