John Leguizamo Quotes

When you're around people who are trying to be funny all day and trying to one-up each other, that's just naturally - if you want to do it - it's going to make you better.

I wasn't a class clown, I just found at an early age that I was able to make people laugh. So I mostly wrote funny stuff instead of writing what I was supposed to be writing.

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.

I'm really bad at writing jokes.

I was always good at being observationally funny - like, contributing something funny to the conversation.

I think I was always a class clown growing up and a funny kid. I never really knew how to channel that until I got into high school.

A humorist doesn't really do that much note-taking.

Tina Fey is a genius - I've seen it with my own eyes now. She's a very observant person, and I've never seen somebody write such a high volume or as quickly as she does.

Comedy is like math - you can check your answer because you know you've gotten it right if you get a laugh. It just makes sense to me. I feel like because I've had to keep that tool in my box for so long, I'm ready to show it off a bit.

In comedy, my strengths are improvisation.

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

I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.

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.

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

I love comedy, and I think that's sort of what comes naturally to me.

My whole life, I've been telling jokes.

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

I'm not much of a joke writer.

The thing I gravitated to was being the class clown. It was very competitive.

Nothing can help my comedy.

Comedy is the most difficult thing to do. Easily the most difficult.

You don't need to be stable to be a stand-up comedian.

I don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.

If something strikes me as funny, I'll put it in my performance.