Rob Lowe Quotes

Anybody can go onstage and be dirty. You have to be funny, that's the key. You can say anything as long as it's funny. You can't take it too seriously up there. And people coming to see you can't take it too seriously.

If I want to keep working as an actor, I'm going to become a comedian who does fart jokes.

I knew I wanted to be in show business so I took the path of least resistance. I loved comedy. But you never know you are funny until people laugh. It's just what I was interested in. I could make people laugh, I guess, but doing it at school and doing it onstage are very different things.

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

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

I was born a comic.

I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.

When I was in college I did a lot of comedy.

Chris Elliott could read the phonebook and he's funny.

They don't make you pay for the humor. It's up and down, but they're trying to give you as many laughs as possible in 2 minutes. They are the most honest comedians ever.

Jon Stewart hires people that he thinks are funny. That's it. That's the only requirement.

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.

Patrice O'Neal is the best comic I ever saw.

I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin.

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.

If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.

I'm probably not very good at rom-com, being funny on demand; I'll leave that to the comedians.

Steve Buscemi is hilarious. He's really, really good with improv.

I had seen movies before that that had made me laugh, but I had never seen anything even remotely close to as funny as Richard Pryor was, just standing there talking.

When I worked with Robin Williams, now there is improv! He is just as funny as you think he is. We did at least five or six takes of every scene, improvising every scene differently. He was a riot.

I don't laugh so much at jokes and premises as I do at a guy who goes onstage and starts twitching and acting funny.

I don't think I would do a straight late-night talk show, like a 'Tonight Show' kind of thing. But I'm open to whatever is done well. I don't have any agenda. I'm not like Fugazi - I'm not trying to be just so punk rock until I die. Whatever is funny is good.

Comedy isn't just timing; it's about rooting out the funny in the real. You just bend reality to the left a little.

People who I've worked with are always like, 'Why aren't you doing comedy? You're funny!' because they've only seen the one side. I did do the comedy 'Whatever Works,' with Woody Allen and Larry David.

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.