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  • Rick Baker on funny

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    “It’s a funny relationship that makeup artists have. I always feel kind of like a dentist. People look at me and think of pain.” -Rick Baker

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  • Chris Pratt on funny

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    “The key is just to ignore the pain, because physical comedy only works if you see someone get hurt and they aren’t actually hurt. If someone gets hit in the face with a bat, falls down, and gets back up, it’s funny. If they stay down and their jaw is wired shut in the next…

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  • Anna Held on funny

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    “My little dog, he did not get ill. It is so funny that people get ill on a boat and dogs do not.” -Anna Held

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  • Jim Lehrer on funny

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    “Most of the gaffes I’ve made have not been funny – they’ve been stupid.” -Jim Lehrer

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  • Sheena Easton on funny

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    “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.” -Sheena Easton

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  • Scarlett Johansson on funny

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    “It’s a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.” -Scarlett Johansson

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  • Samuel L. Jackson on funny

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    “I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.” -Samuel L. Jackson

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  • Gillian Anderson on funny

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    “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.” -Gillian Anderson

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  • Michael Morpurgo on funny

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    “Strange questions are the more interesting ones. Children by and large don’t try to trip you up… they want to find out how you do this funny thing that you do… if they’ve loved a story they love to know how it started.” -Michael Morpurgo

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  • Amy Poehler on funny

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    “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.” -Amy Poehler

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  • Don Rickles on funny

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    “Some people say funny things, but I say things funny.” -Don Rickles

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  • Todd Barry on funny

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    “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.” -Todd Barry

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  • David Mitchell on funny

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    “Sometimes, comics will make the observation that it’s not jokes that are funny, it’s characters that are funny. And isn’t that true! That’s why I always kill jokes. I’m terrible at them, because I get the joke right, but I can’t get the character right, and it just goes down like a lead balloon.” -David…

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  • Garth Brooks on funny

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    “It’s funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!” -Garth Brooks

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  • Wallace Shawn on funny

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    “For some reason, people find me funny. It’s quite hard to define why a thought is funny. It’s even harder to define why a person would be funny. It’s a word that I can’t define at all. But whether I know quite what it is or not, I seem to be it.” -Wallace Shawn

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  • Bob Newhart on funny

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    “I really don’t know what makes a comedian. I think it’s a family background and environment. Yet if you put the same ingredients in another person, he may never utter a funny line.” -Bob Newhart

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  • Emily Mortimer on funny

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    “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.” -Emily Mortimer

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  • Leslie Nielsen on funny

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    “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…

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  • Wesley Snipes on funny

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    “I love being a dad, it keeps me fit and inspired and children are so funny. They always supply you with acting material!” -Wesley Snipes

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  • Mayim Bialik on funny

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    “I think a lot of times on TV we see caricatures – that’s what’s funny.” -Mayim Bialik

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  • Albert Brooks on funny

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    “I’ve been to many funerals of funny people, and they’re some of the funniest days you’ll ever have, because the emotions run high.” -Albert Brooks

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  • Calvin Trillin on funny

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    “If it’s inappropriate to write about, if there’s nothing funny about it, then it’s not funny.” -Calvin Trillin

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  • Craig Bruce on funny

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    “It’s funny how most activists are pacifists.” -Craig Bruce

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  • Ethan Hawke on funny

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    “We live in a funny time. If you don’t go corporate, you can’t compete. You’re relegated as irrelevant. People used to admire that.” -Ethan Hawke

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  • Graham Norton on funny

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    “Straight men just can’t imagine the bliss of being in a relationship with someone who finds farting as funny as they do.” -Graham Norton

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