Quotes About Authenticity

I'm a joker; that's my choice. It's my style. But I care about my life. I care about the game. I care about the people who gave me this opportunity.

I don't have to worry about writing jokes. I just tell stories about things that have happened to me. As long as I'm alive and I'm living and I'm experiencing different things every day, the show will always change.

If you do something that is not gags and punchlines and is character-based, where there are no jokes as such, then it all has to come from a place of truth, and I love that - I love nothing more than getting very serious about my comedy.

I'm very self-deprecating, so I'm not afraid to make jokes at my own expense, and I've just found that makes people a little more comfortable and can open the door for people to feel a little bit more understanding and accepting of where you're coming from.

Jay Leno told me once, 'Don't do jokes about things you don't know about.'

I don't like the pressure to try to tell the best jokes. I'm not good at jokes.

It wasn't until I became more confident with myself and I put myself forward instead of the jokes; at first it was put the jokes out there and I'm just behind the jokes.

I tell a lot of fart and poop jokes. I can't help it. I have no filter, and it just comes out.

But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake.

I think those that are holier-than-thou don't make jokes. They take themselves too seriously and Peeta doesn't take himself too seriously. This is what I believe in and I'm comfortable with that and I can make a joke here and there.

I've never really told jokes. I'm not good at it.

Sometimes, comedy and entertainment is not all about telling jokes; sometimes you just have to be you for a few moments.

My goal is to be exactly how I am offstage - although I realize I'm supposed to punctuate it with jokes.

I never feel like it'll be something where like, 'Aha, I've got it. I'm funny for the rest of my life. I don't need to tell jokes anymore. I just am comedy.'

I don't have any writers. I never get a laugh with somebody else's jokes. I can't do it justice.

When I tell a joke, I don't think about who's listening to it. I tell the jokes I think are funny.

I don't have jokes that I can't defend.

Early on, I had a girlfriend come see me, and she was like, 'Yeah, it was good, but you were funny at a dining hall at the University of Maryland.' That's when I realized I was contrived. I was reciting jokes. So I really worked on - no matter what - sounding like I was just talking to the people.

I'm not one of those people who are, like, always joking in person.

I remember being in high school and this guy saying to me, 'You'd actually be good-looking if you didn't joke around so much.' That affected me, and so I stopped joking around, and I stopped being a goof because I thought people would like me better.

If - when someone asks me a question, if I could just focus on not joking, I think that would be great, because for some reason, I can't.

It's weird how people were always asking us, 'Are you real? Are you joking?' That seems like something Americans care about a lot. You can't answer the question 'Are you real?' If we're anything, we're documentary fiction.

Any love that is love is right.

Telling the truth can be a dirty job.