Quotes About Entertainment

People spend hundreds of millions of dollars to make movies that don't do anything. I mean, no one's talking about 'Pacific Rim' today. No one's talking about 'The Lone Ranger,' and those were $100 million movies that didn't have nearly the impact that 'Sharknado' did.

I grew up watching 'The Lone Ranger.' I would get up every Saturday morning, earlier than all the other kids, to watch a black and white western with Clayton Moore that hadn't filmed a new episode since 1957.

I don't need you to be funny. I don't want to be entertained.

You can't fake comedy. You can't make it look beautiful or put an interesting bit of music on in the background: funny can only be funny if you're funny.

I was born to be funny.

People don't expect me to be as funny as I am.

I was always a funny guy. I don't think anybody that makes it to this level of stand-up wasn't a funny guy when they were young.

Scott Foley was always fun because he's a very funny guy. So I liked working with him a bunch.

It just seems to me that there's no particular reason comedy albums should be dead. There's a lot to laugh at. We have very funny people, still.

Pretty people don't keep comedies on the air. Funny people keep comedies on the air.

It's really easy to be funny. You get a lot of funny people in a room, the show is funny.

Wouldn't it be great, if there was a one-stop shop where funny people could take their ideas and have them made?

I think audiences have always wanted to see women in the movies, but every time a movie like 'Bridesmaids' comes out, everyone says, 'Oh how funny, people do want to see women in the movies.'

Let's just let funny people be funny.

Fake buckteeth make a joke that you don't have to make any effort on, even if you're not a funny person.

I'm a very funny person that doesn't get the chance to do a lot of comedy, and the same thing with my accents.

I always felt that it was easier to take a funny person and teach them to write television than to take somebody who was a television writer and make them funny. And I discovered a lot of great writers that went on to do a lot of great shows like 'Seinfeld,' 'Friends,' you know, 'Three and a Half Men.'

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

I'm a 'Fast & Furious' fan.

I'm definitely not a 'Fast and a Furious' guy.

The way I go to watch The Rock in 'Fast and Furious', I want people to come and watch me.

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.'