- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Joke Quotes
What comedians say about making people laugh.
Several quotes here come from people who make a living off timing, including one who admits to softening blunt criticism by wrapping it in humor first, describing it like a cut followed by a few stitches. Another describes the frustrating double standard where the exact same line lands only when a man delivers it.
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- Blot
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history.
- Chicken
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- Nov 07, 2020
My chicken ain't no joke. I ain't scared to go up against the Colonel, tastewise.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a standard joke in the family. Probably we should go into selling second-hand shoes.
- Image
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- Nov 07, 2020
The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a director, you can't stop a guy if he thinks something's hysterical, because if you do, then he'll get depressed because he thinks he didn't come up with a good joke. So if a guy's going on some run and it's killing him, and he thinks it's hilarious, you gotta do enough so that he thinks you can use it in the movie.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd been shy since childhood, constantly full of self-doubt. And as an actor, I'd been so scared of failing that I made my career - and myself - a big joke.
- Nov 07, 2020
It is fun to see a comedy in which every single joke hasn't been packed into the trailer.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a joke in my family that I'm going to make a career out of playing other people's younger selves.
- Equal Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm pretty equal opportunity when it comes to issues to joke about.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
So, whenever Scooter was the Pilot, he never had a chance to fly the orbiter. So, the joke is: I'm going to have a chance to fly it first and hand it over to him.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020