25, 30 years ago, that meant something, they were making some money. And they were doing all sorts of comedy, screaming at the audience, basically crowd control. And then there was the whole urban comedy scene.
Comedy is tragedy plus timing.
Well I was much too practical to presume to have a career in comedy.
I feel more comfortable in comedy.
I've been a very lucky actor.
I don't have a stack of scripts...
Bambi, to a kid, was scary.
Nobody is more truthful when he's acting than De Niro.
When comedy is good, it's jazz. The beats of it, the looseness, the improvisational part, the music-the way you hit the inflection, the high notes of a joke. It's all melody to me.
Comedy is harder than drama, because with comedy you're expecting a result..you make them laugh. [If] they ain't laughing then you're screwed.
This has been a learning experience for me. I also thought that privacy was something we were granted in the Constitution. I have learned from this when in fact the word privacy does not appear in the Constitution.
'Where's Bill going?' He's going to comedy death. Boom! He pops out of it with another joke. It's my particular style.
Comedy is this weird thing. You have no idea why certain things work and other things don't work.
Acting in a sitcom or a comedy movie is like a comedy routine with the setups.
I'd love to do something dark, something that has nothing to do with music or comedy. Anything, but I'm still learning what I can do.
I love straight-face comedy or relatively subtle comedy. And then I turn around and I find myself doing very broad comedy but it's all fun and you have to keep your sense of humor and not take yourself seriously.
I never have broken up in comedy, ever. There's something about me that I just don't break on camera - maybe because I'm just so cheap, and I know how expensive it is to shoot - but I broke on Sordid Lives, and I broke on The Office. Those are the only two times in my life.
Comedy always pushes some buttons, because it wouldn't be comedy if it didn't.
Comedy has been so good to me.
The one thing about comedy, making it become a part of you, the audience loves it, because you become part of them.
I'm not ashamed to tell the truth about what happened in my family. I think that's what makes my comedy different.
The success of my comedy has been not being afraid to touch on subject matters or issues that everyone else is politically scared of.
Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.
Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.
Maybe forced retirement isn't necessary after all.
