Ronnie Corbett Quotes

Honestly, it's hard to learn about comedy from comedians. Comedy is not something that you necessarily learn or can imitate. You're funny or you're not, and you hope what you're doing is funny.

Comedy is much more challenging, because you have to have the same level of belief but you have to make people laugh, and that's definitely a challenge.

I had a flair for comedy and could give a sustained performance.

Yes, I'm known as America's most genuine comedian.

There are some actresses that can't do comedy; it's too heavy-handed.

Robin Williams learned technique. He has the technique of being funny.

I'm probably not very good at rom-com, being funny on demand; I'll leave that to the comedians.

Comedy is wonderful when you really nail it and you hear people laughing, but it's not always that easy.

To do comedy, you have to be a pretty good actor to start with.

My brand of humor is trying to play the situation as real as possible because I'm not the type of guy who is a joke a minute.

The funniest people are usually the best actors, I believe.

I've always thought stand-up comedians were the oral storytellers of our time, because they know rhetoric, they know delivery, they know timing, they know all of these things that you can only learn by telling a story out loud and interacting with an audience.

I don't know how to be like a Bill Murray or a Will Ferrell, these guys who know how to make a line funny just by, I don't know, some extra-sense perception. I only know character and emotion and real acting; that's all I know how to do.

There's nothing more difficult to do than comedy.

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.

I think I have a natural, if I can say that, got a kind of natural ability in comedy.

I love comedy, and I think that's sort of what comes naturally to me.

Comedy is not something that a person can fake or learn how to do.

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.

Comedy takes a very specific technique, specific skills.

You can't do anything to be funny. That's cringeworthy. If your humor comes out of a place of love every time, you don't make the joke bigger than you. The funniest comedians are in touch with their emotional level.

You can't just yell jokes at people.

Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.

Patrice O'Neal is the best comic I ever saw.

I think so. I can't think of anything that requires more finesse than comedy, both from a verbal and visual point of view.