Ryan Kwanten Quotes

My mum is very funny when she wants to be.

I still think of my mum as being kind of a dork - a cooler one, but still a dork.

My mum is unwittingly funny.

My parents played by parents, in the second season [of Suits]. We had a Skype scene and they were my real parents. My parents are cartoons. When they come up and visit, they're hilarious. My mother somehow finds a way to get in the way of everything.

I poke fun of everybody and everything. And who's easier to make fun of than your mother?

I was making my living from a joke about my appearance that I didn't understand, and in a way still don't, because when I look in a mirror it doesn't seem funny to me.

My mother thinks Mick Jagger is a foreign car.

I remember, as a child, loving it when my mom laughed, but I was definitely not a class clown.

I thought my family was really funny. Everybody in my family was funny. My mom and dad both have great senses of humor and really saw the funny in stuff, so I think that's probably where it came from. I always try to see the funny in things.

My father was the kind of guy who'd always say 'Throw out any subject and I got a joke on it.'

I'm tall and thin but not strong, so you're either an athlete or you're funny.

The short hair fits my personality more. I think maybe, with long hair, it was a role - I was playing dress-up a bit.

I think there's something in the fact that it's hard to be good looking and funny. You have to have an oddball quality; people have to sympathise with you to find you funny.

No one in my family is in show business, unless you count dog shows as show business.

I think the Mama people remember is from 'Mama's Family.' She really turned into a pretty cool character. The sketches from the 'Burnett' show, if people are old enough to remember, were written by writers who all hated their mothers.

My mom is a very independent person, and she's the funniest, smartest person in the room, all the time.

If my mother hadn't laughed at the funny things I did, I probably wouldn't be a comic actor. After she had her first heart attack, the doctor said, 'Try to make her laugh.' And that was the first time I tried to make anyone laugh.

Making people laugh was the only thing I ever truly excelled at. But at home, I was so quiet with my family, which taught me to be really observant.

I used to tell people I was 6-foot-4. And with that afro, I was.

Me and the Rock do look a lot alike, and we're a similar build - that was a joke, by the way.

Don't ask me to cut my ponytail.

Visually, my trademarks have always been my glasses and hair.

I've always liked long hair. My dad's always had long hair, but he always tells me, 'I never had it in a ponytail.' And I say to him, 'You weren't an England goalie either, were ya.'

My family is just naturally funny.

My family is funny. I think you're born with the gene.