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Found 100 quotes matching your search: (limited to first 100 results.)  It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse. Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
| | A funny thing happened to me on the way to the White House. Author: Adlai Stevenson
| | We have never been strictly political, only strictly funny. Author: Adrian Edmondson
| | It's funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can't even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of. Author: Aimee Mann
| | 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. Author: Al Franken
| | It's funny, but when there are dominant teams, there are a number of people who rail about the fact that they're always seeing the Dallas Cowboys or the San Francisco 49ers or the Green Bay either in the playoffs or in the Super Bowl. Author: Al Michaels
| | 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. Author: Alan Ladd
| | About 100 things that your kid will do that will surprise you and break your heart and it will be a combination of fact based therapy, medically advised kinds of passages accompanied by celebrity anecdotes and just some funny stuff to lighten the load. Author: Alan Thicke
| | That's something - you laugh about Eminem... It's funny, man, because I didn't like him when he first came out, ya know. It seemed like a big joke. But I think the guy's for real, and I like his lyrics! Author: Alan Vega
| | But it is funny, because I saw Unbreakable recently and it's a strange movie, I didn't mind it, and it's got some interesting things going on. Author: Alex Winter
| | Same thing, like my commercials are often times really funny because I tend to find 30 seconds is a really good amount of time to tell a joke. Author: Alex Winter
| | Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial. Author: Allen Klein
| | If you can be funny, it means you're intelligent. Your brain is working fast. Author: Amber Valletta
| | I can't imagine actually singing on this show like I did on 'Felicity,' but it would be kind of funny. Author: Amy Jo Johnson
| | 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. Author: Amy Poehler
| | Since she got a cause and stopped being funny. I think she's real funny, but lately it's all been hearts and flowers and tears and saving teenagers and creating a role model. And that ain't funny. No giggles there. Author: Andy Richter
| | I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell? Author: Andy Warhol
| | I am odd-looking. I sometimes think I look like a funny Muppet. Author: Angelina Jolie
| | I'm odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet. Author: Angelina Jolie
| | My little dog, he did not get ill. It is so funny that people get ill on a boat and dogs do not. Author: Anna Held
| | No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was. Author: Annie Leibovitz
| | I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house. Author: Anthony Anderson
| | I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion. Author: Anthony Anderson
| | It's sort of an action flick. You can't be that funny trying to steal diamonds. Author: Anthony Anderson
| | 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. Author: Anthony Holden
| | Steve Martin is one of the most intelligent, well-read human beings that I've ever come across. He is equally as funny off screen as he is on. But he also has a very intellectual side, and he's a really nice human being. We actually become good friends. Author: Anthony LaPaglia
| | It's funny, like 15 years ago when I was a kid doing all the John Hughes movies, I remember Bruce Willis was the only guy who was transitioning from television into film. Author: Anthony Michael Hall
| | 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. Author: Artie Lange
| | 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. Author: Ashley Judd
| | What's funny is my husband doesn't have any tattoos at all, so he must be the very conservative one. Author: Ashley Scott
| | When Frank the Pug is singing I Will Survive, the only reason it's funny is that Will is in that shot trying not to get angry. A shot of a dog singing I Will Survive on its own will not get a laugh. Author: Barry Sonnenfeld
| | I did. I did see Bigfoot when I was a kid and I still believe it to this day. I saw a big furry man outside my window. It's not funny! It was real. Author: Barry Watson
| | I don't think know if anything's going to translate anywhere. You're making a movie, you hope it's going to be funny, you can't think about how it's going to go over. Author: Ben Stiller
| | I don't think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time. Author: Ben Stiller
| | I love New York. I was sad, depressed and incredibly moved by our fellow countrymen and what they've done. I wanted to give people a chance to see something funny, have a distraction. Author: Ben Stiller
| | 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. Author: Ben Stiller
| | Some really good things kind of swing both ways and I like to see people that can swing really, really, really sad and horrible and terrible and really, really, really beautiful and funny. Author: Beth Henley
| | There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God. Author: Bill Cosby
| | Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting. Author: Bill Gates
| | It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious. Author: Bill Hicks
| | Kyle Baker's work is really funny, but it's also got a very clear vision. Author: Bill Sienkiewicz
| | 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. Author: Billy Bob Thornton
