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Fun Quotes

"I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations."

Mackenzie Astin, American Actor

"I made the choice long ago to write about real life. And life is both serious and funny."

Paula Danziger, American Author

Fun, Funny, Life, Choice

"While you're improvising, you may come up with something which will break him up. As soon as that smile comes out, you know that, hey, we're having fun."

Shelley Berman, American Comedian

Fun, May, Smile, Will

"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."

Gene Mauch, American Athlete

Fun, Funny, Beginning, End, Losing

"I'm involved in the stock market, which is fun and, sometimes, very painful."

Regis Philbin, American Entertainer

"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."

Harold Brodkey, American Author

Fun, Funny, Peace, Time, Knowledge

"We wanted the language to feel fresh, fun, and rock solid."

James Frank, American Physicist

"And you know, I've had great fun turning quite a lot of different industries on their head and making sure those industries will never be the same again, because Virgin went in and took them on."

Richard Branson, British Businessman

"The band's filter, but playing live is a lot of fun."

Elliott Smith, American Musician

"Going to your set with the headphones on in the middle of the night so that your parents don't know what you're doing when you're supposed to be asleep is great. I was rocking the bedroom. That was so much more fun when I got the 1200s."

Jam Master Jay, American Musician

Fun, Night, Parents

"Jealousy is all the fun you think they had."

Erica Jong, American Novelist

"You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things."

Ken Kesey, American Author

"Everything I've done has been personally fun, important, and meaningful to me."

Ashley Judd, American Actress

"It's a funny old world."

Margaret Thatcher, English Leader

Fun, Funny, Old, World

"Ninety percent of video game AI really is pretty damn bad. I think that's actually why it's so much fun to shoot things. Because the AI is so bad and the characters are so annoying."

Matthew Perry, American Actor

"It's all right; it's not so much fun any more."

David O. Selznick, American Producer

"Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together."

Uta Hagen, German Actress

"Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Fun, Funny, Awards, Battle

"It's as much fun as it ever was, you know, once I get there. Gettin' there is a little harder."

Mose Allison, American Musician

"I had a lot of fun working with John Candy. We had a pretty good rapport."

Harold Ramis, American Actor

Fun, Pretty, Rapport

"I like working solo and it was a lot of fun joking around with the audience, saying things. I'm only just learning how to do certain things."

Art Garfunkel, American Musician

Fun, Learning, Saying

"If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you."

Billy Wilder, American Director

Fun, Funny, Truth, People

"The Britney Spears movie was just fun and light, but let's talk about that in a few months."

Justin Long, American Actor

Fun, Light, Months, Talk

"Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn't fun?"

Ira Glass, American Journalist

"That's what makes it so fun to be on a team. You're sitting at your house, thinking up this wild, crazy stuff as to how it's going to go, and the other guys are sitting at their houses doing the same thing."

Bill Walton, American Athlete

Fun, Houses, Thinking

"Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly."

Rebecca Miller, American Director

Fun, Funny, Music, People, Film

"It is fun to try figure out the things that really are real and the things that aren't."

Penelope Spheeris, American Director

"There are so many little places I want to play, sometimes weird places I think would be fun to play... a bar that's half full."

Julian Casablancas, American Musician

Fun, Play, Want

"I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago."

David Knopfler, British Musician

Fun, Learning, Publishing, Water

"Yes, I see the Mobile Base System really is the shoulder of the arm. The arm is right there, like a human arm. It's really funny to look at the similarities between a human arm and the Canadian robotics arm."

Philippe Perrin, French Astronaut

Fun, Funny, Right

"Today, charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before. It's also much easier - and much more fun."

Pink, American Musician

"And then, all of a sudden, you're like, all that's great and fun, but Arthur Miller's in my dressing room. This is the third night he's been here and he sits in my dressing room for an hour after each show, and talks to me for an hour. So I'm pretty spoiled right now."

Peter Krause, American Actor

Fun, Night, Now, Pretty

"It's all about having fun and smiling and shaking hands."

Tone Loc, American Musician

"It's a lot more fun to play the bitch than it is to play the perfect girl 'cause everybody has a bad side inside of them."

Mandy Moore, American Musician

"A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

Fun, Funny, Man, Punishment

"If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke."

Richard Russo, American Novelist

Fun, Funny, Work, Comedy

"I wish I was having as much fun as the press reports said I had."

Sheryl Crow, American Musician

"I have never done a thriller, and it will just be really fun for me to heave and pant and run and climb and break windows and scream every once in a while."

Kate Hudson, American Actress

Fun, Will, Windows

"It's like with a girl: it's more fun to meet and slowly, gradually learn things about each other. A little mystery is always nice and it's interesting to still learn new things about someone you are involved with."

Larry Wilcox, American Actor

"I'm very 'spur of the moment'. I'm always trying to think of fun things to do to create a memory."

Josh Hartnett, American Actor

Fun, Memory, Trying

"It was hard to make fun of him because he seemed to have so much fun making fun of himself."

James Barron, American Soldier

"I mean I'll be retired from rap, so what I'll be doin' in rap will be for fun."

Tone Loc, American Musician

"John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student."

M. H. Abrams, American Critic

"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."

David Zucker, American Director

Fun, Funny, Time, People, Successful

"I think being funny is not anyone's first choice."

Woody Allen, American Director

Fun, Funny, Being, Choice, First

"I had a great run on Babylon 5. It was a lot of fun."

Bruce Boxleitner, American Actor

"Fun? There is no fun."

Klaus Kinski, German Actor

"Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had."

Iris DeMent, American Musician

"I have so much fun on stage that I should have to pay to get in."

Marty Robbins, American Musician

"No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was."

Annie Leibovitz, American Photographer

Fun, Funny, Thought

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