Quotes about "Humor & Comedy"

To do something funny, you have to have experienced it in real life and digested it in a way that amuses you. ”

When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that. ”

Humor can bring people under the tent. And a good joke can deflect some of the intensity surrounding a serious subject. ”

Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor. ”

When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst. ”

I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful. ”

I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. ”

In school, I was playing old men and women, babies, Russian people, and all sorts of weird parts - a lot of comedy - and that's sort of like home to me. ”

I've always loved silent movies. I recently saw 'Tilly's Punctured Romance' at the Academy, which is the first comedy made with Charlie Chaplin in 1914, and I sat there, and I couldn't believe that the entire audience of 2,000 people were laughing that hard from a movie made in 1914 - and there were no words; it was all faces. ”

British girls are really funny, so I definitely think we'd get along. ”