Luke Wilson Quotes

I don't like forcing comedy and people just trying to do things just to find a funny beat all the time.

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

The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.

I became a specialist at comedic one-liners.

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.'

That's what I hate about a lot of comedies, when you're hitting a line or making it funny.

A lot of comedies, I think, make the wrong choice of having the straight man being this bland emotional conduit for the audience.

I'm very interested in any script that makes me laugh.

Actually the hardest films to make are comedies. In normal life, funny things happen by accident; to re-create those by design in a film takes real technique.

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

I do love comedy, and when it's a comedy moment and you can make people laugh, of course it is wonderful.

Comedy is so hard to do, so it was very cool to do dead pan humor.

I might've been witty, but I didn't have a shtick. So, I never considered myself a comedian.

You know something is a hit comedically if you can just call up one of your friends and belt out a line from the show and you both start laughing.

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

He sort of gets comic moments. Not a lot of directors do.

The comedian just wants to get a laugh.

It's hard to write a comedy sketch.

I once did a flip-flop joke in San Diego, and I got booed... but it's all in good fun.

I think, in comedy, you only hit about one or two great characters in your career. Sometimes my character will be just a sketch... what is the funniest situation to put this person in?

Rob and I both have this strange sense of comedy which always involves us being the butt of our own jokes.

In a lot of comedy shows, there's a safety net where you don't assume anything of real consequence will happen.

I'm traveling the world, ripping rooms apart with my stupendous comedy.

I didn't want to do comedy again. It is way harder when you are doing comedy. You can't just concentrate on the character and the plot. In comedy, the writers, instead of obsessing about character and plot, obsess about the jokes.

I never was shy, but as far as telling jokes, I'm the worst. I like physical comedy; it's where I feel comfortable.