Mae Martin Quotes

There's not one thing that inspires me the most. Me and my friends joke around with each other and hang out so much that whatever makes us laugh really hard makes it into 'Workaholics.' But the characters that I think are funny are guys that are confidently stupid.

Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words that no one else would say.

I have to be entertained by what I'm writing, so a lot of my stuff has a goofiness or scatological quality. If these characters can entertain me, then I feel like I can deal with the darker or more serious stuff.

Comedy can be a lot more fun if you try something unique.

I think I was born with a natural way of looking at something and trying to find the ways in which it was odd or funny, Even in the sad or angry stuff, I was, 'Well, but where is the funny part of this?'

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.

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.

George Carlin is brilliant with words, and Johnny Winters is very creative. It's taking something common and drawing out the humor, being clever with words.

What also helps our show is that we never take ourselves seriously.

Unintentional comedy is comedy just the same.

People... need a time to laugh. It's up to us to bonk ourselves on the head and slip on a banana peel so the average guy can say, 'I may be bad, honey, but I'm not as much of an idiot as that guy on the screen.'

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

I think if you're trying to be funny, sometimes you're bending a piece of metal in a direction it doesn't want to go. And sometimes comedy just needs to find itself.

Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.

Comedy is surprise. Comedy is not something that you can, necessarily, do twice.

Anytime there's originality and comedy combined, it's very potent for people who love comedy.

I am truly at my happiest not when I am writing an aria for an actor or making a grand political or social point. I am at my happiest when I've figured out a fun way for somebody to slip on a banana peel.

You can get away with a lot as long as it has a silly edge to it.

Steve Martin's comedy albums are so ridiculous.

'The Ugly Truth' isn't trying to change the world with strong political opinions; it's just trying to entertain you with thoughts and ideas from my crazy mind!

Comedy just comes naturally, so I've always gravitated to comedy.

I think comedy is something I enjoy, so it comes effortlessly.

It's very weird trying to imagine yourself as a 'comedy character.'

Sometimes the stuff I come up with is so silly I feel like I need to apologize at the end of every one of them.

What I do with impressions, I try not to be mean-spirited. To me, it's just about being silly.