Quotes About Humor

I never knew anyone who was cloned, but I played one in 'Multiplicity.'

Some guy hit my fender, and I told him, 'Be fruitful and multiply,' but not in those words.

Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.

My mum has told me that I have to work with Antonio Banderas just so that she can meet him and try and marry him.

I still think of my mum as being kind of a dork - a cooler one, but still a dork.

I definitely take after my dad, looks-wise. But my mum is my greatest inspiration. All the women in my family are amazing. They're hilarious. I love funny people.

My mum said to me once years ago, which really spurred me on, 'You're the funniest person I know'. I loved that.

Sometimes my mum is very disapproving of my comedy.

My mum and dad aren't actors, but we all sit around doing impressions.

I can deal with having a terrible night on stage in front a bunch of Glaswegians but not a bunch of Glaswegians and my mum and dad.

Other players do not rib me for being the coach's son. They rib me more for living at home with my mum and dad.

Mum and Dad have both got very well-tuned senses of humour.

I'm a city boy, born and brought up in Mumbai. I talk fast, have a certain sense of humour, and have grown up watching Jackie Chan movies.

I started as a stand-up comedian at charity shows in Mumbai.

The funny thing is, I was not a fan of horror when I was a kid. I was scared to watch scary movies. And then along came 'Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein,' and 'Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy.' And I like those films because they made scary funny, and it was kind of ironic that I ended up doing the 'Hotel' movies.

There's something that's really fun about the challenge of making the mundane funny, too, I think.

Muppet films are never easy to film 'cause Muppets have no legs.

I've said before, if you're going to earnestly sing a song around a campfire, you'd better be a Muppet!

I know that I basically have the same hair as Beaker from 'the Muppets.'

I was born in England - though both of my parents are American - and there's something about the 'Muppets' where they have this combination of English and American humor.

I remember watching 'The Muppet Show' in the '70s. I was six or seven, and my dad watched it with me, and my grandparents watched it with me, and we're all laughing throughout, but I think we were probably laughing at different things.

Shaq is like an oversized muppet, and who doesn't love muppets?

When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.

As Richard Pryor was to Eddie Murphy, that's what Kurt Vonnegut was to me.