Quotes About Perception

If a playwright is funny, the English look for a serious message, and if he's serious, they look for a joke.

Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.

I can only think of a handful of artists that can make a funny painting or a funny sculpture without it feeling coined in someway.

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

Lindsay calls them the Pugs: pretty from far away, ugly up close.

Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor, but I always knew who was funny, who to hang out with.

The funny thing about these uniforms is that you hang them in the closet and they get smaller and smaller.

It's funny that people think because you don't have a movie or record out, you disappear into a frozen chamber someplace. They think you're dead when you're not in the public eye.

Like a cartoon world, where the figures are flat and outlined in black, jerking through some kind of goofy story that might be real funny if it weren't for the cartoon figures being real guys.

And when you're on your own there is that terrifying possibility that you may be the only person on the planet who thinks it's funny - and you have no way of finding out.

Ben Stiller isn't funny - honest. Ben Stiller is very funny, and smart, and cute, too, in a neurotic, New York kind of way.

Charlie Chaplin's genius was in comedy. He has no sense of humor, particularly about himself.

It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.

If I bring anything to the table, it's the fact that not everybody realizes they're funny. So I just point a finger.

The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it.

"I've done your dog. It's got nine eyes down the side, I made his head all square, 15 legs. What do you think of that?" "Fido looks a bit weird."

Germans respond well to lies. At least, they always have historically.

I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant.

I get a lot of letters - a lot of letters saying, who knew that you were funny?

The idea that you can't be attractive and funny at the same time is something that I hate.

I can see none of you are smugglers; that's why it's so loud.

It is not as difficult as I thought it was, but it is harder than it is.

The notes are right, but if I listened they would be wrong.

I wrote it the right way, so it was copied the wrong way right. I mean the right way wrong.