Top 22 Good Material Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Good Material Quotes from famous people such as Matt LeBlanc, Adam Pally, Colm Wilkinson, Javier Bardem, Seth Grahame-Smith, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

You can't be funny if you don't have good material.

You can’t be funny if you don’t have good material.
Matt LeBlanc
I would like to work with challenging material. A challenge is good. If it’s good material; it’s a challenge.
Adam Pally
People ask me how I sang the role of the ‘Phantom’ 1,700 times. And I say that it’s down to good material. If it did not have good material, I would have had a major problem doing it for that length of time.
Colm Wilkinson
I will work with a director who has good material because at the end of the day, that’s what counts.
Javier Bardem
If you write really good material, the rest just falls into place. There’s really no trick to it.
Seth Grahame-Smith
I’d rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That’s not clever or comedic, anybody can get a laugh that way, it’s too easy.
Jim Dale
I think people were just starving for good material because they just weren’t getting it on the radio.
John Oates
Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to us.
Susan Glaspell
It’s also a question of finding good material and interesting roles. I’m not the only actress out there, and good parts just don’t fall into your lap that easily. But I like most of the films I’ve made recently and so I’m pretty positive about the future.
Winona Ryder
If you want to do good material and you’re lucky enough to get a chance to do it, then chances are probably somebody pretty nifty will have been there before you.
Jamie Parker
I just like doing things with people that I love and care about and trust to work with, and I care about good material and good content – as long as I’m doing that, I’m happy.
Tye Sheridan
I listen to Mark Chestnutt and think he’s a great singer – and he really does good material.
George Strait
It’s always this grand search in the industry to find good material. Whenever there is good material, they all jump on it, and it’s like a food fight to get it made. That’s why so many things take years and years to develop because it all shows up on screen.
Leonardo DiCaprio
Coming out of school, sometimes people can be theater snobs. I only wanted to do theater, highbrow stuff. But what I learned very quickly is there can be good material in every genre.
Wendell Pierce
The hardest thing to write was explaining what anxiety feels like. Every time I’d try to really write about what it feels like to have an anxiety attack, I would actually have an anxiety attack. It was good material but so incredibly uncomfortable.
Jenny Lawson
I’m just attracted to good material and great characters and that can come in any form, whether it’s television or film or a theatre piece.
Laurie Holden
If your child really loves art, get them some good brushes. Get good material and make them feel that what they do is important.
Denise Fleming
I really love ‘Cold Song.’ If anyone really listens to that song and thinks about their life, there’s a lot of good material deep down in there. I think if you listen to the lyrics, it may take you on some sort of a journey.
Benji Madden
I worked at comedy clubs – if I can use the term ‘work’ – for several years. I middled at one point. I never made it; I was never a headliner. I never made enough time to write enough good material, in my opinion.
Bill Nye
I’m a storyteller, and I have really good material to work with: I’ve been studying magic and the occult since about 1983.
Deborah Harkness
I want to point out to adults that there is a world of good material available to you now in comic form – in this medium – and learn to give it your support because the more you support it, the better the material will be as it comes out.
Will Eisner
Good material is good material.
J. K. Simmons