969 private quotes tagged funny

“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, when people talk about the 70s I can tell you the year of every album but when it comes to the later efforts I can't remember the exact years, it's funny isn't it?” — Steve Hackett

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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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“It's so funny, because right now I'm very tired and my brains a little dead, I tend to get very focused and serious. So, I'm probably coming off a lot more like Scully right now.” — Gillian Anderson

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“I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.” — Samuel L. Jackson

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“I love Charlie, Billy Burke's character. Writing for him is so spectacular, he's so funny and wry and every scene he's in he just takes. There's a scene in 'Eclipse' where Bella tells him she's a virgin, and it's the funniest, most awkward scene I've ever seen on film.” — Melissa Rosenberg

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“Leno, Conan. They are both really funny. They really know how to land one.” — Jimmy Fallon

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“He is very dry but also very funny... I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be.” — Colin Quinn

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“Most of the gaffes I've made have not been funny - they've been stupid.” — Jim Lehrer

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“It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.” — Scarlett Johansson

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“We are supposed to enjoy the good stuff now, while we can, with the people we love. Life has a funny way of teaching us that lesson over and over again.” — Sheena Easton

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“It's interesting - I always thought when I was doing more melodramatic stuff like 'Everwood' that the directors were constantly reeling me in and stopping me from being funny.” — Chris Pratt

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