Chris O'Dowd Quotes

My way of making people like me was to make 'em laugh.

In comedy you are allowed to be weird - and even applauded for it.

Ellen DeGeneres is great. She has this natural style, and she makes comedy look so easy.

No one likes the fellow who is all rogue, but we'll forgive him almost anything if there is warmth of human sympathy underneath his rogueries. The immortal types of comedy are just such men.

When you need a good laugh, do you reach for a book? I don't. I expect books to move me deeply and submerge me in another reality. So when a novel makes me roar with laughter, it's always a delightful surprise.

I think the most attractive thing is a sense of humour. If someone can make you laugh, you've gotten a lot out of the way.

My little boy Sonny makes me laugh all the time. He has good comedic timing.

I'm good at being funny.

I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.

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.

From the age of 4 or 5, I loved to make people laugh.

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

I had no musical or athletic ability, and I wasn't particularly good looking. Comedy was something I could do for attention.

You can maybe be artistic and really original and creative, but as long as it's got that funniness at the root of it, then certain people are going to love it just because they need a laugh.

You can't do comedy with a beard.

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.

I always found that drama, really good drama, has a lot of comedy in it.

Once I realised the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.

Comedy has been so good to me.

A good sense of humor will get you everywhere.

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

I think David Letterman is a genius. Night after night he is funny and smart. He seems to really enjoy his jokes. They seem connected to who he really is. I like watching him, and there is no one better at turning an awkward moment into something very funny.

If it gets laughs, it's funny.

I think people are always looking for a good comedy.