Quotes About Humor

I don't think I'm a funny person in general. I have had to learn comedy.

I've been called a funny person for a long time. I don't know that I know anything about comedic acting.

The funny thing is, I don't actually think of myself as fat at all. I don't think I am. Not really.

Trying to be funny is arguably the least funny thing you can do.

I like funny things, but I don't find myself particularly funny.

There are funny things that come from disability.

I thought comedians were the funny guy in the common room, not understanding that the flaws in my personality were actually the funny things about me.

I just feel like there are a lot of funny things that happen in this world and I guess that's for the good and the bad.

Humor was how I got through everything in my life. I used to find a funny way to get out of situations. That's who I was. That's who I am!

It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur.

I'm a master assembler of Ikea furniture, in case anyone wants to know.

Especially with a comedy, you've got the clear cut goal of trying to make a scene funny. It's not like drama where you're trying to achieve some kind of emotion or trying to further the story along. You're trying to figure out what's the funniest way to do something.

When you have an entire amphitheatre of people laughing that way, it makes you feel so funny and it frees you to go further than you probably would.

If you can have heart as well as the comedy, it takes you a lot further. I think that that's what we were trying to do with 'Gigi.'

Comedy can take you a lot further in getting your point across. People are entertained, and then, by being entertained, they get your point.

'Kung Fury!' I mean, Jesus, that thing is amazing.

To my family and friends, I'm very definitely a clown. But do you know what? Doing a drama would almost seem easy because I wouldn't need to find that gag in a line.

And there is no finer moment, when I sit in a screening, and the parents and the kids are all laughing at the same gag.

Nobody gets any fun out of baseball any more. I guess a kid's crazy not to be serious about it when he's drawing down $20,000 or $30,000 a year, and any smart-aleck gag you try may be your last. But what's life without a laugh?

Earnestness makes British people gag.

It is rare for a joke to emerge fully formed and it is worth grafting away until it is absolutely right. Though perversely too much work, too much thought, can destroy a gag completely.

I would have been an essayist in the 18th century. Maybe I'd have had one gag in the piece, but essentially I'd be saying something.

I met the guy who started off the whole Babuji jokes. I removed my chappal the moment I saw him. But that was all for fun. I told him that he has done what I couldn't do in my 50-year career. I wanted to see the man who had the gall to crack such jokes.

Luckily, I'm not a gambler or a drinker or - you know, I get my fix of comedy.