Quotes on funny

It's funny because a lot of people that know me as a dancer, don't know that I'm a singer, and a lot of people that know I can sing don't know I can dance. And so, I feel like at some point I have to show them both and really be able to display it and showcase it, and put that out there.

The thing about For Better or Worse is the only thing that made me an okay director for that is that I have a sense of humor, and it was supposed to be funny.

Author: Jason Alexander

But it's funny that now I'm in such a happy situation, I look more objectively at my own past and see what others have seen for a long time and I'm just so glad I've been able to get to this point.

Author: Rick Allen

Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is a form of service journalism. To be successful, I think it has to be a combination of a good story, it has to be funny, and it also needs to be packed with useful information.

Author: Ted Allen

I think being funny is not anyone's first choice.

Author: Woody Allen

I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion.

Author: Anthony Anderson

It's sort of an action flick. You can't be that funny trying to steal diamonds.

Author: Anthony Anderson

It's so funny that people specify that year because in a way it was the biggest battle for me health wise.

Author: Brady Anderson

It's so funny, because right now I'm very tired and my brains a little dead, I tend to get very focused and serious. So, I'm probably coming off a lot more like Scully right now.

Author: Gillian Anderson

I had an idea of what I thought was funny. It's kind of based on how I am.

Author: Jennifer Aniston

Most shows, you really have to force it. And everybody's nervous, and the network is nervous, and they've all got their notepads out, and they're all going to give notes on what they think is funny, and everybody's trying to spin their jokes, and this was so - the script was so good that we didn't have to really do anything, and it made it so easy for us to do well.

Author: Will Arnett

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

Author: Isaac Asimov

Let's make some funny pictures.

Author: Tex Avery

I would do it today because the thing that appealed to me was not necessarily the mechanics of the robot, but it was his personality and how funny and charming he was.

Author: John Badham

I'm obsessive about the kind of melodrama of getting through the days and trying to make them good and funny and a happy experience. But my feeling towards the fans is that they delivered me from darkness.

Author: Tom Baker

The one thing that disturbs me about Alec is that people don't realize that he's really funny.

Author: Daniel Baldwin

Don't get me wrong, there are sometimes if I go and see a really funny comedy, that I wished I had smoked a joint. I'll be honest with you. That's the truth.

Author: Stephen Baldwin

I'm not funny. What I am is brave.

Author: Lucille Ball

You go through at least the first two years of Star Trek and you find some amazing stuff. Everything that was going on Gene put into the series. He just put strange costumes on the actors and painted them funny colours and left the same situation in.

Author: Majel Barrett

You put funny people in funny costumes and paint them green and we could talk about anything we wanted to, because that was the only thing that fascinated Gene about this particular genre.

Author: Majel Barrett

I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking.

Author: Lynda Barry

I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up.

Author: Lynda Barry

I would call it a comedy variety show. We have some people just doing straight standup. We usually try to have one musical act of sort. So its just people being funny in different ways, not just sketch, not just standup, not just characters, all of those things.

Author: Todd Barry

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.

Author: Jean Baudrillard

I allow a lot of room for improvisation and funny stuff. I always feel planned.

Author: Michael Bay

What's David's role? David looks good, that's what David does. David looks good, and I'm the funny one, that's what I hear constantly. But I keep telling him that looks fade.

Author: Victoria Beckham

A lot of funny stuff happens in Canada.

Author: Samantha Bee

I don't think the show would be funny to you if you didn't already have a base of information.

Author: Samantha Bee

When I first started I was always known as The Girl on the Sitcom with the Funny Voice.

Author: Julie Benz

It's funny, I get really nervous when I audition for voiceovers.

Author: Julie Benz

I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600's. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican.

Author: Marion Berry

Cheryl Cole and Katy Perry are two of the hottest girls in the world - and so normal and funny with it. If I was a few years older they are the kind of girls I'd like to date. I want a younger version of Cheryl and Katy - a mixture of the two would be hot.

Author: Justin Bieber

On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.

Author: Theodore Bikel

Well what's funny is, again, people say they believed what was going on, but again, Bob's hands are about three times bigger than his feet. So these are very caricatured.

Author: Brad Bird

It's funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.

Author: Bjork

I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?

Author: Orlando Bloom

If you look at the game and everything, it's not quite like looking at an animated film, because that's total character. This, this is really movement, but it's got funny little things if you look for the humor. They're actually getting to the character.

Author: Don Bluth

So to me, Texas Hold 'em puts me to sleep. At least when you play stud, you can be funny as you deal. Somebody some day is going to come up with a Stud show that's going to work.

Author: Joseph Bologna

When I was a kid, there was no distinction between a movie about old people or young people. It was either funny or not. It was either entertaining or not. It was either exciting or not. It was either thrilling or not.

