Physical Humor Quotes

He has so many muscles he has to make an appointment to move his fingers.

There's always the day where you do the effort noises, so there's a lot of grunts, huffing and puffing, pretending like you're hopping over things, pretending like you're getting hit, and pretending like you're kicking. If any of that was recorded, it's some of the silliest stuff I'll ever do, as an actor, but it's fun and liberating, in a way, 'cause no one can see me. I videotape myself doing it sometimes, to send to my friends just to remind us how ridiculous our jobs are.

That's my takeaway from 'Scream' - I know I can fit in dog doors. You have to jimmy your body in a certain position and really hope you're not wearing something super fancy.

Last good pratfall I did, I broke bones in both hands. I still feel it when people shake my hand.

It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy.

A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.

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.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me.

I love a good Steve Martin, Martin Short scene where they're being super physical - I don't mean to compare myself - but I relate to their type of comedy because they do crazy stuff but come at it in an honest way.

The 'Police Academy' stuff was all hyper-slapsticky.

I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv.

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

To play the leading man in a 'Three Stooges' movie, you've got to think funny. Thank God I think funny.

Our comedy is just falling over, funny faces, arguments, all the comedy basics, really.

I just kind of have a comedic looking body, I guess. If anything I really have to exercise just to not look too fudgy, otherwise I would just keep going and going.

I've always loved pure, silly slapstick comedy. It always makes me laugh.

I don't know if my looks will ever get any better, but my pratfalls sure won't.

When I grew up, one of comedy idols was Rowan Atkinson, who of course is Mr. Bean and uses physical comedy. Same with Jim Carrey. Both of those guys. And Peter Sellers. Most of my comedy idols are physical comics.

I've always been a fan of physical comedy. It kind of hits you in a different way; it bypasses the intellect and hits you in the gut.

Sight gags had to be planned; they required timing and mechanics. Occasionally, spontaneity would arise in the shooting of the scenes.

My idol growing up was Charlie Chaplin. I was obsessed with him. I mean, while other kids were watching Jim Carrey and the likes in the '90s, I was watching Charlie Chaplin films, because I was a bit of a geek. I became obsessed with this idea of physical comedy.

I'll make fun of anybody. We're all about falling down and going boom on camera.

Let's not call physical comedy falling down and pratfalls. All humor is physical, no matter how you dish it out. It's timing, like a dancer or an athlete would have.

Historically, Hollywood comedy has arrived in skinny envelopes. From fence post Buster Keaton to herky-jerky Jerry Lewis to wiry nerve-bundle Woody Allen to hung-loose Richard Pryor to whippy contortionist Jim Carrey, its comics and clowns have tended to be sliced thin and bendable.

I wore so much rubber when I was at MGM, I bumped into the wall once, and I ricocheted.