| | From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that's what I had to do. Author: Billy Crystal
| | I can't be funny if my feet don't feel right. Author: Billy Crystal
| | If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you. Author: Billy Wilder
| | 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. Author: Bjork
| | Funny is funny is funny. Author: Bob Newhart
| | I'm doing 5000 seat theaters and audiences are going nuts, it's fantastic and it makes me very happy. I'm dirty, but not like this; I just do comedy that I find funny. I'm working on a new tv show for cable and it's not set up yet. Author: Bob Saget
| | It was a JOB; the video show was a JOB; you don't tell the Aristocrats joke at 8 o'clock at night on network tv, it would be funny though. But those guys know I like dirty stuff, I like clean stuff too. Author: Bob Saget
| | Yet there are some people - Steve Allen would dissect comedy forever; he's a really funny guy, but he would love talking about comedy. I'm doing it right now and you all seem bored. Author: Bob Saget
| | A comedian's body is funny as well as his mind being funny, his whole personage is funny. Author: Bobby Darin
| | In comedy, though, it's good to get feedback from the audience about what they find funny. Author: Bobby Farrelly
| | Well what's funny is, again, people say they believed what was going on, but again, Bob's hands are about three times bigger than his feet. So these are very caricatured. Author: Brad Bird
| | But I believe that there are marriages where you can have your pool table and she can have her scrapbooking room or garden or whatever it is. But when everyone has what they want, it's not funny. There's no conflict. Author: Brad Garrett
| | It's so funny that people specify that year because in a way it was the biggest battle for me health wise. Author: Brady Anderson
| | I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny. Author: Brendan Fraser
| | 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. Author: Britney Spears
| | Well, I had said to my friends, it's going to be good, but I bet it's going to be cheesy in a way. And I didn't think that at all. It's so good and was just so funny. Author: Brittany Snow
| | Is it spoken word? Kinda, but that's a weird area. Is it comedy? Well, it's funny but no, it's not comedy. Author: Bruce McCulloch
| | You know, funny is this weird word for me. I hear is so many times it has no meaning anymore. Author: Bruce McCulloch
| | One time when somebody showed up in a wedding dress, but I never knew if it was a joke, or she was serious. She asked me to marry her. She was serious. It was pretty funny. Author: Bryan White
| | You know, he would go and look at different funny books because he wanted his character to be different and make different faces. I saw a funny book in his room and it looked like the same character he was playing. It was about a duck. Author: Bubba Smith
| | Our characters were antiseptic but we weren't. And if you remember what we did on BATMAN, as the scripts were written very funny, we played them very straight. Author: Burt Ward
| | Why would they have gone to the trouble to hire the best comedy writers in the business to write funny material for us to play straight, if the children in our audience were the only audience. Author: Burt Ward
| | A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it. Author: Calista Flockhart
| | It's so funny how my name has always been such a big deal. When I was growing up, my family was always moving. I had to meet new people all the time. And they'd laugh. Author: Calista Flockhart
| | I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that. Author: Campbell Scott
| | 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. Author: Candace Bushnell
| | It was funny, when I thought of it afterward, how Ruth and Gehrig looked as they stood there. The Babe must have been waiting for me to get the ball up a little so he could get his bat under it. Author: Carl Hubbell
| | A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a funny bone - you either have it or you don't. And by the way - when you get it, we don't know it. Author: Carl Reiner
| | It's funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there'd be 800,000 people at that game, I think. Author: Carlton Fisk
| | It's funny because I think it also goes very well with the show. It has this reputation as being this love city where everyone goes to get married, but when you get there, it's very corny and tacky. Author: Caroline Dhavernas
| | We're kind of the comic relief of this movie because most of the stories are very dark. And that's why these plays were so great, because it's such a dark, dark universe that it becomes funny because it's just too pathetic. Author: Caroline Dhavernas
| | I was the class clown at school, but at home, my family wasn't very funny. Author: Carrot Top
| | If I can't see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny? Author: Casey Affleck
| | They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What's funny about that? Author: Casey Stengel
| | Don't remember me as too nice or beautiful or funny, because then you'll be disappointed. Author: Celia Johnson
| | 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. Author: Charisma Carpenter
| | The thing that's funny is that everyone thinks I'm dead. Author: Charles Nelson Reilly
| | The funny thing is, the music that I'm writing now is probably some of the most cutting edge we've ever done. The music that I'm thinking about putting on our next album. Author: Charlie Daniels
