Joan Cusack Quotes

Comedy is my first love; that's my main goal in life - to keep doing comedy.

Being funny has always mattered a lot to me. It's why I started acting - to make my friends laugh.

Several of my uncles are comedians. My father is a comedian; my grandfather was known for his jokes. It definitely runs in the family.

I come from standup and improv.

I wasn't a class clown, I just found at an early age that I was able to make people laugh. So I mostly wrote funny stuff instead of writing what I was supposed to be writing.

Some actors try to play parts and do things they can't do. Being funny is one of them. Being funny's hard.

Making people laugh was automatic.

I think any decent comedy worth its salt has to have heart, otherwise it's just a bunch of jokes. I think people enjoy comedies that have a heart and soul to them.

I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes though I'm gonna be on for an hour.

I'm really not an actor of any kind. I've always seen myself as an entertainer, someone who makes people laugh. That's all I've ever wanted to do. 'Doctor Who' has always just been me, really.

Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.

To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there's no way around it.

From the age of 4 or 5, I loved to make people laugh.

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.

My capacity for humour may have come largely from my father - he liked to entertain people, make people laugh.

In fifth grade, we had to write a story and read it in front of the class. When I read mine out, the class were just belly laughing. And I remember being like, 'This is the coolest!' So I want to dedicate my life to trying to make people laugh. I can't imagine doing anything else.

When I got on Stern I realized that this was the one job where you could be really honest and open, almost like Richard Pryor or something. You can be honest about your life and get laughs.

I don't laugh that much, but I do like humorous books, and I like to entertain readers that way.

It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.

I was a bit of a goofball. I was always silly. I think that lends itself to being an actor.

I heard David Sedaris read live recently which was a complete delight. Few writers make me laugh out loud on the bus. He does.

I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny Thomas, and George Burns and Bob Hope and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and all those guys were at our house all the time and telling jokes and making each other laugh.

Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.

My job has always been to entertain people. I want people to laugh.

Once I realised the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.