Paul Bettany Quotes

'The Critic' was so absurd, and I loved that. I loved working with Jon Lovitz, I think he's got a great, great voice for animation.

People ask me what Gillian Anderson's like to work with, and I have no idea!

I'm trying to write a film with my friend. I'd love to get the thrill of speaking actors making my work even funnier.

I had been quite judicious about the scripts I was reading, but nothing was really taking my fancy until I pulled this script out: 'Lucifer.' I have to say, within about three or four pages, I thought it was hilarious; I laughed out loud a couple of times and knew this is the one that I wanted to do.

Ah, nuts. I'm an actor. I just do what comes naturally.

I could dance with you till the cows come home. Better still, I'll dance with the cows and you come home." Groucho Marx was never one to pass up an opportunity for a play on words and this occurs in his dialogue of the 1933 film Duck Soup.

The only way to get a serious message across is through comedy

Funny people don't really laugh very much.

That's sort of what I wanted to make fun of a little bit with Don Jon. And I think oftentimes, if you're going to talk about a sort of substantial topic like this, the best way to do it is with a sense of humor.

I look for the meaning in what's funny, and I look for what's funny about things that are meaningful to me.

Be funny whenever possible, even if some people don't get it.

There's enough people that do unfunny music. I'll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.

The only thing I can say about W. C. Fields ... is this: Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.

I kid because I'm on basic cable.

I don't know if there's anything intrinsically funny about Tae Kwon Do.

I'd love to do a film with Mariah. But it would have to be a comedy. She's the funniest woman in the world, she just cracks me up all the time.

I just do little jokes all the time and people think I'm serious. I know exactly who Gordon Ramsay is, I know exactly who Gordon Brown is... I just say jokes but they think I'm serious which I think is funny and I think I kind of play up the image sometimes because - whatever - it's just entertainment.

I think that you can make a drama and have it be intensely funny, and vice versa.

I have the kind of show that reminds you of your problems, and then I talk about other problems you didn't even know you had until tonight.

The way I deliver it is meant to be fun. Does it hurt sometimes? Yes, but it is meant to be funny not offensive.

People who go for humor are wonderful because they do great humor. People who go for wit and end up with humor are people who have made a mistake.

As a rule, I don't like to laugh at the misfortune of others. The exception to that rule is if it's really, really funny.

Then with Lucy [Hale], her little thing that I kind of learned from her is her country music because she’s obsessed with country and at the beginning, I wasn’t a huge fan of it, but I was listening to some songs that she plays in the hair and makeup room and she’s also so funny, too. She does these character impersonations and they’re just so funny. Made up characters of course, but she can switch into someone else so fast. I’m always laughing at Lucy and she’s like a little Polly Pocket, you know? The tiny one.

I don't like any nastiness on tv unless it's coming from me.