Quotes About Amusing

The couture is what a certain kind of clientele wears. But it's amusing to do because you do it piece by piece. It's another concept. It's much more work.

Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He got up and said he couldn't work with people who laughed at him!

I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.

If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again.

I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I'll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points, and then I'll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.

the counters and center island were crammed with mason jars and novelty saltshakers and cookie jars in the shapes of cats, blimps, pumpkins, frogs, robots, potbellied demons, and other things.

Working with Chaplin was very amusing and strange. His films are so funny, but working with him, I found him to be a very serious man. Whereas the films of Hitchcock are macabre, he could be a very funny man to work with, always telling jokes and holding court. Of course, when I worked with Charlie he was getting older.

Jack Black is so funny! On and off screen, like, he would make you laugh every day. He's hilarious.

To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people-that is all.

Well, you certainly are the most wonderfully woolly baa-lamb that ever stepped.

Mere surprise, however, was never enough to prevent Psmith talking.

you are such a dag

They say that that's a difficult task, that nothing's amusing that isn't spiteful," he began with a smile. "But I'll try. Get me a subject. It all lies in the subject. If a subject's given me, it's easy to spin something round it. I often think that the celebrated talkers of the last century would have found it difficult to talk cleverly now. Everything clever is so stale…

All really frank people are amusing, and would remain so if they could remember that other people may sometimes want to be frank and amusing too.

If there's some work to be done that seems like it will be fun, I'll do it. I don't take anything seriously at all.

I always try to keep in mind that while the characters in a farce may find themselves in outrageous dilemmas, and may behave in a way that the audience finds amusing, the characters themselves don't have the consolation of knowing they're in a comedy.

I was once kissed on the lips by a giraffe, and I don't think I've ever got over it.

Before you develop a conscience, torture is amusing.

she felt there was between them an unexpected mutual confidence, confidence of the kind that could spring up between two strangers who found themselves thrown together quite fortuitously in difficult circumstances that might turn out to be either frightening or amusing. And

Medicine may be defined as the art or the science of keeping a patient quiet with frivolous reasons for his illness and amusing him with remedies good or bad until nature kills him or cures him.

You think it amusing to have a death sentence imposed on us, sire?

Get it? Foul. Not one of my subtler jokes, but it'll do.

When I stepped back, I must say it was very amusing to view all of these people running helter-skelter to help a nutsy woman carry out a vengeful plan. So fascinating and, as I say, not a bad idea for satire.

Funny Debates at both Cambridge and Oxford eventually helped to convince me that the only place to be amusing is in a serious context.