Quotes About Expression

There's never any graffiti in the hotel. Although in the Gents a couple of weeks ago I did see someone had drawn a lady's part. Quite detailed. The guy obviously had talent.

I think it's a lot richer than what we call fleshy improv, I think it's very funny, puppet improv and fleshy improv.

I never saw myself as a comedian. I saw myself as a guy who can act funny.

Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.

I just say what I think is the funniest thing I could say. I'm not trying to make headlines. I'm just trying to say the stuff that I think is funny and will make people laugh.

It's just funny that anybody would care at all to take apart the words that I write. It's kind of cool!

What's politically correct a lot of times is not funny.

On this show, your voice will be heard in the form of my voice.

It's funny, because I sometimes feel that I'm most creative when I'm pregnant.

I'm sure every pattern has been covered, but it's nice to think you might dwell on some that other people don't.

It's hard to learn about comedy from comedians. Comedy is not something that you necessarily learn or can imitate. You're funny or you're not, and you hope what you're doing is funny.

Swearing relieves the feelings - that is what swearing does. I explained this to my aunt on one occasion, but it didn't answer with her. She said I had no business to have such feelings.

That heightened dynamic can produce interesting, funny ideas that are phrased in ways that surprise even you, as the performer.

I do try to compress a lot of information into what I do. It's funny.

You know, if I started worrying about what the critics think, I'd never make another comedy. You couldn't pick a less funny group than critics - you couldn't find a more bitter group of people!

At boarding school you had to wear your name across your chest and your back, and obviously I had a pretty funny name. It wasn't Brown or Smith or Hughes.

Funny enough, every role that I have had, I try to tone down my accent or speak with better diction.

With freestyling it's not about "Say something funny!" That has nothing to do with it. It's about becoming quicker on your feet and knowing that your entire day can go into your rap if you're on it.

Doing stand-up takes the fun out of being funny.

There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, "Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth." It's funny.

Standup comedy is fun. I mean other than having to experience the excruciating lonlieness and unacknowledged sadness that results in funny.

Look at his face. I bet his cornflakes try to crawl out of the bowl.

You exaggerate your own reactions.

Don't clap I'm not a jazz band for Christ's sake.