Character Quote by Rhys Darby

If you don't like the people, you're just doing a sketch. Which, in most cases, is comedy minus some emotional backbone.

— Christopher Guest

First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and…

— Adam McKay

It is a difficult thing to like anybody else's ideas of being funny.

— Gertrude Stein

Comedy needs to happen naturally and be in touch with the character. When you see that guy in your office that everybody laughs at,…

— Terry Crews

I like to think that even with some of the more intense ones sometimes there is humour in there, you try to make a…

— Ray Liotta

The people you like when you meet them and while you know them, and the people you remember fondly, are invariably people who have…

— William Saroyan

If they're taking your love for a joke, then leave them like it's funny.

— Anonymous

Some comedians love their characters. I don't fall in love with mine. In fact, I get tired of them very fast. You have to…

— John Belushi

If you're in scenes with a guy you know really well in a comedy, you tend to crack each other up too much.

— Billy Bob Thornton

As a comedian, you want people to like you. That's part of why you're there in the first place: You have this unquenchable need…

— Mike Birbiglia

There are people who like just ordinary comedy fun, and making mistakes - which I do easily - and then there are people who…

— Norman Wisdom

The beauty of comedy is you can really push things. Hopefully, you're with people with a sense of humor and can relate to it.

— Adrien Brody