Brooke Nevin Quotes

It's really challenging to play comedy.

Comedy is not something that a person can fake or learn how to do.

Robin Williams learned technique. He has the technique of being funny.

It's so interesting to watch Ben Stiller work because he just knows what's funny.

I'm probably not very good at rom-com, being funny on demand; I'll leave that to the comedians.

Comedy is wonderful when you really nail it and you hear people laughing, but it's not always that easy.

I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.

Comedy is one of the toughest genres. It is so essential to get the timing right, failing which the humour can fall flat.

I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion.

Some actors try to play parts and do things they can't do. Being funny is one of them. Being funny's hard.

Comedy is much more challenging, because you have to have the same level of belief but you have to make people laugh, and that's definitely a challenge.

There's nothing more difficult to do than comedy.

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.

I just want to be funny, I just want to do comedy.

I have deep comedic roots, and I want to be funny.

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

To be really great, you need to be naturally funny in order to stand out. But you can work at it, and find the best vehicle that you have to communicate what you're saying to people.

Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.

Thing is, I'm a funny actor, but I'm not good at being funny. I'm going to ramble for a second: I'm an actor who can make things funny in the moment, like in stakes or in circumstances or out of character.

I think so. I can't think of anything that requires more finesse than comedy, both from a verbal and visual point of view.

When I'm playing comedy, I never do 'jokes.' Sometimes I'll deliver a line in a way I think is more likely to get a laugh, but all the best comedy is played straight. What's funny is the way it hits the world around it or the way it hits the other characters.

Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.

If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.

I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny.

Comedy is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right, it's not funny.