| | I saw 28 Days. I don't remember rehab being like a day camp or being that funny. Rehab is a dumping ground. It's a big landfill. Author: Charlie Sheen
| | I had spent many years before I was 31 hearing people tell me, Oh Man, you're so funny, you need to be in television. But that and a quarter won't get you on a bus. Author: Chi McBride
| | My family's always been really funny. I feel like comedy's hard. I feel like it's so important. Author: Christine Taylor
| | Since it's based on my parents, it's more emotionally close to me than some of my more surreal plays. And then I like the balance of the comic and the sad. It should play as funny, but you should care about the characters and feel sad for them. Author: Christopher Durang
| | 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. Author: Christopher Meloni
| | It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget. Author: Chuck Palahniuk
| | When something is truly funny, it's funny all the time. Author: Cloris Leachman
| | We want to be funny. We want to make people laugh... We'll do whatever it takes. Author: Colin Mochrie
| | He is very dry but also very funny... I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be. Author: Colin Quinn
| | You know, the funny thing about Lorne and that show is that, you can go over one million things, but in a business of bean counters, he still likes to laugh at small things and creates a show around it. Author: Colin Quinn
| | It's funny; I actually made poorer decisions when I sobered up then when I was screwed up. Author: Corey Feldman
| | It's funny how most activists are pacifists. Author: Craig Bruce
| | It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals. Author: Craig Bruce
| | Jonathan Lynn is one of the last actors Orsen Welles used in a production. It was wonderful. He's very sharp, very sharp. It's funny I've been asked how weird it was to have a Brit do a church gospel movie. Author: Cuba Gooding, Jr.
| | I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh. Author: D. L. Hughley
| | But it was this tough little character part that I was playing, a very funny little guy that I invented over a weekend, because I realized I was not contributing to the humor of this thing. And I had to do something. Author: Dabney Coleman
| | But movies as much as anything developed what I thought was right and wrong, what was honorable, what wasn't, what was funny what wasn't... what had some depth to it, what didn't. Author: Dabney Coleman
| | Courtney Love is really cool and funny. I would like to meet Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz. I think I could play their daughters. Author: Dakota Fanning
| | In the happy scenes there were really fun times. Sean would say really funny stuff because he likes to improv. I would want to laugh, but you are not allowed to do that during the take. Author: Dakota Fanning
| | It's the cushiest job, but some lines are so funny that I crack up. Author: Dan Castellaneta
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Found 100 quotes containing your search: (limited to first 100 results.) | I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it. Author: Audrey Hepburn
| | We didn't even think about it, you know? I used to collect laser discs, and you'd have some college professor analyzing It's a Wonderful Life or Citizen Kane, and now it is pretty funny - the idea of commentary for a silly kid's movie, you know? Author: Dana Carvey
| | 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. Author: Dana Hill
| | I can always get better. A lot of my ex-girlfriends don't think I'm funny. Author: Dane Cook
| | If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny. Author: Dane Cook
| | The one thing that disturbs me about Alec is that people don't realize that he's really funny. Author: Daniel Baldwin
| | I don't know. I think it's funny! I think it's funny! I go, what? It's so absurd. I'm alone. Author: Danny DeVito
| | Well, you know, I feel like it's about a lot of things. The reason that I made it was because I thought it was really funny and unique and just a different genre. Author: Danny DeVito
| | What you do with it and things like that, but I basically chose this after I read it because I thought it was different and funny and unique and dark - things that I like to do. Author: Danny DeVito
| | 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. Author: Daryl Hall
| | 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. Author: Dave Navarro
| | I think that the episodes are like mini horror films really; the characters make bad decisions early on and these things just snowball for them and get worse and worse. And that's what I find funny. Author: Dave Rowntree
| | The funny thing is that I had never actually watched TV. Author: Dave Willis
| | To be able to make a good living in a challenging medium like soap operas is great. The best is that I get to act and am rewarded for it. And the people I work with are great. Funny, intelligent, hard working. They're all great to be around. Author: David Canary
| | I don't need to convince anybody that I know kung fu, but maybe somebody needs to know that I really can act, without doing a Chinese accent or a funny walk. Author: David Carradine
| | I love doing stuff with Todd Barry and Jon Benjamin. We give the stage to good bands and funny people. Author: David Cross
| | I'll think of the idea and then I'll write something down, then within that there will be a joke or two which is the original thing which I thought was funny. Author: David Cross
| | It's not about trying to be funny all the time. It's more of a document that hopefully is funny. Author: David Cross
