Danny DeVito Quotes

Comedy can be a lot more fun if you try something unique.

One very important element for me to make a movie is, it has to be unique and different from any other.

I just try to keep it fresh without sacrificing funny.

I've always run by the hierarchy of "If not funny, interesting. If not interesting, hot. If not hot, bizarre. If not bizarre, break something."

The only responsibility I feel is to deliver something that's new or at least to attempt that. The real responsibility is to entertain and to try and make people laugh.

I wanted to make something very unique, something very different.

To me, the trick is not how can I make people laugh. It is, how can I make people laugh in a different way.

I just do what I think is funny and what's exciting to me.

There are so many funny people and so many talented people, but the one thing nobody else has is my take on the world. So, when I'm developing my show, that's going to be the focus.

I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.

You just try to be true to your idea of what is funny and what is also interesting.

I love when people have their own creative vision, when a person stands out and tries different things.

I am a great believer that what makes our show different is the humor.

For me, novelty matters; uniqueness matters.

Humour is ahead of everything creatively. I think if things aren't humorous, they are just crap.

I love to make people laugh, and do things that are surprising and different.

Story is about originality, not duplication

What I try to do is always get the newest, funniest people in anything.

What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has become my trademark.

The most successful people are so original.

Yes, I believe blue material is funny, but if that's all you've got, you're dead in the water. It's not good.

There's something that's really fun about the challenge of making the mundane funny, too, I think.

Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words that no one else would say.

But if you don't watch me, I will try and sneak in some humor. I see humor everywhere in life around me.

The businessman says 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says 'If I don't do it first, nobody else will.'