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Funny Quotes


"It's funny that until I actually met my husband, I never thought I'd get married."


"I can't imagine actually singing on this show like I did on 'Felicity,' but it would be kind of funny."


"It's the cushiest job, but some lines are so funny that I crack up."


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


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


"I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left."


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


"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."


"Music is more difficult - try naming a political band. The Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are political, but they are more funny than they are political."


"Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens."


"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."


"Eddie Drake is sort of this loose cannon, funny, edgy guy, who has this really foolish, foolish mustache."


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


"I think I have a dark view of the world. I have to make everything funny, otherwise it all seems so sad."


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


"The only guaranteed way to make something not very funny is to make it vague."



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


"I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that."


"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."


"Some really good things kind of swing both ways and I like to see people that can swing really, really, really sad and horrible and terrible and really, really, really beautiful and funny."


"I'm doing a very funny show in which we talk about issues. I speak at Aids charities and things. It's great to do something fun with our days and yet we're told we're doing something important."


"I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said."
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