Quotes About Funny

The first thing that I learned - and I understood it at a really young age - was that I could get a laugh. Really early. Because my mother and father are funny.

Humor is not funny. Humor is something else. Funny is a joke, sometimes silly. Comedy is deep and connected to tragedy; comedy could be deeper than tragedy, in my view.

Within the framework of something very dramatic, funny things happen. Organically, from them.

I think it's more funny how every bit of information is up for grabs.

I suppose the things you remember about someone who has died are the funny moments. Those are the ones that stand out.

He runs to the sink to spit it out. I grin. There's nothing quite as funny as someone else's misery.

Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.

Buddha is pretty funny. Buddha is the coolest, though. If I had to go with one, I'd probably party with the Buddha.

British humour is very cruel. It's my favourite kind of humour; if it isn't cruel and funny it doesn't really cut the cake for me.

Do I have a long-term plan? Kind of. I have a general direction, I think. But it's funny what comes down the pike.

Probably because I'm bald. Don't the bald people always play doctors and principals? Yeah, isn't that funny? And lawyers. A lot of lawyers and judges.

Certainly my films are cinematically unusual, and quite contemplative in their pacing compared to conventional films, but I think overall they are quite engaging, accessible, and even funny.

I guess the more serious you play something, if the context is funny, then it will be funny and it doesn't really require you to be necessarily, explicitly humorous, or silly.

When I read a script, I have to see the funny, and if I can see it's funny, it helps me to be able to transmit that.

It's funny how a film about a murderous old English toff can help you.

For me, mood is something you have to ignore. I try to put myself in that position when I'm shooting and try to react the way I would. I try not to play funny if it doesn't call for that.

I thought I was funny as a kid.

Burroughs's voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American.

What's funny is that male strippers don't wear thongs anymore. They wear flat backs.

I swear and it comes off a little angry, no matter how funny I'm trying to do it. If I use certain words with a certain intensity, it's like 'Whoa whoa whoa, buddy buddy!'

If something is very, very funny but possibly controversial, if it's truly funny, then it's worth doing. Things aren't worth doing for the sake of being controversial.

I just happen to be a sucker for humor. So anywhere I can sneak in something that I find potentially interesting or funny I do it as much as I can get away with.

I've always run by the hierarchy of "If not funny, interesting. If not interesting, hot. If not hot, bizarre. If not bizarre, break something."

People are so funny. There's no winning with commenters or anonymous people. They'd be rude that I was overweight, and now they're rude that I'm healthy.