Author: Joseph Bologna

Who do I like? I am a big fan of French and Saunders - not that that they are particularly stand-up I have to say, but I think they have been great for women and they are of themselves just incredibly funny whether they are male or female.

Author: Jo Brand

The thing I thought about doing it was it's Comic Relief and you've got to be funny. So although I did try to sing properly it obviously has hilarious results when you can't sing.

Author: Jo Brand

Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown.

Author: Fanny Brice

I love the part of Hector as it takes me back to playing eccentric parts. He is a funny character, which is fine by me as I've been playing for laughs for decades now! It's lovely to get a laugh; it's the best thing in the world!

Author: Richard Briers

It's funny how a film about a murderous old English toff can help you.

Author: Jim Broadbent

I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.

Author: Harold Brodkey

It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!

Author: Garth Brooks

I value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny.

Author: James Brooks

A rich man's joke is always funny.

Author: Thomas Brown

It's funny how most activists are pacifists.

Author: Craig Bruce

It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals.

Author: Craig Bruce

I think back to some of the things Harry said and some of the things I said trying to be funny. If I said them now, it would be on the front page of every newspaper in the country.

Author: Jack Buck

They're great girls. They're very funny, they're very smart, they're fun to be with. They're very lively, as I think people can tell. And you know, they're very confident girls.

Author: Laura Bush

Well in the book Carrie was my alter ego. In real life, Sarah Jessica and I don't look anything alike. But people do say that we sound alike. Sarah Jessica is an adorable girl and she is very funny.

Author: Candace Bushnell

The British are so funny. It's like they can't believe I lived in Hackney. 'You could live in Bondi Beach. Why would you want to live in 'Ackney?' But Hackney's fantastic. I'm serious. There are so many artists there. I loved the markets, the parks, the pubs, the diversity. It was a cultural melting-pot.

Author: Rose Byrne

Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.

Author: Michael Caine

Scream was great for what it was. For a horror film, it was intelligent, it was funny, it took a laugh at itself.

Author: Neve Campbell

It's just something that's sort of funny, sort of not.

Author: Max Cannon

Nothing's funny about someone who's successful.

Author: Drew Carey

Billy Tauzin is one of the most interesting people in Washington. He is smart, funny, and interesting.

Author: Tucker Carlson

This is funny because I just had a job over the summer for VH1, a project I did called Strange Frequency where I got to play a Goth rock band singer.

Author: Charisma Carpenter

I don't need to convince anybody that I know kung fu, but maybe somebody needs to know that I really can act, without doing a Chinese accent or a funny walk.

Author: David Carradine

I play a female Indiana Jones, a professor who hunts down precious objects, like a bowl that belonged to the Buddha. They tailored the role to me: I wanted to be smart, funny, and to kick some ass.

Author: Tia Carrere

I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny.

Author: Jim Carrey

I am accusing him of stealing my best material, he was a very funny man.

Author: Frank Carson

We didn't even think about it, you know? I used to collect laser discs, and you'd have some college professor analyzing It's a Wonderful Life or Citizen Kane, and now it is pretty funny - the idea of commentary for a silly kid's movie, you know?

Author: Dana Carvey

It's the cushiest job, but some lines are so funny that I crack up.

Author: Dan Castellaneta

It's funny, I had dinner with my dear friend John Spencer last night and I'm not in the first episode, but he's at the beginning of it and he was telling me about it and I thought this sounds very hot because I think this is definitely the last year of West Wing.

Author: Stockard Channing

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

Author: Gilbert Chesterton

I had to audition for the part of Jnior, and I wanted the role terribly because I knew it was a great character. This guy is a wonderful, funny, mean old guy.

Author: Dominic Chianese

The funny thing about making this record and being away from the girls and on my own in LA is that it allowed me to reflect on how much we've accomplished.

Author: Melanie Chisholm

The funny thing is, Dennis Miller got me back into comedy.

Author: Tommy Chong

But I think once the word gets out that the movie is funny - funny is transcendent - it will traverse all demographic barriers if people embrace it as a funny movie.

Author: Thomas Church

At boarding school you had to wear your name across your chest and your back, and obviously I had a pretty funny name. It wasn't Brown or Smith or Hughes.

Author: Diane Cilento

Kids enjoy laughing and are seldom bored when they find something funny. They also ask questions, often to adults, because they understand that the more words they can comprehend about a funny story or a joke, the more they'll enjoy it.

Author: Brian Cleary

I've never really understood that. It's a funny thing; people sometimes accuse us of condescending to our characters somehow-that to me is kind of inexplicable.

