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"I think it's so funny when people think they can't control a movie star. They can. We're just women, you know."
Esther Williams
"I think it's so funny when people think they can't control a movie star. They can. We're just women, you know."
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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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"Let's make some funny pictures."
Tex Avery
"Let's make some funny pictures."
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"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."
Matt Groening
"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."
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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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"You know I'm an actress, not just a funny lady."
Doris Roberts
"You know I'm an actress, not just a funny lady."
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"It was funny actually because that was still during the time we were dating. He would get all these calls because supposedly before we broke up, we had already broken up in the trades, in the rags or whatever."
Rosario Dawson
"It was funny actually because that was still during the time we were dating. He would get all these calls because supposedly before we broke up, we had already broken up in the trades, in the rags or whatever."
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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
"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."
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"I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny."
Matthew Vaughn
"I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny."
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"When I'm with my friends I'm funny, but I don't feel like I'm a funny clown."
Nora Dunn
"When I'm with my friends I'm funny, but I don't feel like I'm a funny clown."
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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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"It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!"
Garth Brooks
"It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!"
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"But I've never looked at myself as being particularly funny."
Tea Leoni
"But I've never looked at myself as being particularly funny."
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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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"But I think you can make fun of anything as long as it's funny enough."
Sarah Silverman
"But I think you can make fun of anything as long as it's funny enough."
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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 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."
Amy Poehler
"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."
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"I think I have a dark view of the world. I have to make everything funny, otherwise it all seems so sad."
Moon Unit Zappa
"I think I have a dark view of the world. I have to make everything funny, otherwise it all seems so sad."
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"It's funny; I actually made poorer decisions when I sobered up then when I was screwed up."
Corey Feldman
"It's funny; I actually made poorer decisions when I sobered up then when I was screwed up."
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"We have always had gross humor. But we try for funny, not gross."
Shawn Wayans
"We have always had gross humor. But we try for funny, not gross."
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"I watched a porno once, it was really funny."
Katie Holmes
"I watched a porno once, it was really funny."
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"The funny thing is that I had never actually watched TV."
Dave Willis
"The funny thing is that I had never actually watched TV."
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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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"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 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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"It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life."
Jimi Hendrix
"It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life."
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"I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side."
Parker Posey
"I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side."
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"I am accusing him of stealing my best material, he was a very funny man."
Frank Carson
"I am accusing him of stealing my best material, he was a very funny man."
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"People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life."
Mark Ruffalo
"People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life."
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"Being funny is one of my greatest strengths. I can make girls smile when they're down, and when they're having a good time, I can carry on the joke."
John Krasinski
"Being funny is one of my greatest strengths. I can make girls smile when they're down, and when they're having a good time, I can carry on the joke."
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"It's not about trying to be funny all the time. It's more of a document that hopefully is funny."
David Cross
"It's not about trying to be funny all the time. It's more of a document that hopefully is funny."
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"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."
Dakota Fanning
"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."
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"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."
Miranda Otto
"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."
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"I'm not funny. What I am is brave."
Lucille Ball
"I'm not funny. What I am is brave."
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"It is funny because the guy who is my boss now, Howard Stern, has a similarity there. He got big being a regular guy. He wasn't the greatest looking guy in the world."
Artie Lange
"It is funny because the guy who is my boss now, Howard Stern, has a similarity there. He got big being a regular guy. He wasn't the greatest looking guy in the world."
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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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"It's funny that until I actually met my husband, I never thought I'd get married."
Regina King
"It's funny that until I actually met my husband, I never thought I'd get married."
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"The only guaranteed way to make something not very funny is to make it vague."
Thomas Lennon
"The only guaranteed way to make something not very funny is to make it vague."
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"When Frank the Pug is singing I Will Survive, the only reason it's funny is that Will is in that shot trying not to get angry. A shot of a dog singing I Will Survive on its own will not get a laugh."
Barry Sonnenfeld
"When Frank the Pug is singing I Will Survive, the only reason it's funny is that Will is in that shot trying not to get angry. A shot of a dog singing I Will Survive on its own will not get a laugh."
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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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"The funny thing is, Dennis Miller got me back into comedy."
Tommy Chong
"The funny thing is, Dennis Miller got me back into comedy."
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"I wasn't very funny or flashy, I was kind of boring."
Katie Holmes
"I wasn't very funny or flashy, I was kind of boring."
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"So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever."
Patrick Warburton
"So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever."
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"It's funny, I get really nervous when I audition for voiceovers."
Julie Benz
"It's funny, I get really nervous when I audition for voiceovers."
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"So to me, Texas Hold 'em puts me to sleep. At least when you play stud, you can be funny as you deal. Somebody some day is going to come up with a Stud show that's going to work."
Joseph Bologna
"So to me, Texas Hold 'em puts me to sleep. At least when you play stud, you can be funny as you deal. Somebody some day is going to come up with a Stud show that's going to work."
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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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"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."
Todd Barry
"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."
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"If I'm in something funny, I like to try and find some kind of serious line in it that people can relate to."
Ron Livingston
"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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