Quotes About Perception

Sometimes I think I look like I've had facial reconstructive surgery. Like after burns.

I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.

James Caan told me at the end of filming 'Elf' that he had been waiting through the whole film for me to be funny - and I never was.

What's politically correct a lot of times is not funny.

Convoy? Michael, you're hanging around with a man who uses a collective term for a single vehicle.

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.

I think the audience should take away that it's okay to be smart, it's okay to be funny and well-learned. You can be from academia and be funny; you don't have to be an idiot.

I know people will think it's funny because I've done glamour modelling in the past, but I felt embarrassed about my body and just wanted to cover it up.

Comedy is rarely funny.

Funny how mishearing things-or not hearing them at all-can really screw things up

Japan is, you often feel, an improved version of the United States.

When a husband's story is believed, he begins to suspect his wife.

People always say, "When did you know you were funny?" They don't mean that in a bad way - this already makes me sound like such a jerk.

I no longer believe that just about everything is funny, if viewed from the proper angle.

Everyone thinks softball is a girl's game. But you only think that until you get hit with it on a line drive.

My wife is so fat that when she lays on the beach the people feel sorry for her and try to roll her back into the water.

That's a very nice, generic-sounding question: "When did you know you were funny?" But it pre-supposes that I think I'm really hilarious. So that's kind of a loaded question.

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.'

I actually don't subscribe to the notion that comedy is easier than drama. When you're trying to be funny and you're not funny, that's really terrible. It's a horrible feeling.

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.

You have to know where the funny is, and if you know where the funny is, you know everything.

Fast pitch softball is just as dangerous as baseball. The ball is bigger so you can see it better, but the size also makes for a bigger space to move out of its way.

President Bush gave his first-ever presidential radio address in both English and Spanish. Reaction was mixed, however, as people were trying to figure out which one was which.