Peter Farrelly Quotes

Physical comedy is my favorite thing in the world to do.

I would like to look funny on screen, doing comedy.

Comedy is difficult for an actor. But I think I have a good sense of humor and manage to make people laugh and make them happy.

I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

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

It's fun to do something funny and have the director laughing. It makes you feel good.

It's really challenging to play comedy.

I'd love to do a really juicy drama that's just really real. On the comedy side, I'd love to do something like '21 Jump Street.' I cannot stop watching that movie. Really funny, really extreme comedies are definitely my favorite.

Cabaret is a great format. All you have to do is sing and be funny sporadically.

Class clowns become actors.

I was the kid who liked making other people laugh, so maybe the comedy came before the acting.

I can't imagine actually singing on this show like I did on 'Felicity', but it would be kind of funny.

Nine out of 10 times these guys will hit it-they'll be on something incredibly funny, but one out of 10, two out of 10, they'll fall flat on their faces. That's what makes them great actors: they take those chances, they don't play it safe.

I love 'Saturday Night Live,' and it's such a funny show. I don't know if I'm funny enough to be on it but definitely would be interested in doing it.

If you are a great dramatic actor then you often don't know if people are enjoying your stuff at all because they are sitting there in silence. But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.

I love doing comedy, and I don't get a chance to much. I get to play lots of serious people, and killers, and people with a lot of... sheriffs. Good people and bad people, but lots of drama, and to get a chance to be genuinely silly is a great treat for me.

To tell you the truth, I always wanted to be a sketch comedian and a comedy actor.

People see my impressions as a great skill and I am flattered, but there are things I can't do that everyone else can. I can do funny voices and funny faces but I can't drive.

A lot of people who do drama say comedy is the hardest thing, but, not wanting to sound like a bighead, comedy is easy for me, as I've always been fairly funny.

I'm just an entertainer. All I want to be is funny. I never aspired to play Hamlet.

I wanted to be in show business, and I was funny.

But, sooner or later I'd love to do a comedy. I mean I think that, you know, people don't think that that's in my wheelhouse because I've sort of played a lot of dramatic stuff and that's certainly a side of myself that I want at some point in the right context, in the right stuff, that I find really funny.

I really just love making comedies; I love doing characters.

I'm very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in 'Morning Glory' with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.