Quotes on Fun

John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.

Author: M. Abrams

I auditioned just for fun.

Author: Clay Aiken

It's as much fun as it ever was, you know, once I get there. Gettin' there is a little harder.

Author: Mose Allison

For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun.

Author: Tori Amos

Independent films are where you really get to cut your teeth and have some fun and do the things that mainstream Hollywood doesn't want to do.

Author: Anthony Anderson

Shanks and I tend to have a lot of fun. And, oh, any of The Simpsons' episodes are my favorites too.

Author: Richard Anderson

A punk concert isn't fun without a pit.

Author: Billie Armstrong

I think it's more fun to play a hero with an edge.

Author: Shawn Ashmore

I got things like the lotus position long before anybody else did, or at least in the mainstream. But I had fun. I guess my legs are pretty flexible, so I used to get a kick out of doing things like that. I would get into a full lotus with my legs and then roll around.

Author: John Astin

I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.

Author: Mackenzie Astin

I skate now for fun and to keep myself in shape.

Author: Oksana Baiul

I'm picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it.

Author: Anita Baker

Doing these parts is not fun. It's challenging, but no fun. It's creepy. I would rather play the guy that throws the touchdown pass and gets carried off the field.

Author: Alec Baldwin

Getting used to the studio and everything was fun, we freaked about alot. I was working very hard then.

Author: Syd Barrett

It was hard to make fun of him because he seemed to have so much fun making fun of himself.

Author: James Barron

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.

Author: Dave Barry

If I could be in any band, I think it would have to be the Beatles. That would have been a lot of fun.

Author: Jason Behr

You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.

Author: Bernard Berenson

While you're improvising, you may come up with something which will break him up. As soon as that smile comes out, you know that, hey, we're having fun.

Author: Shelley Berman

Y'know what? This is what I go by: It doesn't matter how good-looking a guy is, it just depends on his personality. If a guy can make you laugh and make fun of you, then that's what would win me over. So, yeah.

Author: Rachel Bilson

When I'm out with my girlfriends at the bar, and I see some young 18-year old boy, just for fun I say, 'Hi honey. Do you like girls? Do you like girls exclusively? Oh, good.'

Author: Yasmine Bleeth

It's no fun to protest on an empty stomach.

Author: Michael Bloomberg

It's more fun to watch without joining in.

Author: Lionel Blue

I'm definitely not ready to move into something else. I'm having so much fun.

Author: Suzy Bogguss

If you're not having fun it's not worth doing.

Author: Tommy Bolin

I had a great run on Babylon 5. It was a lot of fun.

Author: Bruce Boxleitner

But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun.

Author: Ed Bradley

I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun.

Author: Ed Bradley

I had a lot of fun in Cambodia, much more so in Cambodia than Vietnam.

Author: Ed Bradley

And you know, I've had great fun turning quite a lot of different industries on their head and making sure those industries will never be the same again, because Virgin went in and took them on.

Author: Richard Branson

It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.

Author: Garth Brooks

Just keep taking chances and having fun.

Author: Garth Brooks

Whitney and I have fun reading the newspaper sometimes. You'd be amazed at the places they say I've been.

Author: Bobby Brown

I would have had fun doing just about anything.

Author: Clancy Brown

Doing shows is always a side of skating that I've loved, it's the performing. I get to do that without the pressure, it's always fun between the skaters and the preparation, the show is always so much fun.

Author: Kurt Browning

I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.

Author: Bear Bryant

It was like two different photographers, and shot in three different locations and it was really fun to do. There were 12 beautiful girls in it. It was great.

Author: Gisele Bundchen

Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read.

Author: Leo Burnett

Fun without sell gets nowhere but sell without fun tends to become obnoxious.

Author: Leo Burnett

If not bliss, ignorance can at least be fun.

Author: Carter Burwell

I sang in a rock band when I was training as a lawyer. You know, not professional, we just did it for fun. We just did gigs all over Edinburgh and some in Glasgow and some at festivals.

Author: Gerard Butler

I really enjoyed doing the voice of Nose Marie on the cartoon series Pound Puppies. Fun, FUN cast.

Author: Ruth Buzzi

I'm just trying to play my best and have fun.

Author: Miguel Cabrera

Shock is still fun. I won't ever shut the door on it.

Author: Nicolas Cage

Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no segregation, that I could see. I never saw any.

Author: Cab Calloway

In my last band, Soundgarden, I had a couple of different drummers sit in on some stuff and it was fun for me to kind of take a break and watch the band.

Author: Matt Cameron

I'm gonna perform on one of the nights. Good clean fun; we're not going to jail. For the record.

Author: Luther Campbell

I really liked working with Sean Paul; he is a very attractive guy, very hot. He was fun; the chemistry was really great, it was great to be in the moment.

Author: Blu Cantrell

But, you know, I just want to play well and have fun playing well.

