Natasia Demetriou Quotes

People think I have an interesting walk. Hell, I'm just trying to hold my gut in.

There's a certain truism that you can't be self-conscious in comedy.

I'm a goof. C'mon, everyone knows that.

I never thought I was funny, but I enjoy being funny.

Sometimes the best way to make 'em laugh is to show 'em how you honestly feel.

I think comedy stems from being honest, often painfully so. I hope I can achieve that perspective in my own life and also have fun.

I have not taken my good looks seriously from the beginning. When I would be teased by my friends about my looks, I would just make a self-deprecating remark and let it pass.

I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you're not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture.

A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.

I'm particularly bad at breaking if something's funny. I'm not professional, so I do often laugh, but less at what I do and more often at what other people do.

I don't like to watch myself on screen because in my mind there is a touch of George Clooney about me, but when I see it, there is more than a little Donkey from 'Shrek' about me.

I've never really told jokes. I'm not good at it.

People don't expect me to be as funny as I am.

The more you try to look sexy, the lamer it is, so you just have to commit to the comedy.

I know what I look like. I'm not a babe who's automatically going to be the leading-lady type. I think I would always be cast as the friend. I probably tend to look crap more often than I look good. I like messing around and pulling funny faces and doing funny walks.

I primarily have had my career in comedy, and that is something that I have never been too concerned about because I know there is really no room for vanity in comedy. Comedy comes from pain and it is a lot easier to empathize with somebody who is out of shape.

I don't just try to be funny.

If you try to be funny, you're not being funny.

I'm funny at home too, but not deliberately. My wife is usually laughing at me rather than with me.

I do sarcasm really poorly.

I'm not much of a jokester.

I'm funny when I want to be. And I'm even funny when I don't want to be.

I think Rush have always had this reputation, particularly to non-fans, of being an ultra-serious and cerebral group when, in fact, the reverse is true. We don't take ourselves seriously at all. Sure, we take our music seriously, but that's altogether different.

Sure, I am funny and have a good sense of humor. Mostly, though, I just tell the truth. The internal dialogue people have in their heads - I just write it.

The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.