James Frain Quotes

I always wanted to entertain. When I was six, a scrawny, scrawny kid, I'd get in my red speedo and do muscle moves. I actually thought I was muscular. I didn't know everyone was laughing at me.

It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.

As a standup, I try to change the world. As an entertainer, I try to entertain. And as a lesbian, I try to pick up the prettiest girl in the room.

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

The Canteen Boy, the reason you feel bad for him and you can laugh is because he, and I guess a lot of my characters, they don't notice they're getting made fun of. So they'll say something back that's not that great a quip, but in their mind they won the argument.

I've turned arrogance into an artform, where it's so absurd that it becomes comedy. But I've never done anything to hurt anybody or steal from anyone.

When people take themselves really seriously, I find it silly and amusing.

Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.

One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them.

Nobody is as good as he thinks he is.

I'll never get a Humanitas Award, but I'll have fun.

I've had lots of parts in movies that I've never seen. I mean no disrespect to them. It was really fun to go act, but I'm not calling my friends and saying, 'I couldn't be more proud of this picture. You should go see it.'

I liked getting the best villain award. I thought that was funny.

When I knew nothing, I thought I could do anything.

A laugh is a weird sound, and when you get a couple thousand people making it at once, it's really strange. But when I can feel proud of myself for causing it, it's great.

I think the people that most often cross a line are comedians. I think they relish that, and take pride in that on some level - at least, from what little I've seen and understand about people that do stand-up.

I recently saw this home video where my brother is playing this character Arsenio Grimley, who is a mix of Arsenio Hall and Ed Grimley - which, clearly, is my parents' doing, because he's, like, 10. He's the host, I'm every guest, and then my dad is Elton John. That was a Saturday night.

He who is vain and delights in his own ability is deceived by his inferiors. When he likes to bring forth arguments and kindliness, his inferiors take advantage of his abilities.

I am still a comic, a fantastic one.

I guess I just believe in Trixie Mattel, and I believe in the work. I don't think I'm better than anybody else, but I really think that I'm hilarious and beautiful.

Actors are a great subject for a comedy. They're inherently funny because, like sportsmen, they take themselves so seriously.

Lucifer has a sense of fun about life; he just likes to play with people. But the sense of humor of the show is what makes the show entertaining as opposed to dark.

I'm pretty funny on my own.

I'm definitely proud of myself anytime I can make Amanda Peet break out into laughter.

I work hard, and I make people laugh. What's wrong with that?