funny
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘funny’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“So it was just funny to read a script that was just similar to what had been going on in my life.” -Piper Perabo
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“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.” -Shirin Ebadi
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“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.” -Wanda Sykes
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“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.” -Artie Lange
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“The last person they expected to connect with a screenplay was the comedic, blonde actress with the funny voice.” -Joey Lauren Adams
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“It’s so funny when you’re actually directing because things start popping that you don’t expect to pop, and something that you think is going to pop, maybe doesn’t quite have the impetus that you thought it might.” -Stephen Moyer
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“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.” -James Denton
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“I mean, I talk about being Jewish a lot. It’s funny because I do think of myself as Jewish ethnically, but I’m not religious at all. I have no religion.” -Sarah Silverman
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“It’s funny because ‘The Book of Mormon’ is ‘The Book of Mormon’ now. When I was doing it at the very beginning, and I was a part of it for four years and always believed in it, I never really knew if it was going to be more than a convention for ‘South Park’ fans.”…
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“I know people will think it’s funny because I’ve done glamour modelling in the past, but I felt embarrassed about my body and just wanted to cover it up.” -Jennifer Ellison
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“I got the wake-up call that no one is policing our oceans. I wondered, how can I do anything? What really can I do to make things better? There are some perks to being a celebrity. My job is to be funny once in a while, but it’s my responsibility to make good use of…
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“I’ve actually tried to roast somebody that I don’t like, and it doesn’t go well. Either they’re a bad sport or I’m not as funny as I could be.” -Jeff Ross
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“Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies – and it is free, and it is fast.” -Nicholson Baker
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“I don’t write literary fiction – I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny and have things to say about men and women and families and children and life in America today.” -Jennifer Weiner
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“Billy Tauzin is one of the most interesting people in Washington. He is smart, funny, and interesting.” -Tucker Carlson
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“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…
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“It’s funny, though, because when I first started going to races after we met, I was extremely nervous. It’s like being backstage and hoping you don’t trip over something or break an amp or accidentally speak into a live microphone, so I was really hesitant.” -Ashley Judd
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“People are funny, and in the most tragic situations, when comedy erupts from nowhere, it can turn on its head within the space of a second or a minute. You’re laughing one minute and you’re crying the next and that’s just life for me, and that is what people are like.” -Sally Hawkins
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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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“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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“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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“I appreciate humor so much, but I’m actually not a funny girl.” -Emmanuelle Chriqui
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“I don’t think my judgment is that good. I don’t know what is funny.” -Jerry Stiller
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“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.” -Rob Corddry
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“It’s funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it’s fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.” -Abel Ferrara
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“I’m not a comedian. I’m an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion.” -Anthony Anderson
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“The prospects for a coherent, hilarious and consistent American comedy seem to lessen every year, as the poor waterlogged, gassy corpse called ‘Evan Almighty’ proved when it floated ashore recently. So there’s a temptation to think too highly of Robin Williams’s uneven but occasionally funny ‘License to Wed.’” -Stephen Hunter
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“‘Lucky’ is for laughs, and there’s really nothing funny that I’m doing on ‘Dexter.’ I think more than anything, both comment on the fact that anybody is capable of anything. Just because they are the shy guy in the corner doesn’t mean that they are a harmless little bunny.” -Colin Hanks
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“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.” -Dave Navarro
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“And remember, it’s also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.” -Fran Drescher
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“I liked getting the best villain award. I thought that was funny.” -Stephen Dorff
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“I mean, I’m married first of all to one of, if not the most wonderful women in the world. She is everything – funny, attractive, hard-working, she has integrity, she loves me to bits.” -Seal
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“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.” -Charisma Carpenter
