Michael Caine Quotes

I just draw what I think is funny, and I hope other people think it is funny, too.

I love playing people who don't have a sense of humor for instance, there's nothing funnier to me than a person with no sense of humor.

People ask me for my autograph after a show. I'm not famous, I think they're messing with me. I think they're trying to make me late for something.

I like to laugh. It's kind of escapism. I like to make people laugh. And I kind of like people just to have to not think about anything

The most important thing in comedy - apart from empathy, which I think is important even if disguised - is surprise. I like surprising people with the fact that something's even a joke at all.

I love country music, but I find it very hard to take it seriously. I also think a lot of country music is sung with the tongue in cheek, so I do it tongue in cheek.

Funny people don't really laugh very much.

Be funny whenever possible, even if some people don't get it.

I think comedy's just about being interested in comedy and what makes people laugh and experimenting.

I just do little jokes all the time and people think I'm serious. I know exactly who Gordon Ramsay is, I know exactly who Gordon Brown is... I just say jokes but they think I'm serious which I think is funny and I think I kind of play up the image sometimes because - whatever - it's just entertainment.

I really never thought people would think that I was funny, I thought (my friends) thought I was funny because I was their friend, but other people would just think I was an asshole. I was at least partly right.

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

I think laughter comes because things are hardly working.

I do consider myself a clown and a court jester, and I do love to make people laugh, whether they're laughing with me or at me.

I learned how to make jokes because I wanted to give people as much fun as they did, and I guess I did, too.

As a rule, I don't like to laugh at the misfortune of others. The exception to that rule is if it's really, really funny.

I think the reward for doing comedy is doing the comedy itself. You get to go to work everyday and laugh and make other people laugh and to me there's no greater reward than that.

I don't take myself that seriously, I'm taking the piss out of myself. I can't really beat up guys, it's fun!

Women are very funny. Some of the funniest people I can think of are women.

Kids like my act because I'm wearing nose glasses. Adults like my act because there's a guy who thinks putting on nose glasses is funny.

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

I think everyone is given drama, by virtue of the fact that we all have drama in our lives, but not everyone can make people 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.

We [with Andrew Ridgeley] didn't expect people to take it seriously. But naturally they did, and they thought we were a couple of wankers.

Cos people think I'm on drugs and I'm not. I'm really quite... Just a bit of coffee. When I take drugs I start going, Oh, would you like insurance?