Author: Joel Coen

It's a funny thing because you look at the careers of other filmmakers, and you see them sort of slow down, and you realize, maybe this becomes harder to do as you get older. That's sort of a cautionary thing. I hope it doesn't happen to me.

Author: Joel Coen

Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Lifes a very funny proposition after all.

Author: George Cohan

But movies as much as anything developed what I thought was right and wrong, what was honorable, what wasn't, what was funny what wasn't... what had some depth to it, what didn't.

Author: Dabney Coleman

But it was this tough little character part that I was playing, a very funny little guy that I invented over a weekend, because I realized I was not contributing to the humor of this thing. And I had to do something.

Author: Dabney Coleman

Nowadays they have 12 directors and 15 producers and 30 writers. And all the writers want their lines said a certain way-which isn't necessarily funny. I mean the lines aren't necessarily so funny to begin with.

Author: Tim Conway

I can always get better. A lot of my ex-girlfriends don't think I'm funny.

Author: Dane Cook

If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.

Author: Dane Cook

For sheer sexiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no.

Author: Jilly Cooper

Sometimes we have to actually say, I think you're really funny, but none of your jokes are going to make it on the air. So just answer my questions. Seriously.

Author: Rob Corddry

I remember interviewing someone I actually felt bad for, and therefore didn't want to take an ironic stance against him. It actually turned out to be a really funny piece.

Author: Rob Corddry

There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.

Author: Bill Cosby

There's nothing cure or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off.

Author: Doug Coupland

I found out a long time ago that if I didn't have a good story for a song, I could just make one up! Now it seems over half the stories in my show are made up. The funny thing is, those seem to be the ones that resonate the most with the audiences.

Author: Ronny Cox

I find it very easy playing Bond. I think he's hilarious. He gets himself into some extraordinarily funny situations.

Author: Daniel Craig

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Author: Quentin Crisp

I'll think of the idea and then I'll write something down, then within that there will be a joke or two which is the original thing which I thought was funny.

Author: David Cross

It's not about trying to be funny all the time. It's more of a document that hopefully is funny.

Author: David Cross

I love doing stuff with Todd Barry and Jon Benjamin. We give the stage to good bands and funny people.

Author: David Cross

People don't realize that I'm really funny and I'm an excellent bridge player.

Author: Sheryl Crow

I can't be funny if my feet don't feel right.

Author: Billy Crystal

From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that's what I had to do.

Author: Billy Crystal

I remember certain people in the audience laughing and I wanted to ask: 'What are you laughing at? This isn't funny.' Now I realize that laughter can come from insecurity. They don't know how they should be feeling.

Author: Jim Dale

The funny thing is, the music that I'm writing now is probably some of the most cutting edge we've ever done. The music that I'm thinking about putting on our next album.

Author: Charlie Daniels

The books are funny and sad, and that's what people respond to.

Author: Paula Danziger

I made the choice long ago to write about real life. And life is both serious and funny.

Author: Paula Danziger

A comedian's body is funny as well as his mind being funny, his whole personage is funny.

Author: Bobby Darin

What has been happening more lately - of course, I also put in my bio, I say I do the voice of Goliath, but some people go - you know, I say something, and it's a funny thing when you work in this business, people will talk out loud in front of you like you're not there.

Author: Keith David

If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.

Author: Larry David

I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give my lyrics, and it's all wrong in the book, and I giggle. It's funny.

Author: Jonathan Davis

People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.

Author: Ellen DeGeneres

The promos with all of the beautiful women probably attracted some men, but the mystery story line is pretty cool. It's got that dark edge, and people will watch anything funny.

Author: James Denton

And of course Marc Cherry heightens it and makes it hilarious. But there's so many universal themes in the show, and he made it so funny. We knew he was onto something if he could keep it up and, thankfully, he did.

Author: James Denton

What you do with it and things like that, but I basically chose this after I read it because I thought it was different and funny and unique and dark - things that I like to do.

Author: Danny DeVito

Well, you know, I feel like it's about a lot of things. The reason that I made it was because I thought it was really funny and unique and just a different genre.

Author: Danny DeVito

It's funny because I think it also goes very well with the show. It has this reputation as being this love city where everyone goes to get married, but when you get there, it's very corny and tacky.

Author: Caroline Dhavernas

We're kind of the comic relief of this movie because most of the stories are very dark. And that's why these plays were so great, because it's such a dark, dark universe that it becomes funny because it's just too pathetic.

Author: Caroline Dhavernas

I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one's intensity is funny.

Author: Jim Dine

I never thought I'd live this long. It sounds funny because I still think of myself as a kid.

Author: Larry Dixon

I feel for Veronica Mars so much when I'm watching at home. It is a wonderful story. The writing is consistently funny, biting, charming, heart-wrenching, etc. I also like the look of it. The cinematography - different from any other show.

