300 Quotes on Funny Ratings & Comments

The only time success comes before work is in the dictionary!

Don't be afraid to fail, be afraid to not try at all.

Chevy Chase and Bill Murray - we thought those guys were funny. We love Bill Murray, but we didn't think they were right for Airplane! because it would step on the joke if there was a known comedian.

Author: David Zucker

I don't think there has been any increase in sophistication in the audience. When people are aware of a concept that's easy to understand, and there's an actor who will attract them to the theater and it's a movie that's funny three-quarters of the time, it will be successful.

Author: David Zucker

I think that came out of watching all those serious movies for all that time. If you watch a movie like Zero Hour, Sterling Hayden is pretty funny, and so are the guys in the cockpit.

Author: David Zucker

I've always thought those guys are really funny. And I love Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin and Mary.

Author: David Zucker

Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody.

Author: Florenz Ziegfeld

My vanity is not dead. I laugh when I see pictures of myself as I am now-maybe so I won't cry, but just because it is really funny how much I've changed.

Author: Michael Zaslow

I think I have a dark view of the world. I have to make everything funny, otherwise it all seems so sad.

Author: Moon Zappa

I have a funny name.

Author: Pia Zadora

I was also lucky to play for an owner, Bud Selig, who truly cared about his players. He'd call me into his office once in a while when he knew things weren't going so well. And it's funny. Every time I left there I always felt like something good was about to happen.

Author: Robin Yount

They did that little thing on South Park, and they mentioned my name and had a character of me judging a Halloween contest. It was really funny.That made me the coolest aunt on earth.

Author: Tina Yothers

There's a constant flow of child actors. It's kind of funny to watch the new crew come through. I think, You poor little things. You're going to have to struggle for a long time.

Author: Tina Yothers

Music is more difficult - try naming a political band. The Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are political, but they are more funny than they are political.

Author: Thom Yorke

They sent me the script and I thought that there was something very appealing and funny about it. Also, I was familiar with Mike Myers' work in Saturday Night Live, but I did not know the extent to which he would make this creation.

Author: Michael York

You amaze me. You're 229 years old and that's what you think is funny.

Author: Max Wright

Of course, the wind sort of swept up and the music was flying around in mid air and they were trying to play off it. You had to be there. It was quite funny.

Author: Roy Wood

Robert Altman's Nashville is my all-time favorite film because it covers all the bases - it's original, moving, and has something to say, but also funny and incredibly entertaining.

Author: Douglas Wood

Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.

Author: Tobias Wolff

I had heard before that there were rumors I was gay. It's funny. My cousin gets his hair cut at this place, and one of the guys there told him that Scott Wolf was gay. He didn't realize that he was my cousin.

Author: Scott Wolf

It's funny that it all becomes about clothes. It's bizarre. You work your butt off and then you win an award and it's all about your dress. You can't get away from it.

Author: Reese Witherspoon

But it is funny, because I saw Unbreakable recently and it's a strange movie, I didn't mind it, and it's got some interesting things going on.

Author: Alex Winter

Same thing, like my commercials are often times really funny because I tend to find 30 seconds is a really good amount of time to tell a joke.

Author: Alex Winter

It's funny when someone says to you 'you're hot' and all that, because I don't think of it in that way.

Author: Kate Winslet

I think we're the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. It's not a joke show. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great part of what it is to be human.

Author: Rainn Wilson

It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.

Author: Owen Wilson

I think I am a star - I'm simply a funny-shaped star.

Author: Malcolm Wilson

Especially with a comedy, you've got the clear cut goal of trying to make a scene funny. It's not like drama where you're trying to achieve some kind of emotion or trying to further the story along. You're trying to figure out what's the funniest way to do something.

Author: Luke Wilson

Funny is an attitude.

Author: Flip Wilson

The funny thing is that I had never actually watched TV.

Author: Dave Willis

I think it's so funny when people think they can't control a movie star. They can. We're just women, you know.

Author: Esther Williams

When you're out of sight for as long as I was, there's a funny feeling of betrayal that comes over people when they see you again.

Author: Esther Williams

I don't mean to sound - I don't want it to come out funny, but I don't like show business. I love - I love acting in films. I love it.

Author: Gene Wilder

I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track. But yes, I don't like to get Maudlin. And I have a tendency towards it.

