Zach Galifianakis Quotes

I don't consider myself, you know, in real life one of those funny guys. My comedy comes through my work.

Who I am on stage is just an amped up version of who I am in real life.

I would say I try to make my comedy really personal. I try to tell stories that happened to me, experiences from my life.

I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I'm over the top in real life, too.

What you bring to the stage is what you are in real life... people sense that.

There's one theory that the funnier a comic is in his act, the more mind-numbingly boring he'll be when he's not holding a microphone.

If you're a stand-up, you're more or less yourself.

Adam Sandler is a really funny guy in real life. Separate from all of the movies, that is a funny man.

It's not surprising that you wouldn't see that side of me on television, but in real life I find the world to be quite a funny place.

With comics it's very close, like, "I don't want to say anything onstage that I wouldn't say offstage." Or vice versa. I say "faggot" in my special and in the joke I am the faggot, if that makes sense.

Not all comedy clubs or situations are ideal, especially when you're first coming up and I think that's good for you. Eventually you get to express your real personality.

I've always had my voice as a comic. I was never that into politics, or prop comedy.

I don't really have a pattern yet. I don't know if I'll develop one. As far as comedic integrity, I don't have integrity in general, comedic or otherwise.

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

As far as just my stand-up is concerned, I don't care about changing anyone's mind. I'm not making an argument. I'm a guy doing comedy.

I'm just enjoying playing a character of myself. People's mouths drop when I dance, but my friends are like, "You dance like that in the kitchen!"

I think "honest" sometimes gets used to describe a real depiction of real life. I don't think that's necessarily what we're doing. We created these fake characters and we're just trying to figure out what they would do in situations they enter into.

Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education has left him unqualified.

Just because someone acts a certain way on TV, that doesn't mean he's like that in real life.

I had a real passion for performing. I craved the attention. I was a goofy kid just like I am a goofy adult. So as soon as I got the bug of getting laughs and getting on stage I just couldn't stop.

I am a guy who talks about bacon and escalators. Stand-up comedy is very much a conversation. It's very personal, stylistically.

Speaking for myself, I try to go out there on the stage and make jokes with people, so I'm not really thinking about the impact anything I have. If it does resonate with people, that's really great.

My persona is most importantly just to communicate the material in a way that is most funny and meaningful in the moment. It's more like a character that's sculpted for whatever joke needs communicating at the moment.

One of the reasons I still do stand-up is because it was so hard in the beginning that I feel like it would be such a shame not to redeem it that it's all fun.

It's not most important to communicate myself on stage as it is to be as funny or interesting as I possibly can on stage. I feel more like I'm doing a play whose main character just happens to share my name.