969 private quotes tagged funny

“I'm not a believer in the pratfall. I don't think it's funny just to have someone fall down.” — Harold Ramis

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“With Portlandia, I don't think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously. We're okay with making somebody feel uncomfortable or uneasy.” — Carrie Brownstein

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“And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that's funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there's all kinds of advantages to it.” — Al Franken

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“It's funny, growing up there was never anybody around me with any kind of artistic bent.” — Nick Offerman

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“Stealing, you'll go far in life. Actually, there is something funny about getting away with it.” — Mike Judge

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“When you are not treated seriously, you develop comically. Its sense of oneself is so fractured and fragile that it's like the picked-on kid who has to become funny.” — Scott Thompson

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“I wasn't even 20 at the time, but it taught me something about drugs. They can take a good man, a warm, funny, loving family man, and turn him into a loser and worse.” — Michael Bergin

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“Billy is a funny, cheeky, lovely boy and I love being with him. Parenthood is terrifying though. I can barely walk past a building without panicking that it's going to collapse on his head.” — Rufus Sewell

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“I'm always in situations where you can't be funny, and yet I want to do it anyway.” — Tim Heidecker

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“I watched a lot of silent directors who were absolutely great like John Ford and Fritz Lang, Tod Browning, and also some very modern directors like The Coen Brothers. The directors take the freedom within their own movies to be melodramatic or funny when they chose to be. They do whatever they want and they don't care about the genre.” — Michel Hazanavicius

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“I don't think I was funny until college. I lived with some Harvard MD/PhD students - they were so smart, and what I contributed to the house was, I was the funny one.” — Wendy Liebman

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“The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion.” — John Keegan

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“There is nothing funny about a well-adjusted, intelligent person making the right choices.” — Tim Heidecker

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“I think if they put a laugh track on 'Intervention,' it would be funny.” — Zach Galifianakis

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“Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.” — Zach Galifianakis

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“Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them.” — Nancy Meyers

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“What's funny is my husband doesn't have any tattoos at all, so he must be the very conservative one.” — Ashley Scott

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“The funny thing is the songs that people think are about me probably aren't. And the songs that are probably are the ones they wouldn't think... so that's where it kind of is funny.” — LeAnn Rimes

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“What I fell in love with as a child was 'My Fair Lady,' 'Funny Face,' 'American in Paris,' and 'Singin' in the Rain.' Just perfect movies to me and I was dancing. I started ballet when I was three. And I fell in love with those movies and fell in love with Audrey Hepburn and Leslie Caron.” — Dianna Agron

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“Most of my ideas just come out funny.” — Tim Heidecker

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“Funny, I don't feel any more powerful today than yesterday.” — Jerry B. Jenkins

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“I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for.” — Donna Tartt

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“Sometimes laughing isn't the best judge of what's funny, 'cause I think there's a lot of things that are really funny that don't make you laugh, that don't make you physically, audibly make a noise, but is something that is much more powerful than that.” — Tim Heidecker

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“There's a constant flow of child actors. It's kind of funny to watch the new crew come through. I think, You poor little things. You're going to have to struggle for a long time.” — Tina Yothers

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“We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.” — Zach Galifianakis

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