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Funny Quotes


"It's the cushiest job, but some lines are so funny that I crack up."


"We've got a bunch of new writers now who tell me they grew up watching The Simpsons. It's bizarre, and they're writing some very funny stuff."


"But if something funny happens, I can't resist. I have to tell the people."


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


"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."


"I also think if you're an actor and you can improvise, when you go on an audition and you can improvise you're just a genius. If you can, you know, take a Tide commercial and you can just say one funny line that's not in the commercial they think you're a genius."


"I think I have a dark view of the world. I have to make everything funny, otherwise it all seems so sad."


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



"We have always had gross humor. But we try for funny, not gross."


"John Ford was so funny that I couldn't wait to go to work in the morning."



"Some of those more out-there jokes were written in the wee hours of the morning. Somehow, they remained funny the next day."


"I'm odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet."


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


"In the happy scenes there were really fun times. Sean would say really funny stuff because he likes to improv. I would want to laugh, but you are not allowed to do that during the take."


"The guys on the stunt team are really fantastic. It's really funny, because for all the aggression they have to display on screen, they're actually really happy, good- natured people."


"I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker."


"It's funny that until I actually met my husband, I never thought I'd get married."



"The only guaranteed way to make something not very funny is to make it vague."


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



"The funny thing is, Dennis Miller got me back into comedy."


"So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever."


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


"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."



"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."



"If I'm in something funny, I like to try and find some kind of serious line in it that people can relate to."
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