Quotes About Comedy

I tell people that stand-up's like golf: you gotta do it every day to get it down - or at least three times a week to get it down.

Really hard laughs, they've gotta make you live longer or something.

As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and I'm fine with that.

If you're watching a comedian on television and he's making a political point, I would say he's gotten too serious.

For 20 years I've gotten to laugh my way through my work. For me, that's a dream job.

I think that 'Saving Grace' is pretty funny. I think that the show and the woman have a pretty great sense of humor.

The thing that I love about 'Will & Grace' is that there's a clear-cut reason for my character to be there. I come in with the zinger. My character seldom has much to do with moving the story ahead. I know exactly what my job is there. It's just a party, basically. I'm just having a ball.

It's always comedy first on 'Will and Grace.' There was never any other agenda.

When I read the script for Will & Grace in 1998, I knew I was the only guy for the part.

We didn't, with 'Will & Grace,' set out to change the gay world. We just set out to be funny.

I was a class clown since second grade.

I met Gilda Radner, God bless her, when I was in grade 13, which doesn't exist anymore. The high school I went to went from 9 to 13.

I was a class clown, never got good grades.

In college, I didn't perform so much, but when I graduated is when I discovered Second City. Then I realized, 'Oh, there are people who can focus on comedy and especially improvisational comedy and make a career out of it.'

I feel like you could watch 'Grand Budapest' without sound, and it would still be funny.

My grandfather can barely even hear, and Chevy Chase makes a face, and he laughs.

My grandmother was very funny. It skipped a generation.

My grandpa is the funniest person in the world, straight up. But mostly everyone in my family groans when he is 'on.' I am his biggest fan.

Riskin went into directing and made a film with Cary Grant which applied to the letter all the ideas which had made his comedies famous. It had everything except that little something - and the film was a failure.

I was inspired by Cary Grant. I wanted to do the kind of work he did and to work in light-hearted roles, in comedies.

I didn't know I was cool, but I was very flattered that some of the younger comedy writers came up to talk to me at the Emmys. I found that gratifying.

I would say, generally speaking, though it is not always the case, comedy is probably the least gratifying for most composers because it is more specific about what the music needs to do.

With comedies, it's been very gratifying to be able to clock in, laugh all day, and then clock out.

I'm kind of a laugh junkie. It's what I appreciate in life, because life is rich and sometimes it's hard, and I really, really love to laugh and gravitate towards people who make me laugh.