Rainn Wilson Quotes

Comedy is probably a lot harder for me. Maybe it's because I've been doing drama for so long or maybe it's because... you don't want to search for a laugh; you can't try to be funny, you just have to naturally be funny or be in a situation that's funny.

Comedy is not something that a person can fake or learn how to do.

You can't teach someone to be funny, but you can teach comic timing. If you listen to a good comic, you can learn how to put it on a page.

I think so. I can't think of anything that requires more finesse than comedy, both from a verbal and visual point of view.

Comedy is one of the toughest genres. It is so essential to get the timing right, failing which the humour can fall flat.

I don't know how to be like a Bill Murray or a Will Ferrell, these guys who know how to make a line funny just by, I don't know, some extra-sense perception. I only know character and emotion and real acting; that's all I know how to do.

If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious.

Stand up is really fun because if I think of a joke or a funny idea, then I can just go and tell some people and if they laugh, they laugh right away.

I was the kid who always hung back and then dropped the jokes when you least expected it. Timing was everything. My mouth sort of developed over time.

I'm not a joke guy; I'm not a stand-up comic.

You can't just yell jokes at people.

Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.

Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.

I told jokes badly.

Comedy is wonderful when you really nail it and you hear people laughing, but it's not always that easy.

I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.

I do not have a good control of running sight gags. I laugh like hell when I see them, but I don't know how to invent those jokes.

I've been called a funny person for a long time. I don't know that I know anything about comedic acting.

Comedy is very difficult. You've got to have a perfect sense of timing.

Comedy is easy. You have to react to what others are saying and it is all about the timing, the dialogue delivery.

It's one thing to be funny in a tweet. It is another to be funny for an hour.

The hardest part of comedy is writing the jokes, and the second-hardest part is telling the jokes. To me, everything else is significantly easier.

I didn't want to do comedy again. It is way harder when you are doing comedy. You can't just concentrate on the character and the plot. In comedy, the writers, instead of obsessing about character and plot, obsess about the jokes.

I never was shy, but as far as telling jokes, I'm the worst. I like physical comedy; it's where I feel comfortable.

In comedy, my strengths are improvisation.