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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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“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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“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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“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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“Kyle Baker’s work is really funny, but it’s also got a very clear vision.” -Bill Sienkiewicz
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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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“If you can find the line between sympathetic and creepy, you have reached a very funny area.” -Jason Segel
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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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“Laughter is involuntary. If it’s funny you laugh.” -Tom Lehrer
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“I don’t think I was funny until college. I lived with some Harvard MD/PhD students – they were so smart, and what I contributed to the house was, I was the funny one.” -Wendy Liebman
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“Sometimes you have to take the focus off of you and put it on someone else and it’s funny what you can accomplish and how much strength you really have.” -Hoda Kotb
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“When you are not treated seriously, you develop comically. Its sense of oneself is so fractured and fragile that it’s like the picked-on kid who has to become funny.” -Scott Thompson
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“I got pregnant at 40 by surprise. It’s funny, because when we found out we were pregnant, I said, ‘Okay, let’s experience that.’ You just have to just go with it because it’s rare.” -Julianna Margulies
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“Billy is a funny, cheeky, lovely boy and I love being with him. Parenthood is terrifying though. I can barely walk past a building without panicking that it’s going to collapse on his head.” -Rufus Sewell
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“The funny thing is the songs that people think are about me probably aren’t. And the songs that are probably are the ones they wouldn’t think… so that’s where it kind of is funny.” -LeAnn Rimes
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“Funny, I don’t feel any more powerful today than yesterday.” -Jerry B. Jenkins
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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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“Funny, how moms can tell you what to do no matter how old or big you are.” -Gabrielle Reece
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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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“I think it’s always funny when somebody thinks you’re going to do something super sexy and then you don’t.” -Olivia Munn
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“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.” -Tina Yothers
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“It’s funny, growing up there was never anybody around me with any kind of artistic bent.” -Nick Offerman
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“When I was in college, I was in the theater department, which for anyone who has been involved in any kind of theater program, you know that it’s really wacky and tight-knit, a real family. Me and my good friends from college would do random shows and plays that were sometimes serious, but most of…
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“With Portlandia, I don’t think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously. We’re okay with making somebody feel uncomfortable or uneasy.” -Carrie Brownstein
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“Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens.” -David Hyde Pierce
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“And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that’s funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there’s all kinds of advantages to it.” -Al Franken
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“It’s funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It’s not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples and oranges. The writer and the actor are one.” -Sam Shepard
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“Stealing, you’ll go far in life. Actually, there is something funny about getting away with it.” -Mike Judge
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“Movies don’t look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody’s character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it’s creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn’t mean I know…
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“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.” -Parker Posey
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“What’s funny is my husband doesn’t have any tattoos at all, so he must be the very conservative one.” -Ashley Scott
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“I watched a lot of silent directors who were absolutely great like John Ford and Fritz Lang, Tod Browning, and also some very modern directors like The Coen Brothers. The directors take the freedom within their own movies to be melodramatic or funny when they chose to be. They do whatever they want and they…
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“What I fell in love with as a child was ‘My Fair Lady,’ ‘Funny Face,’ ‘American in Paris,’ and ‘Singin’ in the Rain.’ Just perfect movies to me and I was dancing. I started ballet when I was three. And I fell in love with those movies and fell in love with Audrey Hepburn and…
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“My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.” -Rosie O’Donnell
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“I think it’s so funny when people think they can’t control a movie star. They can. We’re just women, you know.” -Esther Williams
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“Sometimes I am so dry that people don’t know I’m kidding and think I’m being serious. I enjoy this because their reactions are often funny.” -Robert Crais
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“I would love to play ‘Funny Girl’ or ‘Evita,’ but I idolize the women who have played those parts. I don’t know if there needs to be another version of those shows.” -Idina Menzel
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“I understand a woman who validates herself by getting attention from the opposite sex. I have a friend who is that to a T… Doesn’t mean she isn’t a good person. That’s a funny character to play.” -Cheryl Hines
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“At school I was very shy. I wasn’t funny really.” -Michel Gondry
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“I love weird or funny or beautiful sentences Joy Williams could write a microwave-oven manual and I’m sure I’d love it, because the sentences would be tuned up like music.” -Karen Russell
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“I remember listening to the radio as a kid and finding that the songs always made me feel more peaceful. Funny, but the more hurtin’ the music was, the better it made me feel. I think of that now when I write my songs. I may not be feelin’ the blues myself, but I’m writing…
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“What was funny if you were there is that we were all immensely sophisticated people who knew exactly what she was going to say and we’re chatting away, nice to see you.” -Anthony Holden
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“I’m so unprofessional on set it’s not even funny.” -Katharine McPhee
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“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.” -Reese Witherspoon
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“I follow the most random people on Twitter. I follow famous people like Khloe Kardashian, who surprisingly makes really funny tweets all the time.” -Chloe Moretz
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“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.” -Uma Thurman
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“I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren’t funny.” -Brendan Fraser
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“I feel funny about owning art. I don’t really want to say: ‘Wow, come and see my Monet – it’s in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.’” -Baz Luhrmann
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“I love Mikhail Bulgakov. He is very original and takes the story to unexpected places. I didn’t realise political writing could be so funny.” -Denise Mina
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“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.” -Matt Stone
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“So often, I read scripts and am like, ‘This would never happen in real life. It’s not trying to be funny. It’s trying to be serious.’” -Shailene Woodley
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“I’m not a believer in the pratfall. I don’t think it’s funny just to have someone fall down.” -Harold Ramis
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“I’ve got to get on myself to be sharp, funny and loose.” -David Spade
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“I’m not a movie guy, I’m not a TV sitcom guy, but whatever seems to fit and is funny is good for me.” -Dave Attell
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“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.” -David R. Ellis
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“I really love ‘Soapdish.’ I wish ‘Soapdish’ had more of a moment because I felt that that is a really strong, funny movie. Kevin Kline is hilarious in that movie.” -Elisabeth Shue
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“I don’t know. I think it’s funny! I think it’s funny! I go, what? It’s so absurd. I’m alone.” -Danny DeVito
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“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!” -Kelly Osbourne
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“To this day, I’ve found that it doesn’t matter what a guy looks like if he’s really funny. His sense of humor makes him attractive. On the other hand, you don’t hear men saying, ‘No she’s not pretty, but is she ever funny!’” -Catherine O’Hara
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“Everything seems fine until you’re about 40. Then something is definitely beginning to go wrong. And you look in the mirror with your old habit of thinking, ‘While I accept that everyone grows old and dies, it’s a funny thing, but I’m an exception to that rule.’” -Martin Amis
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“It’s funny, but when I arrived in California to start college I was much more interested in becoming a surfer and cruise along in life from one beach to the next. I didn’t plan out any huge career for myself.” -Benicio Del Toro
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“I was going through a little bit of turbulence in my career. And so, it’s funny how turbulence itself will make you hold onto something for security. And so the only thing I knew is trust in the Lord and lean not unto your own heart, in all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall…
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“I actually feel like, for a lot of my career, I wasn’t able to show my comedic range. I did a lot of dramas and dramedies. I was on ‘E.R.’ That’s not generally thought of as a funny show.” -Busy Philipps
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“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.” -Hilary Duff
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“If I’m in something funny, I like to try and find some kind of serious line in it that people can relate to.” -Ron Livingston
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“I don’t think of myself as a comedian, but as an artist, a scientist and chemist who just happens to be funny. I started doing stand-up to add another level to my game. I feel that I’m a young rookie with a veteran’s skill.” -Marlon Wayans
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“I think it’s actually a misperception that I am a comedic actress. I do more drama than comedy but very little of it has been seen. When you are in big funny movies and they do well and your little part in it kind of explodes people perceive you as a comedian.” -Octavia Spencer
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“I feel cheesy when I see ‘Silver Spoons.’ Some of it was funny, but some of it was just cheese! My kids love it, but I look at it and cringe.” -Ricky Schroder
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“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.” -Judd Nelson
