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Funny Quotes


"That's what I hate about a lot of comedies, when you're hitting a line or making it funny."


"It's sad and upsetting when you see somebody crying hysterically, but at the same time it's real funny."


"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."


"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."


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


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


"Even when I begin with a situation that's basically funny or sad, I like to keep poking around in it. I like to get into the middle of a relationship, to explore the subtle places."


"Chris Hemsworth is like Christopher Reeve in that he can do two things: he can wear a big red cape without a shred of self-consciousness. But he's also funny as hell, and he's so sweet. So with all the fish-out-of-water stuff, he's so funny. So he does almost two jobs in a way."


"From Kelsey, I have learned among many other things the value of turning on a dime and how you can have an extremely funny and extremely poignant moment with absolutely no separation in between... and sometimes in the same moment."


"Yes, I believe blue material is funny, but if that's all you've got, you're dead in the water. It's not good."


"But this show reminds me that there are other aspects to me besides the fact that I'm a funny chick."


"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."


"Nothing's funny about someone who's successful."


"Well, I'm not afraid to say something if I think it's funny, even if it's harsh or racist."


"It's funny because a lot of people that know me as a dancer, don't know that I'm a singer, and a lot of people that know I can sing don't know I can dance. And so, I feel like at some point I have to show them both and really be able to display it and showcase it, and put that out there."


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


"Actually, the funny thing is, after all these years, I've got all these new songs to learn for the show we're doing at Joe's Pub, so it's kind of fun to get down and rehearse new things, and also rethink some of the older songs, how we're going to do them."


"But it is funny, because I saw Unbreakable recently and it's a strange movie, I didn't mind it, and it's got some interesting things going on."


"All these jokes have been pre-approved as funny by me."


"I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up."


"You know, Stephen says, in the movies no one ever goes to the bathroom. They shave, they brush their teeth. He goes right at this sort of funny taboo we have about the bathroom, and he turned it into this nightmare, you know, your worst fear of what's in there."


"It's funny; Luther and I have written many songs together, but we've never written songs in the same room."


"We have never been strictly political, only strictly funny."
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