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Funny Quotes
"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."
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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."
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"I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker."
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"You asked what is the secret of a really good sketch. And it is a sketch is a small play. It's got a beginning, and a middle and an end. It should have a plot; it should have the characters, conflict. It is a little play. And in it, will be funny stuff."
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"The only guaranteed way to make something not very funny is to make it vague."
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"All these jokes have been pre-approved as funny by me."
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"I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up."
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"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."
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"It's funny; Luther and I have written many songs together, but we've never written songs in the same room."
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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."
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"That's what I hate about a lot of comedies, when you're hitting a line or making it funny."
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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."
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"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."
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"If you're talking about Java in particular, Python is about the best fit you can get amongst all the other languages. Yet the funny thing is, from a language point of view, JavaScript has a lot in common with Python, but it is sort of a restricted subset."
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"When something is truly funny, it's funny all the time."
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"John Ford was so funny that I couldn't wait to go to work in the morning."
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"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."
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"We have never been strictly political, only strictly funny."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"We have always had gross humor. But we try for funny, not gross."
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"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."
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