Quotes About Humor

I didn't grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny - those are the things I got feedback on.

When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.

Well, I mean, if a joke or humor is bawdy, it's got to be funny enough to warrant it. You can't just have it bawdy or dirty just for the sake of being that - it's got to be funny.

The thing about For Better or Worse is the only thing that made me an okay director for that is that I have a sense of humor, and it was supposed to be funny.

But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early writing was very dark and had a gothic tone to it.

One of my biggest pet peeves is that I just don't like it when characters do things that are funny to the writer, but you don't know why they're doing it and it doesn't make any sense.

Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens.

I grew up in a funny way.

So to me, Texas Hold 'em puts me to sleep. At least when you play stud, you can be funny as you deal. Somebody some day is going to come up with a Stud show that's going to work.

I think people are surprised to learn that Im pretty goofy and pretty funny.

I've known for quite a while that I was a funny girl.

I think it's a lot richer than what we call fleshy improv, I think it's very funny, puppet improv and fleshy improv.

Robert Hoffman is kind of infamous for beinga prankster, funny guy.

The accents are really really funny. I think I could convince somebody I was from New Zealand.

I never saw myself as a comedian. I saw myself as a guy who can act funny.

One thing you can't pretend to be is funny.

Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.

I just say what I think is the funniest thing I could say. I'm not trying to make headlines. I'm just trying to say the stuff that I think is funny and will make people laugh.

James Caan told me at the end of filming 'Elf' that he had been waiting through the whole film for me to be funny - and I never was.

When you're on a staff, it's not your job to write what you think is funny. It's your job to write what the person who created the show thinks is funny.

What's politically correct a lot of times is not funny.

It's in our own lives, every single day, whether we recognize it as funny at the moment or not.

I knew comedy was the thing for me when I was the only Asian kid in high school... who failed math.

These jokes the world plays, they're not funny at all.