Author: Gene Wilder

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

Author: Billy Wilder

I'm opening up my heart to the idea of dating. It's funny - my friends would always come to me for romantic advice. I know nothing, and things have changed since I was dating in high school! I'm really trying hard to spend this time working on myself.

Author: Olivia Wilde

John Ford was so funny that I couldn't wait to go to work in the morning.

Author: Richard Widmark

It's funny, 'cause it seems like just yesterday that I was the youngest player just starting out. But now there are young players all over the league, and they'll ask me questions about playing overseas or finding an agent.

Author: Sue Wicks

One time when somebody showed up in a wedding dress, but I never knew if it was a joke, or she was serious. She asked me to marry her. She was serious. It was pretty funny.

Author: Bryan White

Sometimes you don't want to be a slapstick clown in order to convey a funny perception of the world.

Author: Tina Weymouth

It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.

Author: Mae West

The townspeople outside the reservations had a very superior attitude toward Indians, which was kind of funny, because they weren't very wealthy; they were on the fringes of society themselves.

Author: James Welch

They'll say, That's funny, but you can't do that on TV.

Author: Shawn Wayans

We definitely have our finger on the pulse. You have to keep up. We decide what to watch by what's funny.

Author: Shawn Wayans

We have always had gross humor. But we try for funny, not gross.

Author: Shawn Wayans

I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker.

Author: Keenen Wayans

I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what things are funny and not.

Author: Keenen Wayans

I'm not on all the time. I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker.

Author: Keenen Wayans

I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left.

Author: Naomi Watts

I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

Author: Andy Warhol

Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.

Author: William Ward

Why would they have gone to the trouble to hire the best comedy writers in the business to write funny material for us to play straight, if the children in our audience were the only audience.

Author: Burt Ward

Our characters were antiseptic but we weren't. And if you remember what we did on BATMAN, as the scripts were written very funny, we played them very straight.

Author: Burt Ward

So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.

Author: Patrick Warburton

We sit in a room for months trying to think of funny things.

Author: David Walliams

Johnny Rotten. He's a big fan of mine. I used to see him out in the audience in England and he'd stand up and holler. He's funny. Smart too, and a nice guy. Don't think he's a jerk because he isn't.

Author: Don Vliet

We have actors from other films, from 'Baywatch,' and so on, and these people are looking exactly the opposite of what they are. The transformations were so smooth, and so funny to watch, it was unbelievable.

Author: Joe Viterelli

Everything is so funny in the movie. The funniest thing about the movie is the transformations they were able to make with the characters.

Author: Joe Viterelli

People ask 'do you make a conscious effort not to swear?' - if you're doing silly stuff you're not tempted to put swearing in. All the comics from my childhood, who were funny without swearing, were the people that influenced me. What I do is quite traditional anyway.

Author: Tim Vine

That's something - you laugh about Eminem... It's funny, man, because I didn't like him when he first came out, ya know. It seemed like a big joke. But I think the guy's for real, and I like his lyrics!

Author: Alan Vega

I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.

Author: Matthew Vaughn

After doing Johnny I wanted to just do something, I wouldn't say innocent, but to not have any care in the world. Lots of setups and horrible happenings but its funny.

Author: Jhonen Vasquez

I got to draw monsters, robots and write funny stories. I loved doing that stuff and working with the actors. But it got to be less and less that stuff and more about trying to be everywhere and not being able to do one thing very enjoyably.

Author: Jhonen Vasquez

If you can be funny, it means you're intelligent. Your brain is working fast.

Author: Amber Valletta

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Author: Peter Ustinov

It's funny - if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it's them.

Author: Tracey Ullman

It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything about at the time. Later on I'm starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later.

Author: Tanya Tucker

You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.

Author: Donald Trump

When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.

Author: Francois Truffaut

I was the class clown at school, but at home, my family wasn't very funny.

Author: Carrot Top

I was not particularly bright, I wasn't very athletic, I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking, I was just really weird as a kid.

Author: Uma Thurman

Movies these days have made killers into funny people. What's that all about? I've got kids and family and friends, and I don't like bad things. I don't think they're funny, and it's irresponsible to make movies that don't show you how that's not good.

Author: Billy Thornton

About 100 things that your kid will do that will surprise you and break your heart and it will be a combination of fact based therapy, medically advised kinds of passages accompanied by celebrity anecdotes and just some funny stuff to lighten the load.

Author: Alan Thicke

It's a funny old world.

