Quotes About Identity

I've never considered myself to be naturally funny and it wasn't until I booked my first few jobs in Hollywood that I started thinking, "I guess I'm funny."

The Japanese are human beings like the rest of us, but they will strongly resent this insinuation.

There's a lot more to me than just funny.

I was glad to see Italy win. All the guys on the team were Italians.

I am the shortest and least funny person in my family.

All New Years is to me is for taking down your dumb Christmas decorations. People who put up Christmas decorations, all they're saying is, 'Hey, we're not Jews.'

What happens, I think, is especially for comic effect you find something about yourself that you don't like. You exaggerate it, and it's funny.

At boarding school you had to wear your name across your chest and your back, and obviously I had a pretty funny name. It wasn't Brown or Smith or Hughes.

Funny enough, every role that I have had, I try to tone down my accent or speak with better diction.

I'm actually a thin serious person but I play fat and funny, but only for the movies.

I bleed and breathe Hawks. Even when I played for other teams I felt funny, because I was a Hawk.

I've been blessed to have done different roles, but I don't think people see me as funny.

You look like a horse in a man costume

Don't clap I'm not a jazz band for Christ's sake.

Makeup's just crazy, anyways. Native Americans used to wear it, and it did all right for them until, uh ... well, until you killed them all, I suppose.

My shoes are size 2 and a 1/2, the same size as my feet

He has no idea what it was like to grow up in the South, where you had to hold your head down.

By putting myself out there the way I've been doing people see me as a real person. Even though I do character voices and funny noises the stories are still real and I put them all out there.

It's funny, people talk about the characters they play and who do you sort of see yourself as or which ones maybe were closest to you and in some ways.

Who is this Baby Ruth? And what does she do?

If you have a funny costume, you can't really wear it when you get older.

I grew up with four brothers, and in the back of my head I feel pretty masculine. It's always funny when I hear recordings of my voice, because it's so deep when I hear it in my head.

We were talking about urban youth. And by urban I mean lives in a city not urban as in black like white people use it.

I thought that unless people know me, they wouldn't find me funny.