Quotes about "Humor & Comedy"

For people who have done comedy after a certain point in time, I think there's a base level of, 'O.K., I think I'm decently funny.' But unless you just have some massive ego, I really think you're still fighting against that. ”

I know the nature of comedy, and you never know what will happen with the next movie or whether people will find it funny. ”

I always find it actually funny that the analysis is that the characters I play in comedies are the manchild, the adolescent, characters that refuse to grow up. And yet, if you look back in the history of comedy all the way back to the Marx brothers, that's a big part of comedy. ”

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 think a lot of the instincts you have doing comedy are really the same for doing drama, in that it's essentially about listening. The way I approach comedy, is you have to commit to everything as if it's a dramatic role, meaning you play it straight. ”

All you have in comedy, in general, is just going with your instincts. You can only hope that other people think that what you think is funny is funny. I don't have an answer but I just try to plough straight ahead. ”

There are a lot of really funny guys who are very natural in what they do: Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, Seth Rogen. ”

I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-four per cent of the time. ”

I think anyone who has, you know, is in any sort of artistic pursuit, kind of goes up and down with the way they feel about their work. And I, for the most part, am pretty happy person. But, yeah. I go through definite periods of time where I'm not funny. I'm not good. I'm - I don't feel original. ”

Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you're different in a society, you're funny. ”