Author: Margaret Thatcher

Eddie Drake is sort of this loose cannon, funny, edgy guy, who has this really foolish, foolish mustache.

Author: Lee Tergesen

My family's always been really funny. I feel like comedy's hard. I feel like it's so important.

Author: Christine Taylor

I'm really funny now.

Author: Wanda Sykes

But I think funny and talent will always win out; I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're funny you will get over all of that.

Author: Wanda Sykes

I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.

Author: Wanda Sykes

I remember nearly having a fit of the giggles during the reading because dear Daniel was SO respectful and serious and I was finding the whole situation funny because I was speaking to his profile.

Author: Madeleine Stowe

Michael is a funny character, for whom I have a great deal of affection. He sat across his desk and seemed to be a bit of a blunt fellow. We began talking about the characters and he opened up about his vision.

Author: Madeleine Stowe

And there's a visceral fun in watching Team America and making it, like taking a puppet and throwing it against the wall. Because it's not CG, there's something funny about it.

Author: Matt Stone

My parents are both very funny but they're also relatively soft-spoken, normal human beings while I'm just a lunatic. I don't know where this loud, ballsy, hammy ridiculousness came from. I'm just glad I followed my goals and my parents did too. It's not like we even had a plan when I dragged my mom to Los Angeles.

Author: Emma Stone

I think 'Saturday Night Live', starting in the 1970s, really gave women an outlet to be funny. A lot of those women went on to have film careers, from Kristen Wiig now to Tina Fey and Gilda Radner.

Author: Emma Stone

One thing the blues ain't, is funny.

Author: Stephen Stills

During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.

Author: Jerry Stiller

I don't think my judgment is that good. I don't know what is funny.

Author: Jerry Stiller

I love New York. I was sad, depressed and incredibly moved by our fellow countrymen and what they've done. I wanted to give people a chance to see something funny, have a distraction.

Author: Ben Stiller

I don't think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.

Author: Ben Stiller

I don't think know if anything's going to translate anywhere. You're making a movie, you hope it's going to be funny, you can't think about how it's going to go over.

Author: Ben Stiller

Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it.

Author: Ben Stiller

Very often, I don't make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is making these noises.

Author: David Stiers

I had to act in a school play when I was about ten years old. I really didn't want to do it. But everyone had to do it so I didn't have a choice. A talent agent came and watched it and later gave me some work. It's funny because I'd always known that I wanted a movie career. I just didn't think that I would be in the movies.

Author: Kristen Stewart

A funny thing happened to me on the way to the White House.

Author: Adlai Stevenson

It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

Author: Adlai Stevenson

Yes, I believe blue material is funny, but if that's all you've got, you're dead in the water. It's not good.

Author: Howard Stern

It is one thing to go on stage and be funny or be in a good place in your career, but for a woman, actually facing the elements in a physical way is a very powerful thing.

Author: Pamela Stephenson

They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What's funny about that?

Author: Casey Stengel

The shooting of the guns, that was kind of funny, because rolling a cigarette and shooting a gun aren't like normal things for a 13-year old girl!

Author: Hailee Steinfeld

I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.

Author: Gertrude Stein

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.

Author: Gertrude Stein

It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.

Author: Gertrude Stein

Justin Timberlake is everything, and what more could you want in a person? He's funny. He's cute. He's great. He just understands. I get him and he gets me, and that's cool.

Author: Britney Spears

It's funny because it's funny.

Author: David Spade

The funny thing about television is that once you start to do it you never get time to watch it.

Author: Kevin Sorbo

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

Author: Susan Sontag

When Frank the Pug is singing I Will Survive, the only reason it's funny is that Will is in that shot trying not to get angry. A shot of a dog singing I Will Survive on its own will not get a laugh.

Author: Barry Sonnenfeld

The funny thing is, strangers still seem to feel comfortable coming up to me and saying things, but now usually it's because they recognize me, and they say nice things.

Author: Todd Solondz

So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.

Author: Todd Solondz

Well, I had said to my friends, it's going to be good, but I bet it's going to be cheesy in a way. And I didn't think that at all. It's so good and was just so funny.

Author: Brittany Snow

You know, he would go and look at different funny books because he wanted his character to be different and make different faces. I saw a funny book in his room and it looked like the same character he was playing. It was about a duck.

Author: Bubba Smith

People who are funny and smart and return phone calls get much better press than people who are just funny and smart.

