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"Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it."
Harold Ramis
"Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it."
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"All you have in comedy, in general, is just going with your instincts. You can only hope that other people think that what you think is funny is funny. I don't have an answer but I just try to plough straight ahead."
Will Ferrell
"All you have in comedy, in general, is just going with your instincts. You can only hope that other people think that what you think is funny is funny. I don't have an answer but I just try to plough straight ahead."
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"I never say a funny thing intentionally."
Jayne Meadows
"I never say a funny thing intentionally."
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"My little dog, he did not get ill. It is so funny that people get ill on a boat and dogs do not."
Anna Held
"My little dog, he did not get ill. It is so funny that people get ill on a boat and dogs do not."
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"It was the most fun I've ever had on a movie. It was one of the happiest times in my life. I was living in New York, and I really enjoyed acting at the time. Also, it's funny because that was also the time when I went downhill."
Mickey Rourke
"It was the most fun I've ever had on a movie. It was one of the happiest times in my life. I was living in New York, and I really enjoyed acting at the time. Also, it's funny because that was also the time when I went downhill."
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"Let's make some funny pictures."
Tex Avery
"Let's make some funny pictures."
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"I was always telling everybody that I could be funny."
Sally Kellerman
"I was always telling everybody that I could be funny."
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"When you're out of sight for as long as I was, there's a funny feeling of betrayal that comes over people when they see you again."
Esther Williams
"When you're out of sight for as long as I was, there's a funny feeling of betrayal that comes over people when they see you again."
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"I'm smart and I can be really funny and interesting and I can go toe-to-toe with anybody in a conversation."
Megan Fox
"I'm smart and I can be really funny and interesting and I can go toe-to-toe with anybody in a conversation."
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"I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny."
Illeana Douglas
"I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny."
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"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."
Dana Hill
"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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"But if something funny happens, I can't resist. I have to tell the people."
Kathy Griffin
"But if something funny happens, I can't resist. I have to tell the people."
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"I hope they make a show like M*A*S*H, which dealt with a lot of difficult subject matter but was very funny."
Joan Severance
"I hope they make a show like M*A*S*H, which dealt with a lot of difficult subject matter but was very funny."
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"A lot of my friends are club people. It's not me. It's funny to represent that, because it's not me. I don't fit into a gay club setting. It's just ironic that I represent that somehow."
Randy Harrison
"A lot of my friends are club people. It's not me. It's funny to represent that, because it's not me. I don't fit into a gay club setting. It's just ironic that I represent that somehow."
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"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."
Martin Short
"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."
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"That's my main flaw: I always think authority figures or my boss is going to think something I do is funny. And usually they don't."
Jimmy Kimmel
"That's my main flaw: I always think authority figures or my boss is going to think something I do is funny. And usually they don't."
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"You go through at least the first two years of Star Trek and you find some amazing stuff. Everything that was going on Gene put into the series. He just put strange costumes on the actors and painted them funny colours and left the same situation in."
Majel Barrett
"You go through at least the first two years of Star Trek and you find some amazing stuff. Everything that was going on Gene put into the series. He just put strange costumes on the actors and painted them funny colours and left the same situation in."
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"Scream was great for what it was. For a horror film, it was intelligent, it was funny, it took a laugh at itself."
Neve Campbell
"Scream was great for what it was. For a horror film, it was intelligent, it was funny, it took a laugh at itself."
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"Everything I buy is vintage and smells funny. Maybe that's why I don't have a boyfriend."
Lucy Liu
"Everything I buy is vintage and smells funny. Maybe that's why I don't have a boyfriend."
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"I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion."
Anthony Anderson
"I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion."
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"We sat down and told stories that happened to us in our childhood, to our children. They were all basically based on the truth. These stories were funny and poignant to us. They just took off. These are all stories from my life."
Howie Mandel
"We sat down and told stories that happened to us in our childhood, to our children. They were all basically based on the truth. These stories were funny and poignant to us. They just took off. These are all stories from my life."
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"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."
Ben Stiller
"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."
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"It's upsetting that it is such a big deal. I wish it weren't an issue all the time. It's funny that people say it's a departure, because I've been acting since I was a child. I've played three gay roles out of hundreds."
Randy Harrison
"It's upsetting that it is such a big deal. I wish it weren't an issue all the time. It's funny that people say it's a departure, because I've been acting since I was a child. I've played three gay roles out of hundreds."
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"I think I'm funny because my family, my siblings were funny."
