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Fun Quotes

"It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse."

Adlai E. Stevenson, American Politician

"It's fun to get out in the field. I really enjoy that. It's fun creating."

Tom Kite, American Athlete

"Shakespeare wrote great plays that we're still watching all these years later. Charlie Chaplin made great comedies and they are still as funny today as they ever were."

Leonard Maltin, American Critic

Fun, Funny, Shakespeare, Today, Years

"But boy, right away it is fun to play around with the Paintbox program."

Red Grooms, American Sculptor

Fun, Play, Right

"Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows."

Jimi Hendrix, American Musician

"Doctor Who is like any long-running series in that the cast tend to look to the star to set the general tone. Rehearsals and filming could be a lot of fun."

Sarah Sutton, British Actress

"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."

Don Van Vliet, American Artist

Fun, Funny, England

"I can't do anything too serious like Saddam Hussein, but I would like to do Bill Clinton. That'd be fun."

Ruby Wax, American Comedian

"That was when I found out that you could talk to them and it was a whole other way to blow your stack, and it's so much fun to perform that you want to do it again and the more you get out of it the better."

Leo Kottke, American Musician

Fun, Talk, Want

"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."

Todd Solondz, American Writer

Fun, Funny, Now, Saying, Strangers

"And then I did one called High Rollers and that was a lot of fun."

Wink Martindale, American Entertainer

"The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then suddenly turns inside out and is a different thing all together then that's fun to write."

Nigel Kneale, English Writer

Fun, Normality, Now, Paradox

"You can make fun of everything."

Matt Stone, American Producer

"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."

Tom Hooper, British Director

Fun, Funny, Audiences, Ending, Fact

"When it ceases to be fun, I'll stop and just stay in my restaurants."

Emeril Lagasse, American Celebrity

Fun, Restaurants

"The best climber in the world is the one that has the most fun."

Alex Lowe, American Athlete

"So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books I want to have the whole range of human emotions."

Rick Moody, American Novelist

Fun, Funny, Books, Emotions, Want

"Are we having fun yet?"

Bill Griffith, American Cartoonist

"The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just write about things that are entertaining to myself."

Chuck Klosterman, American Critic

Fun, Self, Writing

"It's just something that's sort of funny, sort of not."

Max Cannon, American Artist

"I'm gonna perform on one of the nights. Good clean fun; we're not going to jail. For the record."

Luther Campbell, American Musician

"I was concerned about that, because I've always been so specific about doing independent films, but I've never done anything that's so genuinely and ridiculously fun. And that's a great thing, for me to discover that that's possible."

Sarah Polley, Canadian Actress

"I don't believe you should make fun of anyone but yourself."

Cameron Diaz, American Actress

"It was so much fun to do, play the blues and then play a Monkees' set on the same night."

Peter Tork, American Musician

Fun, Night, Play

"We see less of Dave, certainly, and he's kind of fallen out of the sphere of our group, mostly because he's working on his show, and has kind of lost the fun of the party."

Bruce McCulloch, Canadian Actor

"It was fun while it lasted, but it never seemed real to me. I could not believe I was in Van Halen."

Gary Cherone, American Musician

"I enjoyed showing a bit more leg in the last few stories. It was good fun, but it can be quite sexist. But it doesn't worry me personally all that much."

Sarah Sutton, British Actress

"I was really into Black Sabbath, but heavy guitars can really be very limiting, it's a great frequency and it's great fun to listen to but on the other hand, musically you can do a lot more without it."

Kip Winger, American Musician

"It's not easy to strap yourself down to a desk and bash on a keyboard when you know you can direct lots of films, because directing films is fun and interactive and gregarious. Writing isn't."

Guy Ritchie, British Director

"There's immense fun to be had as long as you can sort of sneak it past DC. I have been told on occasion that I need to have more respect for these characters."

Garth Ennis, Irish Writer

Fun, Past, Respect

"It's kind of fun to be sexy."

Tea Leoni, American Actress

"We play a long show, and you can't beat yourself up too much over it, as physically you just kill yourself. It was always good fun on the road and it still is."

Andy Taylor, British Musician

Fun, Play, Road

"I get to play a scorching lead guitar, and there's not much that's more fun than that."

Peter Tork, American Musician

Fun, Guitar, Play

"So we used to look for funny songs, and learn them and play them. And we used to play them in pubs."

Neil Innes, British Writer

Fun, Funny, Play, Songs

"If I talk about something I either talk about it or I DO it... the minute I talk about it it's lost all it's drive and all it's fun."

Carol Channing, American Actress

"If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun."

Katharine Hepburn, American Actress

"So I figured in keeping with the record, I'd do something off the wall which is show up for free and wing it... I don't know, I'm just going to play some songs. I think it'll be fun."

Paul Westerberg, American Musician

Fun, Play, Songs

"I had a lot of fun in Cambodia, much more so in Cambodia than Vietnam."

Ed Bradley, American Journalist

"It's funny to have become an elegant skier now. But my drive is still the same."

Hermann Maier, Austrian Athlete

Fun, Funny, Now

"It was cool to do someone else's movie. It was a lot of fun."

Jason Mewes, American Actor

"Usually bad guys are much more fun to play and much more interesting to watch."

John Gilpin, English Businessman

"Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one."

Dr. Seuss, American Writer

Fun, Today, Tomorrow

"Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do."

Shania Twain, Canadian Musician

"And we know Bruce Campbell from way back, so that was a lot of fun."

Kevin McDonald, Canadian Comedian

"Those are fun, especially if they're going to shoot them in four weeks, because you know they're not going to mess with anything you do, so it can be very imaginative."

John Sayles, American Director

"I'd like to think that the boring lady who's talking to me now is a lot sexier and more interesting than the one who's doing NPR. You know, studious and reserved, and - I bet you're a lot of fun at a party."

Gene Simmons, American Musician

Fun, Lady, Now, Party

"We're spirited and spiritual... and fun follows us around."

Naomi Judd, American Musician

"In the past it seemed like I was making fun of rap a little bit. But it was more me making fun of myself, since I'm not technically a rapper, whatever that means."

Beck, American Musician

"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?"

H. R. Giger, Swiss Artist

Fun, Funny, Work, Cards

"If not bliss, ignorance can at least be fun."

Carter Burwell, American Composer

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