Eric Andre Quotes

I wasn't a class clown, I just found at an early age that I was able to make people laugh. So I mostly wrote funny stuff instead of writing what I was supposed to be writing.

Comedy is like math - you can check your answer because you know you've gotten it right if you get a laugh. It just makes sense to me. I feel like because I've had to keep that tool in my box for so long, I'm ready to show it off a bit.

Some actors try to play parts and do things they can't do. Being funny is one of them. Being funny's hard.

I graduated from Second City Los Angeles. It helped me tremendously, not only in my roles in films but in helping shape me into a writer as well. In improv, you will fail sometimes, so it teaches you to be brave and try anything. The worst that can happen is nobody laughs.

I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.

Some people learn comedy, and some people just are comedy.

I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not.

Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.

Um, I'm just naturally super-funny. No, not really. I've never been in The Groundlings or anything.

I'm not an artist. I tell inappropriate stories and jokes and I try to make people laugh.

Doing comedy for film is always a challenge because you are in the hands of the editor after the fact. I am hoping I can do some more soon, I enjoy doing comedy.

You put funny people in funny costumes and paint them green and we could talk about anything we wanted to, because that was the only thing that fascinated Gene about this particular genre.

First and foremost, I just want to write comedy.

If I'm not clear with the character, I can't do anything with it. But once I get that character, the possibilities are endless. When you have such a defined character, I feel like I can actually read the phone book and make it funny.

I think so. I can't think of anything that requires more finesse than comedy, both from a verbal and visual point of view.

I love doing stuff with Todd Barry and Jon Benjamin. We give the stage to good bands and funny people.

We sit in a room for months trying to think of funny things.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson is probably one of the funniest people I've ever met in my life. Everything the kid does is funny. I think he tunes his life to being funny.

Comedy is my first love; that's my main goal in life - to keep doing comedy.

It's really easy to be funny. You get a lot of funny people in a room, the show is funny.

Believe it or not, I write on stage. I can't write anywhere else; I have to be in a moment. I also have to challenge myself to make something funny out of a premise. I never have my own jokes written. I have to change things as I go along, and I have to entertain myself.

Teaching someone to be funny is like teaching someone to be fast. They're already fast. You're just making them faster.

I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin.

At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.