Quotes About Comedy

The way I approach my insecurities is by making sure I'm the first person laughing at myself.

Deep inside, I am desperate to do comedy.

As soon as I saw 'Chinglish' on Broadway, I began to envision this smart and insightful cross-cultural comedy as a film.

British comedy - which has been a big inspiration to me for many years - is very different to Australian comedy and different again to American comedy.

Kathy Burke has been a real inspiration. I think she's brilliant. I like the fact she doesn't care what she looks like on TV and just gets really into character. Obviously, she can do drama as well, but it's her comedy I love.

The actors that inspire me are the comedians and the people able to shape-shift into different roles and into different media.

I'm inspired by people who are unapologetically themselves, from Bill Cosby to Fahim Anwar. Just funny people.

Comedians kind of write what comes to them. You can give yourself little assignments, but it's what inspires you.

I think comedy, so much of it comes out of the strange sort of golden instant 'cause you don't know why it's funny, but you captured it.

I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.

My parents and my brother instilled in me my sense of humor. That's kind of the way we communicate with each other, and it's always been a way for me to get to know people.

I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive.

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.

I don't have this weird, natural funny bone that constantly comes out. It's not like my every instinct is to be funny, and I'm always having to dampen that down.

Every teacher that I've ever had, that I still remember their name, made me laugh. I feel like comedy is the best instrument to teach.

Insult comedy has been around forever. I can make fun of people, and they won't get mad at me.

When people used to ask me why I got involved with Hollywood films, I would say jokingly that it was for the health insurance.

You gotta keep the funny intact.

My goal is really to just make people laugh with integrity, like, with something that I still find funny.

I've always been a fan of physical comedy. It kind of hits you in a different way; it bypasses the intellect and hits you in the gut.

Sometimes I think your intellect can get in your way as an actor or an artist. When you come from a world of improv and comedy, you're able to let it flicker and fall out.

We need more intellect and humor back on television, instead of the lowest common denominator of comedy - like the fart joke!

I laugh a lot in horror films. If I'm scared in a horror film, I try to think about what's scaring me... particularly, if it's a bad movie, but something they're doing still works. It's the same way I look at comedy. I've always had an intellectual view of comedy, and what makes people laugh, and how does it work.

Comedy has become, I think, a very important branch of public intellectualism. But it still ain't Washington.