Comedy Quotes
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What I really need is a woman who loves me for my money but doesn't understand math.
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There's a difference between a sense of humor and a sense of funny. A sense of humor is knowing what makes you laugh and a sense of funny is knowing what makes other people laugh. The journey of comedy, in a sense, is negotiating those two worlds.
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There were 84 original episodes. It was rated No. 1 and No. 2 on the Fox Children's Network. We figured it was time to make it available to people who have never watched it.
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If work isn't rooted in comedy, people will turn from it, or they'll use it like soap opera.
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You gotta understand, there weren't a whole lot of roles for Hispanics in the Eighties, so comedy was really the way I could really feed myself and eventually feed my family. I was an actor who learned to be a comic, and it's cool to come back and get back into acting - move forward in the direction I started out to do in the beginning.
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I was actually looking at comedies and wondered, 'Why is every comedy for a women a romantic one? I was so done! Then I said, 'Could I look at every script Jim Carrey rejected?' It didn't center around me getting a man.
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There was a lot of terrible, terrible comedy in the seventies along with 'Fawlty Towers.' It's easy to forget.
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I'm really spectacularly thick in all areas of my life except comedy and science. I'm crap at everything else.
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Comedy doesn't really have any meaning without sadness. The most meaningful comedy comes from some really serious pathos.
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What I loved about 'The 40 Year-Old Virgin,' the title is the easy sell, but when you see the movie, the comedy is more free-form and more relatable.
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I'm not really crazy about broad comedy. I like very possible, real situations that you might have found yourself in.
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The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
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Some of my fear and anxieties surrounding faith, I think, provides some good comedy for my act.
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When you're doing an out-and-out comedy, the notion of preparing for a character - I hope I don't reveal too much of myself here - but, uh, no, I'm not doing anything.
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It's not easy to direct in another language, especially comedy.
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I think that there's a fine line between comedy and drama.
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That, to me, is what comedy is all about: keeping fresh and keeping current and changing with the times.
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Other than friends and family, my favorite things are New York and stand-up. I love doing comedy in New York - I can do way more stand-up here than in Los Angeles.
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For me, comedy is a day-to-day report on the human condition. It's what's happening right now. I get maybe 20 minutes of my act straight from the newspaper.
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Maybe I'll just become a cartoon character because there's nothing left for me to do in an R-rated comedy.
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If you work on a comedy show, your basic form of communication is teasing. That's generally how we speak to each other: you communicate the information between the lines of insulting sentences.
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And then, movie-wise, I'm writing a couple of things. They're all comedies. It's the only way I know. I'm also being sent scripts, which is really nice, kind of off the back of this, so I don't necessarily have to generate my own stuff. I'm just looking for something that's explosively funny and relatable in equal measure.
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I think people try to jam a lot of artificial plot devices into a lot of romantic comedies, and they don't treat it with the respect I believe it deserves.
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It's depressing sitting at a comedy club all night, waiting to get on to do your five or ten minutes of material.
