Quotes about "Humor & Comedy"

The funny thing about the people I don't like - they're very self-centered. ”

In comedy, when you bomb, especially at The Comedy Store in front of a sold-out house? I think it would have been way worse if I bombed there than losing a UFC fight. ”

I always wondered, like, you know how you go to the family barbecue, and your uncle is that funny guy that you laugh at because he's family? That's how I felt with 'Fighter and the Kid.' People would laugh at my stuff, but it was always tough for me to tell. I just needed to see if there was something going on. ”

I miss the comedy of the '70s and '80s, like 'Only Fools And Horses' and 'Fawlty Towers,' so I'm glad I'm put in that category. ”

Anyone who thinks they can write the perfect comedy that everyone will love is a fool. I can only write what I think is funny and hope that there is a likeminded audience out there. ”

I can only write what makes me laugh, and what makes me laugh is the comedy I grew up on. ”

If you are writing comedy and try to please everybody, you'll please nobody. ”

You can channel a lot within a comic framework, and I think 'The Guard' had a lot going on outside of the comedy, which is satisfying. ”

I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny. ”

You can't be a casual observer of something humorous - you have to engage, you have to find it funny for the relationship between actor and audience to work. ”