Michelle Pfeiffer Quotes

To be really great, you need to be naturally funny in order to stand out. But you can work at it, and find the best vehicle that you have to communicate what you're saying to people.

I was always worried with comedy - what if I came to work and I wasn't in a funny mood? That hasn't been an issue.

I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it, and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work, but it ain't easy.

With comedians, you have that understanding that we're trying to get laughs.

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

I think comedy, so much of it comes out of the strange sort of golden instant 'cause you don't know why it's funny, but you captured it.

It's really challenging to play comedy.

I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working.

I love improv so much. Listening. I think that's the key. When you improvise, you put a lot of pressure on yourself to create, and to be generating information, and trying to be funny, but if you just listen to what's being said to you, and then react honestly, you generally get better results.

When I first started as an editorial cartoonist, I was terrified on a daily basis. Filling that hole the next day, knowing that tens of thousands of people were going to expect something funny. There is still that pressure, but you kind of learn how to cope with it a little better.

I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.

I'd love to do comedy. And I think I have pretty good sense of comic timing, so I'd really like to try that.

Every movie I do, or when I'm on the sketch comedy show, I don't really get into it until I have an outfit or something funny with my head or face or something.

Kind of the exhausting thing about doing pure comedy, or something that's broader, is you're kind of a slave to the laugh. If it's not funny, then there's not much point in doing it. The kind of ueber-objective is to make people laugh. You always have to have that in the back of your mind, 'Eh, I've got to figure out a way to make this funny.'

If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.

A comedian's body is funny as well as his mind being funny, his whole personage is funny.

I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.

It's hard to go back and be constantly funny.

I didn't know if I could be funny on stage or write a joke. But I saw that there are no rules. If you're funny offstage, you can figure out a way to be funny onstage.

I can make anything in the room funny in a few seconds.

The real challenge lies in maintaining dignity while being funny. I am in awe of Krushna Abhishek's energy and Bharti Singh's wit. They are infectious and selfless.

I find the pressure to be funny when you're being interviewed live - quite intense.

Being funny was something I was doing before I understood what that even was. Now I'm making a career out of it.

It's very rare to be able to do a show where the most important thing is being funny.

The first obligation I have is to be funny; it's my first impulse and an instinct. I like being funny and finding the jokes.