Martin Short
"I think I'm funny because my family, my siblings were funny."
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"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."
Emma Stone
"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."
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"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."
Anthony Michael Hall
"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."
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"Nothing's funny about someone who's successful."
Drew Carey
"Nothing's funny about someone who's successful."
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"I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker."
Keenen Ivory Wayans
"I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker."
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"You gotta keep the funny intact."
Seth MacFarlane
"You gotta keep the funny intact."
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"When I tell people I'm a comedian they say, 'Oh, are you funny?' I say, 'No, it's not that kind of comedy.'"
Susan Sarandon
"When I tell people I'm a comedian they say, 'Oh, are you funny?' I say, 'No, it's not that kind of comedy.'"
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"It was a JOB; the video show was a JOB; you don't tell the Aristocrats joke at 8 o'clock at night on network tv, it would be funny though. But those guys know I like dirty stuff, I like clean stuff too."
Bob Saget
"It was a JOB; the video show was a JOB; you don't tell the Aristocrats joke at 8 o'clock at night on network tv, it would be funny though. But those guys know I like dirty stuff, I like clean stuff too."
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"I love doing stuff with Todd Barry and Jon Benjamin. We give the stage to good bands and funny people."
David Cross
"I love doing stuff with Todd Barry and Jon Benjamin. We give the stage to good bands and funny people."
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"It's funny because it's funny."
David Spade
"It's funny because it's funny."
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"They'll say, That's funny, but you can't do that on TV."
Shawn Wayans
"They'll say, That's funny, but you can't do that on TV."
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"One time I went into a restroom and a girl followed me in. I signed an autograph for her in the sink. It was pretty funny because she was in a guy's restroom and she wasn't embarrassed at all."
Zac Efron
"One time I went into a restroom and a girl followed me in. I signed an autograph for her in the sink. It was pretty funny because she was in a guy's restroom and she wasn't embarrassed at all."
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"My heart is so light that it's amazing. I get to play all this grief, all this loss, all this disaster and chaos. It's hysterically funny. I am very light."
Linda Hamilton
"My heart is so light that it's amazing. I get to play all this grief, all this loss, all this disaster and chaos. It's hysterically funny. I am very light."
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"When something is truly funny, it's funny all the time."
Cloris Leachman
"When something is truly funny, it's funny all the time."
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"It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent."
Natalie Merchant
"It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent."
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"I never thought I was funny, but I enjoy being funny."
Nora Dunn
"I never thought I was funny, but I enjoy being funny."
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"It's the cushiest job, but some lines are so funny that I crack up."
Dan Castellaneta
"It's the cushiest job, but some lines are so funny that I crack up."
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"John Ford was so funny that I couldn't wait to go to work in the morning."
Richard Widmark
"John Ford was so funny that I couldn't wait to go to work in the morning."
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"A good actor is someone who knows how to take the part and make it real and make it honest and be effective in it. If it's in a funny movie and, as long as they are cast in an appropriate way, humor will come from it."
Ivan Reitman
"A good actor is someone who knows how to take the part and make it real and make it honest and be effective in it. If it's in a funny movie and, as long as they are cast in an appropriate way, humor will come from it."
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"Some of those more out-there jokes were written in the wee hours of the morning. Somehow, they remained funny the next day."
Seth MacFarlane
"Some of those more out-there jokes were written in the wee hours of the morning. Somehow, they remained funny the next day."
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"I'm doing 5000 seat theaters and audiences are going nuts, it's fantastic and it makes me very happy. I'm dirty, but not like this; I just do comedy that I find funny. I'm working on a new tv show for cable and it's not set up yet."
Bob Saget
"I'm doing 5000 seat theaters and audiences are going nuts, it's fantastic and it makes me very happy. I'm dirty, but not like this; I just do comedy that I find funny. I'm working on a new tv show for cable and it's not set up yet."
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"I'm odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet."
Angelina Jolie
"I'm odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet."
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"The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London."
Jeremy Northam
"The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London."
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"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."
Ted Allen
"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."
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"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."
Kristen Stewart
"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."
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"Boston is actually the capital of the world. You didn't know that? We breed smart-ass, quippy, funny people. Not that I'm one of them. I just sorta sneaked in under the radar."
John Krasinski
"Boston is actually the capital of the world. You didn't know that? We breed smart-ass, quippy, funny people. Not that I'm one of them. I just sorta sneaked in under the radar."
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"Funny is an attitude."
Flip Wilson
"Funny is an attitude."
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