Quotes about "Humor & Comedy"

It's like life: you have both comedy and drama. There's a balance, and I'm lucky enough to have it in my work. ”

He wrote himself into the role of Dolly. Dolly was hilariously funny and didn't know it. And that's what Thornton Wilder was. He was an adorable man. ”

I'm really not that funny in real life! But I am the best audience one could find. I love to laugh. ”

When I was in college at UCLA, I took a playwriting course. I was all set to be a writer. But I had to take this acting class as a theater arts major. I had to do this scene in a one-act comedy. I just said this line, and then... this laugh happened. I thought, 'Whoa. This is a really good feeling. What have I been missing?' ”

My preference is for people who can do sketch comedy or situational comedy, where it's not a joke, but it's telling a story. ”

My mother was very funny. My dad had a great sense of humor. My grandmother, too. ”

Funny is funny. I dare anyone to look at Tim Conway and Harvey Korman doing the dentist sketch, which is more than 40 years old, and not scream with laughter. ”

Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing. ”

I wanted to be on Broadway, but in musical comedy. ”

My favourite comedian, of course, is Tim Conway. He has a way about him - being that belly-laugh kind of funny, and he has the improvisational skills, too. I've never seen anybody better. ”