| | From Kelsey, I have learned among many other things the value of turning on a dime and how you can have an extremely funny and extremely poignant moment with absolutely no separation in between... and sometimes in the same moment. Author: David Hyde Pierce
| | On some level in acting, what you're trying to find is truth, because when it's true is when it's also funny. Author: David Hyde Pierce
| | Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens. Author: David Hyde Pierce
| | 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. Author: David Ogden Stiers
| | The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible. Author: David Ogilvy
| | 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. Author: David R. Ellis
| | 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. Author: David Sedaris
| | It's funny because it's funny. Author: David Spade
| | We sit in a room for months trying to think of funny things. Author: David Walliams
| | Chevy Chase and Bill Murray - we thought those guys were funny. We love Bill Murray, but we didn't think they were right for Airplane! because it would step on the joke if there was a known comedian. Author: David Zucker
| | I don't think there has been any increase in sophistication in the audience. When people are aware of a concept that's easy to understand, and there's an actor who will attract them to the theater and it's a movie that's funny three-quarters of the time, it will be successful. Author: David Zucker
| | I think that came out of watching all those serious movies for all that time. If you watch a movie like Zero Hour, Sterling Hayden is pretty funny, and so are the guys in the cockpit. Author: David Zucker
| | I've always thought those guys are really funny. And I love Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin and Mary. Author: David Zucker
| | What's funny about Jesus' Son is that I never even wrote that book, I just wrote it down. I would tell these stories and people would say, You should write these things down. Author: Denis Johnson
| | And when you're on your own there is that terrifying possibility that you may be the only person on the planet who thinks it's funny - and you have no way of finding out. Author: Denis Norden
| | I used to like writing for comedians - I enjoyed the challenge of making other people funny. Author: Denis Norden
| | At boarding school you had to wear your name across your chest and your back, and obviously I had a pretty funny name. It wasn't Brown or Smith or Hughes. Author: Diane Cilento
| | I had to audition for the part of Jnior, and I wanted the role terribly because I knew it was a great character. This guy is a wonderful, funny, mean old guy. Author: Dominic Chianese
| | The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and I've seen the fire of the Italian temperament. It can be explosive sometimes in ways that are both funny and tragic. Author: Dominic Chianese
| | 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. Author: Don Bluth
| | I don't think just funny is enough on Broadway. Author: Don Knotts
| | 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. Author: Don Van Vliet
| | 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. Author: Donna Tartt
| | You know I'm an actress, not just a funny lady. Author: Doris Roberts
| | There's nothing cure or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off. Author: Doug Coupland
| | Robert Altman's Nashville is my all-time favorite film because it covers all the bases - it's original, moving, and has something to say, but also funny and incredibly entertaining. Author: Douglas Wood
| | Nothing's funny about someone who's successful. Author: Drew Carey
| | I'm 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I'm playing right where I'm supposed to be. I'm comfortable with that, but in the same breath I'd do something edgy. If someone came to me and offered me an edgy and funny story, then I'd do it. Author: Eddie Murphy
| | It's funny. Of all the jobs I've been ambitious for, this is one that never crossed my mind. Author: Edmund S. Muskie
| | It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method. Author: Edward Hopper
| | People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant. Author: Ellen DeGeneres
| | Things that go on at Happy Times are very funny this year, and if you were watching last year, some of the people you saw then as basically extras emerge as real characters in their own right this season, at least to some degree. Author: Ellen Muth
| | 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. Author: Emily Mortimer
| | I like the idea of being out there regularly with an audience and with a funny gang of people. That's what I grew up with - doing television, doing shows every week. Author: Eric Idle
| | To me, the musical is best when it's a musical comedy. So if you have a very, very funny show, and very good, funny songs, that's what the musical does best. Author: Eric Idle
| | I'm doing a very funny show in which we talk about issues. I speak at Aids charities and things. It's great to do something fun with our days and yet we're told we're doing something important. Author: Eric McCormack
| | Sylvester Stallone is very funny and he's a great guy to hang out with. Author: Eric Roberts
| | It's funny how making odd noises can get you into strange situations sometimes. Author: Eric San
| | A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book. Author: Ernest Hemingway
| | I think it's so funny when people think they can't control a movie star. They can. We're just women, you know. Author: Esther Williams
| | When you're out of sight for as long as I was, there's a funny feeling of betrayal that comes over people when they see you again. Author: Esther Williams
