Kari Matchett Quotes

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.

Why should I waste my good time making a straight dramatic film? The people who can't make you laugh can do that.

When it comes to acting, I've always had a passion for entertaining and for making people laugh. On the music side, I really want to come out as an artist because I want people to see who I really am... artistically, I tend to be drawn to the darker things. What the music will be able to do is show people that I am an adult now.

Really, I just love doing comedy. Any form it takes is great, as long as I can keep doing it, you know? If I can do my show and 'The League' while also getting to do other bits, that's awesome.

I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It's a valid test of your creative abilities.

Comedy is what I really want to do and propel.

I have a lot of funny friends, and we joke a lot, but I've never really played comedic parts.

Let's make some funny pictures.

It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.

You can maybe be artistic and really original and creative, but as long as it's got that funniness at the root of it, then certain people are going to love it just because they need a laugh.

I was a bit of a goofball. I was always silly. I think that lends itself to being an actor.

I always found that drama, really good drama, has a lot of comedy in it.

I like to make people laugh. That's for sure. And I really like to humiliate myself and go very far in derision and stuff. But no, I like everything. I started a little bit of doing drama, too. I like that, too. I guess I just want to touch everything.

I adore doing comedy, I think it's fantastic. I never saw myself doing exclusively comedy.

I love doing comedy, and that's the thing I will always go back to, really, but I'd love to have the freedom to do sort of 'meaty' roles but also have the freedom to do the sort of films I want to make, like what Woody Allen does. You forget he's funny because you're so gripped by the story, but they still make you laugh.

I think funny is just the foundation. I don't really think, to some extent, funny is the absolute most important thing. It should also communicate some idea through the medium of cartooning. Just to be funny is... You know what, the things that you laugh hardest at aren't cartoons.

I've always littered my songs with jokes. You might need to dig a little deeper to find the humor, but I would totally object to being some kind of distraught personality. I've never tried to attach myself to that.

I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it.

Doing comedy for film is always a challenge because you are in the hands of the editor after the fact. I am hoping I can do some more soon, I enjoy doing comedy.

I love comedy. That's what got me into the arts. I don't even know how to categorize myself anymore.

I'd love to do comedy. And I think I have pretty good sense of comic timing, so I'd really like to try that.

Comedy is incredibly hard. You have to be loose. You have to be not afraid to fail.

The Beastie Boys are guys I loved before I met them, and when I got to know them, we started a magazine together, and we started making videos together, and a lot of it came out of us just cracking ourselves up, like going to the fake mustache store and buying fake mustaches.

I am desperate to do a comedy now.

I had a strong vision for 'The Best Man Holiday,' so I was able to translate that to the actors and ultimately to the screen. Things can't get too heavy or too outrageously funny; it has to strike a balance. Tone is everything. If you've set the right tone, you can get away with a lot of stuff. You can get away with making people cry.