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Quotes About Funny

Kat rose and handed her the contract. "So that's it—basically he's authorized to try and seduce you to stay with him and it's your job to refuse. Got it?" "Got it," Liv said. "And…I have a week before… "Before Mr. Python Pants can try any funny business," Kat finished for her. "All right then.
~ Evangeline Anderson
Virginia Woolf said that people read fiction the same way they listen to gossip, so if you're reading this at all then you might as well read my private asides written so he'll read it. I have to be extremely funny and wonderful around him just to get his attention at all and it's a shame to let it all go for one person.
~ Eve Babitz
He's so optimistic that he would buy a burial suit with a change of pants!
~ Fabrice
You know, I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end.
~ Fiona Apple
Never trust a man who when left alone with a tea cosey... doesn't try it on.
~ Billy Connolly
And off she toddled back into the flat, banging Lassoo in the face with the door as he followed behind her. He looked up at me as if to say, 'That's your fucking fault.
~ Bob Mortimer
A comedian's body is funny as well as his mind being funny, his whole personage is funny.
~ Bobby Darin
In desperation Veronica opened her mouth wide and yawned loudly in Simon's face. To her dismay Simon yawned back happily. "Gosh, that's pretty funny, huh, Ronnie, how yawns are contagious. Of course, the lack of oxygen, which triggers the response of opening the mouth, can't scientifically be explained by—" Veronica regarded Simon with revulsion.
~ Bonnie Bryant
'A Bug's Life' is a really funny movie and the characters have such different personalities. The movie is happy and then gets really sad and I'm like, W'hoa, I'm feeling this way and this movie is about bugs!'
~ Booboo Stewart
I love 'Goodfellas' because it's a great movie - it's funny and there is action at perfect points. I just think Martin Scorsese makes everyone look really cool.
~ Booboo Stewart
What kind of bird do you think these feathers come from?' she asked. 'I don't know. A swan?' 'You had better stop wearing those wings, then. A swan might fall in love with you. And as you probably know, swans mate for life.' 'You are a funny one, Rose.
~ Heather O'Neill
People could write stuff that's really offensive, but if it's written within a believable world that has a tone to it, then it can be funny. But if it's just shock-value stuff, then it's not going to work, because it's not coming from a true place.
~ Julia Davis
I was fired from an NBC sitcom called 'Friends With Benefits.' I was wrong for the part from the beginning, didn't even want to audition, and kept thinking, 'This isn't funny at all.'
~ Patrick J. Adams
Anne Wiazemsky wrote two books about her life with Jean-Luc Godard between 1966 and 1969. And I first read the second one, which is about the fall of their love story and their marriage. I immediately thought there was a movie to make with this book because it was so funny, and I thought the love story was very, very touching.
~ Michel Hazanavicius
At one point, I wrote 20 jokes a day, and I had a commitment to send them to the same three people. Now, I just write down what my husband says in his sleep. He's the funniest person, even unconscious.
~ Wendy Liebman
He wrote himself into the role of Dolly. Dolly was hilariously funny and didn't know it. And that's what Thornton Wilder was. He was an adorable man.
~ Carol Channing
As the funny guy, the funny frat bro, any time I try out for that role, I get it. Like, I walk in and they're like, 'Yeah, you're it.'
~ Logan Paul
For some reason, people with comedy, any time they can detect a pattern, it kind of freaks them out. 'Those guys are always together!' Yeah, they're a comedy team. Anything they can recognize as a pattern they think is a hole.
~ Adam McKay
But as far as being popular, yeah, I think Dave Barry is really funny.
~ Jonathan Franzen
Atlanta might have snow and Macon might have good weather, and they're not really far apart. But there's a period of time in the year where the gnats get all over your face and they bite you. And the Macon crowd, it's funny, but they can sit there like nothing's happening and there can be gnats just biting the hell out of your face.
~ Mike Leach
When I think about Plastic Man, he was genuinely the first funny super hero. I'm obviously attracted to that. There's also this great mixture of tragedy in there, too, that I love. The humor comes from a place of pain.
~ Gail Simone
Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny parts, and the other way around. Because in a comedy you look for what's serious. I think that's true. Sometimes things are really funny if you're absolutely earnest. If you're really serious, it's hilarious.
~ Christopher Walken
I think you figure out how to be funny by necessity. It's not a natural thing, being funny in the face of tragedy is kind of demented.
~ Julie Brown
I never understand when people say, 'Do you do comedy or tragedy?' I don't think they're very much different. They both have to be true, and there isn't a great play in the world that doesn't have funny parts to it - as 'Salesman' does, as 'King Lear' does. The whole idea is to reflect life in some way, which means surely you have to have both.
~ Mike Nichols