Adam Driver Quotes

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

Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.

I think that a big part of comedy is being made fun of, and it is looking silly or looking stupid.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy.

Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.

Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it, or you don't. You can't attain it.

I didn't think that anything is beyond humor - not profane humor, but a good, honest approach to humor.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.

The nature of comedy is 'just do it.' But I think what's interesting about it is this joke has been around and why. And it's just saying what's wrong and how wrong can you be if you say it.

To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It's commenting or observing or twisting life.

There's a tremendous amount of humor... in very unexpected places.

There's some sort of unspoken license... when outlandish things come out of an inanimate object, somehow it equals humor.

If you're showing people where it's smooth sailing, where is the joke? If you go back to any movie, even a conventional movie, with any comedians, they're either not terribly intelligent or they're not doing something well.

The whole point of comedy, what's fun, is taking the stupid thought I had and working it into something that makes a bunch of people laugh.

It's a fine line between hack and good comedy.

The whole point of real comedy is that you can say something that is true, and by being funny, you can make it tolerable for people, and hopefully they'll laugh at you, too.

I love comedy that seems kind of a little bit absurd.

In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama.

It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.

For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.

I think comedy, so much of it comes out of the strange sort of golden instant 'cause you don't know why it's funny, but you captured it.

What's fun about comedy is you're pushing things a little further than you would in a drama; you're pushing reality a little bit more.

What makes me laugh? Richard Nixon always made me laugh.