969 private quotes tagged funny

“For some reason and I don't know why, but I don't think that I'm funny in California. So I always want to do my movies east somewhere.” — Kevin James

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“I have funny bones. If there's ever any kind of tension, I'll always be the one to try and be funny to loosen things up.” — Matt LeBlanc

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“When I was doing ensemble theater and comedy work, I felt I had some talents. But when I started doing my shows in Berkeley and found that I could be funny on my own, I was shocked.” — Whoopi Goldberg

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“The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy.” — Steve Coogan

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“Hitchcock had a charm about him. He was very funny at times. He was incredibly brilliant in his field of suspense.” — Tippi Hedren

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“I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive.” — Ian Mcewan

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“If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.” — Richard Russo

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“I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.” — Tahar Ben Jelloun

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“What was really funny is that as I got older all those guys who called me a sissy in junior high school wanted me to be their best friend because they wanted to meet all the girls that I knew in figure skating.” — Scott Hamilton

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“I think 'Saturday Night Live', starting in the 1970s, really gave women an outlet to be funny. A lot of those women went on to have film careers, from Kristen Wiig now to Tina Fey and Gilda Radner.” — Emma Stone

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“I took 'P.S. I Love You' thinking it was going to be a little funny, and I ended up crying every day on that film.” — Hilary Swank

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“The audience changes every night. You're the same person. You have to speak your mind and do the stuff that you think is funny and makes you laugh.” — Joe Rogan

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“I think it's always funny when you see kids do Shakespeare.” — Steve Coogan

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“The misconception is that standup comics are always on. I don't know any really funny comics that are annoying and constantly trying to be funny all the time.” — Joe Rogan

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“I really don't know what makes a comedian. I think it's a family background and environment. Yet if you put the same ingredients in another person, he may never utter a funny line.” — Bob Newhart

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“But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.” — Steve Coogan

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“Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not.” — James Lipton

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“It's funny, though, with films, because you can incorporate a variety of elements, and sometimes that can work for you and sometimes I think it can work against you.” — Guy Pearce

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“Also, in a funny way, if you have been happily married there are no unresolved areas, nothing to prove to yourself after the other dies.” — Nigella Lawson

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“I don't know who the hell Paul Lynde is, or why he's funny, and I prefer it to be a mystery to me.” — Paul Lynde

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“There's always something funny about men chasing women.” — David Spade

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“As soon as I realized you could be funny as a job, that was the job I wanted.” — Seth Rogen

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“And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.” — Molly Ivins

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“Oh all the time when Victoria Wood and I did our series. There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still ask that. It's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?'” — Julie Walters

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“It's funny how most activists are pacifists.” — Craig Bruce

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