| | We went through all the scenes and they became kind of funny and they expanded a little bit and because it seemed to be working so well in the movie, they added a couple of things later on in the movie and that's how it turned out. Author: Eugene Levy
| | So, I'm the Eighth Wonder of the World. It's flattering and very, very funny. Author: Eva Longoria
| | 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. Author: Fanny Brice
| | Funny is an attitude. Author: Flip Wilson
| | Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody. Author: Florenz Ziegfeld
| | And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy. Author: Fran Drescher
| | 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. Author: Francois Truffaut
| | I am accusing him of stealing my best material, he was a very funny man. Author: Frank Carson
| | God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny. Author: Garrison Keillor
| | But I really like hosting, I think it's a strength of mine. It allows me to improvise, and I love the spontaneity of that, and I think I'm funny behind the desk when interviewing someone. Author: Garry Shandling
| | Carol Burnett was particularly funny. She swore for the first time on television on Larry Sanders. Author: Garry Shandling
| | Here's the thing - I'm single, I haven't been married, I don't have kids yet. If I do have kids I would be interested to see them in my life, so here's a movie for kids and I'm in there and I'm supposed to be kind of funny for kids. Author: Garry Shandling
| | I think sometimes I should do more carousing, because I don't do much and maybe it would be fun occasionally. It's hard for me to have fun and I'm a serious thinker and a searcher and funny from the front. Author: Garry Shandling
| | You know it's funny that none of the regular late-night shows now use guest hosts the way Johnny did. No one talks about it much, but it's curious that they don't do it. They would each have to be asked the reason why they don't. Author: Garry Shandling
| | It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment! Author: Garth Brooks
| | Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning you got off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you're in a slump. If you lose at the end, you're choking. Author: Gene Mauch
| | I don't mean to sound - I don't want it to come out funny, but I don't like show business. I love - I love acting in films. I love it. Author: Gene Wilder
| | I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track. But yes, I don't like to get Maudlin. And I have a tendency towards it. Author: Gene Wilder
| | I'm not so funny. Gilda was funny. I'm funny on camera sometimes. In life, once in a while. Once in a while. But she was funny. She spent more time worrying about being liked than anything else. Author: Gene Wilder
| | Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. Author: George Bernard Shaw
| | It's good to be funny when you are a comedian. Author: George Lindsey
| | Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Lifes a very funny proposition after all. Author: George M. Cohan
| | Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion. Author: George Orwell
| | I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go. Author: Gertrude Stein
| | It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger. Author: Gertrude Stein
| | It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son. Author: Gertrude Stein
| | The pressure to being a comedian is being funny, but I've given that up, so there is no pressure whatsoever. Author: Gilbert Gottfried
| | It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified. Author: Gilbert K. Chesterton
| | 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. Author: Gillian Anderson
| | You didn't want to laugh, did you? It wasn't very funny, was it? Author: Graham Kennedy
| | If you're talking about Java in particular, Python is about the best fit you can get amongst all the other languages. Yet the funny thing is, from a language point of view, JavaScript has a lot in common with Python, but it is sort of a restricted subset. Author: Guido van Rossum
| | You know, I said I have this problem that I need to more carefully read Akron's text because it's too much, too much fantasy, and so I am busy with other stuff - it's funny, it's nice to hear that someone is studying that carefully and now I know a little bit more about that. Author: H. R. Giger
| | You know, it was just another presentation of my work, and a funny one, because the cards are quite different from the normal Tarot deck, no? Author: H. R. Giger
| | I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred. Author: Harold Brodkey
| | Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it. Author: Harold Ramis
| | Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny. Author: Harold Ramis
| | I'm not a believer in the pratfall. I don't think it's funny just to have someone fall down. Author: Harold Ramis
| | Funny is when you're serious. Author: Harvey Korman
| | You asked what is the secret of a really good sketch. And it is a sketch is a small play. It's got a beginning, and a middle and an end. It should have a plot; it should have the characters, conflict. It is a little play. And in it, will be funny stuff. Author: Harvey Korman
| | It's funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay emotionally coming and going. Neither has it easy. Author: Hedy Lamarr
| | It's funny to have become an elegant skier now. But my drive is still the same. Author: Hermann Maier
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