Sam Elliott Quotes

There's nothing more difficult to do than comedy.

Honestly, it's hard to learn about comedy from comedians. Comedy is not something that you necessarily learn or can imitate. You're funny or you're not, and you hope what you're doing is funny.

In general, comedians are attracted to vice.

When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.

On the comedy side of what I love as a filmmaker are Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce, and Eddie Murphy; those are my favorites.

I did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career - anything for a laugh.

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

There's an art to comedy.

I'm actually a big fan of Kathy Griffin because I think she's really funny. I think she's really self-deprecating, which is something I like to see in a comedian. I think those are really the best comedians: people who can make fun of themselves.

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

My secret to comedy is don't offend anybody. Don't offend anybody ever. That's my secret.

I've made a lot of crazy comedy videos and said a lot of crazy things. If it's too offensive, I apologize and move on, but I do comedy.

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

Comedy is a very approval-oriented field.

Actually I never did stand up. I'm not that funny.

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

I started out as a stand-up comedian. And that's what I'm most comfortable doing.

George Carlin is brilliant with words, and Johnny Winters is very creative. It's taking something common and drawing out the humor, being clever with words.

I think I always was a bit of a class clown, but I don't know how successful I was at that. I always think, when I read about people being class clowns, I imagine them being actually very funny, and I don't know that I was. But I tried to be, I think.

It's good to be funny when you are a comedian.

To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there's no way around it.

Yes, I have a good sense of humor to sort of last a long time in show business, and I think to be able to find comedic value in who you are and the people that you work is always a good thing.

People walked out on Richard Pryor and he's the funniest man alive.

Ever since I was a kid, I just loved those comedians on TV who would just have fun with the language.

I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny Thomas, and George Burns and Bob Hope and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and all those guys were at our house all the time and telling jokes and making each other laugh.