Funny Quotes

Being serious is serious business in fiction. It's commercial or hoi polloi in fiction to be funny. It's too accessible to the great unwashed.

You can mythologize Steve Jobs, but really in the end, he was a kid from the Valley, with his funny little friends, and they made something. That's all he was.

Surprise makes a joke funny. I love it when someone tells me something I couldn't possibly have expected; you've been led along one path and - bang! - the joke comes out of nowhere.

Does it bother me that I'm attached to 'Three's Company' 30 years after? Not at all. All we were trying to do was be funny. How can I complain? That's all I wanted to do.

I wanted to see how funny I could be without making the choice that every 10 minutes something big and visual had to happen.

The great thing about Eminem is, he's just hysterical. You forget, people like Eminem because he is riotously funny. And he's a great actor.

One of my fears is that I'm suddenly not going to be funny, but still think I am. That's like my nightmare that I can wake up in a cold sweat from.

You should look up some of the reviews. The New York Times review is so over-the-top funny. It's hysterical. You should dig it out.

It's so funny, all the similarities that we have [with David Copperfield] of being obsessed young people and finding a way to be around the people doing what we want to do.

It's funny when people debate about music, because they get so passionate about what they enjoy.

It's funny, now there are so many bands that I can never remember any of their names. Maybe it's because I'm old.

I don't think I'm going to get so mature that I lose touch with the whatever wounded part of myself that feels the need to be funny. I'm already old enough that I realize that's not going to happen.

I think my instinct creatively is to make things that are very funny and happy and silly. And in this moment where the world is very scary, I feel like my role is to make people laugh really hard.

I just couldn't go back to Suddenly Susan after David Strickland's suicide. I didn't see how we could make the show light and funny any more.

Santa Jr. I was a cop. Yes, I was officially Santa. But a younger Santa. He goes young, clean-shaven, to how we imagine Santa with all the white hair and beard and "Ho ho ho." Kind of funny.

Kim Coates is really funny. He's a blast. If you have to get beaten up and tortured, he's a good guy to get tortured by.

In L.A relationships don't last. You go on a vacation and break up by the time you come home. Thank God for one-hour photo, so you can see your vacation photos while you're still in the relationship.

It was funny, he reflected later, how one’s life could alter in an instant, how one minute everything could be a certain way, and the next it’s simply ... not

Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.

The movies are funny, in one way, because you think of everyone being as beautiful as the dawn, but that isn't true.

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.

I know it's hard on her. If I don't tell her she'll kill me." He pauses. "That was supposed to be funny.

But its not funny. Not to people who've been told they're losers their whole lives and believe they will never be anything else.

When I first started I was always known as The Girl on the Sitcom with the Funny Voice.

It was funny, Skip thought, how much attention children demanded the first few years of their lives and how hard adults strove ever after to get their attention.

Children have an easier ability to tap into the surreal than adults do, in a funny kind of way.

I was the little, funny one. I felt I was the child among grown women.

Shakespeare - it's not funny. No matter how they try to make Shakespeare funny, when it's meant to be funny it's not funny.

I was feeling very irritable. It was that difficult time of the month when the credit card statement arrives.

[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.

Being a fan of comedy, it's so unique, in their own voice. I was really stoked to be able to participate. They're so great at just coming up with stuff on the fly and making stuff funny.

I have a funny process : it’s called procrastination.

I trained at The Groundlings and was surrounded by some very funny women and also some very unfunny men. I didn't feel a sense of things being different because I was a girl.

I think my sense of humor is really dark and super twisted and stuff like that. It's like, "Is this a funny joke for real? Or am I just rich?" See? That was funny.

Think you can maybe not die for five minutes?" "I'll try,"I told him seriously. "You know, if anyone else said that, it would be funny.

The girl has a funny way of romanticizing things.

I'm just in the business of creating; creating new work inspires you to create new work. It's kind of funny.

I'm hunting for little Mexican girls.

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

The Elephant Man would never have gotten up and gone, ‘Oh, God. Look at me hair today.’

I came up with a good idea... see-through skin.

With identical twins, you always get a little snidey one.

I know when I was a kid I ate a beetle. I ate a beetle because I thought it was licorice.

It's just hassle of having friends and family an' that.

["When are you getting married" in Everybody Loves Somebody] is funny because it's put on by women and men. Society makes women feel like, oh, you're getting old.

I have a great ability to improvise verbally and I am very funny on a dime.

While we were working, we were writing about a tall girl and a short girl, which we thought was funny, because Alison's [McGhee] tall and I'm short.

It is very funny, but you do not always have to see people to love them. Just think about it, and see if it isn't so.

I think the whole concept that women aren't funny is dead. It's over; it's done.

I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.