Greg Davies Quotes

Comedies always need to be provocative and catch your attention in a way that dramas don't have to.

Each cartoon needs the right amount of wrong.

I have to be entertained by what I'm writing, so a lot of my stuff has a goofiness or scatological quality. If these characters can entertain me, then I feel like I can deal with the darker or more serious stuff.

A good comic explores the imagination, but it's always got to have those notes of truth running through it.

'The Ugly Truth' isn't trying to change the world with strong political opinions; it's just trying to entertain you with thoughts and ideas from my crazy mind!

I love when people overexaggerate. It's so funny to me.

I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition.

For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

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.

I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

George Carlin is brilliant with words, and Johnny Winters is very creative. It's taking something common and drawing out the humor, being clever with words.

When you're young, you don't think about your career or your future - you perform because you love it.

There's something that's really fun about the challenge of making the mundane funny, too, I think.

But if you don't watch me, I will try and sneak in some humor. I see humor everywhere in life around me.

I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.

There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.

No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.

I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

Comedy is my choice, as it's what I've always enjoyed doing.

A sitcom isn't usually the right tool for satire.

I value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny.

For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.

You can parody almost anything.