Famous Quotes
- One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.
- Bill Murray on Funny
- One picture is worth 1,000 denials.
- Ronald Reagan on Funny
- One time I went into a restroom and a girl followed me in. I signed an autograph for her in the sink. It was pretty funny because she was in a guy's restroom and she wasn't embarrassed at all.
- 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 on Funny
- Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
- Laurence J. Peter on Funny
- Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
- Lewis Mumford on Funny
- Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.
- Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
- Samuel Butler on Funny
- Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish.
- Chevy Chase on Funny
- People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.
- Ellen DeGeneres on Funny
- 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 on Funny
- 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.
- People don't realize that I'm really funny and I'm an excellent bridge player.
- Sheryl Crow on Funny
- 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 on Funny
- 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 on Funny
- 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 on Funny
- People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'
- Al Yankovic on Funny
- People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny.
- Richard Russo on Funny
- People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.
- Mark Ruffalo on Funny
- People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
- Logan P. Smith on Funny
- 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 on Funny
- People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
- Isaac Asimov on Funny
- Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.
- Michael Pollan on Funny
- Polite conversation is rarely either.
- Fran Lebowitz on Funny
- 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 on Funny
- Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
- Don Marquis on Funny
- Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
- James Thurber on Funny
- 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.
- Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.
- Ronald Reagan on Funny
- Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.
- George Burns on Funny
- Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.
- Oscar Levant on Funny
- 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 on Funny
- Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.
- 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 on Funny
- Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.
- Adam Sandler on Funny
- Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
- Brooke Shields on Funny
- So it was just funny to read a script that was just similar to what had been going on in my life.
- Piper Perabo on Funny
- 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 on Funny
- So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.
- Al Yankovic on Funny
- 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 on Funny
- Some of the writers I admire who seem very, very funny and very emotional to me can develop a closeness with the reader without giving too much of themselves away. Lorrie Moore comes to mind, as does David Sedaris. When they write, the reader thinks that they're being trusted as a friend.
- Sloane Crosley on Funny
- Some people can do things and get away with it. Comics are famously like that. Why is it that some guys can say the most horrible things and it's not offensive, it's funny?
- Christopher Walken on Funny
- Some people say funny things, but I say things funny.
- Don Rickles on Funny
- Someone told me that when they go to Vermont, they feel like they're home. I'm that way at Saks.
- Caroline Rhea on Funny
- Something about New York, man: You can do more comedy there probably than you can anywhere in the world. If you're interested in being funny, New York is the place to go.
- Dave Chappelle on Funny
- 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 on Funny
- Sometimes I feel like there are people just waiting for me to fall. The funny thing is, I can't give them anything. I have just never been a partier, even in school.
- Jordin Sparks on Funny
- Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.
- Doris Lessing on Funny
- Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens.
- David Hyde Pierce on Funny
- Sometimes laughing isn't the best judge of what's funny, 'cause I think there's a lot of things that are really funny that don't make you laugh, that don't make you physically, audibly make a noise, but is something that is much more powerful than that.
- Tim Heidecker on Funny
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