Seann William Scott Quotes

The things that make me laugh are considered smart or whatever, I guess. But stuff that's self-consciously intelligent or self-consciously hip or cool, that doesn't do it for me either. You just try to be funny.

Everything is so funny in the movie. The funniest thing about the movie is the transformations they were able to make with the characters.

I think any decent comedy worth its salt has to have heart, otherwise it's just a bunch of jokes. I think people enjoy comedies that have a heart and soul to them.

I think you have to have a sense of humor about every movie that you're doing. Your character needs to be relatable in a way that, even when you're doing the most bizarre things, sometimes a bit of tongue in cheek is necessary to keep up the believability of it.

I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things; it makes a character much more three-dimensional if there's some kind of humor. Not necessarily laugh-out-loud type of stuff, just a sense that there is a humorous edge to things. I do like that.

When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.

I have to be entertained by what I'm writing, so a lot of my stuff has a goofiness or scatological quality. If these characters can entertain me, then I feel like I can deal with the darker or more serious stuff.

I love funny women. I love writing funny women characters.

I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.

There's depth in my comedy.

I've been lucky enough to play some funny, nasty ladies in my day, and if you can make them foolish, they're even funnier.

My comedy isn't going to solve problems; I'm not that deep.

With comedy I can search for the profound.

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

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

It was Nick Willing's intention to make 'Hatter' as sarcastically British funny as he could.

A good comic explores the imagination, but it's always got to have those notes of truth running through it.

All of my favorite actresses are comedians at heart: Shirley MacLaine and Madeline Kahn, Diane Keaton and Debra Winger. And they are all amazing dramatic actresses, but everything they do is funny.

If you want to reach any kind of poignancy or meaning a lot of times, coming from comedy is the best way to get there.

I don't feel that I'm explaining the world or teaching people anything. And I'm not trying to be a mirror, showing them what's really going on the world. All I'm trying to do is think of stuff that's funny, just like when I'm kidding around with my friends.

I like to play the comic relief or parts that aren't necessarily comedic but that I can find the comedy in.

I've always been a huge fan of Tina Fey's. She's a very unique storyteller and has such a great voice and sense of character and comedy, and manages to do things that are oftentimes very broad but still have a lot of heart to them.

Different things made 'Cheers' and 'Frasier' special. Both of them, though, were honest. It was the old Shakespeare thing: Hold the mirror up to life.

The thing about comedy is that you don't have to play funny.

I'd love to do a comedy - something where a character has to use humor to navigate the absurdities of life.