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Funny Quotes


"The guys on the stunt team are really fantastic. It's really funny, because for all the aggression they have to display on screen, they're actually really happy, good- natured people."


"I never thought I'd live this long. It sounds funny because I still think of myself as a kid."


"People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant."


"We're kind of the comic relief of this movie because most of the stories are very dark. And that's why these plays were so great, because it's such a dark, dark universe that it becomes funny because it's just too pathetic."


"Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens."


"I guess the producers saw me and knew I was literate and I always tried to be alert and it's funny because you have to have a sharpness to do those shows, especially some of the ones I did in later years."


"It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9."


"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."


"I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working."


"So it was just funny to read a script that was just similar to what had been going on in my life."


"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."


"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."


"I don't think the show would be funny to you if you didn't already have a base of information."


"But I think Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang really got that thing where, if a movie reads really funny and then has some dramatic or violent or sinister stuff in it, you can't forget that primarily it has to be even funnier than you read it or that other stuff doesn't work."


"Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else."


"I think it's funny to be delicate with subjects that are explosive."


"Leno, Conan. They are both really funny. They really know how to land one."


"No, it's funny, when I eat out it's not typically in the kind of restaurants people might imagine."


"We went through all the scenes and they became kind of funny and they expanded a little bit and because it seemed to be working so well in the movie, they added a couple of things later on in the movie and that's how it turned out."


"Eddie Drake is sort of this loose cannon, funny, edgy guy, who has this really foolish, foolish mustache."


"Sometimes you don't want to be a slapstick clown in order to convey a funny perception of the world."


"Shirley MacLaine said, You're so funny, then gave me a hug. Everything went white. I couldn't hear, I couldn't see. I thought I was going to pass out."


"I'm not a believer in the pratfall. I don't think it's funny just to have someone fall down."
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