Quotes About Performance

If you play comedic scenes like they're really serious, then it's so much more funny than if you're going for a laugh.

It is really funny to see people that you know acting unpleasantly just because there are TV cameras on.

I do know this: When somebody has to look great on the screen, that's the death of funny.

Rashida Jones is simply glorious. Andy Samberg shines in a grounded performance that digs deep, sharply funny and touching, a breath of fresh comic air!

I thought I was supposed to have a fake six-pack in this scene

I had to do two roles in two days, I'm in a hairflux.

I'm definitely guilty of thinking something is funny but thinking the audience won't. Then three years later I will finally try it and it'll kill them. I got to give them more credit.

I have horrible stage fright - you know how you go through the bi-polar stage fright thing? Then you go on drugs to get over the stage fright and perform, but then you're not funny at all.

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.

Michael Bates was a very funny actor; he'd served in India, could speak Urdu, and had great comic timing.

I don't think half my stuff would be funny if the audience didn't feel at least a little bit safe that it's not how I truly feel.

If a song is funny and absurd, and it sounds great, it's just going to be that much funnier. And there's no better example of that than 'Monty Python.'

I'm actually way more funny now, because I'm hungry... If comedy comes from pain, I should be funnier now than I ever was.

I haven't played Hedda Gabler yet, but maybe if I did I might find the funny bits.

I think when someone who's known for doing drama does a comedy but just tries to be funny, that's a mistake.

It's harder when people are playing along, because it's just not as funny. They're trying to be funny, and it sort of cancels out the whole joke.

I think it's always funny when you see kids do Shakespeare.

Kids like my act because I'm wearing nose glasses. Adults like my act because there's a guy who thinks putting on nose glasses is funny.

I find comedy to be really scary, because it can go so wrong so easily, and the margin for error is so huge - and I guess that's what makes it funny, that tension.

15 Step is about how if you have mental illness and try to dance you look very funny. Whenever you see me dancing on stage, I'm imitating the mentally ill.

I'm always doing what I can to look for and just feel out funny things that are happening in the scene and improvise off of them.

When people come in to act on the show, we say, "Just be extremely dry and not funny. Let the idea be the joke." That holds true through a lot of our stuff.

If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious.

Saturday Night Live' was like a university for funny.