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“Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.”— Milton Berle
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“I'm just not one of those naturally funny, relaxed actors who enjoy the spotlight and are so good at it.”— Heath Ledger
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“It's funny when you're a kid how you can acclimate to almost anything.”— Adam Carolla
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“I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up.”— Lynda Barry
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“People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'”— Al Yankovic
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“I mean it's funny, playing music, how of course you want it to do well, you want them to like it, but it's not competitive like an election, it's the Olympics, it's not a Formula 1 race. The Billboard charts are just to show you what people like.”— Eddie Van Halen
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“When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen.”— Nate Silver
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“When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.”— Francois Truffaut
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“It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.”— Gertrude Stein
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“I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic... That to me was funny.”— Christopher Meloni
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“I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience. I'm not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts. And I'm certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.”— Rowan Atkinson
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“I'm so single. It's funny. I'm usually a relationship girl. I love being in love and having a partner in crime. But it's good to be your own partner in crime. God, that makes me sound like I have multiple-personality disorder.”— Brittany Snow
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“My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.”— Ellen DeGeneres
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“If you are a great dramatic actor then you often don't know if people are enjoying your stuff at all because they are sitting there in silence. But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.”— Steve Coogan
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“I'm an unorthodox type of guy, a funny guy - at least I think I'm funny. And one of the things I like to do is come up with nicknames for myself.”— Shaquille O'Neal
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“I'm very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in 'Morning Glory' with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.”— Rachel McAdams
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“With improv, it's a combination of listening and not trying to be funny.”— Kristen Wiig
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“On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.”— Theodore Bikel
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“I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously.”— Rachel Weisz
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“It's painful for me to watch someone who isn't funny. It's horrifying to sit in the back and watch some guy who just totally sucks.”— Joe Rogan
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“I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?”— Orlando Bloom
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“It sounds funny, but the 2008 Olympics were something that just kind of happened, and I was lucky they came at a point when I was uninjured and well prepared. As a gymnast, you can't ask for much more.”— Shawn Johnson
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“In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read magazines, and a poem takes less time than an article.”— Caroline Kennedy
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“Something about New York, man: You can do more comedy there probably than you can anywhere in the world. If you're interested in being funny, New York is the place to go.”— Dave Chappelle
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“It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious.”— Bill Hicks