Quotes About Comedy

I'm not an impressionist, per se, but if you do any kind of comedy - and they ask you to do that, most of the time - there's some degree of appreciation, I think, involving somebody you like.

There's only one rule in stand-up, which is that you have to be funny. Yet 99 per cent of comics look and talk exactly the same.

Sometimes if you do a multi-camera comedy, often there's rules, like, 'We've got to have three main laughs per page.'

I think it's actually a misperception that I am a comedic actress. I do more drama than comedy but very little of it has been seen. When you are in big funny movies and they do well and your little part in it kind of explodes people perceive you as a comedian.

In the past, the movies I've made are perceived as dark, but a lot of comedies are way darker.

I would say that fifty percent of my show is killer comedy.

I don't know how to be like a Bill Murray or a Will Ferrell, these guys who know how to make a line funny just by, I don't know, some extra-sense perception. I only know character and emotion and real acting; that's all I know how to do.

I do feel like in filmmaking you are largely in control of the perception of you. If you want to be seen as the comedic person you've got to write a comedy and go after that.

Some people are brilliant at being comedy actors and if you're a comedian I think there's a perception that, if you're acting at something that's meant to be funny, it will be funny all the way though and you'll be dropping in gags.

People don't realize it's not just about being funny, and they don't know how perceptive a comedian needs to be about human nature. You have to really be able to read a situation and peoples' emotions.

I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.

Carl Reiner is perfection.

I have perfectly symmetrical ankles.

I think my comedy, the put-downs I do to hecklers, are the accumulated bitterness of years of people feeling that it's perfectly acceptable to make a comment on your appearance when they don't even know you.

I'm not a big fan of comedy roasts because most of the time I find them to be really mean, but once in a while, you'll hear something perfectly worded and well-crafted.

Doing comedy is very difficult and if you do it perfectly you can do any kind of roles.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

There's a charm, there's a rhythm, there's a soul to Jewish humor. When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, 'You're doing a Jewish act.'

My brother was an improviser. He's now a lobbyist, but he used to perform improv in the city when he was in high school, and one of the funniest guys I know to this day.

If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb; I would be trying too hard.

I always was a writer, but then I wanted to do stand-up because I thought that was a way that I could perform what I wrote.

I just like to write and then perform.

When I met my wife, I was a working comic, so the first week we went out, she saw me perform, and it was very clear what I do.

There is definitely a pressure for funny people to be funny. People want them to perform all the time.