Steve Carell Quotes

I'm just the least funny person in a room full of funny people, which is basically every single day of work for me.

I'm not the comic of the generation, I'm not even the funniest guy in my family.

It's too difficult to start right from scratch and try and be funny out of the blue.

I've always liked being funny and making people laugh. I was a cut-up when I was a kid, and was always doing bits for my friends and family.

I think I became funny because I grew up in the Bronx. I was small and weak and Jewish instead of large and fierce and Puerto Rican. You need something.

I don't feel any pressure to be funny at all. I'm funny because I want to be funny. I could sit here and be serious for an hour and you would go away and make me much funnier than I am.

Part of what I do comes from the fact that I don't know any jokes to tell. And when I do they're really flat and don't work.

For doing comedy, a sense of humor is a must!

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.

I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren't funny.

The first obligation I have is to be funny; it's my first impulse and an instinct. I like being funny and finding the jokes.

Funny is funny. You can be fooled by the eye, but if your performance is funny to the ear, it will be funny. I think it's that if you don't have the visual, you have to infuse the full personality into the voice.

Comedy is very important. For one thing, it keeps you sane. But it's not really a conversion. I mean, it's marginally a conversion, because if people tune in or go to a nightclub or even watch television, and hear that a lot of other people are laughing at something you thought was not funny, at least it'll force you to reconsider.

I think I'm the funniest guy in a room full of unfunny people.

Adam Sandler is a really funny guy in real life. Separate from all of the movies, that is a funny man.

Being funny is a gift, and, when done well, is an art form.

If I had a sense of humor, I'd be laughing right now.

Jokes that make me laugh out loud when I write them almost always bomb. I have no idea why.

I think I have a good sense of humor, but I'm not, like, a joke-teller. I get the jokes, which is sometimes half the battle. Believe me, I have no idea why anyone hires me.

I became a specialist at comedic one-liners.

Neil Hamburger writes such cutting jokes.

I don't think I was funny until college. I lived with some Harvard MD/PhD students - they were so smart, and what I contributed to the house was, I was the funny one.

I used to do a lot of comedy. I don't know what happened. I think it's my face.

I do comedy shows. I make fun of myself, first of all.

I'd never been the class clown and comedy was not a fulfilment of a dream.