“I never know when I am being funny, and the other way too. I don't think you can think about that. I don't think you can try to be funny. Some people are just funny.”
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“I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.”
“The funny thing is, Dennis Miller got me back into comedy.”
“It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music.”
“It's funny, I can sit through the worst horror film ever made but even a quite good romantic comedy can drive me nuts.”
“Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it.”
“People used to be funny about approaching me, but now they seem to think I'm as sane as anyone who's done what I've done in movies can be.”
“You know, you can touch a stick of dynamite, but if you touch a venomous snake it'll turn around and bite you and kill you so fast it's not even funny.”
“Well, I mean, if a joke or humor is bawdy, it's got to be funny enough to warrant it. You can't just have it bawdy or dirty just for the sake of being that - it's got to be funny.”
“In this world, everyone wants to know everything about you, and I think that's funny.”
“I'm just not one of those naturally funny, relaxed actors who enjoy the spotlight and are so good at it.”
“I turned down 'Some Like It Hot.' See how smart I am? I felt I couldn't bring anything funny to it. The outfit was funny. I don't need to compete with the wardrobe.”
“I mean, sometimes... a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don't deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of acting is to be truthful, and they get that mixed up sometimes, or don't even notice that that's the thing.”
“I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up.”
“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.”
“It's not so much what you learn about Mumbai, it's what you learn about yourself, really. It's a funny old hippie thing, but it's true as well. You find out a lot about yourself and your tolerance, and about your inclusiveness.”
“I think there have always been funny women, from Carol Burnett to Joan Rivers. When the audience sees a woman, they innately know she's worked twice as hard to get there, she's had to prove that she can be the leader, first, and then be funny on top of it. She has to emit a confidence that she's in control.”
“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.”
“When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen.”
“It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first explain to me what you mean by 'making it': Do you want to be a rock star or do you want music to be your livelihood?”
“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.”
“It's funny how making odd noises can get you into strange situations sometimes.”
“I love things made out of animals. It's just so funny to think of someone saying, 'I need a letter opener. I guess I'll have to kill a deer.”
“It's funny - if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it's them.”