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Quotes About Funny

But my comedy hero was Stephen Chow. His deadpan comedy, all the stuff he wrote like 'From Beijing with Love,' it's incredibly funny.
~ Jimmy O. Yang
In high school, everyone told me I had a great personality and sense of humor, but I wanted to be the girl who boys liked because she was pretty on top of being funny. I was boy crazy.
~ Ari Graynor
There's not many comedy characters that make me laugh as much as The Rock does; it's nice to have a big muscly guy being funny and stupid.
~ James Acaster
I was always rewarded for being funny. I liked being funny.
~ Iliza Shlesinger
Everything funny in a not-funny-at-all kind of way. Sarcasm as something you practiced like karate. Later concealing your mute fury when nobody fed you the opening lines.
~ Jonathan Lethem
When you look up 'hilarious' in the dictionary, there's a picture of you.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Lo so che mi hai chiesto di non cambiare gli sbagli perché hanno un suono buffo, e il buffo è l'unico modo veritiero di raccontare una storia triste.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
There was a powerful and effulgent smell of industrial disinfectant. It's a smell that never reassures you about cleanliness; rather, it makes you doubly squeamish of lurking vileness. Soap smells clean, disinfectant smells dirty. Funny that.
~ A.A. Gill
Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn't know then that it wasn't even love that I was interested in but my own suffering. I thought suffering kept things interesting. How funny that I called it love and the whole time it was pain.
~ Ada Limón
She always called him Luca, in the Italian manner, and said it with that funny trans-European intonation, the accent oddly placed on the first syllable: 'Where's Loo-ka?', just like Audrey Hepburn saying, 'Take the pic-ture,' in Funny Face.
~ Adam Gopnik
Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.
~ Adam Sandler
Hoddies are pants for your arms!
~ Adam Young
I think that I come off as, 'Nothing bothers me, I don't care! I'm funny and sassy.' But I'm deeply sensitive. Not only about myself but to others. Not to pat myself on the back, empathy is a quality I've cultivated over my life. It came naturally to me as a child.
~ Laura Benanti
My husband is so gregarious and open and funny and such a people person.
~ Jeremiah Brent
Well what's funny is, again, people say they believed what was going on, but again, Bob's hands are about three times bigger than his feet. So these are very caricatured.
~ Brad Bird
Some people are brilliant at being comedy actors and if you're a comedian I think there's a perception that, if you're acting at something that's meant to be funny, it will be funny all the way though and you'll be dropping in gags.
~ John Bishop
My brother was an improviser. He's now a lobbyist, but he used to perform improv in the city when he was in high school, and one of the funniest guys I know to this day.
~ Jake Johnson
There is definitely a pressure for funny people to be funny. People want them to perform all the time.
~ Marsha Thomason
As a kid I was always a bit of a clown, a performer.
~ Simon Baker
I moved to New York and went to a performing arts college, but it wasn't until UCB that I started performing on the regular, figuring out how I'm funny, why I'm funny, and how to play with an audience.
~ Nicole Byer
I think one of the perks of getting to do comedy is the ability to hang out with the funniest people in the world.
~ James Adomian
So it was just funny to read a script that was just similar to what had been going on in my life.
~ Piper Perabo
Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
~ Quentin Crisp
And right from the get-go when George Segal puts on a gorilla suit and Ruth Gordon punches him in the nuts, this movie had me. At that age, the height of comedy was a guy in a gorilla suit, and the only thing funnier than that was a guy getting punched in the nuts. So a guy in a gorilla suit getting punched in the nuts was the absolute pinnacle of comedy.
~ Quentin Tarantino