Quotes About Comedy

People associate me with being pernickety and down. In the past, I was guilty of keeping myself like that just to maintain my comic persona.

People have told me, 'It's part of your act, you're big, it's part of your persona.' Well, as I've lost weight, my act has grown.

It's famous that comedians have a very dark personal state of mind. I think, in my case, it's the same. The only way to get deep is to have a balance, or a counterbalance.

Doing funny roles is something I enjoy as I am like that in my personal life.

If something's true you should be able discuss it or ask whether it's true. It helps me as a comedian. But it doesn't necessarily help my personal life.

How can you analyse what is funny? What's funny to one isn't funny to another... What's funny to you is a personal thing.

Comedy is such a personal thing. Everybody can cry at the same thing, but it's a lot harder to get everyone to laugh at the same thing.

I think humor is such a personal thing, and you put a microphone in somebody's face, they're going to say something that offends somebody.

In terms of our show, there are four different personalities on 'Impractical Jokers.' I'm way darker than the other guys. A lot of stuff I do comes from being a little more of a downer than the other guys.

When you're the mom in a big family comedy, you have to get your personality when you can.

I'm not really a political satirist. I don't kid myself. I'm more interested in doing the mannerisms and the personality.

Rob Petrie is who I really am - in personality and general ineffectiveness.

I personally don't like to go see romantic comedies. But people do want to see them, and they seem to want to see me in them.

I think the best comedies came out during the Depression. Personally.

Kapil Sharma is one of the most creative persons that we have in our industry.

As a comedian, I am obligated to tell you the truth, my truth. To share with you my beliefs, my perspective. And I think that we forget sometimes that that's the oath that comics take, that we will go up and share everything - the irreverent, the scary.

A lot of people do comedy about India, but they're not from India. It's a Kwik-E-Mart perspective. I want to provide a genuine view and maybe one on how we see the West.

The more women sit down and write something in a woman's voice for a woman, they more you'll see women in comedy because gender doesn't define sense of humor. Imagination and intelligence and perspective do.

We've begun to long for the pitter-patter of little feet - so we bought a dog. Well, it's cheaper, and you get more feet.

What a dog I got, his favorite bone is in my arm.

My biggest pet peeve, I guess, is other comedians criticizing Larry the Cable Guy.

I've always loved Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness movies.

We should do another 10 Bad Boys movies. I could come in in one of those electric wheelchairs, like Peter Sellers in Dr Strangelove, just shouting away.

Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.