Barry Sonnenfeld Quotes

To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there's no way around it.

My job has always been to entertain people. I want people to laugh.

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

I love telling stories, telling jokes, making people laugh. I've got no plans to stop doing it.

My favorite thing in the world was to make people sing - until I made people laugh. Then that became my favorite thing in the world.

I do like to make films with a political theme, but sometimes it's nice simply to make people laugh. That's the hardest thing to do in fact.

The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How.

I think comedy's just about being interested in comedy and what makes people laugh and experimenting.

Once you learn how to make people laugh, then you get to choose exactly how you want to make them laugh.

You do some things and you just hope people will laugh.

I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes though I'm gonna be on for an hour.

I'm really not an actor of any kind. I've always seen myself as an entertainer, someone who makes people laugh. That's all I've ever wanted to do. 'Doctor Who' has always just been me, really.

Being a stand-up is my mission in life; it's my passion. My ongoing goal is to simply be funny, on my own, in front of a roomful of strangers.

The jokes I used to do on 'Sex and the City' were always comic character things, and they were rarely hard jokes. As soon as you go up in front of people, it demands laughter.

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.

I just want to be funny, I just want to do comedy.

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

My whole life, I've been telling jokes.

I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny Thomas, and George Burns and Bob Hope and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and all those guys were at our house all the time and telling jokes and making each other laugh.

I've been a stand-up comedian for years, and I can be silly.

Honestly, I just like to make movies. The funnier the better.

I don't think comedy will ever die.

I am desperate to do a comedy now.

Nothing can help my comedy.

I try to make the majority of my audience laugh.