Quotes About Perception

I'm actually a thin serious person but I play fat and funny, but only for the movies.

I had no idea what they were saying in Italian as a child, they spoke too quickly on the radio. But I realized that language was very funny.

I've been blessed to have done different roles, but I don't think people see me as funny.

You look like a horse in a man costume

You exaggerate your own reactions.

I been seeing newspapers every Sunday morning, white dudes be in there in their drawers, never having no bulge in they drawers. Smiling at you. If I ain't have no bulge, I wouldn't be smiling!

Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

Funny, now I can see, how looks can be deceiving.

Crocodiles have a smile I've seen on the face of every lawyer I've ever met.

It's funny, but I think my stories - the good ones - they're much smarter than I am.

I don't think Reagan is primarily funny, and I don't think he's primarily marvelous; he's complicated.

You know the Dutch, they're always a bit funny... some of them.

It's funny, people talk about the characters they play and who do you sort of see yourself as or which ones maybe were closest to you and in some ways.

I wanted to be a "serious artist." Serious artists didn't tend to be funny. But that didn't get me a lot of attention. And just growing older, you can't help it, you take things less seriously.

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 a real valley when I talk about veal. And calf roping. People were sensitive about calf roping. Which I think is quite funny.

The English have no soul; they have the understatement instead.

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.

If you have a funny costume, you can't really wear it when you get older.

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.

We were talking about urban youth. And by urban I mean lives in a city not urban as in black like white people use it.

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.

I thought that unless people know me, they wouldn't find me funny.

I'm an Asian with a Southern accent. To a lot of people, that right there is funny.