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Funny Quotes


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


"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."


"What has been happening more lately - of course, I also put in my bio, I say I do the voice of Goliath, but some people go - you know, I say something, and it's a funny thing when you work in this business, people will talk out loud in front of you like you're not there."


"So it was just funny to read a script that was just similar to what had been going on in my life."


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


"I remember interviewing someone I actually felt bad for, and therefore didn't want to take an ironic stance against him. It actually turned out to be a really funny piece."


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


"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."


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


"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."


"Same thing, like my commercials are often times really funny because I tend to find 30 seconds is a really good amount of time to tell a joke."



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


"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."


"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."


"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."


"Everything is so funny in the movie. The funniest thing about the movie is the transformations they were able to make with the characters."


"A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a funny bone - you either have it or you don't. And by the way - when you get it, we don't know it."


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


"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 had dinner with my dear friend John Spencer last night and I'm not in the first episode, but he's at the beginning of it and he was telling me about it and I thought this sounds very hot because I think this is definitely the last year of West Wing."


"I'm blonde and tanned and normal-sized! I'm sweet, shy, funny, have a big heart and I'm nice - and I like to eat."


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


"I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny."


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


"I'm not on all the time. I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker."


"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."
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