Quotes About Observation

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

I observe everything around me and when something hits me and it's funny, that's what I talk about. I'm a more observational kind of comic.

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

The hotel I'm in has a lovely closet. A nail.

Even Nature is observed to have her playful moods or aspects, of which man sometimes seems to be the sport.

Give an average baby a fair chance, and if it doesn't do something it oughtn't to a doctor should be called in at once.

In this world, everyone wants to know everything about you, and I think that's funny.

It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it.

When anyone lacks self-awareness and doesn't recognize their transparencies, it's always funny.

I'm not very interesting. Birds are interesting. I could stand there lip-synching all day long, but it would feel funny, and people would be able to tell. I'm not a good actress.

I have always been very fond of them (drama critics) . . . I think it is so frightfully clever of them to go night after night to the theatre and know so little about it.

I've just seen really, really funny guys, and if I didn't know them, I wouldn't know they were funny from the television. I don't know what it does, it just sucks it away.

[Baz Luhrmann] is funny, to be quite honest with you.

Ain't it funny what people say? Ain't it funny what people write?

I'm always doing what I can to look for and just feel out funny things that are happening in the scene and improvise off of them.

I'm always thinking of stuff; I just don't sit down and write it. I come up with material more as I go along; if something funny happens, I'll make a note of it on my phone.

This many pretty girls in the room, all watching you boys like you're a wedding-reception one-night stand waiting to happen—

Cole, for Christ's sake, will you stop staring at me like I'm beefcake of the month?

Hi's nose was pressed to his window. "I've changed my mind, Tory. This is the perfect place to hold someone prisoner. I'm keeping this on file.

Looking but not seeing is the hearing but not understanding of the eye.

You there, you look like a well-rounded lady, oh yes, and I mean well-rounded

And the way he follows you around all the time. It's like he's been taking pointers from your dog.

All humans learn from each other's mistakes. Intelligent humans learn how to avoid them, idiots how to do them.

...seeing the way his trousers clung to those most English parts.