Tim Minchin Quotes

I want you to laugh and cry. That's what I do.

I like to service the full audience of America, so I try to do things that are just real artistic, like when they don't have the most money, but it's a great piece of work. Then, there are big, fun comedies and big animated movies for kids. I want to do things for my nieces and nephews. Ultimately, we're trying to deliver something entertaining to an audience. As long as it can entertain the audience, and it makes me or my niece and nephew laugh or cry, then I think it's good.

I've never thought that what I do as an actor does anything for anybody, other than making them laugh once in a while.

At the end of the day, I just want a movie that's great, that people are going to love and laugh at and be affected by, and also have an emotional journey.

If it's scary, it's supposed to be scary. If it's funny, it's supposed to be funny. That's all I try to do.

Most bands out there are basically pretty boring. I try to affect people inside their bodies.

I want to move people, stir something within them that makes them feel. That's what a movie should do and an actor should do, make you feel something. I think that's why people love films so much.

Comedians like to see people smile. With acting, I love giving people a feeling, an emotion. I like to give people a feeling. When they come away from my scene, I want them to think.

I want people to laugh and cry, not just sit and stare at the TV.

I just try to tell a story with a song, and be able to try to transmit the emotion to you. That's all I'm really trying to do.

The connective tissue between storytelling, advice, and comedy is passion.

I feel like there's such a responsibility, when you make a film, to enlighten people, to make them think, to make them laugh, or even just to be entertaining.

I love cinema and creating new things, but essentially, I am creating all this because I want people to see it.

I love films that make you feel something but also deliver that payload behind jokes.

I want to entertain and inspire.

I'm an entertainer: I want to make people laugh, cry. I want to move them.

I think it's almost easier to make people cry than to make people laugh.

I don't really know how music and comedy are similar. I try never to dissect it theoretically or academically.

Action is drama. If we cannot make the audience laugh, smile or cry with us, we are not actors.

If work isn't rooted in comedy, people will turn from it, or they'll use it like soap opera.

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

I can be so blown away by story lines.

I'm a storyteller: the crux of the matter is to reach beauty, poetry; it doesn't matter if that is comedy or tragedy. They're the same if you reach the beauty.

People don't come out for book events. They want to feel an emotion and be entertained.

I am not interested in entertaining people. I think being an actor provides an opportunity to give people an experience they can connect to, reflect on, learn from, laugh at.