Andy Kindler Quotes

At times we were criticized for doing too much slapstick. I don't believe in mild comedy, and neither does Lucy.

'Tammy,' the new movie starring, produced, and co-written by Melissa McCarthy, could be an artifact from some alternate universe: the creatures there resemble Earthlings but have an entirely different and debased idea of what's funny.

If you want to see what stage comedians did to get laffs a century ago, watch the 1910 'Wizard of Oz.' I hope you have a high tolerance for pratfalls.

I'm sure I've all but lost friends by maintaining that, despite their love for it, I always saw Stanley Kramer's 'It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World' as more of an exercise in anti-comedy than humor.

What I always say is that we're the illegitimate children of Andy Kaufman and Jerry Lewis.

I was just the perfect person to play the Mini-Me character.

When I did comedy I made fun of myself. If there was a buffoon, I played the buffoon.

The Marx Brothers isn't subtle, and that's hilarious.

It's funny, I used to do a character that was just a baby - just an adult baby. I would get up onstage and complain about adult stuff, but as a baby. I was in a diaper, and I would require hugs from the audience and reassurance and stuff.

I'll continue to make the typical Adam Sandler comedies.

I believe in physical comedy, because that reaches out most to people.

My comedy is kind of a counteraction to some of the comedy I don't like. Or things I don't like.

I'm usually cast by people who are oddly goofy.

Comedy is my favorite genre. I think it often doesn't get the respect it deserves, and I think one of the reasons is there was a tradition in the past of comedy looking kind of brightly lit and like a sitcom.

Some comedies, they want you falling on your face and doing silly things.

To play the leading man in a 'Three Stooges' movie, you've got to think funny. Thank God I think funny.

I know I was influenced by Beatrice Lillie. I must have been.

I love a good Steve Martin, Martin Short scene where they're being super physical - I don't mean to compare myself - but I relate to their type of comedy because they do crazy stuff but come at it in an honest way.

Now a 'funnyman' can get a laugh before opening his mouth - looking funny. Lou Costello was one of your great funnymen. Harry Langdon, Larry Semon; they were all funnymen - they looked funny. W.C. Fields was never a comedian. Slim Summerville was a comedian, yet looked funny. Now if you have both attributes, you are in good shape.

I like to watch and perform the kind of comedy that comes out of the situation - where the character is really serious and in a tough situation and doesn't realize that the situation is comic.

When I used to see Rick Moranis do something, to me that was immediately funny. Or George Carlin or Martin Lawrence.

People like Bill Murray are incredible at what they do and are definitely my flavour. Although Will Ferrell, Sacha Baron Cohen and Ricky Gervais are also incredible actors. In their comedy, they make these stupid people feel so real. These guys are really setting the bar very high, and I learn as much from them about acting as I do about comedy.

There's not many comedy characters that make me laugh as much as The Rock does; it's nice to have a big muscly guy being funny and stupid.

Our comedy is just falling over, funny faces, arguments, all the comedy basics, really.

I'm not a big 'scripted comedy' person necessarily. I'm open for wherever comedy can be found.