Quotes About Entertainment

I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers.

There are few lonelier sights than a good comedian being funny in a movie that doesn't know what funny is.

But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.

A comedian is not a person who opens a funny door - he's the person who opens a door funny.

It was funny on '24' because I'm a Scots-Canadian, and I was working with the great Scottish actor Tony Curran, and we were both playing Russian gangsters.

Charlie Chaplin's genius was in comedy. He has no sense of humor, particularly about himself.

When you see Charlie Chaplin, he stays funny. He doesn't become drama, and so what really seems to endure is comedy.

I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony comparable to the listening to an unfamiliar opera.

Gee, what a terrific party. Later on we'll get some fluid and embalm each other.

I'm not a movie guy, I'm not a TV sitcom guy, but whatever seems to fit and is funny is good for me.

And there's a visceral fun in watching Team America and making it, like taking a puppet and throwing it against the wall. Because it's not CG, there's something funny about it.

The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it.

When I played Lady Day, I took Aba onstage with me as a joke. He started singing-in tune!-and the audience loved it.

I don't think just funny is enough on Broadway.

It's not brain surgery. It's not nuclear physics. It's television. It's only television.

When I worked with Robin Williams, now there is improv! He is just as funny as you think he is. We did at least five or six takes of every scene, improvising every scene differently. He was a riot.

I'd basically have trouble with any job that doesn't require me to wear silly clothes and talk in funny voices.

I'm doing a very funny show in which we talk about issues. I speak at Aids charities and things. It's great to do something fun with our days and yet we're told we're doing something important.

If you're sick, watch funny movies.

I don't care if it doesn't make a nickel. I just want every man, woman, and child in America to see it.

Alcohol, firearms and a 4 wheel drive can go a long ways towards making a rain day into a fun rest day.

Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh.

If something is shocking without being funny it's hard to justify.

There's always going to be someone as funny as you or funnier.