Quotes About Performance

It would be really nice to make a record that would be super-fun to play live - a record that would be funny, with a little bit of heart.

I hate trying to analyze comedy in some deep way. If it gets laughs, it's funny.

I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've still got it.'

A joke is a way to say, 'I'm going to do something funny now. If I don't get a laugh at the end, I'm a failure.'

The stage is a training ground and it's where you learn what's funny and what's successful.

I think it's a lot richer than what we call fleshy improv, I think it's very funny, puppet improv and fleshy improv.

I never saw myself as a comedian. I saw myself as a guy who can act funny.

James Caan told me at the end of filming 'Elf' that he had been waiting through the whole film for me to be funny - and I never was.

I can't watch other people doing comedy. As soon as somebody starts being funny I have to turn off because it upsets me. I get comedy indigestion. I just hate anybody else being funny. That's my job.

That heightened dynamic can produce interesting, funny ideas that are phrased in ways that surprise even you, as the performer.

I can't watch American Idol... it's like karaoke without the booze.

Leno, Conan. They are both really funny. They really know how to land one.

Funny enough, every role that I have had, I try to tone down my accent or speak with better diction.

I'm actually a thin serious person but I play fat and funny, but only for the movies.

I had to audition for the part of Jnior, and I wanted the role terribly because I knew it was a great character. This guy is a wonderful, funny, mean old guy.

With freestyling it's not about "Say something funny!" That has nothing to do with it. It's about becoming quicker on your feet and knowing that your entire day can go into your rap if you're on it.

Doing stand-up takes the fun out of being funny.

Standup comedy is fun. I mean other than having to experience the excruciating lonlieness and unacknowledged sadness that results in funny.

Don't clap I'm not a jazz band for Christ's sake.

The bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of drama is to be truthful. You can be truthful and funny, but if you're not truthful in a drama than the audience leaves you.

As an actor myself, the opportunity to sing and dance and be dramatic and be funny - it's really irresistible to actors. You get to show all sides of your talent.

Thinking up jokes is easy. The hard part is trying them out on stage, because you never know if they're funny until you get there. Not one comedian in the world ever really knows.

I had a couple of decent laughs on Townies, but for the most part, delivering a joke that you just know is not funny is hard.

I can conduct better than I count.