Anna Torv Quotes

I've always been a jokester. The things I got in trouble for, when I was little, was always about making a joke or setting up a prank or being silly when I should be paying attention.

I can never tell a joke, I've always found it easier to just fall over.

Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one

I do sarcasm really poorly.

Most practical jokes, I'll feel too bad for the other person so I'll stop just before the punchline.

I told jokes badly.

I'm a goof. C'mon, everyone knows that.

I think it's important to have a sense of humor. You have to be able to laugh at yourself.

Rob and I both have this strange sense of comedy which always involves us being the butt of our own jokes.

You know me... I can't resist a good prank.

The next best thing to a very good joke is a very bad one.

I'm not a big one for jokes. I can't tell a joke, believe it or not. If you gave me a thousand bucks and said, "Don, get up at a party and tell a joke," I'm the worst.

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.

Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously.

With comedy, you have to do it right. In a drama, there's a lot of different ways to succeed in a moment. But comedy comes from reality. You can't try to be funny.

Billy (Martin) was a great one for jokes. He liked to play a joke more than anyone I ever knew.

Her friends say she is very funny. At a family dinner, she stood to go, and the footman very properly pulled her chair away. At that moment I asked her a question and she sat down again, except there was no chair. Everyone, including the Queen, laughed and laughed.

Comedy becomes intensified in short scenes.

In comedy, though, it's good to get feedback from the audience about what they find funny.

There is certainly a higher percentage of wit in British comedy than in American comedy. What always tickles me is the way in which people try to use their intellect to get themselves out of tricky situations but never quite manage to do so - much to their enormous embarrassment.

My best jokes are so cheap. All I do is say things sarcastically.

If you're OK with being clumsy, it's funny. But if you are super embarrassed, people are going to laugh at you.

I think comedy is one of the hardest things to pull off. You either have timing or you don't, and that's something I don't have for sure.

The Canteen Boy, the reason you feel bad for him and you can laugh is because he, and I guess a lot of my characters, they don't notice they're getting made fun of. So they'll say something back that's not that great a quip, but in their mind they won the argument.

My father, the practical joker, did not care for practical jokes on himself; he did not encourage the practice in me.