Quotes About Inspiration

When I write something, it's usually 'cause I think it's funny or I have a way in, but when I direct something, I really need to be close to it.

It's funny, growing up there was never anybody around me with any kind of artistic bent.

I try to write 'and it's all very funny' after each scene description so that the reader can imagine the movie in their head.

When I was a little kid I wanted to be Face. I thought, cos I had blond hair and he did too, that when I grew up I'd look like him.

If I could read a book, I'd definitely read one of yours.

It's funny but when young people say to me "what can I study to be a force for change, should I study law or biology or business?" My answer is music, drama, journalism, communications.

I'm doing quite a lot of painting on stones - little funny fish and animals.

Yeah, the main goal when I'm writing [movie scripts] is to entertain myself. It's supposed to be funny, but then a funny idea can be turned into something else.

If you have an impulse, not if you're going to ruin someone elses' scene, if you have an impulse of a funny little add-on or taking something in a weird direction, try it.

It's often hope, hopeful movie making. You're always looking for catchphrases. That's always funny, when you're looking for that future line. "Uh oh, future line. Okay."

I was in high school when Will Ferrell was first on 'Saturday Night Live', and I remember thinking, 'Man, that guy is the funniest guy ever.'

I'm actually way more funny now, because I'm hungry... If comedy comes from pain, I should be funnier now than I ever was.

The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy.

I wrote a song, but I can't read music so I don't know what it is. Every once in a while I'll be listening to the radio and I say, "I think I might have written that."

I'm always doing what I can to look for and just feel out funny things that are happening in the scene and improvise off of them.

Saturday Night Live' was like a university for funny.

It's funny, the whole cooking thing came out of just a random thought of writing a cookbook with my mom and my sister for fun.

I'm always thinking of stuff; I just don't sit down and write it. I come up with material more as I go along; if something funny happens, I'll make a note of it on my phone.

When you're doing standup you're kind of doing, "Hey. I thought of this. This may be funny.

what would you call this haircut?"arthur.

I have a bad grammar, but I do have a good message in it.

Writers don't get mad they get even in their novels.

Revenge of the Giant Grill Man.

Good cops make their bosses look good, and Hector was a one-man beauty school.