Michael Keaton Quotes

The principles of comedy are the principles of comedy. I can hear funny.

To be honest, I don't know how comedy works.

Comedy becomes intensified in short scenes.

Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.

One of my biggest problems with comedy was that I did not understand some of the jokes.

The secret of writing comedy is to know where it's all going, then get ahead of it.

If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.

I'm not the comedy police, but you watch a movie, and everyone's laughing, and then you shake it out, and you realize, 'There's no joke there!'

Comedy is subjective, and any joke can be funny.

I always loved jokes. It's such a dumb, facile thing to say, but it's true. I remember being a kid and getting those joke books from the Scholastic Book Club and loving comedy from a very young age.

It's most difficult to score a comedy. Where are the limits? When does music become gimmicky or stupidly funny?

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

I think you make better jokes when you don't break logic for the joke, unless you make a movie just about jokes.

A lot of my humor centers on the act of telling jokes and I think this can prevent certain audiences from suspending their feeling of disbelief. It might piss a few people off, but I can't help it.

I think comedy, so much of it comes out of the strange sort of golden instant 'cause you don't know why it's funny, but you captured it.

If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious.

It's very hard to write humor.

People have many theories about comedy, but being just plain funny is the one most important thing.

You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.

I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.

I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv.

The real problem you get with humour is that you only have so many kinds of jokes within you, and you mine that vein a lot. This isn't just common to me; it's anybody who's funny.

Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.