"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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Jimi Hendrix, American Musician

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"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

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"I like the idea of being out there regularly with an audience and with a funny gang of people. That's what I grew up with - doing television, doing shows every week."

Eric Idle, English Comedian

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Michael Patrick Jann, American Actor

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"When I first started I was always known as The Girl on the Sitcom with the Funny Voice."

Julie Benz, American Actress

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"Very often, I don't make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is making these noises."

David Ogden Stiers, American Actor

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Casey Affleck, American Actor

Funny, Humor

"We try to... we are, I suppose to a certain extent all affected and erm, that is both funny and sad I think."

Tony Hancock, British Comedian

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"Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown."

Fanny Brice, American Comedian

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"It's funny that people think because you don't have a movie or record out, you disappear into a frozen chamber someplace. They think you're dead when you're not in the public eye."

Jason Schwartzman, American Actor

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"It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life."

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

"I like the idea of being out there regularly with an audience and with a funny gang of people. That's what I grew up with - doing television, doing shows every week."

"I come from a background of hanging out with friends and shooting videos with them, with funny stuff coming out of the group. I guess we got the same charge jocks get out of sports."

"When I first started I was always known as The Girl on the Sitcom with the Funny Voice."

"Very often, I don't make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is making these noises."

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

"We try to... we are, I suppose to a certain extent all affected and erm, that is both funny and sad I think."

"Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown."

"It's funny that people think because you don't have a movie or record out, you disappear into a frozen chamber someplace. They think you're dead when you're not in the public eye."

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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."

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

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

"The worst thing in this business is to be thought of as a no-talent."

"I ask myself why I do it. Maybe it's to prove I'm still around. It takes a lot out of my body. I'm not an NBA player anymore. At my age, very few people can handle it."

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