Bill Nighy Quotes

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

For comedy, timing is key.

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

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.

Comedy clubs are sacred ground. That's where anything goes.

I'm a light comedienne; that's really where I live the most often.

I just want to be funny, I just want to do comedy.

My whole life, I've been telling jokes.

Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.

When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.

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

I don't think comedy will ever die.

There's depth in my 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 don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.

I did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career - anything for a laugh.

The funnier the material, the funnier I could make it.

Comedy is hard to do. All the cliches about it are true.

Stand-up comedy is a raunchy profession.

What's the funniest play ever written? I used to think it was 'Noises Off,' but now that I've seen 'The Liar,' I'm not so sure.

I made a living out of being a class clown.

The comedian just wants to get a laugh.

Dying is easy; comedy is hard.

There's an art to comedy.