Zach Galifianakis Quotes About Comedy

Quotes about: Comedy

• I dream of moving to India, or Pakistan, and becoming a cabdriver.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Funny, Dream, Moving

  "Zach Galifianakis Live at the Purple Onion". Documentary, Comedy, 2006.

• I was just thinking how unfortunate it'd be to be a fat girl named Candy.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Funny, Girl, Humor

• Did you ever wake up with an erection...and find yourself in a massage chair at Brookstone? And you yell to the sales clerk "I'll take it!"

  Zach Galifianakis

  Funny, Humor, Finding Yourself

• I think those neighborhood signs that say 'slow children playing' are mean.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Funny, Children, Humor

• I dream of starting a three-man country trio called the Chixie Dicks.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Funny, Dream, Country

  "Zach Galifianakis Live at the Purple Onion". Documentary, Comedy, 2006.

• I call my balls the bush twins.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Funny, Humor, Balls

  "Zach Galifianakis Live at the Purple Onion". Documentary, Comedy, 2006.

• My brother has ADD, which is weird because he drives a Ford Focus. I told my brother that joke but he didn't laugh because he got distracted by my shoe strings.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Funny, Brother, Humor

• I think comedy does have that powerful thing that doesn't seem too preachy because you're also making people laugh, so it's really kind of a good tool for messaging.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Powerful, Thinking, Laughing

  "Zach Galifianakis Talks Working with Will Ferrell, His “Non-Sexual” Character, and Disliking Children on the Set of THE CAMPAIGN". Interview with Scott Wampler, collider.com. July 25, 2012.

• That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Yelling, People, Limits

• It's fun for me to couple emotion with comedy. I think it helps comedy. I think a lot of times American comedies don't play on emotion too much.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Couple, Fun, Thinking

  "Ed Helms, Bradley Cooper, and Zach Galifianakis Talk THE HANGOVER PART III, Looking Back on the Franchise, Weirdest Moments, Vegas, and More". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. May 21, 2013.

• I think comedy is a really, really good tool for trying to say something.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Thinking, Trying, Tools

  "Zach Galifianakis Talks Working with Will Ferrell, His “Non-Sexual” Character, and Disliking Children on the Set of THE CAMPAIGN". Interview with Scott Wampler, collider.com. July 25, 2012.

• But comedy is like music, it appeals to some people. Some people like Creed, those people are usually pretty stupid. But they probably also like Carrot Top. I would say that they're part of the same ilk.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Stupid, People, Comedy

• Element of surprise is really fun for me in comedy. I have to be surprised, and everything's been done.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Fun, Elements, Done

  "Zach Galifianakis: ‘I have no idea’ if FX comedy ‘Baskets’ will work". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. January 19, 2016.

• I like dark comedies. That's why I like the Wayans Brothers.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Brother, Dark, Comedy

  "Saturday Night Live", March 06, 2010.

• It's not good for comedy to be like, 'Thanks for liking me'. Being popular is poison.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Poison, Comedy, Thanks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• I think sadness and anger are really fertile ground for comedy. No one is really interested in a happy person doing comedy.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Sadness, Thinking, Comedy

  "Zach Galifianakis: ‘I have no idea’ if FX comedy ‘Baskets’ will work". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. January 19, 2016.

• I once walked in on my grandparents making love...And that's why I don't eat raisins.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Funny, Humor, Grandparent

• As a comic, it's anti-comedy to be known. I think a lot of comedic actors get lost in this world of Hollywood and all this stuff. They lose what brought them there in the first place. I'm very trepidatious about it.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Thinking, Hollywood, Actors

• I watch a happy person doing stand-up, and I go, "What the hell is this? This person's happy!" You need internal conflict. You need the guy to be out of step with society. It's a tool for comedy.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Guy, Watches, Needs

  "Zach Galifianakis: ‘I have no idea’ if FX comedy ‘Baskets’ will work". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. January 19, 2016.

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