Matt Stone Quotes

I remember when Victoria Wood started to come through, and I thought she was great, though she and I are very different in our approach.

There's very little you could do to prepare to be a correspondent on 'The Daily Show,' because it's not being a journalist, it's not being an actor. It involves elements of both of those things, but they're not required necessarily as job experience. It's helpful if you know how to improvise, but again, not a requirement.

I've been doing a lot of drama, but I feel like comedy is my strength.

Dick Van Dyke spent most of his time setting everybody else up.

I've always wanted to play more comic parts.

One of my favorite things about sketch comedy is doing parodies and music videos.

The public knows me through my life, which is not comical. But I feel very at home in comedy.

I am very good at comedy off screen. I wish I could translate it so that you could get to see how mad I am.

I've been doing improv since high school, and I've been getting paid for it since I was 20.

I started in action, and then I went to comedy school.

I love doing comedy. But sometimes, that exists at sort of the mid-level to the high-comedy level of craziness, and I don't necessarily get to plumb the depths of kind of serious acting as often.

Not only is Tigmanshu a great director, but he's also a great actor. I just had to ape him in 'Bullett Raja.'

I'm a creative comedic entertainer who enjoys bringing good content to the world. I'm not Big Shaq - Shaq is his own person.

I did say to myself one day, 'I'd love to be a Jewish comedian,' but that's my only memory with any connection to show business.

I would love to direct films and it's certainly on the cards.

Acting is such a strange thing, it's different for everybody.

I think comedy suits me best.

My heroes, growing up, were people like Andy Kaufman and Groucho Marx and people that very rarely drop the persona.

As an artist, all I want is to be a part of good films.

'Dinner' is completely scripted. There are some improv elements, but I'm not interested in pranking people. It's more like a play than standup.

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

My first love was always direction; I had worked hard as a film-maker but not as an actor.

I want to do comedy, I want to do horror, I want to do all these other things.

I started performing non-professionally at birthday parties and family gatherings doing 'Saturday Night Live' impressions at four. Then I started for real at seven.

I got into standup because I wanted to be an actor, and then I ended up loving standup for the next eleven years.