Quotes about comedy
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Ron Whiteborn 1956If You Quit Listening, I’ll Shut Up (2018 Netflix special)To be a frontman you have to be half very driven and half a total knob. I like to think I’m both.
Chris Martinborn 1977On a Time Out London interview, June 8-15, 2005.Fourteen heart attacks and he had to die in my week. In MY week.
Janis Joplin1943–1970On losing the Newsweek cover to Dwight D. Eisenhower after his death; New Musical Express (12 April 1969), cited in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Alice Cooperborn 1948Poppin (1969)- Alice Cooperborn 1948On Marilyn Manson, as quoted in Celebrity Diss and Tell: Stars Talk About Each Other (2005) by Boze Hadleigh
Uma Thurmanborn 1970Interview with Laura Yorke Reader’s Digest (July 2006)I think of him as a well-intentioned, poorly informed, high-status idiot.
Stephen Colbertborn 1964On his character in The Colbert Report, in an interview on 60 Minutes (30 April 2006)
Sharon Stoneborn 1958The Washington Post (June 20, 2001)
Oswald Mosley1896–1980Winston Churchill, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, had returned Britain to the gold standard and Mosley believed this would lead to unemployment, quoted in Robert Skidelsky, Oswald Mosley (Papermacs, 1981), p. 143.
Gary Linekerborn 1960Said after England lost to West Germany on penalties in the 1990 World Cup semi-final
Maria Bamfordborn 1970The Now Show (2006)I’ve never really thought of myself as depressed so much as I am paralyzed by hope.
Maria Bamfordborn 1970The Now Show (2006)- Maria Bamfordborn 1970Comedy Central Presents Maria Bamford (2001)
Does Mary Poppins have an orgasm? Does she go to the bathroom? I assure you, she does.
Julie Andrewsborn 1935The New York Times (14 March 1982)
Cary Grant1904–19861978 interview with Roderick Mann, “Cary Grant: Doing What Comes naturally,” Los Angeles Times (June 11, 1978), p. 39; as quoted in “Quotable Cary” at American Masters (25 May 2005)