Paul Mooney Quotes

My instincts are not comedic.

I've been doing comedy since I was two. You know, kids who make other kids laugh. The sickness had set in! I could make my friends' parents laugh; I had a sense of what was silly and funny.

Jack Black is so funny! On and off screen, like, he would make you laugh every day. He's hilarious.

I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion.

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

I'm a light comedienne; that's really where I live the most often.

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

I think comedians start off as pranksters or something.

You know, I've never thought of myself as a comedian.

I have such a respect for comedy. It's a lot harder than doing drama, in my opinion; you have to have sort of an innate sense of humor. There are rules to comedy you can learn. But ultimately, it really does require a certain point of view on the world, and that really does appeal to me.

I changed the face of comedy. I used to be funny.

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

Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson is probably one of the funniest people I've ever met in my life. Everything the kid does is funny. I think he tunes his life to being funny.

I think of myself as more of a comic person. I don't know about a comic actor.

My friends say I make them laugh a lot, so I think that somewhere in me is a little comedic ability that comes out in the most inappropriate or unexpected moments. I did a lot of sketch comedy years ago. That's always in me.

The funnier the material, the funnier I could make it.

I was born to be funny.

I would never say never to returning to comedy.

All of my favorite actresses are comedians at heart: Shirley MacLaine and Madeline Kahn, Diane Keaton and Debra Winger. And they are all amazing dramatic actresses, but everything they do is funny.

I've been too funny in my life to have to play a character who's... moderately funny.

I think comedy suits me best.

I feel like I've always thought of myself as a comedian.

It's very weird trying to imagine yourself as a 'comedy character.'

Phil Hartman was brilliant, and Dave Foley is a really funny guy. Phil Hartman was actually even funnier offstage than he was onstage because he would say nasty things. Dave Foley's very funny, very witty guy, very quick.