Greg Davies Quotes

Being the youngest, I was a bit of a daddy's girl and sought attention from an early age by singing. I don't know where I got my voice, but ours was always a musical house.

My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.

We were a very funny family. Humour was the tool with which my brother and I tried to get attention. We were always trying to be the funniest.

My brother Billy was the joke teller. My brother Jim had a really sharp, cutting wit. And the teller of long stories, that was my brother Ed. As a child, I just absorbed everything they said, and I was always in competition for the laughs.

Mum and Dad have both got very well-tuned senses of humour.

You can't make everybody laugh. You gotta just do what you think is funny. Just be obstreperous to everybody.

My mom and dad just loved the fact that I fooled around. They just embraced it. They'd always kind of enjoy it, and they liked it when I made them laugh.

I was the youngest of three kids, and from the age of four, singing was my way of getting attention.

I'm the youngest in my family, and everyone is very funny, and I was always trying to keep up with them. I just loved making people laugh.

I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!

I love funny people, and when I'm with funny people, or people who are amusing in their weirdness, I love it. Because that to me is funny, as opposed to someone who stops and says, 'Hey let me tell you a joke.'

My dad, Jack, had a great sense of humour and had a strong impact on me and my humour.

Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world.

My wife is way funnier than I am. As much as I don't really feel I share a sense of humour with my family, I definitely share one with her - we find the same things funny.

Funny is an attitude.

I've loved musical theater ever since I was a kid. My mother's a pianist, and my grandfather was an amateur theater director and stand-up comic. And I was an only child. And I loved attention. So from an early age, my family was teaching old musical songs.

I don't think anyone in my family was funny.

I love goofing off and being awkward. I have always enjoyed improv.

When I was born, my mother was very disappointed. She wanted a son. I knew that from a very early age. So I was a tomboy.

Our family were very quick to laugh at each other.

I really loved making my mom laugh, and I knew that she thought that I was funny. It was really valuable, in my home growing up, to be able to have a chat and participate in a conversation and be funny. Whatever I could do to make my mom laugh could either get me out of trouble or just get me more attention or get me respect in the house.

I am a ham, I like to joke around.

I get a lot of my sense of comedy from my mother. She's very funny, but she doesn't know she's funny.

My mother and my father are both very funny people, and they're both artistic in their own right. Oftentimes, we get very dramatic about things, but we also laugh really hard.

When I was a little boy, I was fascinated by the way my dad used to laugh at the telly, and from a very early age, I had an idea of what was funny and why people laughed.