Jerry Lewis Quotes

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

I like to play the comic relief or parts that aren't necessarily comedic but that I can find the comedy in.

I do feel it's tougher to make a comic scene work than performing an intense scene, for example.

I think playing a comic role is the toughest job for an actor; to put glycerin and cry is easy, but to make people laugh is difficult.

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

Comedy becomes intensified in short scenes.

It's really challenging to play comedy.

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

In real life, comedians aren't funny.

And if you can offer an explanation as to why it doesn't work then you've got to the whole root of comedy.

I really like comedy. There's always a choice, when you're writing: you can either go for the joke or you can go for the story, the important stuff.

Comedy is so hard to do, so it was very cool to do dead pan humor.

Kind of the exhausting thing about doing pure comedy, or something that's broader, is you're kind of a slave to the laugh. If it's not funny, then there's not much point in doing it. The kind of ueber-objective is to make people laugh. You always have to have that in the back of your mind, 'Eh, I've got to figure out a way to make this funny.'

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

I don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.

I think comedy is so specific, so hard. I'd audition for comedies and think, 'I can't pull this off.'

Being funny has always mattered a lot to me. It's why I started acting - to make my friends laugh.

I can't imagine a successful comedy movie without a successful comedy performance at the heart of it.

I've always loved doing comedy.

I've been called a funny person for a long time. I don't know that I know anything about comedic acting.

I've been too funny in my life to have to play a character who's... moderately funny.

The thing about comedy is that you don't have to play funny.

I am genuinely interested in comedy and I know that I have good comic timing as well.

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.

Comedy is my soft spot.