Author: Jason Dohring

I liked getting the best villain award. I thought that was funny.

Author: Stephen Dorff

I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny.

Author: Illeana Douglas

If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.

Author: Mary Douglas

But I think Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang really got that thing where, if a movie reads really funny and then has some dramatic or violent or sinister stuff in it, you can't forget that primarily it has to be even funnier than you read it or that other stuff doesn't work.

Author: Robert Downey, Jr.

I read the script for Wonder Boys, and I said that was almost perfect, it was so classy, cool and funny. It's a really specific thing. We stuck to it, it turned out good and a lot of people liked it.

Author: Robert Downey, Jr.

I remember watching Gilda Radner when I was a kid and everyone thought she was so funny and no one ever said that she was a funny woman, she was just funny.

Author: Rachel Dratch

If you have an impulse, not if you're going to ruin someone elses' scene, if you have an impulse of a funny little add-on or taking something in a weird direction, try it.

Author: Rachel Dratch

And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.

Author: Fran Drescher

I have an older sister named Haley and she wanted to be an actress. So I wanted to be an actress. It's really funny the way that some people don't give kids enough credit for like really being driven, and really wanting to do things so badly.

Author: Hilary Duff

My friend had a funny remark; he told me everybody has something - some people have a big butt, some people are insecure and at least you know what it is, even if it's a lump on your head. I know I have a lump on my head.

Author: Karen Duffy

I never thought I was funny, but I enjoy being funny.

Author: Nora Dunn

When I'm with my friends I'm funny, but I don't feel like I'm a funny clown.

Author: Nora Dunn

Since it's based on my parents, it's more emotionally close to me than some of my more surreal plays. And then I like the balance of the comic and the sad. It should play as funny, but you should care about the characters and feel sad for them.

Author: Christopher Durang

I wish I had a funny story.

Author: Leslie Easterbrook

We are supposed to enjoy the good stuff now, while we can, with the people we love. Life has a funny way of teaching us that lesson over and over again.

Author: Sheena Easton

When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp. The funny thing is that human rights activists and Mr. Bush can never be situated in the same group.

Author: Shirin Ebadi

It's funny that there was so much disturbance about having a Catholic in the White House with Kennedy, and when we finally get a religion in the White House that's causing a lot of conflicts, and concerns, and disturbances for a lot of people, it's in the Bush Administration.

Author: Roger Ebert

We have never been strictly political, only strictly funny.

Author: Adrian Edmondson

One time I went into a restroom and a girl followed me in. I signed an autograph for her in the sink. It was pretty funny because she was in a guy's restroom and she wasn't embarrassed at all.

Author: Zac Efron

Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you're different in a society, you're funny.

Author: Will Eisner

I just think that it's such a good show and timeless and still very funny, and that just makes me happy to have that whole first season in one concentrated space for people to enjoy so that it's not hit and miss trying to find it in syndication always.

Author: Jenna Elfman

You have to understand the tone of the movie, because if it's supposed to be funny, it can be funny violent like the Home Alone stuff, but you have to really understand the tone of what you're doing and make the action work for that and for the character.

Author: David Ellis

I've played villains on stage - you know, the Iagos and so on - but I think of myself as a funny person. I mostly did comedies before I did TV work.

Author: Michael Emerson

I know from the middle distance I give off the look of being prolific, which is a funny compliment to receive.

Author: Joseph Epstein

Leno, Conan. They are both really funny. They really know how to land one.

Author: Jimmy Fallon

In the happy scenes there were really fun times. Sean would say really funny stuff because he likes to improv. I would want to laugh, but you are not allowed to do that during the take.

Author: Dakota Fanning

In comedy, though, it's good to get feedback from the audience about what they find funny.

Author: Bobby Farrelly

Nine out of 10 times these guys will hit it-they'll be on something incredibly funny, but one out of 10, two out of 10, they'll fall flat on their faces. That's what makes them great actors: they take those chances, they don't play it safe.

Author: Peter Farrelly

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.

Author: William Feather

It's funny; I actually made poorer decisions when I sobered up then when I was screwed up.

Author: Corey Feldman

All you have in comedy, in general, is just going with your instincts. You can only hope that other people think that what you think is funny is funny. I don't have an answer but I just try to plough straight ahead.

Author: Will Ferrell

I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-four per cent of the time.

Author: Will Ferrell

James Caan told me at the end of filming 'Elf' that he had been waiting through the whole film for me to be funny - and I never was.

Author: Will Ferrell

It's funny how sometimes how the public some people think I was born like this. That I maybe I sleep and I do big muscle, but its a lot of work to look like this and to be in this kind of condition.

Author: Lou Ferrigno