Author: Howard Simons

But I think you can make fun of anything as long as it's funny enough.

Author: Sarah Silverman

Well, I'm not afraid to say something if I think it's funny, even if it's harsh or racist.

Author: Sarah Silverman

Kyle Baker's work is really funny, but it's also got a very clear vision.

Author: Bill Sienkiewicz

I think I'm funny because my family, my siblings were funny.

Author: Martin Short

David Lynch and I almost made a movie together in the late '80s. We had lots of dinners and lunches. He's a very cool, hip guy. This film, let's face it, is like an homage to him, I would imagine he'd find it funny.

Author: Martin Short

I saw 28 Days. I don't remember rehab being like a day camp or being that funny. Rehab is a dumping ground. It's a big landfill.

Author: Charlie Sheen

But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know.

Author: Charlie Sheen

But I really like hosting, I think it's a strength of mine. It allows me to improvise, and I love the spontaneity of that, and I think I'm funny behind the desk when interviewing someone.

Author: Garry Shandling

Carol Burnett was particularly funny. She swore for the first time on television on Larry Sanders.

Author: Garry Shandling

I think sometimes I should do more carousing, because I don't do much and maybe it would be fun occasionally. It's hard for me to have fun and I'm a serious thinker and a searcher and funny from the front.

Author: Garry shandling

You know it's funny that none of the regular late-night shows now use guest hosts the way Johnny did. No one talks about it much, but it's curious that they don't do it. They would each have to be asked the reason why they don't.

Author: Garry Shandling

I hope they make a show like M*A*S*H, which dealt with a lot of difficult subject matter but was very funny.

Author: Joan Severance

From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.

Author: Dr. Seuss

I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working.

Author: Peter Sellers

I think it's funny to be delicate with subjects that are explosive.

Author: Jerry Seinfeld

If you can find the line between sympathetic and creepy, you have reached a very funny area.

Author: Jason Segel

I love things made out of animals. It's just so funny to think of someone saying, 'I need a letter opener. I guess I'll have to kill a deer.

Author: David Sedaris

I knew exactly what to do on Alien, it was funny.

Author: Ridley Scott

What's funny is my husband doesn't have any tattoos at all, so he must be the very conservative one.

Author: Ashley Scott

I always tell people that to be the funny person in a Steve Martin movie is like getting a call that Keith Moon wants you to play drums on his record. He should be playing drums on his record.

Author: Jason Schwartzman

It's funny that people think because you don't have a movie or record out, you disappear into a frozen chamber someplace. They think you're dead when you're not in the public eye.

Author: Jason Schwartzman

Well, I did Marlene 15 years ago and that's in the style. It's somehow similar and not similar because Marlene was much more aggressive, funny and sad.

Author: Maximilian Schell

When I tell people I'm a comedian they say, 'Oh, are you funny?' I say, 'No, it's not that kind of comedy.'

Author: Susan Sarandon

It's funny how making odd noises can get you into strange situations sometimes.

Author: Eric San

A funny thing happened on the way to the election - I got to the Senate first.

Author: Pierre Salinger

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

Author: J. Salinger

Yet there are some people - Steve Allen would dissect comedy forever; he's a really funny guy, but he would love talking about comedy. I'm doing it right now and you all seem bored.

Author: Bob Saget

I'm doing 5000 seat theaters and audiences are going nuts, it's fantastic and it makes me very happy. I'm dirty, but not like this; I just do comedy that I find funny. I'm working on a new tv show for cable and it's not set up yet.

Author: Bob Saget

It perhaps has a chance, a commercial chance, this film. It's funny, it's charming, the idea is original, it's unusual and it makes fun of the movie industry in a way that it needs to be poked fun at.

Author: Mark Rydell

I'm a sucker for a funny script. And then, as soon as I don't wanna be, one comes along and grabs me.

Author: Meg Ryan

If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.

Author: Richard Russo

People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny.

Author: Richard Russo

I think that the episodes are like mini horror films really; the characters make bad decisions early on and these things just snowball for them and get worse and worse. And that's what I find funny.

Author: Dave Rowntree

If you're talking about Java in particular, Python is about the best fit you can get amongst all the other languages. Yet the funny thing is, from a language point of view, JavaScript has a lot in common with Python, but it is sort of a restricted subset.