Author: Jennifer Capriati

Working is hard and distracts from having fun.

Author: Orson Card

It's always fun to walk down the street with or behind a really beautiful woman, for no reason other than to see how the world reacts to them.

Author: Jonathan Carroll

There are so many little places I want to play, sometimes weird places I think would be fun to play... a bar that's half full.

Author: Julian Casablancas

It was fun. That was something I came to fairly late.

Author: Michael Chabon

If I talk about something I either talk about it or I DO it... the minute I talk about it it's lost all it's drive and all it's fun.

Author: Carol Channing

It was fun while it lasted, but it never seemed real to me. I could not believe I was in Van Halen.

Author: Gary Cherone

I enjoy doing press for something that I like, and I think the movie is very fun and charming and clever.

Author: Thomas Church

Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!

Author: John Ciardi

We wouldn't have done it if we didn't think we could have fun with it.

Author: Ethan Coen

Every night is a joy; you get an hour and a half of all these hits. It's a lot of fun.

Author: Phil Collen

Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often am sorry I ever started writing prose, because it is so hard. But I can't stop.

Author: Judy Collins

I can't come on like a parent to these kids, if I do, I won't be able to have fun working with them. The good news is they all have parents. The younger ones, their parents by law have to be on set.

Author: Stephen Collins

I finished the movie a month ago in downtown Los Angeles. I had a lot of fun doing it.

Author: Coolio

I beg. I call. I badger. I cajole. Part of the secret is everyone has fun and that's really motivating.

Author: Katie Couric

I've always been switching around the show to accommodate the audience, and you know it really makes it a lot more fun for me and keeps it fresh so that I'm not complacent with the same show every night and with every audience.

Author: Deborah Cox

I enjoy Augusta. I enjoy its challenges. There's no other golf course like this anywhere. Its greens and its challenges on and around the greens are just super, super tough. So the greens are fun to play in sort of a morbid way.

Author: Ben Crenshaw

It's good fun, yes, but when we play, we take it seriously and want to do well.

Author: Hansie Cronje

I wish I was having as much fun as the press reports said I had.

Author: Sheryl Crow

I always feel like I'm missing out on something, that someone is having more fun than I am, so I take measures to make sure that is impossible.

Author: Jessica Cutler

I think Hannah gets nervous just like any other person would. She's like a dork, personally. She's just really, really fun.

Author: Miley Cyrus

See, to me, rock'n'roll doesn't have any point. It's just fun. It has a million different angles and they're all valid. But I think rock might be a world issue.

Author: Evan Dando

The easy answer is that writing novels is a lot more fun than practicing law.

Author: Jeffery Deaver

Sometimes I get a little manic and you can't stop me. I'm all over the place. I have fun.

Author: Dom DeLuise

Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.

Author: Iris DeMent

Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.

Author: Iris DeMent

I don't believe you should make fun of anyone but yourself.

Author: Cameron Diaz

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

Author: Walt Disney

After guest appearances, I got the offer to do the show as the successor of Arthur Schwartz. It's so much fun.

Author: Rocco DiSpirito

One of the most fun inventions of my lifetime is the Mini.

Author: James Dyson

The most fun I ever have is sitting in with Rick writing, and we laugh at our own jokes.

Author: Adrian Edmondson

I probably had the most fun recording For Richer For Poorer in Nashville.

Author: Mark Edwards

I like creating these rhythmic patterns. These interlocking rhythmic things are really fun.

Author: Danny Elfman

There's immense fun to be had as long as you can sort of sneak it past DC. I have been told on occasion that I need to have more respect for these characters.

Author: Garth Ennis

This band makes sure that we have whole sections of stuff that are free form so that they don't know what we are doing next, that is the fun part of playing. You are playing something that you haven't ever played before.

Author: John Entwistle

It was a hard job, but it was a lot of fun and I'll always be grateful to Ponch. He was a part of me.

Author: Erik Estrada

The British have slang words, as we do, but it was fun.

Author: Dennis Farina

It's fun leading this offense. I don't think we've hit our peak.

Author: Brett Favre

It's a lot of fun to play someone you don't normally think of yourself as.

Author: Harvey Fierstein

I like playing accents, and doing things like that, it was fun. It was fun.

Author: Albert Finney

Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.

Author: M. Fisher

It's nice to have a situation where you can make it fun.

Author: Doug Flutie

I wouldn't be interested in just doing a show that's mapped out and choreographed with a set list. That would've been boring so long ago it just wouldn't be any fun.

Author: Steve Forbert

It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.

Author: Malcolm Forbes

Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.

Author: Harrison Ford

When you are very little tennis should be fun, it should be a game.

Author: Guy Forget

The imaginary world has always been the most fun place for me to be.

Author: Claire Forlani

We wanted the language to feel fresh, fun, and rock solid.

Author: James Frank

Elizabeth Hurley and I had a lot of fun together. She's a very beautiful, confident woman.

