"During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one."

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"During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one."

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"These days, rock 'n' roll is much more about rock than about roll. I don't do rock. But I'm interested in that roll part, because that's the funny little bit that makes it hip."

Nick Lowe, English Musician

Funny,

"I would call it a comedy variety show. We have some people just doing straight standup. We usually try to have one musical act of sort. So its just people being funny in different ways, not just sketch, not just standup, not just characters, all of those things."

Todd Barry, American Comedian

Funny, People, Act, Being

"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

Funny, Life

"Movies either work or they don't work and they're either funny or they're not and we work very hard. To achieve that kind of work is really kind of delicate stitching."

Ivan Reitman, Canadian Actor

Funny, Movies, Work

"When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp. The funny thing is that human rights activists and Mr. Bush can never be situated in the same group."

Shirin Ebadi, Iranian Lawyer

Funny, Government, Actions, Rights

"We didn't even think about it, you know? I used to collect laser discs, and you'd have some college professor analyzing It's a Wonderful Life or Citizen Kane, and now it is pretty funny - the idea of commentary for a silly kid's movie, you know?"

Dana Carvey, American Comedian

Funny, Life, Idea, College

"A lot of funny stuff happens in Canada."

Samantha Bee, American Comedian

Funny, Canada

"Baldwin is sort of getting to be a bit funny. I don't know what happened, but a few years ago they suddenly went bankrupt and Gibson bought the whole outfit. Since then they haven't seemed to be doing an awfully good job of providing pianos."

Marian McPartland, English Musician

Funny, Job, Years

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

Will Rogers, American Actor

Funny,

"It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing."

Zora Neale Hurston, American Dramatist

Funny, People, Losing, Nothing

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"Anne is very forgiving. She doesn't care about money, being rich, or clothes. We never argued about finances."

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"My father and mother - I figured if I could make them laugh, they'd stop fighting. I stole all their material."

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"Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie."

War, Hollywood, Vietnam

"I've been around the block a lot and I've had a merry trail for 55 years."

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"We managed to hang in there. Today when people get married there's a tendency to run away when things get tough. There is a lot of strength in hanging together."

People, Strength, Today

"Anne hated the idea of putting me down in front of the audience."

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"These days, rock 'n' roll is much more about rock than about roll. I don't do rock. But I'm interested in that roll part, because that's the funny little bit that makes it hip."

"I would call it a comedy variety show. We have some people just doing straight standup. We usually try to have one musical act of sort. So its just people being funny in different ways, not just sketch, not just standup, not just characters, all of those things."

"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."

"Movies either work or they don't work and they're either funny or they're not and we work very hard. To achieve that kind of work is really kind of delicate stitching."

"When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp. The funny thing is that human rights activists and Mr. Bush can never be situated in the same group."

"We didn't even think about it, you know? I used to collect laser discs, and you'd have some college professor analyzing It's a Wonderful Life or Citizen Kane, and now it is pretty funny - the idea of commentary for a silly kid's movie, you know?"

"A lot of funny stuff happens in Canada."

"Baldwin is sort of getting to be a bit funny. I don't know what happened, but a few years ago they suddenly went bankrupt and Gibson bought the whole outfit. Since then they haven't seemed to be doing an awfully good job of providing pianos."

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

"It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing."

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"Anne is very forgiving. She doesn't care about money, being rich, or clothes. We never argued about finances."

"I loved the idea of touching base with an audience."

"Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field."

"Money is sensual."

"Being on a sitcom stops me from getting Alzheimer's."

"My father and mother - I figured if I could make them laugh, they'd stop fighting. I stole all their material."

"Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie."

"I've been around the block a lot and I've had a merry trail for 55 years."

"We managed to hang in there. Today when people get married there's a tendency to run away when things get tough. There is a lot of strength in hanging together."

"Anne hated the idea of putting me down in front of the audience."