Amruta Khanvilkar Quotes

Some actors try to play parts and do things they can't do. Being funny is one of them. Being funny's hard.

I don't care about how I look; I'm dedicated to the laughs. You know, I used to be a clown, so - my name was Smoothie the Clown. All the training I had, all my training is geared toward making people laugh, and I didn't care about being cool.

When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.

I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.

I think I'm accidentally funny more so than thinking of it as a craft. I'm in awe of those comedians that know how to hit it again and again and again.

I was the kid who liked making other people laugh, so maybe the comedy came before the acting.

I think David Letterman is a genius. Night after night he is funny and smart. He seems to really enjoy his jokes. They seem connected to who he really is. I like watching him, and there is no one better at turning an awkward moment into something very funny.

A lot of people who do drama say comedy is the hardest thing, but, not wanting to sound like a bighead, comedy is easy for me, as I've always been fairly funny.

My philosophy is, it's always very rewarding when you can make an audience laugh. I don't mind making fun of myself. I like self-deprecating comedy. But I'd like you to laugh with me occasionally, too.

You're at the top of your game if you do comedy.

Comedy requires a lot of energy.

A lot of people think that comedy is sort of a cop out to not wrestling seriously, but I actually would argue that comedy is much more difficult than wrestling seriously because you have to be creative in almost everything that you do if you want the comedy to make sense within the realms of pro wrestling.

A mimicry artiste should be spontaneous and he should be able to crack jokes on the spot.

I think I always was a bit of a class clown, but I don't know how successful I was at that. I always think, when I read about people being class clowns, I imagine them being actually very funny, and I don't know that I was. But I tried to be, I think.

It's good to be funny when you are a comedian.

My job is summer camp. I come and talk and try to make a TV show funny.

It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.

The greatest comedian I've ever seen is Jack Benny. He wasn't afraid of the silences.

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.

Um, I'm just naturally super-funny. No, not really. I've never been in The Groundlings or anything.

I was a class clown.

To be really great, you need to be naturally funny in order to stand out. But you can work at it, and find the best vehicle that you have to communicate what you're saying to people.

Comedy is incredibly hard. You have to be loose. You have to be not afraid to fail.

Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.

I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin.