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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“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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“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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“Most of the gaffes I’ve made have not been funny – they’ve been stupid.” -Jim Lehrer
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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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“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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“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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“I love Charlie, Billy Burke’s character. Writing for him is so spectacular, he’s so funny and wry and every scene he’s in he just takes. There’s a scene in ‘Eclipse’ where Bella tells him she’s a virgin, and it’s the funniest, most awkward scene I’ve ever seen on film.” -Melissa Rosenberg
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“It’s funny how I use social media because I don’t use it to promote my restaurants that much. I use it for social issues and I think that’s what it’s for. I do a few things – I mess around with music a lot because that’s a passion of mine. If something strikes me and…
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“It’s funny how most activists are pacifists.” -Craig Bruce
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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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“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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“I think a lot of times on TV we see caricatures – that’s what’s funny.” -Mayim Bialik
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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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“It’s funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!” -Garth Brooks
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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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“Politicians… talk in generalities and lies, and I think they’ve caused all our grief. They’re so awful, they’re really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics.” -Paul Lynde
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“Leno, Conan. They are both really funny. They really know how to land one.” -Jimmy Fallon
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“The things that make me angry still make me angry. George Carlin is 67, and he’s still as funny as he’s ever been, and he’s still angry. And that makes me feel good, because I feel like if I stick around long enough, I’ll still be able to work.” -Denis Leary
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“‘Funny People’ is my favorite performance of myself to date. Even though it’s a comedy and there are serious moments, I really felt like Leo felt like a real person. It didn’t feel like I was playing myself. Whether it’s a comedy or drama, I just try to make it as realistic as possible.” -Jonah…
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“I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It’s not very funny, but it’s sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.” -Tahar Ben Jelloun
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“When I was doing ensemble theater and comedy work, I felt I had some talents. But when I started doing my shows in Berkeley and found that I could be funny on my own, I was shocked.” -Whoopi Goldberg
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“Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.” -Tobias Wolff
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“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.” -Phillip Noyce
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“To me, what separates a funny movie from a good movie is something personal.” -Seth Rogen
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“As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965, I didn’t know that funny women existed. It wasn’t until I got back to England that I realised women could be funny.” -Jenny Eclair
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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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“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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“For some reason and I don’t know why, but I don’t think that I’m funny in California. So I always want to do my movies east somewhere.” -Kevin James
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“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.” -Joe Rogan
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“But with comedy it’s a simple premise. If it’s funny, people laugh. If it’s not, they don’t.” -Steve Coogan
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“It’s funny, though, with films, because you can incorporate a variety of elements, and sometimes that can work for you and sometimes I think it can work against you.” -Guy Pearce
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“I used to say I wanted somebody funny and intelligent, but kindness is the most important quality in a man.” -Cat Deeley
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“Working with Chaplin was very amusing and strange. His films are so funny, but working with him, I found him to be a very serious man. Whereas the films of Hitchcock are macabre, he could be a very funny man to work with, always telling jokes and holding court. Of course, when I worked with…
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“I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive.” -Ian Mcewan
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“Comedians don’t laugh. They’re too busy analyzing why it’s funny or not.” -James Lipton
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“What was really funny is that as I got older all those guys who called me a sissy in junior high school wanted me to be their best friend because they wanted to meet all the girls that I knew in figure skating.” -Scott Hamilton
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“I can’t not find humor in elements of most parts of life, but at the same time nothing ever seems perpetually funny to me.” -Greg Kinnear
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“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.” -Nigella Lawson
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“If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what’s funny in the joke.” -Richard Russo
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“I took ‘P.S. I Love You’ thinking it was going to be a little funny, and I ended up crying every day on that film.” -Hilary Swank
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“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.” -Emma Stone
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“There are so many funny women in the world, and there has been for so many years, so I’ll be happy when people can just move on from that, and things can just be ‘comedies’ and not ‘female’ or ‘male,’ and everyone gets an equal opportunity.” -Kristen Wiig
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“It’s interesting that whenever I meet some of the other Bond girls, I always have something in common, and it is an interesting sorority. We all share about our Bonds. ‘Did your Bond do that?’ ‘Yes mine did!’ So it is quite funny conversations. We may as well be in high school.” -Jane Seymour
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“You know, Stephen says, in the movies no one ever goes to the bathroom. They shave, they brush their teeth. He goes right at this sort of funny taboo we have about the bathroom, and he turned it into this nightmare, you know, your worst fear of what’s in there.” -Lawrence Kasdan
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“Funny is not a color. Being black is only good from the time you get from the curtain to the microphone.” -Flip Wilson
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“I don’t believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It’s funny because it’s ridiculous and it’s ridiculous for different reasons at different times.” -Jackie Mason
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“But if something funny happens, I can’t resist. I have to tell the people.” -Kathy Griffin
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“I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.” -Dan Stevens
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“I’ve always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.” -Carl Hiaasen
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“I was the little, funny one. I felt I was the child among grown women.” -Julie Walters
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“It’s a real primal thing, watching someone get hurt. It’s funny and accessible.” -Johnny Knoxville
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“It’s a funny thing – when I’m crazed with work, spending time with my children relaxes me. Yet, at the end of a long weekend with them, the very thing I need to relax is a little work and time away from them!” -Emily Giffin
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“It’s really funny because the same people who loved me as Stringer Bell were the same people that were watching ‘Daddy’s Little Girls’ literally in tears.” -Idris Elba
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“Sometimes people get mad at The Simpsons’ subversive story telling, but there’s another message in there, which is a celebration of making wild, funny stories.” -Matt Groening
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“I can always get better. A lot of my ex-girlfriends don’t think I’m funny.” -Dane Cook
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“I didn’t plan to be the rude middle-class comedian. You write a certain type of joke that you find funny, and mine happen to be often rude. Yes, it’s juvenile, but that’s me.” -Jimmy Carr
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“Only bad golfers are lucky. They’re the ones bouncing balls off trees, curbs, turtles and cars. Good golfers have bad luck. When you hit the ball straight, a funny bounce is bound to be unlucky.” -Lee Trevino
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“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.” -Thom Yorke
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“We sit in a room for months trying to think of funny things.” -David Walliams
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“I love a smart, well-written show, and ’30 Rock,’ well, you can’t get any better than that. Tina Fey poos funny. There’s nothing that she does that isn’t funny. That show is an example of how brilliant she is. It’s so smart. They’ve done some brilliant commentary about the ‘Housewives’ with ‘Queen of Jordan,’ their…
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“I am accusing him of stealing my best material, he was a very funny man.” -Frank Carson
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“When I first envisioned ‘Funny Games’ in the mid-1990s, it was my intention to have an American audience watch the movie. It is a reaction to a certain American cinema, its violence, its naivety, the way American cinema toys with human beings. In many American films, violence is made consumable.” -Michael Haneke
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“Women’s humor seems to be a little more supportive. It’s just kind of trying to make the other one laugh through funny voices and kind of talking about other people. I respond to that. I feel less like I’m going to get beat up in a room full of women than I do in a…
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“See, I don’t really go after girls. Most of the girlfriends I’ve had have come after me. So it’s really funny when girls get offended because I don’t hit on them.” -Kellan Lutz
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“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.” -Mike Myers
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“I was doing sketches that were funny but socially irresponsible. I felt I was deliberately being encouraged and I was overwhelmed.” -Dave Chappelle
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“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.” -Robert Downey, Jr.
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“People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’” -Al Yankovic
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“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.” -Joel Coen
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“The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that’s about it.” -Arthur Smith
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“‘Married with Children’ was racy. It was sexist. It was a lot of things, but mostly it was funny.” -Katey Sagal
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“My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn’t gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.” -Ian Hislop
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“It’s funny recently I’ve started to notice people’s impersonations of me, and it’s basically like a hyperactive child.” -Dave Grohl
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“It’s funny I actually made poorer decisions when I sobered up then when I was screwed up.” -Corey Feldman
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“I don’t really have a type of guy I like. It’s just like nice guys, cute boys I mean, ones that are funny.” -Emma Roberts
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“I wish I could be as thin as Jessica Simpson. I think she looks gorgeous! I have had Jessica on my show several times, and I can tell you that girl is genuine and funny with a great self-deprecating sense of humor.” -Rachael Ray
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“And at the time, it is funny how you can look at something and say, for example with my shoulder injury, when it first happened I said this is the worst thing that could happen to me. Why me, why now? Now I look back and say it was probably the best thing that happened…
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“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…
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“I recently spent quite a bit of time in Sheffield, England, which is where I’m from. I wouldn’t move back there, but it’s funny when you spend a bit of time in the place where you were brought up. You kind of realize how that place has had quite a big effect on you or…
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“When I was a kid I didn’t feel like I fit in because – this is really silly and I probably shouldn’t say it, but, I didn’t think anything was funny. So I used to go home and literally cry to my mom and my step-dad at the time and I didn’t think anything was…
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“I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn’t want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that.” -Jamie Foxx
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“For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents.” -James Herriot
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“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.” -Billy Bob Thornton
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“I tell you, it’s funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.” -Magic Johnson
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“A comedian’s body is funny as well as his mind being funny, his whole personage is funny.” -Bobby Darin
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“I want to be in ‘Funny Girl.’ And I want Ryan Murphy to direct it.” -Lea Michele
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“It would be pretty funny to see a Beverly Hills white girl with mad rap skills.” -Tori Spelling
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“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.” -Fanny Brice
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“Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.” -Larry Hagman
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“That’s why I like to get out there, and get people to see the other side of Mitt, and know us in a different reflection when you see the family and how funny he is with the boys and with the grandkids. And you know, just what a super guy he is. That’s part of…
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“Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I can be even remotely amusing.” -Rowan Atkinson
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“I’m never afraid to try something if I think it’s funny. And I know I’ll regret it if I don’t.” -Seann William Scott
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“My size has helped make me an amazing performer too. The cliche of the Funny Fat Friend: I absolutely was that character – I am that character… It’s a complicated bag of tools I acquired, and I’ve put them all to work onstage.” -Beth Ditto
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“It sounds funny, but the 2008 Olympics were something that just kind of happened, and I was lucky they came at a point when I was uninjured and well prepared. As a gymnast, you can’t ask for much more.” -Shawn Johnson
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“This may sound funny, but as much as the ‘Today’ show matured me, it also was something of a cocoon. I’d been happy there. I never went into the boss’s office and pounded my fist on the desk, saying, ‘Give me more money! Give me a prime-time show!’” -Jane Pauley
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“I think I’m funny because my family, my siblings were funny.” -Martin Short
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“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.” -Bjork
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“I show them the funny part, the silly part, the laughing part, the crazy part and then the really deep, deep part where I’m talking from my heart to these people. Because I’ve been through everything they’ve been through.” -Richard Simmons
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“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.” -Luke Wilson
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“I don’t know now if I’m funny. I just keep talking and hope that I hit something that’s funny.” -Craig Ferguson
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“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.’” -Trey Parker
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“TV is easier: it’s all planned out for you and the audience is there to see a show and they are all pumped up but when you are in a comedy club, you have to be really funny to win them over.” -Drew Carey
