Adam Carolla Quotes

There was a sea of change in comedy in the late 1950s and '60s. We were dealing with vignettes as opposed to jokes. We were more socially aware.

Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.

My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.

I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.

Hey, I think comic actors are the best actors.

I love physical comedy. I adore comedy of any kind.

What I always say is that we're the illegitimate children of Andy Kaufman and Jerry Lewis.

I would never say never to returning to comedy.

I'm a student of comedy in general, so I've always loved Billy Crystal. But I'm a different type of showman. I'm a clown and a jester.

I want people to watch us and think, 'They're idiots. They're clowns,' I want them to watch us and think Tommy Cooper or Spike Milligan.

But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.

I do mostly comedy, and it tends to be a subtler comedy. But I think that probably lends itself well to commercials.

Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.

I just want to be funny, I just want to do comedy.

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

Comedy scares me a lot. I feel like it's way harder than drama. I think my safety net is definitely drama, and I would love to kind of be able to be able to push into the comedy world and do something kind of like a Christopher Guest kind of style show. That, to me, is my kind of comedy. Like, Ricky Gervais comedy. That's my kind of thing.

I loved comedy all my life. I think it's a real powerful art form.

Will Ferrell makes me laugh a lot when he gets out there and gets crazy.

I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.

That was sort of the 'Second City' approach, which was try to be intelligent and assume your audience is intelligent. We were influenced by 'Monty Python,' too, which would have philosophers in a wrestling match.

I'd love to do some comedy. Particularly French comedy, which I know sounds like a contradiction in terms.

I changed the face of comedy. I used to be funny.

I haven't done much comedy; I would love to. I love doing dramatic roles, but I'd love to do comedy. I think it would be refreshing.

I see myself as the female John Cleese.

I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.