- People
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- 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
All you have in comedy, in general, is just going with your instincts. You can only hope that other people think that what you think is funny is funny. I don't have an answer but I just try to plough straight ahead.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always find it actually funny that the analysis is that the characters I play in comedies are the manchild, the adolescent, characters that refuse to grow up. And yet, if you look back in the history of comedy all the way back to the Marx brothers, that's a big part of comedy.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The funny guy doesn't get the girl until later in life. High school, college, everyone still wants the brooding, dangerous guy you shouldn't have.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know the nature of comedy, and you never know what will happen with the next movie or whether people will find it funny.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the one who's dating the craft-service guy instead of the producer. Plus, if a producer is going to date a hot young thing, I'm probably not the first person on their list - the weird, quirky, funny girl.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Saying women aren't funny is now like saying Asians can't drive or saying black people have bad credit. It's just really, like, so obsolete.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel really trapped as a comedian - someone who is supposed to be funny and light, making jokes all the time. But I'm actually in this inauthentic armor.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love being a dad, it keeps me fit and inspired and children are so funny. They always supply you with acting material!
- Smart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I was funny until college. I lived with some Harvard MD/PhD students - they were so smart, and what I contributed to the house was, I was the funny one.
- Carol
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- Nov 07, 2020