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“It’s funny because I’m a sucker for glitz and glitter when it comes to clothes and nail polish, but with my makeup, I’m more comfortable with a natural look. It feels more like me.” -Alison Sweeney
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“I’m an unorthodox type of guy, a funny guy – at least I think I’m funny. And one of the things I like to do is come up with nicknames for myself.” -Shaquille O’Neal
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“Hurried and worried until we’re buried, and there’s no curtain call, Lifes a very funny proposition after all.” -George M. Cohan
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“In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They’re short, they’re intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read magazines, and a poem takes less time than an article.” -Caroline Kennedy
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“I don’t have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.” -Vera Farmiga
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“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.” -Theodore Bikel
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“It’s funny. People often compare me to other humor essayists. They’re usually quite nice comparisons I will accept those gladly. But I am always sort of appalled at the idea of being lumped with other, more chick-y female writers. And the truth is probably that neither comparison is accurate.” -Sloane Crosley
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“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.” -Ted Allen
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“For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people shot, killed and blown up, and we find it funny and sexy and all those things. But, the reality of it is that every day people die, and people are really…
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“It’s funny. When I saw the script in my inbox and it said ‘Sparkle,’ I thought, ‘For real? It’s really called ‘Sparkle?” I was wondering, too, how does ‘Jordin Sparks as Sparkle’ sound?” -Jordin Sparks
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“I’m so single. It’s funny. I’m usually a relationship girl. I love being in love and having a partner in crime. But it’s good to be your own partner in crime. God, that makes me sound like I have multiple-personality disorder.” -Brittany Snow
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“I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously.” -Rachel Weisz
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“The word ‘Spanx’ was funny. It made people laugh. No one ever forgot it.” -Sara Blakely
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“It’s funny with fiction – once you cut something, it hasn’t happened anymore.” -George Saunders
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“It’s funny when you’re a kid how you can acclimate to almost anything.” -Adam Carolla
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“I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said.” -Lyn Nofziger
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“As a writer, or as a filmmaker, you have to present yourself, and part of what yourself is is what you’re interested in, or what you think is funny, or what you think is sad, or what you think is horrible.” -Charlie Kaufman
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“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.” -Tim Vine
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“I don’t think, ‘Gee, I’d like to dress this person.’ There was a picture in Us magazine. It was a jersey dress, and Courtney Love was wearing it. I have this thing about Courtney Love, this funny worship.” -Marc Jacobs
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“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?” -Orlando Bloom
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“It was always a fantasy of mine growing up – my favorite program was always ‘Little House on the Prairie’ – so I always wanted to wear those looks. When I was a child, I wouldn’t let my mom put me in anything but calico dresses and now… whaddaya know, every day I’m in a…
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“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.” -Roger Ebert
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“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.” -Christopher Meloni
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“You know, I’ve always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end.” -Fiona Apple
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“I’m very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in ‘Morning Glory’ with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.” -Rachel McAdams
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“This is going to sound really funny. I have a poster of Zac Efron on my wall! I think every girl has a poster of him in their room so, why not join the club!” -Vanessa Hudgens
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“I turned down ‘Some Like It Hot.’ See how smart I am? I felt I couldn’t bring anything funny to it. The outfit was funny. I don’t need to compete with the wardrobe.” -Jerry Lewis
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“It’s funny – if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it’s them.” -Tracey Ullman
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“I mean, sometimes… a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don’t deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of acting is to be truthful, and they get that mixed up sometimes, or don’t even notice that that’s the thing.” -Eddie Izzard
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“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.” -John Krasinski
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“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.” -Britney Spears
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“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.” -David Sedaris
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“I’m just not one of those naturally funny, relaxed actors who enjoy the spotlight and are so good at it.” -Heath Ledger
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“It’s not so much what you learn about Mumbai, it’s what you learn about yourself, really. It’s a funny old hippie thing, but it’s true as well. You find out a lot about yourself and your tolerance, and about your inclusiveness.” -Danny Boyle
