I like New York, I think you've got some of the best comics in the world here.
Rory is very established in England, which you are seeing right now with Bond. But his father Roy Kinnear was a very, very beloved comedy actor here in the UK. And Rory actually even looks a bit like his dad. And so it makes a lot of sense to me that Rory has such good comic chops because it's in his blood. He's very, very funny as Sean.
I've always been a figure skater and ballet dancer. I love physical comedy, and any chance that I get to do that... that is so me.
I never analyze stuff with comedy because it's boring. It makes you stop being funny. Just be who you are and do what you do, and you're either funny or you're not.
Patrice O'Neal is the best comic I ever saw.
There are many comics around who don't really have a feel for comedy. They can say outrageous things, have clever thoughts, and deliver some funny angles. But they are not genuinely funny.
The most fun I ever had on a movie was working with Albert Brooks. He's the caviar of comedy. I mean, nobody's funnier; nobody is smarter than Albert Brooks.
Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it's like to change your voice up.
I think I have a natural, if I can say that, got a kind of natural ability in comedy.
I've always wanted to play more comic parts.
Talent is a combination of perfect comic timing, diction, modulation, great script writing and most importantly, an invincible will, if you may call it so.
It takes a while to realize that just because you're a stand-up comedian and you do comedy, you're not going to be good at all comedy.
I can make the best fart noises. I can make, like, 10 different sounds at different levels.
As far as talent goes, Marilyn Monroe was so minimally gifted as to be almost unemployable, and anyone who holds to the opinion that she was a great natural comic identifies himself immediately as a dunce.
[Being a good comedian] is a skill, but it's also a weird thing that only certain people can do. I always equate it to surgeons and how they can just cut people open and operate. Certain people are just wired differently, and I feel like comics are the same way.
I love doing improv. I love comedy. I have always felt this way, even when I was really young.
I was never the class clown, and I've no idea where the comedy came from.
Anyone who has the kind of inventive and inspired comic sensibility to be able to do that kind of work must be pretty talented.
I'm not a broad comedy guy. I've been funny in movies, but I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who's sometimes funny.
My father was the funniest guy I ever met. I'm not sure if I stole his stuff or if I inherited it.
A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a funny bone - you either have it or you don't. And by the way - when you get it, we don't know it.
Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I can be even remotely amusing.
I just loved stand-up comics as a kid. I'd watch them on 'The Tonight Show,' and I thought what a great craft it was to come out on stage with no instrument or anything and be able to entertain people.
After my first play, I realised that comedy was my forte - rather than being a dukhi heroine, I would rather do comedy.
I've always been a huge fan of Tina Fey's. She's a very unique storyteller and has such a great voice and sense of character and comedy, and manages to do things that are oftentimes very broad but still have a lot of heart to them.
