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Funny Quotes


"It's funny, I get really nervous when I audition for voiceovers."


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


"I am accusing him of stealing my best material, he was a very funny man."


"The British are so funny. It's like they can't believe I lived in Hackney. 'You could live in Bondi Beach. Why would you want to live in 'Ackney?' But Hackney's fantastic. I'm serious. There are so many artists there. I loved the markets, the parks, the pubs, the diversity. It was a cultural melting-pot."


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


"Since it's based on my parents, it's more emotionally close to me than some of my more surreal plays. And then I like the balance of the comic and the sad. It should play as funny, but you should care about the characters and feel sad for them."


"I am so like Donna it's funny. And most of my friends are guys too."


"When I was a kid I had this funny blond hair and everyone called me 'Chick' because I looked like Tweety Bird."


"People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant."


"We're kind of the comic relief of this movie because most of the stories are very dark. And that's why these plays were so great, because it's such a dark, dark universe that it becomes funny because it's just too pathetic."


"I guess the producers saw me and knew I was literate and I always tried to be alert and it's funny because you have to have a sharpness to do those shows, especially some of the ones I did in later years."


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


"Some of the pictures I must say every now and then I just think are going to be funny. When it gets that much, you might as well just pull out all the stops and make it more of a burlesque."


"I don't think the show would be funny to you if you didn't already have a base of information."


"But I think Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang really got that thing where, if a movie reads really funny and then has some dramatic or violent or sinister stuff in it, you can't forget that primarily it has to be even funnier than you read it or that other stuff doesn't work."


"Only man has dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny."


"I only have three scenes and each is a turn and she gets progressively drunker. It's all terribly funny and its main challenge is that it's so far away from what I usually do."


"Every movie I do, or when I'm on the sketch comedy show, I don't really get into it until I have an outfit or something funny with my head or face or something."


"People don't realize that I'm really funny and I'm an excellent bridge player."


"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."


"Chris Elliott could read the phonebook and he's funny."


"It's a funny show. The characters are surprisingly likable, given how ugly they are. We've got this huge cast of characters that we can move around. And over the last few seasons, we've explored some of the secondary characters' personal lives a bit more."


"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."


"It is one thing to go on stage and be funny or be in a good place in your career, but for a woman, actually facing the elements in a physical way is a very powerful thing."
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