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  • Julia Sweeney on funny

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    “I think one of the basic tasks in life – one of the nice things we can do for each other – is to take things that are horrible and scary and make them acceptable and less frightening and, if possible, funny. It feels great to succeed at that.” -Julia Sweeney

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  • Daryl Hall on funny

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    “If you take a bunch of superstars and put them in a room where they don’t have their assistants and entourage, it’s funny to see what happens.” -Daryl Hall

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  • Ben Stiller on funny

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    “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.” -Ben Stiller

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  • Jason Segel on funny

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    “If you can find the line between sympathetic and creepy, you have reached a very funny area.” -Jason Segel

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  • Nicky Hilton on funny

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    “When I was a kid I had this funny blonde hair and everyone called me ‘Chick’ because I looked like Tweety Bird.” -Nicky Hilton

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  • John Badham on funny

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    “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.” -John Badham

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  • Dana Hill on funny

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    “Now that I’m more mature, in a funny way, I can even appreciate that I’ve bad to become more aware of my body. Since I’ve chosen acting as my career, I have to keep my weight down anyway-I’ve been used to it for years, so it’s no problem. And there’s nothing I can’t do.” -Dana

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  • Todd Phillips on funny

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    “I think that ‘Hangover II’ is as funny as ‘The Hangover I,’ honest to God, but I think that it’s a little bit darker, and the stakes are a little bit higher.” -Todd Phillips

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  • Joel Coen on funny

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    “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.” -Joel Coen

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  • Don Bluth on funny

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    “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.” -Don Bluth

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  • Rick Baker on funny

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    “It’s funny: I’ve been very successful and done a lot of films, and I don’t really have an agent – I don’t really pursue jobs, I let people come to me.” -Rick Baker

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  • Bill Sienkiewicz on funny

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    “Kyle Baker’s work is really funny, but it’s also got a very clear vision.” -Bill Sienkiewicz

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  • Jean Dujardin on funny

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    “I like the hot-cold, the sugar-salt, being able to play over-the-top and dramatic things – in the same film. Just as in my life, I can be very funny and at other times almost extinguished.” -Jean Dujardin

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  • Dax Shepard on funny

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    “I’m an off-road racecar driver. And I think every woman in my life has told me that’s not a sensible hobby. But when I was growing, even more than I wanted to be funny, I wanted to be a racecar driver. That’s all I thought about. I worked for a race team when I was

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  • Alice Englert on funny

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    “It’s a bit like school camp, shooting a film. Everyone’s on heat. It’s a strange energy. It’s full of adrenalin. I funnel my excess energy in funny little ways. I do a lot of dancing in my trailer. I love music.” -Alice Englert

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  • Michael Mandelbaum on funny

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    “In my experience, it’s not just that serious books get a hearing on comedy shows. But serious books get a serious hearing, as well as a funny one, on comedy shows.” -Michael Mandelbaum

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  • Tom Lehrer on funny

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    “Laughter is involuntary. If it’s funny you laugh.” -Tom Lehrer

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  • Zach Galifianakis on funny

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    “When I was in high school I used to sit by myself in the cafeteria – not necessarily by choice – but I thought it was funny to talk to people that weren’t there.” -Zach Galifianakis

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  • Lauren Graham on funny

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    “I didn’t grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny – those are the things I got feedback on.” -Lauren Graham

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  • Gabrielle Reece on funny

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    “Funny, how moms can tell you what to do no matter how old or big you are.” -Gabrielle Reece

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  • Donna Tartt on funny

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    “I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for.” -Donna Tartt

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  • Michael Bergin on funny

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    “I wasn’t even 20 at the time, but it taught me something about drugs. They can take a good man, a warm, funny, loving family man, and turn him into a loser and worse.” -Michael Bergin

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  • Alan Ladd on funny

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    “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.” -Alan Ladd

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  • Tim Heidecker on funny

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    “I’m always in situations where you can’t be funny, and yet I want to do it anyway.” -Tim Heidecker

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  • John Keegan on funny

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    “The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion.” -John Keegan

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