Paul Feig Quotes

When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.

Specifically in stand-up, I love jokes. I love short, structured ideas and a punchline.

I love to write jokes and that's all I think about.

I had no desire to get up onstage and tell jokes. I prefer to stand next to really funny people.

You have comedians who just do jokes, and they're called comics, not comedians. You have comedians that do bits - a person that has a lot of jokes that have a beginning, a middle and an end, but it's not a real story. And you have someone that does great stories, the one that blends those things together - that person is doing comedy.

I always think about my jokes as like I'm driving down a street, trying to go into all the culs-de-sacs along the way. I'm just taking a thoughtful, weird journey.

I've always liked and appreciated storytellers like Garry Shandling and Bill Cosby - more long-form comedy. So starting in San Francisco, watching all these great comics - Patton Oswalt, Dave Chappelle - you get to see them a bunch, and you go, 'Wow, this is where I need to be.'

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.

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

I never used to tell jokes on stage. Now I'm cutting up jokes all night long.

My whole life, I've been telling jokes.

I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.

Stand up is really fun because if I think of a joke or a funny idea, then I can just go and tell some people and if they laugh, they laugh right away.

I tell the most horrible jokes.

I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not.

My act's not heavy on pop culture or stories, just lots of jokes.

When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.

I don't write material. Funny things happen to me in the course of a day, and I just make notes.

I've never really told jokes. I'm not good at it.

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

I will always love to perform standup comedy.

I love doing comedy. I did comedy for seven years on 'The King of Queens.'

You can't teach someone to be funny, but you can teach comic timing. If you listen to a good comic, you can learn how to put it on a page.

I don't know now if I'm funny. I just keep talking and hope that I hit something that's funny.