Author: Guido Rossum

When I worked with Robin Williams, now there is improv! He is just as funny as you think he is. We did at least five or six takes of every scene, improvising every scene differently. He was a riot.

Author: Stephen Root

Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.

Author: Will Rogers

I wouldn't totally rule out doing Letterman or the Tonight Show if I had a set that I just happened to write that I thought was funny but was still appropriate for network censors. But I'm not going to go out of my way.

Author: Joe Rogan

The audience changes every night. You're the same person. You have to speak your mind and do the stuff that you think is funny and makes you laugh.

Author: Joe Rogan

That's my only goal. Surround myself with funny people, and make sure everyone has a good time and works hard.

Author: Joe Rogan

It's painful for me to watch someone who isn't funny. It's horrifying to sit in the back and watch some guy who just totally sucks.

Author: Joe Rogan

I had seen movies before that that had made me laugh, but I had never seen anything even remotely close to as funny as Richard Pryor was, just standing there talking.

Author: Joe Rogan

The misconception is that standup comics are always on. I don't know any really funny comics that are annoying and constantly trying to be funny all the time.

Author: Joe Rogan

The most important thing is to write material that YOU think is funny. If you don't think it's funny, but you're convinced that other people will think it is, well they won't.

Author: Mo Rocca

When it comes to war, we focus more on the mainstream coverage of the event, rather than the event itself. People dying is never funny. Protest puppets are always funny.

Author: Mo Rocca

It's funny when people say, 'I don't think Julia likes me.' Honey, if I don't like you, you're going to know about it.

Author: Julia Roberts

Sylvester Stallone is very funny and he's a great guy to hang out with.

Author: Eric Roberts

You know I'm an actress, not just a funny lady.

Author: Doris Roberts

The commentary track became a lot like the movie and there are some funny, long, awkward pauses that you can tell we're just trying to find stuff to say. None of us had gotten to really talk about the movie until that moment and they were in New York and we were in L.A.

Author: Jay Roach

Since she got a cause and stopped being funny. I think she's real funny, but lately it's all been hearts and flowers and tears and saving teenagers and creating a role model. And that ain't funny. No giggles there.

Author: Andy Richter

A good actor is someone who knows how to take the part and make it real and make it honest and be effective in it. If it's in a funny movie and, as long as they are cast in an appropriate way, humor will come from it.

Author: Ivan Reitman

Movies either work or they don't work and they're either funny or they're not and we work very hard. To achieve that kind of work is really kind of delicate stitching.

Author: Ivan Reitman

A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a funny bone - you either have it or you don't. And by the way - when you get it, we don't know it.

Author: Carl Reiner

The thing that's funny is that everyone thinks I'm dead.

Author: Charles Reilly

I'm not a believer in the pratfall. I don't think it's funny just to have someone fall down.

Author: Harold Ramis

Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.

Author: Harold Ramis

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

Author: Harold Ramis

The parrot's so funny. He imitates me and I don't even realize he's doing it. I'm walking around the house talking to myself and whistling and the next day he's said something I've said... it's scary you know?

Author: Mick Ralphs

Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight and wine at your table could be a form of religious experience for some people. To me it's a form of sacrament.

Author: Sally Quinn

You know, the funny thing about Lorne and that show is that, you can go over one million things, but in a business of bean counters, he still likes to laugh at small things and creates a show around it.

Author: Colin Quinn

He is very dry but also very funny... I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be.

Author: Colin Quinn

I am so like Donna it's funny. And most of my friends are guys too.

Author: Laura Prepon

I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side.

Author: Parker Posey

Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.

Author: Michael Pollan

I also think if you're an actor and you can improvise, when you go on an audition and you can improvise you're just a genius. If you can, you know, take a Tide commercial and you can just say one funny line that's not in the commercial they think you're a genius.

Author: Amy Poehler

I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it's like this - the script is like this sad, funny, desperate love song to the lost American man.

Author: Oliver Platt

Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens.

Author: David Pierce

On some level in acting, what you're trying to find is truth, because when it's true is when it's also funny.

Author: David Pierce

From Kelsey, I have learned among many other things the value of turning on a dime and how you can have an extremely funny and extremely poignant moment with absolutely no separation in between... and sometimes in the same moment.

Author: David Pierce

It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music.

Author: Tom Petty

Yes, I see the Mobile Base System really is the shoulder of the arm. The arm is right there, like a human arm. It's really funny to look at the similarities between a human arm and the Canadian robotics arm.

