969 private quotes tagged funny

“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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“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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