969 private quotes tagged funny

“When I first envisioned 'Funny Games' in the mid-1990s, it was my intention to have an American audience watch the movie. It is a reaction to a certain American cinema, its violence, its naivety, the way American cinema toys with human beings. In many American films, violence is made consumable.” — Michael Haneke

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“My main point is to be funny if I can slip a message in there, fine.” — Flip Wilson

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“By no means do I want to be a piece of meat for the rest of my career. It's funny when you get asked to do a talk show, and then they follow it up with requesting you take your shirt off.” — Kellan Lutz

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“See, I don't really go after girls. Most of the girlfriends I've had have come after me. So it's really funny when girls get offended because I don't hit on them.” — Kellan Lutz

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“Funny is not a color. Being black is only good from the time you get from the curtain to the microphone.” — Flip Wilson

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“I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.” — Dan Stevens

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“What I don't like is when I see stuff that I know has had a lot of improv done or is playing around where there's no purpose to the scene other than to just be funny. What you don't want is funny scene, funny scene, funny scene, and now here's the epiphany scene and then the movie's over.” — Paul Feig

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“It's a real primal thing, watching someone get hurt. It's funny and accessible.” — Johnny Knoxville

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“Everyone comes up to me saying, 'Cooee, Julie! Hello!' as if I know them. Of course I don't bloody know them. Am I flummoxed by it? Sometimes. I think, 'Ooh, love, go easy.' For a time, I did feel this pressure that I had to be funny, but it passes.” — Julie Walters

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“I wouldn't totally rule out doing Letterman or the Tonight Show if I had a set that I just happened to write that I thought was funny but was still appropriate for network censors. But I'm not going to go out of my way.” — Joe Rogan

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“I had seen movies before that that had made me laugh, but I had never seen anything even remotely close to as funny as Richard Pryor was, just standing there talking.” — Joe Rogan

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“I can't not find humor in elements of most parts of life, but at the same time nothing ever seems perpetually funny to me.” — Greg Kinnear

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“Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.” — Tobias Wolff

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“One lion thinks it's just hilarious to tackle us. He's very funny about it... and we always know when it will happen.” — Tippi Hedren

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“People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny.” — Richard Russo

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“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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