Dick Van Dyke Quotes

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

I like physical comedy. And I like the old comedies.

I'm a physical comedian, and I don't get to show it off very often.

I feel like Jim Carrey is probably the closest thing to a true physical comedian that we have working today.

I grew up and I was weaned on the Marx Brothers. They were sort of my all-time favorite. My parents showed me their movies when I was very young. And as I got older, I became a Charlie Chaplin fan, and I love Buster Keaton.

I enjoy doing physical comedy.

I've always loved the Marx brothers and Charlie Chaplin.

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'm a big fan of American vaudeville and Hollywood silent film-era slapstick and the music halls full of ridiculous, eccentric characters.

Some comedies, they want you falling on your face and doing silly things.

I learned physical comedy to a degree that most child actors never will. I really just became a student of it - became obsessed with it, to be quite honest.

I'm all about the slapstick, generally. If you fell off it, into it, or through it, I'm probably nearby wetting myself.

The thing with physical comedy is that you have to actually try to do the thing you're trying to do - you can't fake it.

When I grew up, one of comedy idols was Rowan Atkinson, who of course is Mr. Bean and uses physical comedy. Same with Jim Carrey. Both of those guys. And Peter Sellers. Most of my comedy idols are physical comics.

I have done 'Gutar-Gu,' which was a silent comedy show.

I grew up a huge fan of The Three Stooges and Monty Python, so somebody getting slapped in the face with a fish, or falling out of a chair, or running into a door, or tripping over their own feet and eating it, is all stuff I find really, really funny.

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

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

I've always been a fan of physical comedy. It kind of hits you in a different way; it bypasses the intellect and hits you in the gut.

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

Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.

The joke or the pratfall is easy for me to do.

The Marx Brothers isn't subtle, and that's hilarious.

Historically, Hollywood comedy has arrived in skinny envelopes. From fence post Buster Keaton to herky-jerky Jerry Lewis to wiry nerve-bundle Woody Allen to hung-loose Richard Pryor to whippy contortionist Jim Carrey, its comics and clowns have tended to be sliced thin and bendable.

There are people who like just ordinary comedy fun, and making mistakes - which I do easily - and then there are people who like the falling over.