969 private quotes tagged funny

“Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.” — Larry Hagman

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“I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.” — Wanda Sykes

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“I've never really understood that. It's a funny thing people sometimes accuse us of condescending to our characters somehow-that to me is kind of inexplicable.” — Joel Coen

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“My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.” — Ian Hislop

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“I don't know now if I'm funny. I just keep talking and hope that I hit something that's funny.” — Craig Ferguson

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“I was doing sketches that were funny but socially irresponsible. I felt I was deliberately being encouraged and I was overwhelmed.” — Dave Chappelle

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“We sit in a room for months trying to think of funny things.” — David Walliams

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“'Married with Children' was racy. It was sexist. It was a lot of things, but mostly it was funny.” — Katey Sagal

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“I don't really have a type of guy I like. It's just like nice guys, cute boys I mean, ones that are funny.” — Emma Roberts

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“I didn't plan to be the rude middle-class comedian. You write a certain type of joke that you find funny, and mine happen to be often rude. Yes, it's juvenile, but that's me.” — Jimmy Carr

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“It's funny, having the same name as someone. Me, Emma Watson and Emma Stone, the amount of times I've been called Emma Watson or Emma Stone is so funny. It's just 'cause we're all named Emma. None of us look alike.” — Emma Roberts

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“Only bad golfers are lucky. They're the ones bouncing balls off trees, curbs, turtles and cars. Good golfers have bad luck. When you hit the ball straight, a funny bounce is bound to be unlucky.” — Lee Trevino

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“It's funny I actually made poorer decisions when I sobered up then when I was screwed up.” — Corey Feldman

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“The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that's about it.” — Arthur Smith

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“It's unbearable when someone changes around you. Just imagine that your life partner changes, then it is difficult to cope with. Or your mother. Or your father. They were strong and now they're like a baby - it's not so funny.” — Michael Haneke

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“'Funny Games' was conceived as a provocation. My other films are different. If people feel my other films are, or respond to them as provocation, then that's quite different. 'Funny Games' is the only one of mine where my intention was to provoke the audience.” — Michael Haneke

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“It's funny when people say you have sex appeal or call you the next Brad Pitt. I just laugh. I'm not that. I don't want to be that.” — Kellan Lutz

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“There are so many funny women in the world, and there has been for so many years, so I'll be happy when people can just move on from that, and things can just be 'comedies' and not 'female' or 'male,' and everyone gets an equal opportunity.” — Kristen Wiig

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“I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for different reasons at different times.” — Jackie Mason

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“Women's humor seems to be a little more supportive. It's just kind of trying to make the other one laugh through funny voices and kind of talking about other people. I respond to that. I feel less like I'm going to get beat up in a room full of women than I do in a room full of guys.” — Paul Feig

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“Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest,' humor is the only thing that is dead.” — Flip Wilson

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“It's interesting that whenever I meet some of the other Bond girls, I always have something in common, and it is an interesting sorority. We all share about our Bonds. 'Did your Bond do that?' 'Yes mine did!' So it is quite funny conversations. We may as well be in high school.” — Jane Seymour

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“I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.” — Carl Hiaasen

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“What's so great about working with really funny women is that vanity comes second. Whatever makes it real and funny, they're going to go for, and it's just great.” — Paul Feig

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“I have an inability to enjoy things, but that's why we're in comedy. If we were happy, we wouldn't be funny, I guess.” — Paul Feig

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