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Funny Quotes


"Jonathan Lynn is one of the last actors Orsen Welles used in a production. It was wonderful. He's very sharp, very sharp. It's funny I've been asked how weird it was to have a Brit do a church gospel movie."


"It's a real primal thing, watching someone get hurt. It's funny and accessible."


"What's David's role? David looks good, that's what David does. David looks good, and I'm the funny one, that's what I hear constantly. But I keep telling him that looks fade."


"At boarding school you had to wear your name across your chest and your back, and obviously I had a pretty funny name. It wasn't Brown or Smith or Hughes."


"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 think it's funny to be delicate with subjects that are explosive."


"I'm not a believer in the pratfall. I don't think it's funny just to have someone fall down."


"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."


"It's fun to do something funny and have the director laughing. It makes you feel good."


"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."


"If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny."


"It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals."


"And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that's funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there's all kinds of advantages to it."



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


"I play a female Indiana Jones, a professor who hunts down precious objects, like a bowl that belonged to the Buddha. They tailored the role to me: I wanted to be smart, funny, and to kick some ass."


"I got to draw monsters, robots and write funny stories. I loved doing that stuff and working with the actors. But it got to be less and less that stuff and more about trying to be everywhere and not being able to do one thing very enjoyably."


"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."


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


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