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Fun Quotes

"My hair got lighter, and I gradually went blonde. I liked it. Had more fun. But my image of myself in my head is this dark-haired person."

Lisa Kudrow, American Actress

"You know, the blond guy plays the good guy and I play the bad part, the bad guys. Which is a lot of fun. Playing the bad guy is great. And it's the whole British thing. You know, in so many films the bad guy is British. Gary Oldman makes a living doing that."

Matt Robinson, American Actor

Fun, Living, Play

"I just play for fun."

Anna Kournikova, Russian Athlete

"That's the object of going to a gym, having fun."

Joe Gold, American Businessman

"I don't often know exactly what's coming next, and that makes it more fun. And you know, for me, this entire genre is all about that; it's all about having fun and getting away from the mundane world for just a little while."

R. A. Salvatore, American Author

"I knew exactly what to do on Alien, it was funny."

Ridley Scott, British Director

"I suppose directing on set is the most fun because it's a good crack and you feel you're on the battlefield whereas writing is a fairly solitary undertaking."

Guy Ritchie, British Director

"I don't think, 'Gee, I'd like to dress this person.' There was a picture in Us magazine. It was a jersey dress, and Courtney Love was wearing it. I have this thing about Courtney Love, this funny worship."

Marc Jacobs, American Designer

Fun, Funny, Love, Dress, Worship

"The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible."

David Ogilvy, English Businessman

Fun, Funny, Ideas, Jokes, Thinking

"I've always been switching around the show to accommodate the audience, and you know it really makes it a lot more fun for me and keeps it fresh so that I'm not complacent with the same show every night and with every audience."

Deborah Cox, Canadian Musician

"I had a lot of fun with Val Kilmer. He's like a big kid."

Derek Luke, American Actor

"People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny."

Richard Russo, American Novelist

Fun, Funny, People

"Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow."

Tobias Wolff, American Writer

Fun, Funny, Control, Memory

"I want to get a vending machine, with fun sized candy bars, and the glass in front is a magnifying glass. You'll be mad, but it will be too late."

Mitch Hedberg, American Comedian

Fun, Machine, Want, Will

"But when they offered this little situation for me to do this voice in this special segment, I found it so incredibly humorous that I said yes, and I enjoyed it. It was fun."

Werner Klemperer, German Actor

"For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun."

Tori Amos, American Musician

"The most fun is getting paid to learn things."

Diane Sawyer, American Journalist

"We learned a verse of this and that and we were having fun with the songs. Tommy would make up stories to go along with them and I would yell at him, 'Hey, stupid, that's not right,' and he was like a silly kid trying to impress."

Dick Smothers, American Comedian

Fun, Right, Silly, Songs

"They've got great parents; I'm just trying to be the fun uncle."

Sarah Silverman, American Comedian

Fun, Parents, Trying

"I guess I had fun doing it but it has hard memories for me."

Faith Ringgold, American Artist

"Whitney and I have fun reading the newspaper sometimes. You'd be amazed at the places they say I've been."

Bobby Brown, American Musician

"It's more fun to watch without joining in."

Lionel Blue, British Clergyman

"It's fun, but the fun is where it always was. I mean, it's still fun to strap on my Les Paul in the basement and turn up the Marshall amp. I'm still 15. I still enjoy that as much as I ever did."

Paul Westerberg, American Musician

"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."

Bubba Smith, American Athlete

Fun, Funny, Character, Books, Faces

"If it bends, it's funny; if it breaks, it's not funny."

Kate O'Brien, Irish Novelist

"Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it."

Louisa May Alcott, American Novelist

Fun, Girls, Man

"No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done."

Thomas Nash, English Writer

"Ultimately, it is in fun. It is supposed to be highly entertaining."

Bill Hicks, American Comedian

"You know, this game's not very much fun when you're only hitting .247."

Reggie Jackson, American Athlete

"So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny."

Todd Solondz, American Writer

"Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!"

John Ciardi, English Dramatist

"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."

Carlton Fisk, American Athlete

Fun, Funny, People

"If you're not having fun it's not worth doing."

Tommy Bolin, American Musician

"Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

"Fun is never gone because life is fun."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Fun, Life, Joy, Enjoyment

"It's nice to have a situation where you can make it fun."

Doug Flutie, American Athlete

"The funny thing is all these school shootings that we have, always happen in very religious communities. Maybe it's because the centre of their lives is a big fat nothing and it's just a fantasy and there's nothing there. I think maybe that might have something to do with it."

Matthew Bright, American Director

Fun, Funny, Fantasy, Nothing, Religious

"It's funny, when people talk about the 70s I can tell you the year of every album but when it comes to the later efforts I can't remember the exact years, it's funny isn't it?"

Steve Hackett, English Writer

Fun, Funny, People, Talk, Years

"It's funny, 'cause it seems like just yesterday that I was the youngest player just starting out. But now there are young players all over the league, and they'll ask me questions about playing overseas or finding an agent."

Sue Wicks, American Athlete

Fun, Funny, Now, Questions, Yesterday

"I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing."

Rex Stout, American Writer

Fun, Reading, Writing

"Hiking in undiscovered places is a lot of fun."

Karolina Kurkova, Czechoslovakian Model

"I used to like writing for comedians - I enjoyed the challenge of making other people funny."

Denis Norden, English Writer

Fun, Funny, People, Challenge, Comedians

"What I've noticed in this game is how EA has even duplicated my moves and my style of play perfectly. It is really incredible and a lot of fun to play."

Claudio Reyna, American Athlete

Fun, Play, Style

"It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham."

Garth Brooks, American Musician

"It is an honor to be on the cover of this game because the World Cup is such a big thing around the world. My kids are really quite impressed so that's fun."

Claudio Reyna, American Athlete

Fun, Honor, Kids, World

"A buddy will keep you honest and add a dimension of fun to your workout."

Bill Toomey, American Athlete

"Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something."

Michael Pollan, American Educator

Fun, Funny, Love, Nothing, Writing

"I've been working on something, just some jazz, relaxed stuff. It will be standard, just piano and voice. It started out as a fun project for me though, I'm still not sure about releasing it."

Justin Guarini, American Musician

Fun, Jazz, Project, Voice

"Skiing is the pleasurable part of alpinism - way more pleasurable and fun than alpine climbing."

Michael Kennedy, American Celebrity

"I think it's more fun to play a hero with an edge."

Shawn Ashmore, Canadian Actor

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