“Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you are fine.”
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“It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it.”
“Maybe I'm delusional but I'm usually funny. It's not 100% but I have a pretty good batting average.”
“If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we'd know who she was?”
“It's funny when you're a kid how you can acclimate to almost anything.”
“I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said.”
“My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration.”
“As a writer, or as a filmmaker, you have to present yourself, and part of what yourself is is what you're interested in, or what you think is funny, or what you think is sad, or what you think is horrible.”
“People ask 'do you make a conscious effort not to swear?' - if you're doing silly stuff you're not tempted to put swearing in. All the comics from my childhood, who were funny without swearing, were the people that influenced me. What I do is quite traditional anyway.”
“I always find it kind of embarrassing, kind of funny, and kind of exciting. In New York I'm recognized a lot, although nobody says anything. You know, they stare at you just a second too long. But in Paris it's not as commonplace to be recognized.”
“I don't think, 'Gee, I'd like to dress this person.' There was a picture in Us magazine. It was a jersey dress, and Courtney Love was wearing it. I have this thing about Courtney Love, this funny worship.”
“I grew up in a funny way.”
“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?”
“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.”
“It's funny with fiction - once you cut something, it hasn't happened anymore.”
“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.”
“You know, I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end.”
“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.”
“This is going to sound really funny. I have a poster of Zac Efron on my wall! I think every girl has a poster of him in their room so, why not join the club!”
“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.”
“Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Lifes a very funny proposition after all.”
“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.”
“I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.”
“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.”