- Nov 07, 2020
Funny Quotes
Everyday humor, seen through a few different lenses.
This collection finds humor in ordinary places, from a parent delighted by how funny children naturally are to a musician writing entire songs around invented funny characters. For sharper one-liners, see Jokes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to like writing for comedians - I enjoyed the challenge of making other people funny.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a grim business, this being funny. Every time you come up with a strong, satiric idea, the world tops it.
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started writing 'Southern Baptist Sissies' right after I had written the screenplay for 'Sordid Lives', so that's when I started on a darker path in telling the truth about my journey in the church, but there was still a lot of funny.
- Funny Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
With 'Pariah,' at the time, I had just come out. I had a coming out experience, and I was writing about it, transposing my experience as an adult: What would it have been like if I had been a teenager in Brooklyn? The funny thing was people thought I was from Brooklyn. I had to be like, 'No, I'm from Nashville.'
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's funny: your happiness is contingent on a bigger picture besides just yourself.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never an actress in high school. I didn't start acting until I was in my twenties. I was just a funny cheerleader. I hadn't even seen a show until I was in my twenties, so I was very late getting into the business.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find it endlessly interesting, endlessly funny, the fact that we're rather arbitrarily divided up into these discrete humans and that your physical self, your physical attributes, your moment of history and the place where you were born determine who you are as much as all that indefinable stuff that's inside of you.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always loved acting, and that's what I wanted to do. It's funny that my first big role is a role where I'm going into a studio to record my singing.
- Moral
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- Nov 07, 2020
A family film is a very particular and explicit form. Family films typically include adult principles that are moral, but they should be as intelligent, funny, and intriguing as any other film.
- Funny Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here's the funny thing about the response I've been aware of to my dating famous people: It's been very negative. I'm either not good-looking enough, not a good enough actor or not successful enough for these people.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020