Kenneth Williams Quotes

I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.

I'm not the voice of reason; I'm more the guy using these offensive topics as fodder to raise tension in a joke.

There's a playwright named S.M. Berryman, Sam Berryman, who wrote these kinds of social comedies. They are actually extremely sharp and still quite provocative.

I definitely prefer working in comedy over drama, but at the same time, when it comes to comedy, I tend to prefer comedies that have a great sense of truth to them and that come from an honest place.

When you do a good comedy show, you have to understand that if you don't have drama or sad moments, then the comedy turns into a clowning kind of situation.

I think there's a little confusion between humor and 'gross' passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable, because they aren't the same thing.

I think all good drama is funny. All the best drama is ultimately very funny. Life is funny. You can't have any honest treatise on life without bumping into some humor.

You have to be so honest in comedy.

Comedies always need to be provocative and catch your attention in a way that dramas don't have to.

In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama.

Dramas make me laugh. The other day, I saw 'The Place Beyond the Pines,' and I was giggling the whole time. I laugh when I'm uncomfortable.

It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.

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.

I wanted to do something in the style of a comedy of manners.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.

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.

What's fun about comedy is you're pushing things a little further than you would in a drama; you're pushing reality a little bit more.

I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.

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

Making people uncomfortable is one of my hobbies. I'm always hoping that half the people get the joke and the other half are the joke.

There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.

Comedy scares me a lot. I feel like it's way harder than drama. I think my safety net is definitely drama, and I would love to kind of be able to be able to push into the comedy world and do something kind of like a Christopher Guest kind of style show. That, to me, is my kind of comedy. Like, Ricky Gervais comedy. That's my kind of thing.

The best comedy to me - and again, I grew up with comedy since I was a baby, so I've seen it all - is when you exaggerate the truth, like Richard Pryor did, you understand?

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

I always found that drama, really good drama, has a lot of comedy in it.