Quotes About Perspective

When I see something, I know why something's funny or seems to be funny. But in the end it's just another picture as far as I'm concerned.

It's funny the things you think you're scared of until they're upon you, and then you're not.

How did I ever get sick? I've already had everything.

Any misfortune that happens to another person is funny. If it happens to someone else and not me, it's very funny.

It's funny because sometimes one doesn't actually consider these things for one's self until one's in a situation like this press conferece where one has to kind of think about it.

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.

I look for the meaning in what's funny, and I look for what's funny about things that are meaningful to me.

Either I'm funny or the world's funny. I don't know which. The bottle and lid don't fit. It could be the bottle's fault or the lid's fault. In either case, there's no denying that the fit is bad.

A lot of my early pictures are, I think, quite funny. And these days I tend to look for comedy more and more.

I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive.

Most of the stories I have go downhill quickly. In all honesty most of the good stories I have, no one else would think is funny.

The only food he has ever stolen has been down on a coffee table. He claims that he genuinely believed it to be a table meant for dogs.

The stuff that made me mad 20 years ago doesn't really make me mad any more.

Parker's grand slam is the same as going 4 for 4, even though he went 1 for 4.

Larry Moffett is 6' 3". Last year he was 6" 6".

I think of myself as a funny guy but nobody thinks I'm funnier than my daughters.

Cancer is always funny.

I think anyone who's perfectly happy isn't particularly funny. And when you're very, very happy, you're not very funny. You're just happy. I'd rather be damaged and funny.

I don't know if there's anything intrinsically funny about Tae Kwon Do.

It's a funny semantic turn - when someone paints a landscape, no one says they "borrowed" it, only that they painted it.

If you're cross-eyed and have dyslexia, can you see okay?

I don't know when I'm writing dark. I don't know when I'm writing funny or even heartbreaking. I'm always just trying to write it true.

[On Ronald Reagan:] Jane Wyman seemed more upset with her husband's obsession with politics than I. I tried to make her laugh. 'He'll outgrow it,' I told her. To her it wasn't funny.

Neil Armstrong, that spaceman, he went to the moon but he ain't been back. It can't have been that good.