The British are so funny. It's like they can't believe I lived in Hackney. 'You could live in Bondi Beach. Why would you want to live in 'Ackney?' But Hackney's fantastic. I'm serious. There are so many artists there. I loved the markets, the parks, the pubs, the diversity. It was a cultural melting-pot.
~By Rose Byrne ~
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.
~By Dominic Chianese ~
Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens.
~By David Hyde Pierce ~
I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.
~By Stephen King ~
The funny thing about television is that once you start to do it you never get time to watch it.
~By Kevin Sorbo ~
My dad loved to laugh. He was very funny and very silly.
~By Mike Myers ~
I just heard a very funny story about somebody who died yesterday, I'm sorry to say so but it was so absurd that you can't help laughing. And the person that was concerned about that story was laughing too.
~By Sophie Marceau ~
Dali had a good sense of humor - obviously you could tell just looking at him; he was funny.
~By Joe Grant ~
The commentary track became a lot like the movie and there are some funny, long, awkward pauses that you can tell we're just trying to find stuff to say. None of us had gotten to really talk about the movie until that moment and they were in New York and we were in L.A.
~By Jay Roach ~
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.
~By Don Bluth ~
You know, funny is this weird word for me. I hear is so many times it has no meaning anymore.
~By Bruce McCulloch ~
Some of the pictures I must say every now and then I just think are going to be funny. When it gets that much, you might as well just pull out all the stops and make it more of a burlesque.
~By Martin Mull ~
Funny, I don't feel any more powerful today than yesterday.
~By Jerry B. Jenkins ~
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.
~By Esther Williams ~
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.
~By Eric Idle ~
You gotta keep the funny intact.
~By Seth MacFarlane ~
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.
~By Florenz Ziegfeld ~
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.
~By Phillip Noyce ~
I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking.
~By Lynda Barry ~
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.
~By Caroline Dhavernas ~
I can't be funny if my feet don't feel right.
~By Billy Crystal ~
It usually takes two people a little while to learn where the funny buttons are and testy buttons are.
~By Matt Lauer ~
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.
~By Roger Ebert ~
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.
~By Paul Lynde ~
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
~By Susan Sontag ~
I knew exactly what to do on Alien, it was funny.
~By Ridley Scott ~
I know from the middle distance I give off the look of being prolific, which is a funny compliment to receive.
~By Joseph Epstein ~
There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.
~By Bill Cosby ~
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.
~By Amy Poehler ~
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.
~By Fanny Brice ~
After doing Johnny I wanted to just do something, I wouldn't say innocent, but to not have any care in the world. Lots of setups and horrible happenings but its funny.
~By Jhonen Vasquez ~
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.
~By Bubba Smith ~
Chris Elliott could read the phonebook and he's funny.
~By Seth MacFarlane ~
They sent me the script and I thought that there was something very appealing and funny about it. Also, I was familiar with Mike Myers' work in Saturday Night Live, but I did not know the extent to which he would make this creation.
~By Michael York ~
It's funny how you call me a celebrity. Oh man.
~By Steven Hill ~
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.
~By H. R. Giger ~
It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9.
~By Josh Lucas ~
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.
~By Gene Wilder ~
You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.
~By Ken Kesey ~
Until now, until I actually got into law class, I just never thought of it as being an interest for me, but it's really funny because now that I'm in law, I'm like 'Wow, I could be a lawyer.
~By Lisa Leslie ~
The pressure to being a comedian is being funny, but I've given that up, so there is no pressure whatsoever.
~By Gilbert Gottfried ~
But as far as being popular, yeah, I think Dave Barry is really funny.
~By Jonathan Franzen ~
I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny.
~By Illeana Douglas ~
If I can't see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny?
~By Casey Affleck ~
I'm blonde and tanned and normal-sized! I'm sweet, shy, funny, have a big heart and I'm nice - and I like to eat.
~By Paris Hilton ~
My family's always been really funny. I feel like comedy's hard. I feel like it's so important.
~By Christine Taylor ~
The most important thing is to write material that YOU think is funny. If you don't think it's funny, but you're convinced that other people will think it is, well they won't.
~By Mo Rocca ~
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.
~By Garrison Keillor ~
If it bends, it's funny; if it breaks, it's not funny.
~By Kate O'Brien ~
It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.
~By Natalie Merchant ~
I love doing stuff with Todd Barry and Jon Benjamin. We give the stage to good bands and funny people.
~By David Cross ~
It's funny how a film about a murderous old English toff can help you.
~By Jim Broadbent ~
Yeah, there were a few years in the early nineties where I really began to hate what was valued as funny and just sort of what was valued in stand-up, period.
