969 private quotes tagged funny

“It's funny when you're a kid how you can acclimate to almost anything.”— Adam Carolla

“I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up.”— Lynda Barry

“Boston is actually the capital of the world. You didn't know that? We breed smart-a-s, quippy, funny people. Not that I'm one of them. I just sorta sneaked in under the radar.”— John Krasinski

“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

“To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.”— Reba McEntire

“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

“A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.”— Don Marquis

“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

“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

“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

“For years, it's driven me crazy that women don't have better roles, especially in comedies. I know so many funny women but I always felt... misogynist streak is too strong a term - but a dismissiveness.”— Paul Feig

“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

“Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.”— Milton Berle

“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

“With improv, it's a combination of listening and not trying to be funny.”— Kristen Wiig

“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

“I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously.”— Rachel Weisz

“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

“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

“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

“It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.”— Chuck Palahniuk

“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

“I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.”— Vera Farmiga

“It's funny with fiction - once you cut something, it hasn't happened anymore.”— George Saunders

“Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.”— P. J. O'Rourke