Quotes About Comedy

I decided to do a comedy. It's a good mind-set to go into work and be happy every day instead of being in a dark place.

I haven't been offered a lot of comedy. In theater, I've done quite a bit of comedy or dramas that included a lot of funny stuff. But in my TV work, those aren't the roles that I've been offered.

There's no show business in Canada, so everybody just did stand-up and we all thought, "Oh, we'll just keep doing stand-up." And then I'm like, "There's more work in the States."

A lot of people think I'm difficult to work with. It's not like I really want to do that much stuff, so it doesn't really matter. I guess I'm somewhat difficult when it comes to comedy.

Comedians are the most challenging people for me to shoot. Because you're not actually in the dialogue with them, they are performing. When I work with a comedian, I become their audience.

All the truly great stand-ups say, "I go onstage, and I work on jokes. The inspiration will happen while I'm doing my work." To me, in the end, the surest thing is work.

If you work with Jim Carrey, you're working with the best.

I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.

The State trained us to make other people's terrible jokes work, which is the other part of the game when you're here.

Certain comedians work with certain actors; like Adam Sandler worked with Jack Nicholson.

Even if you know a character really well, there's no formula for what jokes will work and what won't.

Those are the movies that we [with Evan Goldberg] always wanted to make. Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, the kind of movies where violence and comedy and characters kind of work together really well.

I gotta tell you, I do not envy whoever they try to put in David Letterman's chair. Folks those are some huge shoes to fill, and some really big pants.

I think you need to have the guts to not use comedy. Often, the people that work in comedy use a joke to avoid contemplation.

With comedy, you never know until you put it in front of an audience. You shoot it and a year later you have no idea if it's going to work. And then you get the response. It's great when it's good.

I know I can't play funny roles in movies. I tried, and it didn't work.

If you're funny, you can find a stage to get on. If you're good, you'll start to get work and eventually get paid.

I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.

'Visiting Mr. Green' is a good play. I enjoy being in it, and I have a wonderful colleague, Aidan deSalaiz, to work with. Audiences like it a lot. What's not to like?

I've always said that I myself am not the best audience for my own work, because I'm just not that receptive to comedy.

Comedy has always been something I love, but for some reason - probably because of the British accent - I've always been pushed toward more period work.

I'm not really much into politics, because it's rarely discussed in my line of work.

Reality is the scary thing. Not my work, not comedy.

I just like comedy in general. My film work, which has been at times more dramatic, has been satisfying. But I never feel quite as good and as light and blissful as when I'm doing comedy.