~By Patton Oswalt ~
I've played villains on stage - you know, the Iagos and so on - but I think of myself as a funny person. I mostly did comedies before I did TV work.
~By Michael Emerson ~
I think it's so funny when people think they can't control a movie star. They can. We're just women, you know.
~By Esther Williams ~
My company is known for being funny as well as moving. You get a bit of everything in these shows. I think people know they're going to have a surprising experience.
~By Matthew Bourne ~
I think it's funny to be delicate with subjects that are explosive.
~By Jerry Seinfeld ~
The promos with all of the beautiful women probably attracted some men, but the mystery story line is pretty cool. It's got that dark edge, and people will watch anything funny.
~By James Denton ~
I think I would say 'The King's Speech' is surprisingly funny, in fact the audiences in London, Toronto, LA, New York commented there's more laughter in this film than in most comedies, while it is also a moving tear-jerker with an uplifting ending.
~By Tom Hooper ~
I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.
~By Julia Louis Dreyfus ~
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.
~By Guido van Rossum ~
It's funny. Of all the jobs I've been ambitious for, this is one that never crossed my mind.
~By Edmund S. Muskie ~
I hope they make a show like M*A*S*H, which dealt with a lot of difficult subject matter but was very funny.
~By Joan Severance ~
Even when I begin with a situation that's basically funny or sad, I like to keep poking around in it. I like to get into the middle of a relationship, to explore the subtle places.
~By Paul Mazursky ~
I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
~By Tahar Ben Jelloun ~
The one thing that disturbs me about Alec is that people don't realize that he's really funny.
~By Daniel Baldwin ~
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.
~By Cuba Gooding, Jr. ~
It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!
~By Garth Brooks ~
I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.
~By Leonardo DiCaprio ~
The audience changes every night. You're the same person. You have to speak your mind and do the stuff that you think is funny and makes you laugh.
~By Joe Rogan ~
I wasn't very funny or flashy, I was kind of boring.
~By Katie Holmes ~
It's the cushiest job, but some lines are so funny that I crack up.
~By Dan Castellaneta ~
It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.
~By Zora Neale Hurston ~
If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.
~By Mary Douglas ~
I wouldn't totally rule out doing Letterman or the Tonight Show if I had a set that I just happened to write that I thought was funny but was still appropriate for network censors. But I'm not going to go out of my way.
~By Joe Rogan ~
Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
~By George Orwell ~
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.
~By Gertrude Stein ~
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.
~By Ben Stiller ~
I come from a background of hanging out with friends and shooting videos with them, with funny stuff coming out of the group. I guess we got the same charge jocks get out of sports.
~By Michael Patrick Jann ~
Most shows, you really have to force it. And everybody's nervous, and the network is nervous, and they've all got their notepads out, and they're all going to give notes on what they think is funny, and everybody's trying to spin their jokes, and this was so - the script was so good that we didn't have to really do anything, and it made it so easy for us to do well.
~By Will Arnett ~
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.
~By Christopher Meloni ~
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.
~By Ben Stiller ~
I think being funny is not anyone's first choice.
~By Woody Allen ~
It's funny - if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it's them.
~By Tracey Ullman ~
The funny thing is, strangers still seem to feel comfortable coming up to me and saying things, but now usually it's because they recognize me, and they say nice things.
~By Todd Solondz ~
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!
~By Vanessa Hudgens ~
That's my main flaw: I always think authority figures or my boss is going to think something I do is funny. And usually they don't.
~By Jimmy Kimmel ~
I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
~By Karl Lagerfeld ~
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.
~By Calista Flockhart ~
I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person-as the people in this room will attest.
~By Janeane Garofalo ~
Movies either work or they don't work and they're either funny or they're not and we work very hard. To achieve that kind of work is really kind of delicate stitching.
~By Ivan Reitman ~
The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London.
~By Jeremy Northam ~
It's upsetting that it is such a big deal. I wish it weren't an issue all the time. It's funny that people say it's a departure, because I've been acting since I was a child. I've played three gay roles out of hundreds.
~By Randy Harrison ~
I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?
~By Andy Warhol ~
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.
~By Harold Brodkey ~
But if something funny happens, I can't resist. I have to tell the people.
~By Kathy Griffin ~
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
The reason I turn down 99% of a hundred, I mean a thousand, scripts is because romantic comedies are often very romantic but seldom very funny.
~By Hugh Grant ~
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.
~By Bill Gates ~
I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what things are funny and not.
~By Keenen Ivory Wayans ~
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