Quotes About Talent

It's hard to learn about comedy from comedians. Comedy is not something that you necessarily learn or can imitate. You're funny or you're not, and you hope what you're doing is funny.

My father was funnier than me. My father was Richard Pryor-funny. I'm just a better businessman.

I've been blessed to have done different roles, but I don't think people see me as funny.

As an actor myself, the opportunity to sing and dance and be dramatic and be funny - it's really irresistible to actors. You get to show all sides of your talent.

I can conduct better than I count.

I have always been told that I was a funny, entertaining person and have always been told to give comedy a try.

There are not that many people who know how to edit. It's a funny tiny little obscure talent but it's very special. You have to have the feeling of popular taste.

Right now Andy Larkin is pitching just like young Andy Larkin.

It's funny how you can struggle with one piece and write a better one in a minute. When things come easy, it means it's good.

Carol Burnett, who played Miss Hannigan in 'Annie,' is as funny as it gets.

I'm tall and thin but not strong, so you're either an athlete or you're funny.

Just because you're a belter doesn't make you funny; it just means that's how your pipes are set up.

My wife is so funny and talented and never lets anybody fail next to her.

I want to do drama - no one really sees that. People just think I'm the funny guy and I can't do anything else, and that's just not true.

You wouldn't know how to perform a sketch that you don't find funny. You just couldn't do it.

I'm not a broad comedy guy. I've been funny in movies, but I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who's sometimes funny.

Actually I never did stand up. I'm not that funny.

A lot of people who do drama say comedy is the hardest thing, but, not wanting to sound like a bighead, comedy is easy for me, as I've always been fairly funny.

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.

Being a musician is a given for me-I didn't have much choice in the matter.

There are a lot of really funny guys who are very natural in what they do: Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, Seth Rogen.

I don't want to be the funny girl or the serious girl. I would hope to touch on all different genres and all different types of characters, which I think I've been lucky enough to do, so far.

It's not terrible, I guess, but if Ricky Gervais was half as talented as me, maybe the show would actually be funny once in a while.

I'm realizing that some of my greatest (or at least most determined) genius lies in my ability to procrastinate.