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Funny Quotes


"A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a funny bone - you either have it or you don't. And by the way - when you get it, we don't know it."


"I remember interviewing someone I actually felt bad for, and therefore didn't want to take an ironic stance against him. It actually turned out to be a really funny piece."


"It's funny when people say, 'I don't think Julia likes me.' Honey, if I don't like you, you're going to know about it."


"From Kelsey, I have learned among many other things the value of turning on a dime and how you can have an extremely funny and extremely poignant moment with absolutely no separation in between... and sometimes in the same moment."


"If I can't see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny?"


"Only man has dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny."


"Yes, I believe blue material is funny, but if that's all you've got, you're dead in the water. It's not good."


"It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!"


"Europe is scooters. Europe is five young people on one bench sharing a chocolate bar. Their idea of entertainment and fun is so much different than ours, which is exactly why a movie about them would be funny."


"But this show reminds me that there are other aspects to me besides the fact that I'm a funny chick."


"What's funny is my husband doesn't have any tattoos at all, so he must be the very conservative one."


"I think I'm funny because my family, my siblings were funny."


"I found out a long time ago that if I didn't have a good story for a song, I could just make one up! Now it seems over half the stories in my show are made up. The funny thing is, those seem to be the ones that resonate the most with the audiences."


"If you can be funny, it means you're intelligent. Your brain is working fast."


"My parents are both very funny but they're also relatively soft-spoken, normal human beings while I'm just a lunatic. I don't know where this loud, ballsy, hammy ridiculousness came from. I'm just glad I followed my goals and my parents did too. It's not like we even had a plan when I dragged my mom to Los Angeles."


"It's funny, like 15 years ago when I was a kid doing all the John Hughes movies, I remember Bruce Willis was the only guy who was transitioning from television into film."


"But I think you can make fun of anything as long as it's funny enough."


"Nothing's funny about someone who's successful."


"Well, I'm not afraid to say something if I think it's funny, even if it's harsh or racist."


"The one thing that disturbs me about Alec is that people don't realize that he's really funny."


"It's fun to do something funny and have the director laughing. It makes you feel good."


"I only have three scenes and each is a turn and she gets progressively drunker. It's all terribly funny and its main challenge is that it's so far away from what I usually do."


"The shooting of the guns, that was kind of funny, because rolling a cigarette and shooting a gun aren't like normal things for a 13-year old girl!"
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