Quotes About Performance

I do miss sometimes being onstage, because when I do film and television, it's usually so brief and funny.

Shakespeare - it's not funny. No matter how they try to make Shakespeare funny, when it's meant to be funny it's not funny.

A director recommended me for the role on 'Soap.' They said, 'She plays heavy roles, murderesses and the like.' He said, 'On stage, she could be very very funny.

Carol Burnett, who played Miss Hannigan in 'Annie,' is as funny as it gets.

Jack Benny, Fred Allen. Their jokes were wonderful. It takes skill to be funny. The timing of Jack Benny was so fine. It is a form of genius for which we should be grateful.

Just because you're a belter doesn't make you funny; it just means that's how your pipes are set up.

I want to be in 'Funny Girl.' And I want Ryan Murphy to direct it.

We played well all the way until, like, the second quarter.

I can never tell when something is funny. I just have to do it onstage and find out.

There's a lot of guy comics who I think are funny, but I generally am more excited about a special or a show where there are females.

You wouldn't know how to perform a sketch that you don't find funny. You just couldn't do it.

A lot of times, as a clown, you find acting for a reason. It's a way to exercise yourself. If you're funny, you test yourself.

I thought she was the funniest woman, and I believed being a comedian was the most exciting thing you could be.

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

There's been so many different types of musicals and it's a funny genre because there's a fine line between clever and stupid. It really takes a genius to know how to do it.

I performed for the U.S. troops in Guantanamo Bay. And signed autographs for people who've been gone from America for so long they didn't realize that I'm not famous.

I'm a hard act to follow, because when I'm done, I take the microphone with me.

Stewart has two cars in the top five: Magnusson 5th and Barichello 6th.

And he's done that in a whisker under 10 seconds, call it 9.7 in round figures.

Alboreto has dropped back up to fifth place.

We told Stanley Roberts to go on a water diet, and Lake Superior disappeared. Pat Williams When Xavier McDaniel plays against Orlando Wooldridge, it's a coach's dream - X vs O.

My job changes very little because I've found that the more you try to be funny, the less funny you become.

I'm not very interesting. Birds are interesting. I could stand there lip-synching all day long, but it would feel funny, and people would be able to tell. I'm not a good actress.

I have always been very fond of them (drama critics) . . . I think it is so frightfully clever of them to go night after night to the theatre and know so little about it.