Judd Apatow Quotes

You can't substitute the act of making people laugh. It's definitely something that actors like to do.

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

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 want to push the envelope. Let the envelope stay in the middle of the table. I'll just make you laugh.

We want to be funny. We want to make people laugh... We'll do whatever it takes.

If something strikes me as funny, I'll put it in my performance.

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

If I can tell someone a story that makes them bend over and laugh, that's bigger than anything else.

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

I want to show the world my humor.

I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.

There's an art to comedy.

Comedy is not easy to do - where you make someone laugh out loud in their living room.

I do try to entertain.

I can make anything in the room funny in a few seconds.

You just tell a good story where you're funny and it makes people laugh.

I never want to forget that my job is to make people laugh.

My primary responsibility is to be funny.

I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes though I'm gonna be on for an hour.

I just love to make a whole roomful of people laugh.

For comedy, timing is key.

There's something that's really fun about the challenge of making the mundane funny, too, I think.

I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.

To me, comedy is a game.