Colin Quinn Quotes

I'll always come back to comedy. Doing drama can feel satisfying, but day to day, it's just not as fun as laughing.

Comedy is great because there's no overhead.

I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.

I think my goal was just to do comedy, honestly. It still is. Whatever form that took or takes, it doesn't matter.

There's something that's really fun about the challenge of making the mundane funny, too, I think.

Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.

I have to be entertained by what I'm writing, so a lot of my stuff has a goofiness or scatological quality. If these characters can entertain me, then I feel like I can deal with the darker or more serious stuff.

What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.

I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it.

I realize that humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive.

I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.

Without humor, I cannot go on and I doubt many of my readers would go on either. Humor is so important. I am here to have fun here with my work.

One of the things I think you need to be a good emcee is silliness. And I'm basically a silly guy.

At the end of the day, I know that I make my living by dressing up, fooling around, playing pranks and giving people a good time. I am enjoying the ride.

Art should be witty, like a good Eddie Murphy movie, to make your life a little easier and better.

I like to see people laugh who are normally serious.

I love making comedy. I never stopped loving it. I will continue to love it and I can't believe that I get to do it.

I have a good sense of humor. I think everything we do should have whimsy in it.

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.

I love comedy, but I was just obsessed with 'SNL' growing up.

To make my brothers and my sister laugh was the greatest joy to me in my life. I like people who can make fun of themselves a lot.

As a kid, I think people would have described me more as a goofball, or being energetic. But I always loved parodies; I loved spoofing things.

I don't feel that I'm explaining the world or teaching people anything. And I'm not trying to be a mirror, showing them what's really going on the world. All I'm trying to do is think of stuff that's funny, just like when I'm kidding around with my friends.

Comedy is really exciting to me.

I love goofing off and being awkward. I have always enjoyed improv.