Peter Bogdanovich Quotes

The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.

For comedy, timing is key.

Silences are the most underrated part of comedy.

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.'

I think everyone's different but in comedy, I try to do my scene to make the director and the other actors laugh. If I can make them laugh and we have the same sensibility, then I'm on the right page.

There's an art to comedy.

Rhythm and timing are so important in comedic acting.

Comedy is not easy to do - where you make someone laugh out loud in their living room.

Do you know what the key to comedy is? Timing.

You know, I liken it to - when you write a joke for somebody else, it's like you - you know, like the Wile E. Coyote dynamite plunger, where he pushes the plunger down and then you see the fuse go then there's an explosion in the distance? That's like writing a joke for somebody. When you tell the joke, you're in the explosion.

There is nothing more joyful to me than hearing a live audience laugh. Especially when I planned it that way!

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.

I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes though I'm gonna be on for an hour.

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

It's good to be funny when you are a comedian.

To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there's no way around it.

Stand up is really fun because if I think of a joke or a funny idea, then I can just go and tell some people and if they laugh, they laugh right away.

It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.

I think comedy is one of the hardest things to pull off. You either have timing or you don't, and that's something I don't have for sure.

The greatest comedian I've ever seen is Jack Benny. He wasn't afraid of the silences.

To me, comedy is a game.

Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

I've been a stand-up comedian for years, and I can be silly.

I was the kid who always hung back and then dropped the jokes when you least expected it. Timing was everything. My mouth sort of developed over time.