Quotes about "Humor & Comedy"

I find, when you're an optimist, life has a funny way of looking after you. ”

Leave America and you'll find that the consumers in many other countries enjoy watching advertising. Not because the products are better, but because the ads are produced to be entertaining. Sometimes they are funny. Sometimes they are dramatic. Sometimes they are just beautiful. ”

I'm not disciplined at all. I barely function. But I get a lot done. I take days off all the time, but when I work, I work very fast and very efficiently. But I'm always having days when I'm feeling a little anxious, and I take a day off. I work in a funny way. ”

Jewish comedy doesn't come out of nothing. Jewish music doesn't come out of nothing... I don't want to be part of a story where Jews are just victims or bullies - and I'm not saying that's what the Israelis are. ”

At the end of the day I'm writing comedy. If you get too realistic as a comedy writer with your disasters, it stops being funny. ”

It's interesting: composers can be very funny ducks. ”

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating. ”

There is a universality to comedy. ”

I feel that if you can play on the streets or in a comedy club, then in a theatre it's a doddle because you've got an audience. ”

When I decided I wanted to be an actor in high school, I really went into improv. I took classes at The Groundlings. I studied acting. Did sketch comedy in L.A. ”