Author: Philippe Perrin

In my circle of friends, I've always been loud and funny and talkative. But as soon as I step out of that circle, I get very quiet and introspective. I don't want the spotlight on me.

Author: Rosie Perez

No, writing musicals is the hardest thing in the world. And it was really funny, because I remember when the South Park movie came out, there were some critics that said, 'Well it's obvious that in order to get it to be 90 minutes they filled some time with music.'

Author: Trey Parker

It's funny because I think a lot of it is simply... We've never considered ourselves satirists, but because we're on Comedy Central and because we're South Park on Comedy Central, we can do any topic we want.

Author: Trey Parker

It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.

Author: Chuck Palahniuk

It's funny what a few no-hitters do for a body.

Author: Satchel Paige

The guys on the stunt team are really fantastic. It's really funny, because for all the aggression they have to display on screen, they're actually really happy, good- natured people.

Author: Miranda Otto

It's funny that all these goths paint their faces with such white make-up and that is the actual colour of my skin, I am that pale!

Author: Kelly Osbourne

I do not like onions. It's so funny because I am probably one of the least picky eaters ever. Pretty much any type of new food, I'll try it, I'll eat it. But onions, and pork. Pork and onions.

Author: Stacie Orrico

If it bends, it's funny; if it breaks, it's not funny.

Author: Kate O'Brien

People just don't laugh when their family is violated, and you don't shrug it off. You band together and you defend together. It's a funny, primitive instinct.

Author: Phillip Noyce

The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London.

Author: Jeremy Northam

And when you're on your own there is that terrifying possibility that you may be the only person on the planet who thinks it's funny - and you have no way of finding out.

Author: Denis Norden

I used to like writing for comedians - I enjoyed the challenge of making other people funny.

Author: Denis Norden

I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said.

Author: Lyn Nofziger

I've always been part of comedy. One of the things about our family was that if we were reasonably funny with each other, particularly my two brothers and myself, when my father was upset with something you'd want to make sure in some way you made him laugh. Because when he didn't laugh, you were in trouble!

Author: Leslie Nielsen

Funny is funny is funny.

Author: Bob Newhart

I just couldn't go back to Suddenly Susan after David Strickland's suicide. I didn't see how we could make the show light and funny any more.

Author: Judd Nelson

The funny thing about commercials to me is that many of them now don't even mention the product until the very end. You don't really know what the commercial is all about. They're kind of like little movies, like shorts, and that's why I think they're so entertaining.

Author: Kevin Nealon

There have been times when I felt suicidal and I would stop my head from going in that direction of negativity because I thought there'd be something I'd miss that was funny in the future. If there's a chance I'm going to laugh tomorrow then want to live to experience that.

Author: Dave Navarro

Europe is scooters. Europe is five young people on one bench sharing a chocolate bar. Their idea of entertainment and fun is so much different than ours, which is exactly why a movie about them would be funny.

Author: Mike Myers

My dad loved to laugh. He was very funny and very silly.

Author: Mike Myers

Things that go on at Happy Times are very funny this year, and if you were watching last year, some of the people you saw then as basically extras emerge as real characters in their own right this season, at least to some degree.

Author: Ellen Muth

I think cheese smells funny, but I feel bananas "are" funny. I'm assuming Swamp told the whole story of the executives seriously asking us to replace the banana with cheese because they thought it was funnier.

Author: Joe Murray

I'm 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I'm playing right where I'm supposed to be. I'm comfortable with that, but in the same breath I'd do something edgy. If someone came to me and offered me an edgy and funny story, then I'd do it.

Author: Eddie Murphy

Some of the pictures I must say every now and then I just think are going to be funny. When it gets that much, you might as well just pull out all the stops and make it more of a burlesque.

Author: Martin Mull

So what I do now is to pre-empt that by making the up into a virtue, and telling funny stories about how crap I am before people have a chance to notice it for themselves and think maybe I haven't realised.

Author: Emily Mortimer

I consider myself very lucky. God has a funny way of bringing some things around and knocking you in the head with the ultimate destination. Something I should have achieved quite easily took me a long time to get around to. It came in His time, not mine.

Author: Jim Morris

I just like the continue doing what I've been doing. A melange of funny, straight drama, television, movies, a little theater here and there wouldn't hurt. So if I can keep doing that, I'll be a very happy person.

Author: Mary Moore

Comedy is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right, it's not funny.