Author: Brendan Fraser

It's fun to see a lot of the crowd become embarrassed. You're kind of watching them almost wanting to not watch the screen, but they have to because it's so compelling!

Author: Will Friedle

I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out.

Author: Neil Gaiman

I like working solo and it was a lot of fun joking around with the audience, saying things. I'm only just learning how to do certain things.

Author: Art Garfunkel

Aerosmith went on The Simpsons and they had fun.

Author: Leif Garrett

It's more fun having him as everyman in the 25th Century. It is better to concentrate on what this planet will be like 500 years from now, and not be dealing with little aliens in space and all that related stuff.

Author: Gil Gerard

As long as you're having fun, that's the key. The moment it becomes a grind, it's over.

Author: Barry Gibb

Usually bad guys are much more fun to play and much more interesting to watch.

Author: John Gilpin

Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn't fun?

Author: Ira Glass

That's the object of going to a gym, having fun.

Author: Joe Gold

Did I get jiggy with Will? I would have to say no! Did I have fun with Will? I would have to say yeah! But you know, I did not jig with the man, if you know what I'm saying!

Author: Bruce Greenwood

Bad guys are so much fun to play because you can go as far and as wacky as you want.

Author: Joel Gretsch

The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.

Author: Wayne Gretzky

It's always fun to put on bell bottoms and have your butt hanging out and hip huggers.

Author: Pam Grier

Are we having fun yet?

Author: Bill Griffith

But boy, right away it is fun to play around with the Paintbox program.

Author: Red Grooms

I've been working on something, just some jazz, relaxed stuff. It will be standard, just piano and voice. It started out as a fun project for me though, I'm still not sure about releasing it.

Author: Justin Guarini

It's fun to come back to the town where I went to school and see all the new Wildcat players.

Author: Natalie Gulbis

Remember these two things: play hard and have fun.

Author: Tony Gwynn

Golf is more fun than walking naked in a strange place, but not much.

Author: Buddy Hackett

Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.

Author: Uta Hagen

Still for fun, I play the drums, but I don't do much recording with them.

Author: Jan Hammer

I'm very 'spur of the moment'. I'm always trying to think of fun things to do to create a memory.

Author: Josh Hartnett

I want to get a vending machine, with fun sized candy bars, and the glass in front is a magnifying glass. You'll be mad, but it will be too late.

Author: Mitch Hedberg

It's more fun to think that there are other worlds.

Author: Katherine Heigl

There were no rules, other than that the song should sound good and be fun to play.

Author: Levon Helm

Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows.

Author: Jimi Hendrix

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

Author: Katharine Hepburn

Ultimately, it is in fun. It is supposed to be highly entertaining.

Author: Bill Hicks

Actually, the fun part was not knowing what the heck I was going to be doing.

Author: Utada Hikaru

We just kind of did our own thing and got made fun of by the popular kids. It was kind of like a badge of honor to be an outcast.

Author: Mark Hoppus

I have never done a thriller, and it will just be really fun for me to heave and pant and run and climb and break windows and scream every once in a while.

Author: Kate Hudson

It's the youth movement we have. A lot of young guys with a lot of passion. It brings the fun back to the game.

Author: Tim Hudson

It's generally more fun playing the villain.

Author: Charlie Hunnam

Some kind of fun lasts longer than others.

Author: Betty Hutton

It's fun to be there with the guys, to practice with them, arrange the balls, do this, do that, but when you play you can get some of this nervousness out of your system.

Author: Goran Ivanisevic

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.

Author: Andrew Jackson

You know, this game's not very much fun when you're only hitting .247.

Author: Reggie Jackson

For me, though, the fun is over when I get the job.

Author: Helmut Jahn

Going to your set with the headphones on in the middle of the night so that your parents don't know what you're doing when you're supposed to be asleep is great. I was rocking the bedroom. That was so much more fun when I got the 1200s.

Author: Jam Jay

There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do.

Author: Jerome

I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.

Author: Steve Jobs

I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun.

Author: Billy Joel

As long as I'm having fun, I'm not quitting.

Author: Sue Johanson

I definitely believe in plastic surgery. I don't want to be an old hag. There's no fun in that.

Author: Scarlett Johansson

When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.

Author: Randy Johnson

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

Author: Erica Jong

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Author: Michael Jordan

Everything I've done has been personally fun, important, and meaningful to me.

Author: Ashley Judd

We're spirited and spiritual... and fun follows us around.

Author: Naomi Judd

Skiing is the pleasurable part of alpinism - way more pleasurable and fun than alpine climbing.

Author: Michael Kennedy

I like to have fun with them. I like to toy with them a little bit. we're making television, after all. Right?

Author: Phil Keoghan

It was always fun to skate with Paul Wylie and Paul Martini.

Author: Nancy Kerrigan

The fundamentalists have taken the fun out of the mental.

Author: Ken Kesey