Quotes About Comedy

I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this?'

You can not have comedy unless people are behaving badly. You can't have it.

Women behaving badly has always been funny, to me personally, so I knew I wanted to do something like that.

But my comedy hero was Stephen Chow. His deadpan comedy, all the stuff he wrote like 'From Beijing with Love,' it's incredibly funny.

I love the studio audience. That's where I feel the most at home. You know right away if you're being funny or not.

Being funny has always mattered a lot to me. It's why I started acting - to make my friends laugh.

I'm good at being funny.

I never know when I am being funny, and the other way too. I don't think you can think about that. I don't think you can try to be funny. Some people are just funny.

Some actors try to play parts and do things they can't do. Being funny is one of them. Being funny's hard.

If you try to be funny, you're not being funny.

With drama, you know if you're having a true moment, but in comedy, if somebody doesn't laugh, then you know you're not being funny. That's a really fun challenge, and that's what draws me to comedy.

Being funny is everything to me.

I like being funny; I like laughing with people.

Being funny was something I was doing before I understood what that even was. Now I'm making a career out of it.

There's not many comedy characters that make me laugh as much as The Rock does; it's nice to have a big muscly guy being funny and stupid.

Being funny is very complex.

I was always rewarded for being funny. I liked being funny.

I enjoy laughing at other people being funny.

I was always interested in being funny and amusing and creating art and comedy.

I think part of being human is jokes.

I've had people - I've seen people do routines that I knew they didn't take from me but they had - because for whatever reason I had stopped doing it a long time ago. There's no way they would have heard this bit. But it ends up being pretty much the same thing.

Even in comedy, you have to be real. It's all about being real. It's how real can you be? That's the challenge. How much are you willing to take on for your character?

If the goal is to be believable when you're acting, I've got the best idea of what that believability might look and feel like. And because you need a normal guy in a comedy so that the eccentricities can pop, that's a good part for me.

I'm not a believer in the pratfall. I don't think it's funny just to have someone fall down.