Quotes About Humor

There's depth in my comedy.

Sometimes if something is entertaining and amusing, people tend to think that it doesn't have the depth of something that's dramatic. I don't think that's true.

There's a certain rhythm to comedy that is almost like you're dancing and you just go on autopilot, so to speak. There's something just beautifully enjoyable about comedy in that respect. It's a joy to be able to do that. Drama, you get to go to depths that you haven't gone to before.

I love doing comedy. But sometimes, that exists at sort of the mid-level to the high-comedy level of craziness, and I don't necessarily get to plumb the depths of kind of serious acting as often.

'The Descendants' somehow made death and adultery funny at times.

I like to describe my stuff as observational comedy.

If you can't laugh at yourself, you don't deserve to laugh at anybody else.

Everyone deserves to laugh for at least 30 minutes, and 'Ballers' gives you that.

I'm incredibly proud of the show 'Portlandia' that I do, but it's designed for an audience that just wants that and loves that.

Everyone desires to laugh sometimes, and I want to make that available.

I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job.

Traditionally, the only way I come up with cartoons is by sitting at my desk and thinking.

I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair.

I am desperate to do a comedy now.

Obviously getting to work with me is a huge pull, I know there's a lot of big A-listers out there desperate to get screentime with me.

I did like 'Despicable Me.' I thought it was quite good.

I was destined to make people laugh.

You don't want the world destroyed, because, you know, that's where your shoes are.

I like the comedians that go into detail and tell longer stories.

My first films were comedy, 'Murder By Death,' and 'The Cheap Detective.' But now they won't think of me as a comedian. Now, they think of me as a bad guy, and I can't do comedy.

I'm not cut out to be a detective on 'Law & Order' - I laugh too easily.

What people will - or will not - laugh at is mainly determined by their social conditioning.

I was determined to make a movie - about families and a love story - that black women would be proud to see and which would depict them as being smart, loving, sensitive, sexy, and funny.

I don't devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.