Sandra Bullock Quotes

I don't think just funny is enough on Broadway.

Whenever I realize I'm being a goofball, I write it down. When I release the joke onstage, I love watching the effect it has on the audience. No one wants to see someone talk who takes themselves too seriously.

I love being funny! I started in the theater when I was 9 and, believe it or not, always played the funny part!

Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.

Rhythm and timing are so important in comedic acting.

There is a real affection for these human beings on these stage that O'Neill really had. Out of that affection comes a lot of humor, which is unexpected when you think of 'The Iceman Cometh.'

In Partho's comedy, 'Ami Montri Holam,' I am a minister. This is basically a play and a great actor like Jahor Roy had essayed this role years back. I hope I can deliver five per cent of what he did.

I play a guy who is 40. And I am a very good actor, because I'm 41.

I've been in theaters. Like Brian Regan, who I love - loved him so much more when he did the Improvs. And then in a big theater - nobody's that good.

I opened the show with this line: "I have decided to give the greatest performance of my life! Oh, wait, sorry, that's tomorrow night.

I always felt that I was more of an actress than a - I can't tell a joke to save my soul, but that I was a comedic actress.

I always did plays, I got the comedic roles in college ... or, uh, the ones that would get naked.

Stand-up comedy - I love this job, and I gotta tell you, folks - knock wood - it's been working. 'Cause I was one of those kind of people, even when I had a regular job, I couldn't even call in sick right. You know, I was like, 'Hello? Yeah, I can't come in today. I have scurvy.

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

The whole thing about working in front of the camera is to make people laugh when they're not supposed to.

I got into stand up just to do stand up because I love stand up.

When you're doing standup you're kind of doing, "Hey. I thought of this. This may be funny.

Stand-up is mine. It's a part of me.

[On Katharine Hepburn's stage performance:] She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B.

I'm much more interested in making people laugh than getting applause breaks.

I think, in comedy, timing is everything. You and I could tell the same joke, but if one of our timing is off, it won't be as funny. You've gotta know when to deliver your punch-lines.

When you're a young comedian the first thing you want to do is get a laugh.

I love writing stand-up so much and tinkering and looking for ideas.

If you're playing things sincere in a really absurd, heightened situation, you'll achieve comedy as opposed to just saying funny lines and one-liners and stuff.

I've always been an actress, entertaining my family was the start. I'm a goof ball among many of my cousins and siblings.