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Famous Quotes
- Most of my ideas just come out funny.
- Tim Heidecker on Funny
- Most of the gaffes I've made have not been funny - they've been stupid.
- Jim Lehrer on Funny
- 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 how to fix them.
- Nancy Meyers on Funny
- 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 on Funny
- 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 on Funny
- My dad loved to laugh. He was very funny and very silly.
- Mike Myers on Funny
- My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
- Billy Connolly on Funny
- My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.
- Mitch Hedberg on Funny
- My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.
- Spike Milligan on Funny
- My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration.
- Mike Myers on Funny
- My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings.
- Jay London on Funny
- My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
- Erica Jong on Funny
- My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
- Ellen DeGeneres on Funny
- My hair has never been my greatest feature, so that was funny enough unto itself that my hair became so focused on.
- Jennifer Aniston on Funny
- My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.
- Rosie O'Donnell on Funny
- My life needs editing.
- My little dog, he did not get ill. It is so funny that people get ill on a boat and dogs do not.
- My main point is to be funny if I can slip a message in there, fine.
- Flip Wilson on Funny
- My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
- Winston Churchill on Funny
- 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 on Funny
- My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra.
- Angie Dickinson on Funny
- My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.
- Woody Allen on Funny
- 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 to Los Angeles.
- Emma Stone on Funny
- 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 on Funny
- My parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles were all funny, and I felt that energy, that delivery, that timing, that sarcasm. All that stuff seeped into my brain.
- 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 on Funny
- My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.
- Mike Myers on Funny
- My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?
- Margaret Smith on Funny
- My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.
- Jimmy Durante on Funny
- Never fight an inanimate object.
- P. J. O'Rourke on Funny
- Never floss with a stranger.
- Joan Rivers on Funny
- Never have more children than you have car windows.
- Erma Bombeck on Funny
- Never put a sock in a toaster.
- Eddie Izzard on Funny
- Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected.
- Robert Orben on Funny
- Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world.
- Arthur Smith on Funny
- No matter how popular you are as a stand-up - you can go out and fill a 10,000-seat arena and be smart and funny - it's delicate to host an awards show and know where your place is and know that it's not about you, that it's about the people who are nominated, and respect that, but at the same time have your moment to show them who you are.
- Ellen DeGeneres on Funny
- No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was.
- Annie Leibovitz on Funny
- No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I, I, think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know, when I was a child, up to about the age of 12.
- Rowan Atkinson on Funny
- 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 on Funny
- Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
- H. L. Mencken on Funny
- Nothing's funny about someone who's successful.
- Drew Carey on Funny
- 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.
- O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine on Funny
- Oh all the time when Victoria Wood and I did our series. There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still ask that. It's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?'
- Julie Walters on Funny
- Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.
- Robert Orben on Funny
- 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 on Funny
- One can always come up with funny lists and jokes. You know what? I take it back. Not everyone can always come up with funny lists and some jokes. I'm very lucky to have a gift where I can do that pretty ably.
- John Hodgman on Funny
- One lion thinks it's just hilarious to tackle us. He's very funny about it... and we always know when it will happen.
- Tippi Hedren on Funny
- One man's folly is another man's wife.
- Helen Rowland on Funny
- One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.
- William Feather on Funny
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