Johnny Galecki Quotes

I'm always in situations where you can't be funny, and yet I want to do it anyway.

I didn't want to do comedy again. It is way harder when you are doing comedy. You can't just concentrate on the character and the plot. In comedy, the writers, instead of obsessing about character and plot, obsess about the jokes.

It's very difficult to play opposite nothing. I did it for, like, six years - I ran from an invisible smoke monster for most of my twenties.

Acting by yourself is pretty darn hard, especially having to do physical comedy.

I could never do stand-up because it's that thing of having to get up on stage. And out of every 10 jokes you tell, nine of them have to get a really good response.

Being onstage is like being rock star. Whereas if you're doing a movie, it's such a confined space. You know, you do a comedy, it's so hard, too, 'cause with a comedy, there's no vocal reaction, there's no energy that you get back that spurs you on to be funnier because everyone has to be quiet.

They have what you call a black night where they have black people come in for just one night only to watch comedy, and you get all your local drug dealers, thugs, prostitutes, all of them come in, sit down, and listen to you tell jokes. They the hardest people to make laugh.

When you're a stand-up, you play in front of 600 people, and it's all about timing. I could never do stand-up comedy; it would be way too hard for me.

Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field.

When you're doing sketch comedy and you're pregnant, it's like wearing a giant sombrero in every sketch.

It's terrifying the way molecular biology has become more and more jargon ridden. But I strongly believe that my book can be read by the intelligent layman. I want everyone who bought a copy of 'A Brief History of Time' to buy a copy of 'Genome'.

Being used to scientific terminology and theory it was always natural for me to push this stuff into songs.

Stand-up don't get no respect - it's the hardest thing to do in show business. You don't have no band and there's no music.

Comedy has to be so much cleaner than drama. You can't layer it in the way you can a dramatic performance. Which is why it's more difficult than drama - you don't have so many tricks.

It's very, very corrupting to the spirit, doing comedy. And you have to be almost a saint, like Jack Benny was, like Steve Martin is, to avoid the corrupting of it, because there's very little work where the actual work and the reward are simultaneous, and comedy is that.

There's a lot of interesting words, nomenclatures, in science.

Actors really should be tramps.

It's very difficult to make comedy work; I think it's a very underrated genre.

You know, comedy's hard. With drama, you have a responsibility to the emotional truth, but with comedy, you have emotional truth and you have technique on top of it.

When you do comedy, you can't please the world, although I'd like to think that most of my audiences were on my side.

Acting can truly take a toll on your nerves. I mean, we have to be larger than life. Worse, I've seen actors acting off the sets, too.

Doing drama is, in a sense, easier. In doing comedy, if you don't get that laugh, there's something wrong.

I've always been terrible on regular sitcoms with lots of jokes. I don't know how to tell jokes.

it is hard to find new jokes. What I need is new audiences.

I don't have any horror stories of trying to start as a comedian and eating it constantly on stage.