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“It’s funny now how much we look at – whatever you want to call it: art, design, culture stuff, film – online, and how in the online world, you’re instantly global.” -Mike Mills
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“People forget how outcast ‘They Might Be Giants’ can be. They have a reputation for writing really deft, funny, clever melodies, and they also make a lot of music for kids, which is terrific, but when you see them in concert, they can rock the house.” -John Hodgman
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“It’s so funny looking back, but my so-called overnight success actually took 15 years. I remember when I didn’t have any money, and my only car was mom’s Hyundai.” -Criss Angel
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“Mmmm… the comedy that matters is the comedy you pull out of thin air. It’s a bit like when something funny has happened and you try to explain it to someone else and end up saying, ‘You had to be there.’” -Jack Dee
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“Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.” -Michael Pollan
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“It’s funny, because I’m a man of strong opinions and when I make one, I stand by it even if it starts to appear incorrect to me after a while.” -Danny Bonaduce
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“I think I have a dark view of the world. I have to make everything funny, otherwise it all seems so sad.” -Moon Unit Zappa
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“It’s sad and upsetting when you see somebody crying hysterically, but at the same time it’s real funny.” -Seth Green
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“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.” -Candace Bushnell
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“I joke around a lot about the manic times because they’re funny. We manics do outrageous things and it is part of our colorful nature.” -Patty Duke
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“I like all Jim Carrey films. They’re really funny.” -Rupert Grint
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“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.” -Howard Stern
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“I’m not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? I’m really kind of stupid at home and more serious in public.” -Roland Joffe
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“It’s funny, because I did all of these interviews as soon as I had the baby, and they were asking questions, and I really didn’t have an idea of anything, because I was so blurry.” -Emily Procter
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“That’s a funny thing, fame. People definitely do treat you differently. When you begin to be successful, people say, ‘Don’t go changing.’ Well, that’s easy to say, but the fact is, you don’t change at all – other people do.” -Jonathan Rhys Meyers
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“I tell girls all the time that the men that have fallen in love with me, have all fallen during a man repeller stage… funny how life works out like that.” -Rachel Roy
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“I think it’s really important for celebrities to use their power of money and fame to get their voices out there. It’s funny to me that we’re expected to keep quiet just because of who we are. Why do I lose my right to speak my mind because I’m famous?” -Lisa Edelstein
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“I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it’s often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation.” -Pharrell Williams
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“I think that Obama is very cool. And I think he’s clever, and I think he can be witty. But I don’t think he’s funny in either the way that Reagan was funny – or John McCain and Dick Cheney are both funny in that ruthless, kind of mean way.” -Mo Rocca
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“We want to be funny. We want to make people laugh… We’ll do whatever it takes.” -Colin Mochrie
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“But, sooner or later I’d love to do a comedy. I mean I think that, you know, people don’t think that that’s in my wheelhouse because I’ve sort of played a lot of dramatic stuff and that’s certainly a side of myself that I want at some point in the right context, in the right…
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“I love nerds. Comic-Con junkies are the tastemakers of tomorrow. Isn’t that funny? The tables have turned.” -Kristen Bell
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“I think the Cold War works as a great analogy or simile for different kinds of conflict. It’s funny, when you look back at it, it’s one of the last times that the boundaries were clear. Now, as we see on ‘Homeland,’ there are no clear boundaries and enemies.” -Matthew Rhys
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“I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips.” -R. L. Stine
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“The token gay character is always so funny and so fantastic. That’s happened a lot. Or they’re often purely victims.” -Ezra Miller
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“It’s funny – nowadays people that are famous get chased by paparazzi. They have this fame, but they don’t have the money to hide from it.” -Matt LeBlanc
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“You can’t be funny for funny’s sake. You try to get as outrageous situation as you can but it always has to be believable and based in real character motivations and what people would really do.” -Hank Azaria
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“It’s funny, because I sometimes feel that I’m most creative when I’m pregnant.” -Georgina Chapman
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“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.” -Don Van Vliet
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“If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.” -Mary Douglas
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“Back in the ’70s, like one of my favorite movies ever was ‘The Bad News Bears’, and that was a kids’ movie, but I don’t think of it that way. I think of it as just a great movie because Walter Matthau was so funny and so harsh with those kids.” -Jack Black
