Jitendra Kumar Quotes

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

It's fun to do something funny and have the director laughing. It makes you feel good.

For comedy, timing is key.

It's good to be funny when you are a comedian.

I'm always trying to make myself laugh. I'm the most enthusiastic audience I'm likely to find, so if it doesn't make me smile then it probably won't work on you. The jokes that only make me shrug get cut.

It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.

I'd love to do a really juicy drama that's just really real. On the comedy side, I'd love to do something like '21 Jump Street.' I cannot stop watching that movie. Really funny, really extreme comedies are definitely my favorite.

I think the kick to doing comedy is just to get in a film with really funny people and let them do their jobs. I find that in most comedies, I'm not the funny one, which works out great.

My job has always been to entertain people. I want people to laugh.

I'd love to do a comedy. Umm, I don't know when that will happen - maybe when I'm, like, 80 or something. But yeah, I'd love to. I'm just waiting for the right person to see my hilarious nature and offer me a comedy.

I love doing comedy, and that's the thing I will always go back to, really, but I'd love to have the freedom to do sort of 'meaty' roles but also have the freedom to do the sort of films I want to make, like what Woody Allen does. You forget he's funny because you're so gripped by the story, but they still make you laugh.

A joke is a way to say, 'I'm going to do something funny now. If I don't get a laugh at the end, I'm a failure.'

If you are a great dramatic actor then you often don't know if people are enjoying your stuff at all because they are sitting there in silence. But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.

My movie career - if such a thing even exists - is laughable.

A lot of people who do drama say comedy is the hardest thing, but, not wanting to sound like a bighead, comedy is easy for me, as I've always been fairly funny.

I do know this: When somebody has to look great on the screen, that's the death of funny.

I'm just an entertainer. All I want to be is funny. I never aspired to play Hamlet.

I just like comedy in general. My film work, which has been at times more dramatic, has been satisfying. But I never feel quite as good and as light and blissful as when I'm doing comedy.

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

You can't substitute the act of making people laugh. It's definitely something that actors like to do.

I think everyone's different but in comedy, I try to do my scene to make the director and the other actors laugh. If I can make them laugh and we have the same sensibility, then I'm on the right page.

It's good to laugh!

Comedy is hard to do. All the cliches about it are true.

He sort of gets comic moments. Not a lot of directors do.

To be perfectly honest, drama is a lot simpler than comedy.