Don Rickles Quotes

I have such a respect for comedy. It's a lot harder than doing drama, in my opinion; you have to have sort of an innate sense of humor. There are rules to comedy you can learn. But ultimately, it really does require a certain point of view on the world, and that really does appeal to me.

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.

George Carlin is brilliant with words, and Johnny Winters is very creative. It's taking something common and drawing out the humor, being clever with words.

I do mostly comedy, and it tends to be a subtler comedy. But I think that probably lends itself well to commercials.

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

I love comedy, and I think that's sort of what comes naturally to me.

I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.

Some people learn comedy, and some people just are comedy.

I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny Thomas, and George Burns and Bob Hope and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and all those guys were at our house all the time and telling jokes and making each other laugh.

I don't like forcing comedy and people just trying to do things just to find a funny beat all the time.

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

I definitely think that comedy is my niche.

I think if I have any kind of unique gift, it's more in the comedy area than it is in the dramatic area.

First and foremost, I just want to write comedy.

I like to describe my stuff as observational comedy.

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

It's not about trying to be funny all the time. It's more of a document that hopefully is funny.

I think comedy is more my instinct and more what I'm geared towards.

I think of myself as more of a comic person. I don't know about a comic actor.

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive.

I have a really dry sense of humor. I don't think it's funny when people wink at the camera. That's more of an actor thing, just committing to whatever the thing is.

My friends say I make them laugh a lot, so I think that somewhere in me is a little comedic ability that comes out in the most inappropriate or unexpected moments. I did a lot of sketch comedy years ago. That's always in me.

I'm not at all funny. I can do dark comedy pretty well, but straight-up comedy, I don't know. I'm much darker. I've been like that since I was 3 years old.

It's very difficult to make comedy work; I think it's a very underrated genre.