Author: Julianne Moore

So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books I want to have the whole range of human emotions.

Author: Rick Moody

It was kind of scary because working with Woody Allen becomes sort of a big deal in your mind. He directs in that Woody Allen character some of the time - he has these idiosyncrasies that are really charming and funny.

Author: Radha Mitchell

Every movie I do, or when I'm on the sketch comedy show, I don't really get into it until I have an outfit or something funny with my head or face or something.

Author: Kel Mitchell

Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly.

Author: Rebecca Miller

It's funny, but when there are dominant teams, there are a number of people who rail about the fact that they're always seeing the Dallas Cowboys or the San Francisco 49ers or the Green Bay either in the playoffs or in the Super Bowl.

Author: Al Michaels

It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.

Author: Natalie Merchant

I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic... That to me was funny.

Author: Christopher Meloni

I never say a funny thing intentionally.

Author: Jayne Meadows

It's funny; we never had anything like credibility. Even though we all have some sort of punk-rock background, but so what? I really don't care about that. What's credibility anyway? Who has credibility?

Author: Mark McGrath

If I ever do anything, it actually might be some fantasy elf thing or even some cute, funny thing. Just to do something a little bit out of the ordinary. I've done my superhero gig.

Author: Todd McFarlane

You know, funny is this weird word for me. I hear is so many times it has no meaning anymore.

Author: Bruce McCulloch

Is it spoken word? Kinda, but that's a weird area. Is it comedy? Well, it's funny but no, it's not comedy.

Author: Bruce McCulloch

I'm doing a very funny show in which we talk about issues. I speak at Aids charities and things. It's great to do something fun with our days and yet we're told we're doing something important.

Author: Eric McCormack

I guess now that I think back, I used to play priest and be a funny priest. I don't know, I grew up in such a Catholic family that I kind of liked to test the boundaries a little bit and I think I had fun watching my mom laugh.

Author: Jenny McCarthy

I had spent many years before I was 31 hearing people tell me, Oh Man, you're so funny, you need to be in television. But that and a quarter won't get you on a bus.

Author: Chi McBride

Even when I begin with a situation that's basically funny or sad, I like to keep poking around in it. I like to get into the middle of a relationship, to explore the subtle places.

Author: Paul Mazursky

Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning you got off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you're in a slump. If you lose at the end, you're choking.

Author: Gene Mauch

It's funny; Luther and I have written many songs together, but we've never written songs in the same room.

Author: Richard Marx

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

Author: Steve Martin

I went swimming the other day and my wife was watching and she said, 'You know, it's funny, it's when you've got no clothes on, no one recognizes you.' I said, 'What are you saying? That I should do more love scenes?'

Author: Eddie Marsan

I just heard a very funny story about somebody who died yesterday, I'm sorry to say so but it was so absurd that you can't help laughing. And the person that was concerned about that story was laughing too.

Author: Sophie Marceau

It's funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can't even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of.

Author: Aimee Mann

Shakespeare wrote great plays that we're still watching all these years later. Charlie Chaplin made great comedies and they are still as funny today as they ever were.

Author: Leonard Maltin

It's funny to have become an elegant skier now. But my drive is still the same.

Author: Hermann Maier

You gotta keep the funny intact.

Author: Seth MacFarlane

Chris Elliott could read the phonebook and he's funny.

Author: Seth MacFarlane

I don't know who the hell Paul Lynde is, or why he's funny, and I prefer it to be a mystery to me.

Author: Paul Lynde

It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9.

Author: Josh Lucas

These days, rock 'n' roll is much more about rock than about roll. I don't do rock. But I'm interested in that roll part, because that's the funny little bit that makes it hip.

Author: Nick Lowe

It's fun to do something funny and have the director laughing. It makes you feel good.

Author: Jon Lovitz

You, the actor, must be aware of when you're being funny, but the character you're playing should always be oblivious to the fact.

Author: Jon Lovitz

It's funny, my girlfriends think that because I am married to a fashion designer, I get all these great tips and hints about great fashion, but it's not like that at all. He never tells me what to wear.

Author: Lori Loughlin

It's a funny thing, but today the Titanic is probably much more - that is people are much more aware of it than they were in 1954, when I was doing my research.

Author: Walter Lord

So, I'm the Eighth Wonder of the World. It's flattering and very, very funny.