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“It’s sort of an action flick. You can’t be that funny trying to steal diamonds.” -Anthony Anderson
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“I actually was class clown, but I don’t know how that happened because I’ve never been considered an outwardly funny person.” -Janeane Garofalo
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“Comedy is surprises, so if you’re intending to make somebody laugh and they don’t laugh, that’s funny.” -Norm MacDonald
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“Scream was great for what it was. For a horror film, it was intelligent, it was funny, it took a laugh at itself.” -Neve Campbell
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“I think there’s something in the fact that it’s hard to be good looking and funny. You have to have an oddball quality people have to sympathise with you to find you funny.” -Chris O’Dowd
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“One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.” -Bill Murray
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“For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings – by classmates, not the nuns – was to be the funny guy.” -George A. Romero
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“I do find comedy difficult. I don’t know why. Maybe I think about it too much. There’s a tremendous amount of pressure to be funny.” -Michelle Pfeiffer
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“I don’t dismiss the music that I was involved with, I don’t think it was a joke, I don’t think it was funny or a phase, I don’t think it was just something I was doing back then, to me it was who I am. It connects all the way through. I don’t distance myself…
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“Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor, but I always knew who was funny, who to hang out with.” -Andrew Stanton
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“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.” -Sugar Ray Leonard
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“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.” -Keenen Ivory Wayans
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“Life is funny and it is interesting how we make it as serious as possible.” -Elisha Cuthbert
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“It’s funny – I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I’m rounder in the face, I like to say, ‘This is my long-term look.’ Or ‘This is my wife-and-kids look right here.’” -Garrett Hedlund
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“This is the great thing about Northern Ireland. I walk down the street and people stop me and say things like, ‘I know you. You’re that wee golfer, aren’t you?’ I say, ‘Yeah, that’s me.’ They say, ‘Keep it up, wee man.’ It’s very funny and that’s why I want to stay here as long…
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“You know how it is with writing. You just write what you want to write. There’s no way to predict what is good or bad. You just do what you think is funny, and either it works or you’re finished. It’s impossible to predict anything.” -Colin Quinn
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“I’ve dated some women who have turned me on to some funny things that are strange for men to actually do, but these things have become part of my process. I think the things I do for my appearance help make me look better. I even colour my hair because I like how it makes…
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“People don’t realize that I’m really funny and I’m an excellent bridge player.” -Sheryl Crow
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“People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.” -Mark Ruffalo
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“I think I would say ‘The King’s Speech’ is surprisingly funny, in fact the audiences in London, Toronto, LA, New York commented there’s more laughter in this film than in most comedies, while it is also a moving tear-jerker with an uplifting ending.” -Tom Hooper
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“The funny thing is that I write and I act a lot about being Jewish, but I don’t really think about it as a regular person.” -Liev Schreiber
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“It’s funny, when people talk about the 70s I can tell you the year of every album but when it comes to the later efforts I can’t remember the exact years, it’s funny isn’t it?” -Steve Hackett
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“And the funny thing is, I’ve always been an optimist – it’s practically a congenital disorder with me.” -Molly Ivins
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“It’s funny how intimate it feels to get a text.” -Sophie Ellis Bextor
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“I knew exactly what to do on Alien, it was funny.” -Ridley Scott
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“I come more to Scotland than I ever used to, so I feel more connected to it, more part of the zeitgeist. You know when you realize you have a choice and I’m choosing my homeland. It’s funny: when you get older these things creep up to you.” -Alan Cumming
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“It’s funny, because when you’re younger you’re in a rush to be 18 or 21 or whatever. But then you hit 30. And now, the days go by like hours. You think, 40, man, this could be the halfway point. It could be the three-quarters point, you know? Who knows?” -Mark Wahlberg
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“I’m one of those hovering mothers and I know it’s really important to have an independent child, so I’m trying to back off, but it’s hard. I love him so much, and he’s so funny and cute to me.” -Selma Blair
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“Some people say funny things, but I say things funny.” -Don Rickles
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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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“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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“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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“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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