Mae Martin Quotes

I changed the face of comedy. I used to be funny.

I definitely think that comedy is my niche.

I was never really comfortable doing comedy.

I was born to be funny.

I would never say never to returning to comedy.

Comedy is funny when it comes from truth, and that's always the rule of them. It's about how far you can push that boundary.

I'd love to do a comedy - something where a character has to use humor to navigate the absurdities of life.

I know comedy; I know how to do crazy, off-the-wall stuff that makes me laugh out loud.

I want people to watch us and think, 'They're idiots. They're clowns,' I want them to watch us and think Tommy Cooper or Spike Milligan.

I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion.

Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.

But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.

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.

What's fun about comedy is you're pushing things a little further than you would in a drama; you're pushing reality a little bit more.

Unintentional comedy is comedy just the same.

Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.

I'm a light comedienne; that's really where I live the most often.

I just want to be funny, I just want to do comedy.

I love comedy, and I think that's sort of what comes naturally to me.

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.'

Comedy scares me a lot. I feel like it's way harder than drama. I think my safety net is definitely drama, and I would love to kind of be able to be able to push into the comedy world and do something kind of like a Christopher Guest kind of style show. That, to me, is my kind of comedy. Like, Ricky Gervais comedy. That's my kind of thing.

I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you're not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture.

I have deep comedic roots, and I want to be funny.

This was more of a cartoonish thing for me and it kind of took me back to SCTV, in a way, where the characters are just a little broader and you can have that kind of fun going a little over the edge.