Charles Nelson Reilly Quotes

When you need a good laugh, do you reach for a book? I don't. I expect books to move me deeply and submerge me in another reality. So when a novel makes me roar with laughter, it's always a delightful surprise.

I did have someone tell me that I looked like Conan O'Brien. I was like, 'What?'

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.

But as far as being popular, yeah, I think Dave Barry is really funny.

I've got a great sense of humor, and if I'm able to say or do something in a movie that people feel like they want to repeat, that's hugely flattering.

I just want to be known as funny.

Nothing is better than the moment you have Michael Bolton dressed as Forrest Gump and you see it in action.

I happen to think singing is hilarious, especially when it pops out at the wrong time.

I was approached to do 'MythBusters' in 2002. I didn't think it would go anywhere, but I guess anything can happen if you wear a funny hat and have lots of facial hair.

I'm just trying to be funny, trying to make people laugh, and trying to make the world a better place through some jokes. I don't have words for it. It's so overwhelming.

Comedy, unlike drama, demands surprise. You can't quietly and thoughtfully enjoy a comedy.

I would say I know nothing about the music business, in a nice sort of way. I totally forgot I was in that music video. That's so funny.

The idea of surprise is part of what makes something funny, or what gets a reaction. At least when I'm an audience member, after you hear a joke so many times it's not as funny because it loses its surprise or its twist. So I think funny has to do with surprise.

Hopefully, underlying all my jokes is an element of surprise.

Humor is based on surprise, and surprise is a milder way of saying shock. It's surprise that makes the joke.

What I've always wanted to do is be as funny as possible.

I wanted to be funny. And I'm always acknowledged for my pranks and jokes nowadays.

People will do anything, anything, for a really nice laugh.

When you start to talk about comic books, a lot of the time, people forget about the comic part of it. They need to be funny.

I gravitate towards anything that has a grain of comedy to it.

I started finding humor in everything. I used to watch a lot of TV, and I finally figured I didn't need to watch TV to find funny stuff. I just watch the commercials. I mean, the commercials just blew my mind.

Lord Akeldama did so love to know all the gossip about the mundane world, but it was in the manner of a cat amusing himself among the butterflies without a need to interfere should their wings get torn off. They were only butterflies, after all.

There's something timeless and important about making people laugh, about being the right spot in their day.

I am never embarrassed by something that makes people laugh.

Comedies are doing well because I think people want to laugh and not think about everything for a little bit.