Dean Norris Quotes

Some of the pictures I must say every now and then I just think are going to be funny. When it gets that much, you might as well just pull out all the stops and make it more of a burlesque.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

Hey, I think comic actors are the best actors.

As you know it is a comedy so everything is a little bit pushed. That's what's funny about this kind of movie is you can laugh about the absurdity, and the bad side of life.

The whole character of Super Dave is a takeoff on people who pontificate. So one thing I never want to do is pontificate why this works, why this is funny. I have no idea what the appeal is. All we are trying to do is make people have a good time and laugh.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

It's really challenging to play comedy.

I have a lot of funny friends, and we joke a lot, but I've never really played comedic parts.

Class clowns become actors.

As long as it's funny, there's no such thing as too far.

I didn't necessarily set out to think of a show to make fun of reality shows.

Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.

I love doing comedy, and I don't get a chance to much. I get to play lots of serious people, and killers, and people with a lot of... sheriffs. Good people and bad people, but lots of drama, and to get a chance to be genuinely silly is a great treat for me.

I don't get a chance to be funny with the thrillers. I like to be funny, and I think I am really funny. So with 'Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life', it was fun to let loose.

I would like to explore comedy more. It's not something that I've done a lot of. Obviously, I'm very at home in drama. I like everything.

Chris Farley, I was a huge fan of his growing up. I would love to do something kind of slapstick and funny, maybe where I could change my look even a little bit.

Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.

More eccentric characters can push pretty far, but if you stay on the side of reality, it's always funnier.

I really just love making comedies; I love doing characters.

Things that make me laugh range from a wonderful stand-up like Jerry Seinfeld, Louis C.K. and Chris Rock to my son Gabe, who does great improv work. I also look backwards to the great comedic actors like Jackie Gleason, Paul Lynde and Phil Silvers.

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

An 'insult comic' is the title I was given. What I do is exaggeration. I make fun of people, at life, of myself and my surroundings.

I think drama and comedy are pretty much all the same, and the issue is whether or not you have a sense of humor.

I exaggerate all our selves, our beings. I make fun of everything: of our life and what we are. But I don't tell jokes, really. I just exaggerate life, and it comes out funny.

An old-codger comedy - that's what I want to do.