969 private quotes tagged funny

“The word 'funny' is a bit like the word 'love' - we don't have enough words to describe the many varieties.” — George Saunders

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“Comedy's so subjective, and if someone comes to watch, doesn't get it, doesn't find it funny, then fine.” — Johnny Vegas

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“I don't really get shaken very much. People could heckle me, a spotlight could go out, I could forget a lyric... I'm not operating on somebody's brain, you know what I mean? So I just think it's all funny.” — Harry Connick, Jr.

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“Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.” — Neil Gaiman

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“People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.” — Isaac Asimov

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“We've seen some insane signs: 'Is that a loaf of bread in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?' Funny stuff along those lines. Very original. One just said, 'I will do unspeakable things.' I thought that was very interesting - and mildly terrifying!” — Josh Hutcherson

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“Without hurting anybody, we all tend to laugh at others' discomfort. When someone slips on a banana skin and falls it's funny.” — Shahrukh Khan

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“Some people can do things and get away with it. Comics are famously like that. Why is it that some guys can say the most horrible things and it's not offensive, it's funny?” — Christopher Walken

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“It's funny, though, speaking of fathers and sons, because me and John Goodman played father and son, like, five or six years ago in the film 'Death Sentence,' and I got back with him again in 'Inside Llewyn Davis.'” — Garrett Hedlund

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“Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.” — Quentin Crisp

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“I watch things that are fun, or funny, or interesting.” — Martha Plimpton

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“I liked getting the best villain award. I thought that was funny.” — Stephen Dorff

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“I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of meeting me.” — Jonathan Safran Foer

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“At the end of the day it's got to be a good movie, it's got to be a funny movie, and it's got to make people think, 'Hey, I couldn't have spent my time any better.'” — Tom Hanks

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“Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.” — Peter Ustinov

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“You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.” — Donald Trump

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“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'” — Isaac Asimov

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“Japanese people have a funny habit of abbreviating names.” — Shigeru Miyamoto

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“It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.” — Jimi Hendrix

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“At home in L.A., Sunday is lazy. It's the wife and me lying in bed with coffee, watching 'The Soup' or something funny on TiVo. The kid will occasionally join us. Eventually, breakfast is at a place down the street called Paty's. And we always have some kind of great dinner - my wife makes a great roast beef.” — Eric McCormack

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“It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'” — Ice Cube

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“People don't want to listen to a celebrity tweeting about their charities and shows. That's why comedy writers do well - we put out little funny ideas.” — Mindy Kaling

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“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.” — Steve Martin

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“It used to be that you had to make female TV characters perfect so no one would be offended by your 'portrayal' of women. Even when I started out on 'The Office' eight years ago, we could write our male characters funny and flawed, but not the women. And now, thankfully, it's completely different.” — Mindy Kaling

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“And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.” — Nigella Lawson

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