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Funny Quotes


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


"It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals."


"David Lynch and I almost made a movie together in the late '80s. We had lots of dinners and lunches. He's a very cool, hip guy. This film, let's face it, is like an homage to him, I would imagine he'd find it funny."


"It's funny; I actually made poorer decisions when I sobered up then when I was screwed up."


"It's funny - if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it's them."


"I am odd-looking. I sometimes think I look like a funny Muppet."


"I think sometimes I should do more carousing, because I don't do much and maybe it would be fun occasionally. It's hard for me to have fun and I'm a serious thinker and a searcher and funny from the front."


"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."


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


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


"I play a female Indiana Jones, a professor who hunts down precious objects, like a bowl that belonged to the Buddha. They tailored the role to me: I wanted to be smart, funny, and to kick some ass."


"I am accusing him of stealing my best material, he was a very funny man."


"I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion."


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


"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."


"When something is truly funny, it's funny all the time."


"It's funny, I get really nervous when I audition for voiceovers."


"Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is a form of service journalism. To be successful, I think it has to be a combination of a good story, it has to be funny, and it also needs to be packed with useful information."


"I had to act in a school play when I was about ten years old. I really didn't want to do it. But everyone had to do it so I didn't have a choice. A talent agent came and watched it and later gave me some work. It's funny because I'd always known that I wanted a movie career. I just didn't think that I would be in the movies."


"Now that I'm more mature, in a funny way, I can even appreciate that I've bad to become more aware of my body. Since I've chosen acting as my career, I have to keep my weight down anyway-I've been used to it for years, so it's no problem. And there's nothing I can't do."
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