969 private quotes tagged funny

“Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.” — Norm MacDonald

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“You know, the funny thing about Lorne and that show is that, you can go over one million things, but in a business of bean counters, he still likes to laugh at small things and creates a show around it.” — Colin Quinn

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“I do find comedy difficult. I don't know why. Maybe I think about it too much. There's a tremendous amount of pressure to be funny.” — Michelle Pfeiffer

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“Scream was great for what it was. For a horror film, it was intelligent, it was funny, it took a laugh at itself.” — Neve Campbell

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“For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be the funny guy.” — George A. Romero

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“It's sort of an action flick. You can't be that funny trying to steal diamonds.” — Anthony Anderson

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“I think there's something in the fact that it's hard to be good looking and funny. You have to have an oddball quality people have to sympathise with you to find you funny.” — Chris O'Dowd

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“I joke around a lot about the manic times because they're funny. We manics do outrageous things and it is part of our colorful nature.” — Patty Duke

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“I don't dismiss the music that I was involved with, I don't think it was a joke, I don't think it was funny or a phase, I don't think it was just something I was doing back then, to me it was who I am. It connects all the way through. I don't distance myself from any of it.” — Ian MacKaye

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“The token gay character is always so funny and so fantastic. That's happened a lot. Or they're often purely victims.” — Ezra Miller

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“When it comes to war, we focus more on the mainstream coverage of the event, rather than the event itself. People dying is never funny. Protest puppets are always funny.” — Mo Rocca

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“And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.” — Fran Drescher

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“Back in the '70s, like one of my favorite movies ever was 'The Bad News Bears', and that was a kids' movie, but I don't think of it that way. I think of it as just a great movie because Walter Matthau was so funny and so harsh with those kids.” — Jack Black

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“I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips.” — R. L. Stine

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“You can't be funny for funny's sake. You try to get as outrageous situation as you can but it always has to be believable and based in real character motivations and what people would really do.” — Hank Azaria

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“If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.” — Mary Douglas

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“The most important thing is to write material that YOU think is funny. If you don't think it's funny, but you're convinced that other people will think it is, well they won't.” — Mo Rocca

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“It's funny that I got to do 'On the Road' because the thing that had the biggest impact on me growing up was reading books. I was very inspired by the book and this spirit of Dean Moriarty and how envious we all are of somebody who can be that carefree.” — Garrett Hedlund

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“I always just wanted to be funny. I never really planned to be scary.” — R. L. Stine

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“Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.” — Hank Azaria

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“It's funny, because I sometimes feel that I'm most creative when I'm pregnant.” — Georgina Chapman

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“Johnny Rotten. He's a big fan of mine. I used to see him out in the audience in England and he'd stand up and holler. He's funny. Smart too, and a nice guy. Don't think he's a jerk because he isn't.” — Don Van Vliet

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“Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor, but I always knew who was funny, who to hang out with.” — Andrew Stanton

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“In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really was funny. I wish I had understood Italian.” — Sugar Ray Leonard

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“It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I'm rounder in the face, I like to say, 'This is my long-term look.' Or 'This is my wife-and-kids look right here.'” — Garrett Hedlund

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