Quotes About Comedy

A Chihuahua with cataracts tried to have sex with her right leg. 'Stop that, Pedro

I have funny bones. If there's ever any kind of tension, I'll always be the one to try and be funny to loosen things up.

'Friends' was an education in intelligent comedic banter in intelligent vernacular. It was an education in scene study. It was an education in group dynamic. I came out of there with a master's degree in comedy.

You can't be funny if you don't have good material.

I really like the half-hour comedy. I really do. I know people that are in movies all the time and they, you know, they don't see their families as much. And that takes its toll over time.

Stories are always best when the story has a bottom line or point, or a comedic punchline, or a lesson to be learned; if there is no point,  the story might not be worth telling. People will usually look for the bottom line or purpose of why the story was told in the first place.

Buster never cracks a smile. Ever. No matter what. That's what really makes it funny.

Although I do use some of my psychology training in comedy, but it's more like pop psychology, not a course of treatment or anything. To me, it's more like social intelligence.

But, sooner or later I'd love to do a comedy. I mean I think that, you know, people don't think that that's in my wheelhouse because I've sort of played a lot of dramatic stuff and that's certainly a side of myself that I want at some point in the right context, in the right stuff, that I find really funny.

I'm sorry, but I can't make a movie with the blonde from 'ER' who is starring in every single bad romantic comedy.

Something like 'Without a Paddle' does really well at the box office and I'm like, 'Oh, here we go.' In 'Without a Paddle' I'm the romantic lead - great! A comedy and that's what America wants. Then it did nothing for me and I went into kind-of a work abyss. I just didn't get another shot.

I instantly like people who laugh at my jokes. It's a weakness of mine.

There's nothing better than a world where everybody's just trying to make each other laugh.

You know the worst thing about oral sex? The view.

It's about this girl who was married three times and was still a virgin. Know how she managed that? First she married a midget, see, and he was too small. Next she married a preacher, and he was too religious. Then she married a small-town cop, and he couldn't find it.

Nobody ever died of laughter.

When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?

I consider myself to have a decent sense of humor. What's life without a sense of humor?

I think a lot of times on TV we see caricatures - that's what's funny.

Actually I never did stand up. I'm not that funny.

Ask any comedian, tennis player, chef. Timing is everything.

Life is a double-faced creature; one face is tragedy, the other one is comedy. We have no way but to face the first face with dignity!

Comedy is when you accidentally fall off a cliff and die. Tragedy is when I have a hangnail.

Good taste is the enemy of comedy.