Wendy Liebman Quotes

I think comedians start off as pranksters or something.

A comedian's body is funny as well as his mind being funny, his whole personage is funny.

I've always liked being funny and making people laugh. I was a cut-up when I was a kid and was always doing bits for my friends and family. I remember doing pratfalls on the playground in fourth grade for my friend and really hurting my hip.

I never was shy, but as far as telling jokes, I'm the worst. I like physical comedy; it's where I feel comfortable.

Physical comedy is my favorite thing in the world to do.

I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.

It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy.

I never really thought of myself as a physical comedian. But when I was a kid, I used to, you know, pretend to trip over things to make girls laugh in school and stuff like that. So I kind of learned how to fall without hurting yourself.

I was a class clown.

Jason Lee made me laugh all the time because he's so big, and I love how goofy bodies can be.

I love physical comedy. I adore comedy of any kind.

I'm like a sight gag.

I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends.

I was always a bit of a class clown.

I love comedy; I'm very goofy and spontaneous.

My favourite comedian, of course, is Tim Conway. He has a way about him - being that belly-laugh kind of funny, and he has the improvisational skills, too. I've never seen anybody better.

I am truly at my happiest not when I am writing an aria for an actor or making a grand political or social point. I am at my happiest when I've figured out a fun way for somebody to slip on a banana peel.

I would love to do a comedy, and I think physical comedy is something I probably have a knack on.

I don't know how to be like a Bill Murray or a Will Ferrell, these guys who know how to make a line funny just by, I don't know, some extra-sense perception. I only know character and emotion and real acting; that's all I know how to do.

I think comedy, so much of it comes out of the strange sort of golden instant 'cause you don't know why it's funny, but you captured it.

As a kid I was always a bit of a clown, a performer.

What's fun about comedy is you're pushing things a little further than you would in a drama; you're pushing reality a little bit more.

I think Carrot Top is hilarious.

Well, I think my stand-up is often kind of visual. Not like Carrot Top visual, but visual.

People... need a time to laugh. It's up to us to bonk ourselves on the head and slip on a banana peel so the average guy can say, 'I may be bad, honey, but I'm not as much of an idiot as that guy on the screen.'