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“I was lucky. My family is wonderful. And it’s funny, because most of my best friends come from very large families. So it always felt as if I had lots of siblings, though in the end I had to leave them and go home. I kind of got the best of both worlds as a…
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“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.” -Francois Truffaut
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“When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen.” -Nate Silver
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“I mean it’s funny, playing music, how of course you want it to do well, you want them to like it, but it’s not competitive like an election, it’s the Olympics, it’s not a Formula 1 race. The Billboard charts are just to show you what people like.” -Eddie Van Halen
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“It’s funny how making odd noises can get you into strange situations sometimes.” -Eric San
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“Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It’s a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you are fine.” -Evan Davis
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“It’s funny, as you live through something you’re not aware of it.” -Maya Lin
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“I never know when I am being funny, and the other way too. I don’t think you can think about that. I don’t think you can try to be funny. Some people are just funny.” -Christopher Walken
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“It’s funny: I’m a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it’s been a solitary thing.” -Gary Oldman
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“It’s funny how people who ain’t never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It’s funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, ‘Get up. What’s wrong with you?’” -Ice Cube
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“I tend to head for what’s amusing because a lot of things aren’t happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.” -Maggie Smith
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“The funny thing is, Dennis Miller got me back into comedy.” -Tommy Chong
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“The fans of ‘The Hunger Games,’ of the book, are very passionate. It’s funny: Even at my concerts there are people holding up ‘Cinna’ signs.” -Lenny Kravitz
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“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.” -Tom Petty
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“It’s funny, I can sit through the worst horror film ever made but even a quite good romantic comedy can drive me nuts.” -Jason Reitman
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“People used to be funny about approaching me, but now they seem to think I’m as sane as anyone who’s done what I’ve done in movies can be.” -Philip Seymour Hoffman
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“You know, you can touch a stick of dynamite, but if you touch a venomous snake it’ll turn around and bite you and kill you so fast it’s not even funny.” -Steve Irwin
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“I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny – partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and it’s a way of laughing at it and getting a release.” -Joaquin Phoenix
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“My parents are very funny when they have to deal with anything racy or off-color. They usually pretend they don’t speak English.” -Margaret Cho
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“Well, I mean, if a joke or humor is bawdy, it’s got to be funny enough to warrant it. You can’t just have it bawdy or dirty just for the sake of being that – it’s got to be funny.” -Betty White
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“In this world, everyone wants to know everything about you, and I think that’s funny.” -Leighton Meester
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“It’s funny how many people will come to Vegas to see your show where they might not come out to see you unless you come to their hometown.” -Reba McEntire
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“People don’t want to listen to a celebrity tweeting about their charities and shows. That’s why comedy writers do well – we put out little funny ideas.” -Mindy Kaling
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“I used to say, ‘Man, I think I’d be a really good dad. I’ll be a great provider. I’m funny I’ll go on trips with them – I’ll do all sorts of stuff.’ But the momming? I’m not made for that. I have a really good mom I know what she put into it.” -Elizabeth…
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“You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give ’em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side, they don’t like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot’s mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain.”…
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“At the end of the day it’s got to be a good movie, it’s got to be a funny movie, and it’s got to make people think, ‘Hey, I couldn’t have spent my time any better.’” -Tom Hanks
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“Japanese people have a funny habit of abbreviating names.” -Shigeru Miyamoto
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“I find it very easy playing Bond. I think he’s hilarious. He gets himself into some extraordinarily funny situations.” -Daniel Craig
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“At home in L.A., Sunday is lazy. It’s the wife and me lying in bed with coffee, watching ‘The Soup’ or something funny on TiVo. The kid will occasionally join us. Eventually, breakfast is at a place down the street called Paty’s. And we always have some kind of great dinner – my wife makes…
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“The funny thing is that I’m the girl who no one sees at the beach. Ask anyone who’s traveled with me. Normally, I’m in so many layers, I look like Lawrence of Arabia!” -Vera Wang
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“It’s funny, I do try to maintain health. I started doing Bikram yoga which is that hothouse yoga, the 105 degrees yoga for 90 minutes. It’s great, you purge out all the sweat and you’re drinking water.” -Bryan Cranston
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“Comedy’s so subjective, and if someone comes to watch, doesn’t get it, doesn’t find it funny, then fine.” -Johnny Vegas
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