Famous Quotes
- 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 on Funny
- Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks on Funny
- Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.
- TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
- Frank Lloyd Wright on Funny
- 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 on Funny
- Twitter, to me, works if you're funny. Twitter doesn't work as a promotional tool unless you do it very, very, very occasionally.
- Albert Brooks on Funny
- Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.
- Robert Byrne on Funny
- Very often, I don't make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is making these noises.
- David Ogden Stiers on Funny
- We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.
- Calvin Trillin on Funny
- We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.
- Zach Galifianakis on Funny
- 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 on Funny
- 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 on Funny
- We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.
- Logan P. Smith on Funny
- We sit in a room for months trying to think of funny things.
- David Walliams on Funny
- We want to be funny. We want to make people laugh... We'll do whatever it takes.
- Colin Mochrie on Funny
- We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect.
- Alanis Morissette on Funny
- We've got a bunch of new writers now who tell me they grew up watching The Simpsons. It's bizarre, and they're writing some very funny stuff.
- Matt Groening on Funny
- We've seen some insane signs: 'Is that a loaf of bread in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?' Funny stuff along those lines. Very original. One just said, 'I will do unspeakable things.' I thought that was very interesting - and mildly terrifying!
- Josh Hutcherson on Funny
- Weather forecast for tonight: dark.
- George Carlin on Funny
- 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 on Funny
- 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 on Funny
- Well, I'm not afraid to say something if I think it's funny, even if it's harsh or racist.
- Sarah Silverman on Funny
- Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
- James Thurber on Funny
- What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?
- W. Clement Stone on Funny
- What I don't like is when I see stuff that I know has had a lot of improv done or is playing around where there's no purpose to the scene other than to just be funny. What you don't want is funny scene, funny scene, funny scene, and now here's the epiphany scene and then the movie's over.
- 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 Leslie Caron.
- Dianna Agron on Funny
- What other people call dark and despairing, I call funny.
- David Sedaris on Funny
- 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 on Funny
- 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 on Funny
- What's another word for Thesaurus?
- Steven Wright on Funny
- What's funny about that is when I was writing Twilight just for myself and not thinking of it as a book, I was not thinking about publishing, and yet at the same time I was casting it in my head. Because when I read books, I see them very visually.
- Stephenie Meyer on Funny
- What's funny is my husband doesn't have any tattoos at all, so he must be the very conservative one.
- Ashley Scott on Funny
- What's funny is that the idea of popularity - even the use of the word 'popular' - is something that had been mostly absent from my life since junior high. In fact, the hallmark of life after junior high seemed to be the shedding of popularity as a central concern.
- Susan Orlean on Funny
- What's so great about working with really funny women is that vanity comes second. Whatever makes it real and funny, they're going to go for, and it's just great.
- Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
- George Orwell on Funny
- When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen.
- Nate Silver on Funny
- 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 on Funny
- When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.
- Rita Rudner on Funny
- 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 on Funny
- When I go to a bar, I don't go looking for a girl who knows the capital of Maine.
- David Brenner on Funny
- When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.
- Paul Merton on Funny
- When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
- George Burns on Funny
- 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 funny. I couldn't laugh.
- Courteney Cox on Funny
- When I was a kid I had this funny blonde hair and everyone called me 'Chick' because I looked like Tweety Bird.
- Nicky Hilton on Funny
- When I was a kid, I wanted to be serious, like Daniel Day-Lewis. No one really dreams of being a comic actor, do they? Now I realise how stupid that is - and it's because comic acting isn't taken seriously enough. It's a discipline. You know instantly - either you're funny and getting the laughs, or you're not.
- Chris O'Dowd on Funny
- When I was a little kid, I wrote this play about all these characters living in a haunted house. There was a witch who lived there, and a mummy. When they were all hassling him, this guy who bought the house - I can't believe I remember this - he said to them, 'Who's paying the mortgage on this haunted house?' I thought that was really funny.
- Mindy Kaling on Funny
- 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 on Funny
- 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 the time really goofy and funny.
- Darren Criss on Funny
- 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 on Funny
- When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction.
- Scott Thompson on Funny
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