Jessica Walter Quotes

I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive.

I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn.

I think I have a natural, if I can say that, got a kind of natural ability in comedy.

I would be an idiot to say comedy is easy, but it does come naturally. It never feels forced.

Teaching someone to be funny is like teaching someone to be fast. They're already fast. You're just making them faster.

I'm probably more of a stand-up comedian than an actor.

I love comedy, and I think that's sort of what comes naturally to me.

Some people learn comedy, and some people just are comedy.

I don't think I'm a funny person in general. I have had to learn comedy.

I have such a respect for comedy. It's a lot harder than doing drama, in my opinion; you have to have sort of an innate sense of humor. There are rules to comedy you can learn. But ultimately, it really does require a certain point of view on the world, and that really does appeal to me.

You can't study comedy; it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude.

I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian.

Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.

You can't be funny if you don't have good material.

I never predicted that I'd be a comedian, but it was something that came so naturally to me. I just felt good doing it.

I don't think you can teach people how to be funny. You can make suggestions about how to speak a line or get a laugh, but it has to be in them.

You can't teach somebody how to be funny. You're either funny, or you ain't.

I've been doing comedy since I was two. You know, kids who make other kids laugh. The sickness had set in! I could make my friends' parents laugh; I had a sense of what was silly and funny.

I come from a much freer kind of performance thing, where I rely on my own improv and my own sense of humor.

I have a lot of respect for actors who do comedy. They do it naturally.

It's interesting to talk to young comedians. I love it because it makes me go, 'Oh, that's how I can be funny.'

Amy Sherman-Palladino is very funny. She's got just natural timing and comedic instinct. And she writes in a comedic rhythm.

All those I admired as a young performer had a calmness to their comedy.

There are some people who were born with good timing, and I think my comic timing is pretty solid.

I am still a comic, a fantastic one.