Author: Eva Longoria

It's funny, we all really, really got along. I don't know how it was in years past but this year, I was really with a good group of people. No one tried to sabotage each other or steal the other ones moments.

Author: LaToya London

I guess the producers saw me and knew I was literate and I always tried to be alert and it's funny because you have to have a sharpness to do those shows, especially some of the ones I did in later years.

Author: June Lockhart

If I'm in something funny, I like to try and find some kind of serious line in it that people can relate to.

Author: Ron Livingston

Everything I buy is vintage and smells funny. Maybe that's why I don't have a boyfriend.

Author: Lucy Liu

Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not.

Author: James Lipton

It's good to be funny when you are a comedian.

Author: George Lindsey

But a funny thing happened four years later. I was invited to play for an alumni team against the Red Wings.

Author: Ted Lindsay

It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it.

Author: Maya Lin

We went through all the scenes and they became kind of funny and they expanded a little bit and because it seemed to be working so well in the movie, they added a couple of things later on in the movie and that's how it turned out.

Author: Eugene Levy

Until now, until I actually got into law class, I just never thought of it as being an interest for me, but it's really funny because now that I'm in law, I'm like 'Wow, I could be a lawyer.

Author: Lisa Leslie

But I've never looked at myself as being particularly funny.

Author: Tea Leoni

In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really was funny. I wish I had understood Italian.

Author: Sugar Leonard

The only guaranteed way to make something not very funny is to make it vague.

Author: Thomas Lennon

No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was.

Author: Annie Leibovitz

I like drama. I love being in a drama where I get to be the funny guy. That's what I really love the most.

Author: John Leguizamo

When something is truly funny, it's funny all the time.

Author: Cloris Leachman

Also, in a funny way, if you have been happily married there are no unresolved areas, nothing to prove to yourself after the other dies.

Author: Nigella Lawson

And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.

Author: Nigella Lawson

We've finally told the world that this is sports entertainment, and I think one of the best forms of entertainment is anything that's fun or funny, something that you really enjoy watching or listening to.

Author: Jerry Lawler

It usually takes two people a little while to learn where the funny buttons are and testy buttons are.

Author: Matt Lauer

Steve Martin is one of the most intelligent, well-read human beings that I've ever come across. He is equally as funny off screen as he is on. But he also has a very intellectual side, and he's a really nice human being. We actually become good friends.

Author: Anthony LaPaglia

It is funny because the guy who is my boss now, Howard Stern, has a similarity there. He got big being a regular guy. He wasn't the greatest looking guy in the world.

Author: Artie Lange

It's funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay emotionally coming and going. Neither has it easy.

Author: Hedy Lamarr

I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.

Author: Karl Lagerfeld

It's only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I'm skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I'm big, when I was big, I never thought about it.

Author: Karl Lagerfeld

It's a funny thing about me. I don't have any interest in food most of the time now, although when I was a kid I was always hungry.

Author: Alan Ladd

It's so funny whenever things come full circle.

Author: Swoosie Kurtz

I'm the youngest in my family, and everyone is very funny, and I was always trying to keep up with them. I just loved making people laugh.

Author: Lisa Kudrow

Shirley MacLaine said, You're so funny, then gave me a hug. Everything went white. I couldn't hear, I couldn't see. I thought I was going to pass out.

Author: Lisa Kudrow

Kids cannot follow stories. They don't know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening.

Author: John Kricfalusi

I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?

Author: Lenny Kravitz

Boston is actually the capital of the world. You didn't know that? We breed smart-ass, quippy, funny people. Not that I'm one of them. I just sorta sneaked in under the radar.

Author: John Krasinski

Being funny is one of my greatest strengths. I can make girls smile when they're down, and when they're having a good time, I can carry on the joke.

Author: John Krasinski

Funny is when you're serious.

Author: Harvey Korman

You asked what is the secret of a really good sketch. And it is a sketch is a small play. It's got a beginning, and a middle and an end. It should have a plot; it should have the characters, conflict. It is a little play. And in it, will be funny stuff.

Author: Harvey Korman

It's a real primal thing, watching someone get hurt. It's funny and accessible.

Author: Johnny Knoxville

Only man has dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.

Author: Ronald Knox

I don't think just funny is enough on Broadway.

Author: Don Knotts

I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.

Author: Stephen King

It's funny that until I actually met my husband, I never thought I'd get married.

Author: Regina King