Julia Davis Quotes

The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

The more ridiculous the character is, the more sincerity you have to bring to it.

Sure, I am funny and have a good sense of humor. Mostly, though, I just tell the truth. The internal dialogue people have in their heads - I just write it.

You want to be honest with a character and play it truthfully, and you want to be genuine with your character.

There's something very authentic about humor, when you think about it. Anybody can pretend to be serious. But you can't pretend to be funny.

It has to come from a truthful place in order to be funny.

Comedy is just honesty. Whether things are going well or bad.

With all comedy, you try to ground it in credibility and reality.

If you're contriving something, if you're making something up, it's not funny. You can tell. It's instant. It has to come from someplace real.

Different things made 'Cheers' and 'Frasier' special. Both of them, though, were honest. It was the old Shakespeare thing: Hold the mirror up to life.

I like everything to be natural... believable.

I strive for honesty because I think that's where the funniest stuff comes from.

You can't just play crazy. It makes you push yourself to stay in the realm of reality. And when you do that, it's a lot funnier. That's my favorite, when you think it's a real strange person and not just someone being wacky.

You can be funny and say what you mean; these ideas are not mutually exclusive. Some of the best jokes came from people who meant it. See: Pryor, Bruce, Carlin, etc.

Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.

I think comedy stems from being honest, often painfully so. I hope I can achieve that perspective in my own life and also have fun.

I always believe that funny is serious and serious is funny. You don't really need a distinction between them.

I think comedy has to come from a real place. It has to come from an honest place.

Anybody can make jokes. But unless they come from conviction, and there's truth in them, you haven't nailed it. They aren't as funny as they could be, and they don't make a point.

Everybody claims they have relatable, connectable characters, but those claims often aren't true.

I always try to attack the most honest issues I can in my comedy.

You shouldn't get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.

The thing about television is that you can't fake it. Your sense of discovery must be genuine; you can't pretend to be surprised.

You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty.

The best stories come out of the truth.