969 private quotes tagged funny

“For some reason, people find me funny. It's quite hard to define why a thought is funny. It's even harder to define why a person would be funny. It's a word that I can't define at all. But whether I know quite what it is or not, I seem to be it.” — Wallace Shawn

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“I was making my living from a joke about my appearance that I didn't understand, and in a way still don't, because when I look in a mirror it doesn't seem funny to me.” — Wallace Shawn

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“I think when you do comedy, you play by a different set of rules. No one really wants you to be in that good shape. Being in good shape implies a level of vanity that isn't necessarily funny.” — Seth Rogen

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“As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965, I didn't know that funny women existed. It wasn't until I got back to England that I realised women could be funny.” — Jenny Eclair

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“We live in a funny time. If you don't go corporate, you can't compete. You're relegated as irrelevant. People used to admire that.” — Ethan Hawke

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“The fact that the Kardashians could be more popular than a show like 'Mad Men' is disgusting. It's a super disgusting part of our culture, but I still find it funny to make a joke about it.” — Jonah Hill

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“I've been to many funerals of funny people, and they're some of the funniest days you'll ever have, because the emotions run high.” — Albert Brooks

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“You can go to a play that is enjoyable because it's funny, and then on the next night you can go to a play that's enjoyable because it's 'disturbing.'” — Wallace Shawn

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“I think a lot of times on TV we see caricatures - that's what's funny.” — Mayim Bialik

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“I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a character... This happens to be a feature of my life generally.” — Wallace Shawn

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“To me, what separates a funny movie from a good movie is something personal.” — Seth Rogen

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“I can't watch other people doing comedy. As soon as somebody starts being funny I have to turn off because it upsets me. I get comedy indigestion. I just hate anybody else being funny. That's my job.” — Jenny Eclair

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“Straight men just can't imagine the bliss of being in a relationship with someone who finds farting as funny as they do.” — Graham Norton

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“So what I do now is to pre-empt that by making the up into a virtue, and telling funny stories about how crap I am before people have a chance to notice it for themselves and think maybe I haven't realised.” — Emily Mortimer

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“You can't teach somebody how to be funny. You're either funny, or you ain't.” — Denis Leary

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“Twitter, to me, works if you're funny. Twitter doesn't work as a promotional tool unless you do it very, very, very occasionally.” — Albert Brooks

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“The things that make me angry still make me angry. George Carlin is 67, and he's still as funny as he's ever been, and he's still angry. And that makes me feel good, because I feel like if I stick around long enough, I'll still be able to work.” — Denis Leary

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“If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.” — Calvin Trillin

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“We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.” — Calvin Trillin

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“I've always found it easier to be funny than to be serious.” — Molly Ivins

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“Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.” — Michael Morpurgo

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“It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!” — Garth Brooks

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“It's funny, because when you're younger you're in a rush to be 18 or 21 or whatever. But then you hit 30. And now, the days go by like hours. You think, 40, man, this could be the halfway point. It could be the three-quarters point, you know? Who knows?” — Mark Wahlberg

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“I would call it a comedy variety show. We have some people just doing straight standup. We usually try to have one musical act of sort. So its just people being funny in different ways, not just sketch, not just standup, not just characters, all of those things.” — Todd Barry

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“Strange questions are the more interesting ones. Children by and large don't try to trip you up... they want to find out how you do this funny thing that you do... if they've loved a story they love to know how it started.” — Michael Morpurgo

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