Janet Varney Quotes

I think the kick to doing comedy is just to get in a film with really funny people and let them do their jobs. I find that in most comedies, I'm not the funny one, which works out great.

I look at old performance videos now, and it's really funny - I thought I was such a gangster!

I always really loved comedy. It's the only thing I was ever good at.

I was just a ham since about the age of five. If I was performing at Medieval Times or something, I'd be the court jester. That was always my defense mechanism. I was never all that funny; I was just obnoxious and loud.

I really like to do comedy, and I did comedy the first 2 years after I graduated college, so I really love it and appreciate it.

There's not one thing that inspires me the most. Me and my friends joke around with each other and hang out so much that whatever makes us laugh really hard makes it into 'Workaholics.' But the characters that I think are funny are guys that are confidently stupid.

Those early days of comedy are when you get addicted to it.

I knew I was going to go into the field and make fun of people to their faces. I knew what I was getting into.

For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.

Comedy is what I really want to do and propel.

I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material.

I'm like the master of ceremonies being funny, and then sometimes people you're with, girlfriends and stuff, are like, 'God I wish I had the person on stage to be with all the time.'

My job is summer camp. I come and talk and try to make a TV show funny.

A couple of friends and I started a sketch comedy group when we were teenagers, just for fun and to start creating stuff. It was a blast.

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

Comedy was something I picked up trying to perfect my art through spoken word. I got on YouTube just to show off my poetry, and then people thought I was funny, so I ran with it.

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

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.

I would love to do comedy. I think I'm funny and that comedy is my strong suit, at least in real life. I have yet to prove myself in the movies, but I'd love to get the opportunity to do that.

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

I like to make people laugh. That's for sure. And I really like to humiliate myself and go very far in derision and stuff. But no, I like everything. I started a little bit of doing drama, too. I like that, too. I guess I just want to touch everything.

When I talk to Steve Martin, he's joyful when he talks about comedy.

I adore doing comedy, I think it's fantastic. I never saw myself doing exclusively comedy.

Even when I lecture per se, I am a joke comedian, I can do the voices.

If you do a sketch, that's a very short narrative. Stand-up, it's bit-to-bit, minute-long narratives.