Comedy Absurd Quotes

#1. I love the absurd - kind of absurdist comedy, absurd things in life.

Rose McGowan

#2. To have any doubt in your body is the biggest weakness an athlete can have. There are times when I physically can't get myself to go for a skill because I'm thinking, 'My knee hurts really bad.'

Shawn Johnson

#3. President tends to feel that he cannot go beyond what the public will support him in doing. So he tries not to decide what is the best course so much as to decide what the people will support.

Walter Millis

#4. That voice that cries out doesn't have to be a weakling's does it?

John Osborne

#5. I've done flowers and kicked myself. Flowers are so lame.

Steve Zahn

#6. If you're playing things sincere in a really absurd, heightened situation, you'll achieve comedy as opposed to just saying funny lines and one-liners and stuff.

Jeff Baena

#7. If you don't fall down now and again, it just means the training wheels are working

Josh Stern

#8. The truth is that whenever a fence is removed, it's wise to ask why it was put there in the first place.

Ravi Zacharias

#9. I think good comedy is a commitment to the absurd in that the situation for the actors should be virtually played like a drama.

Peter Billingsley

#10. You remember the night that you left me, you put me in my place. Got you in a stranglehold now baby, gonna crush your face.

Ted Nugent

#11. One thing I'm a big fan of is the theater of the absurd. That's what I come from, that's what I love to do more than anything. What I love about absurdity is the words "comedy" and "drama" get thrown out the window and it's just life, which is absurd.

Michael Shannon

#12. Women are aroused by the strangest things, like a rock going through their bedroom window

Josh Stern

#13. Comedy is serious - deadly serious. Never, never try to be funny! The actors must be serious. Only the situation must be absurd. Funny is in the writing, not in the performing. If the situation isn't absurd, no amount of joke will help.

Mel Brooks

#14. I tell people that going for a run is like taking a little bit of Prozac and a little bit of Ritalin because,

John J. Ratey

#15. Trying is fine. Failing is inevitable. Don't let it devour you.

Michelle Sagara

#16. I like gross generalizations ... I also like disgusting specifics!

Josh Stern

#17. When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.

Robin McLeavy

#18. If you see the light at the end
of the tunnel, you're looking
through binoculars the wrong
way

Josh Stern

#19. About half the scripts sent to me feature characters I just can't identify with, particularly one-dimensional businessmen or, if it's a comedy, some absurd 10-year-old Japanese stereotype, some role related to IT or business ... There's no point in getting mad about it; it's just the way things are.

Ken Watanabe

#20. Manners without sincerity, is called polite society

Josh Stern

#21. I've turned arrogance into an artform, where it's so absurd that it becomes comedy. But I've never done anything to hurt anybody or steal from anyone.

John Lydon

#22. The Avatar appears to be human and we are misled into thinking of him in these terms but the Avatar himself warns us against this error.

Sathya Sai Baba

#23. In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama.

Jenna Elfman

#24. There's always someone we'd love to kill, the trick is to make it not look like an accident

Josh Stern

#25. I despise Wednesdays! They are the Marquis de Sade of the work week. Wednesday are so awful that...wait..what? It's Thurs? (face-palm)

L.G.A. McIntyre

#26. The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.

Kurt Vonnegut

#27. Americans also seem to believe that the monarchy is a kind of mediaeval hangover, encumbered by premodern notions of decorum; the reality is that the British monarchy, for good or ill, is a modern political institution perhaps the first modern political institution.

Adam Gopnik

#28. If you feel irritated by the absurd remarks of two people whose conversation you happen to overhear, you should imagine that you are listening to a dialogue of two fools in a comedy.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#29. You always miss 100% of the shots you don't order

Josh Stern

#30. The uplifters are forever running around telling blockheads they would do better if they would believe in themselves. But they already do. That is why they are blockheads.

Jack McDevitt

#31. W. Kamau Bell is in the vanguard of a new era of American comedy for an unsettling, troubling, and strangely hopeful time. Firmly in the fearless tradition of Mort Sahl, Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, & Chris Rock. Comedy as common sense purged of the absurd hypocrisy that is Our America.

Vernon Reid

#32. Will there ever be a drama more beautiful than that of eating?

Carolina Maria De Jesus

#33. The only way I'd ever die of a broken heart, is if I slammed into something really hard

Josh Stern

#34. In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand there mute and play 25 banjo songs.

Steve Martin

#35. Can you hover over your body for a while and peer beyond the fog that imbues the mind and sense the essence of a deeper you?

Garey Gordon

#36. You're walking along on this path, dazzled by how perfect it is, how great you feel, and then just a few forks in the road and you are lost in a place so bad you never could have imagined it.

Huntley Fitzpatrick