Quotes About Comedy

In the future, all robots will act like Don Knotts.

I'm interested in doing some acting in the future, but it's a distant second to stand up.

My theory is, if you can do comedy and you can be in a scene with someone like Brad Garrett and hold your own, you've really got a future in this business.

One of my favorite movies is 'Back to the Future'.

To me the goal of comedy is to just laugh, which is a really high hearted thing, visceral connection and reaction.

I always had one goal, and that was to be a real funny stand-up comic, and that's pretty much what I'm doing. And everything else is kind of like gravy - TV, movies.

Lots of people say if you dredge too much stuff up, you'll go crazy - "You'll go insane!" But for a comedian, insanity is not a problem. It's a goal.

My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.

The most important thing for me as an actor playing a character is to make you laugh. That's my No. 1 goal.

Not that that's the goal, but sometimes these funny insights can also be deeply profound.

Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.

I think our biggest goal is to laugh.

In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.

My goal is to forever do stand up.

When you do a comedy, the goals are much clearer to me.

With 'Attachments, ' my goal was to write a really good romantic comedy. I wanted the reader to be smiling throughout.

First you must find... another shrubbery! (dramatic chord) Then, when you have found the shrubbery, you must place it here, beside this shrubbery, only slightly higher so you get a two layer effect with a little path running down the middle. ("A path! A path!") Then, you must cut down the mightiest tree in the forrest... with... a herring!

If my film makes one more person miserable, I've done my job

Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you

I'm so ugly - My father carries around a picture of the kid who came with his wallet

I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.

I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.

You look like a talent scout for a cemetery.