Marlo Thomas Quotes

Some people learn comedy, and some people just are comedy.

I think everyone is born with humor, but your life can beat it out of you, sadly, or you can be lucky enough to grow up in it.

Comedy is easy. You have to react to what others are saying and it is all about the timing, the dialogue delivery.

Comedy just comes naturally, so I've always gravitated to comedy.

In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama.

Comedy becomes intensified in short scenes.

I think you make better jokes when you don't break logic for the joke, unless you make a movie just about jokes.

If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious.

Comedy is second nature for me.

People have many theories about comedy, but being just plain funny is the one most important thing.

The real problem you get with humour is that you only have so many kinds of jokes within you, and you mine that vein a lot. This isn't just common to me; it's anybody who's funny.

Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.

Writing humor is not something every single person can do.

Comedy is probably a lot harder for me. Maybe it's because I've been doing drama for so long or maybe it's because... you don't want to search for a laugh; you can't try to be funny, you just have to naturally be funny or be in a situation that's funny.

The best shows to tweet about are the ones that are hilarious, but they might not necessarily be trying to be hilarious. Those are the easiest and the funniest because you're like 'come onnnn.'

Comedy is not something that a person can fake or learn how to do.

There's always a message in my comedy.

There is a universality to comedy.

Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it, or you don't. You can't attain it.

I think if I have any kind of unique gift, it's more in the comedy area than it is in the dramatic area.

I didn't think that anything is beyond humor - not profane humor, but a good, honest approach to humor.

Comedy is unique in the sense that laughter is a palpable noise that everyone makes.

I really like comedy. There's always a choice, when you're writing: you can either go for the joke or you can go for the story, the important stuff.