“I've got to get on myself to be sharp, funny and loose.”
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“Sometimes I am so dry that people don't know I'm kidding and think I'm being serious. I enjoy this because their reactions are often funny.”
“I would love to play 'Funny Girl' or 'Evita,' but I idolize the women who have played those parts. I don't know if there needs to be another version of those shows.”
“At school I was very shy. I wasn't funny really.”
“I love weird or funny or beautiful sentences Joy Williams could write a microwave-oven manual and I'm sure I'd love it, because the sentences would be tuned up like music.”
“I remember listening to the radio as a kid and finding that the songs always made me feel more peaceful. Funny, but the more hurtin' the music was, the better it made me feel. I think of that now when I write my songs. I may not be feelin' the blues myself, but I'm writing them for other people who have a hard life.”
“What was funny if you were there is that we were all immensely sophisticated people who knew exactly what she was going to say and we're chatting away, nice to see you.”
“I'm so unprofessional on set it's not even funny.”
“It's funny that it all becomes about clothes. It's bizarre. You work your b--t off and then you win an award and it's all about your dress. You can't get away from it.”
“I think it's so funny when people think they can't control a movie star. They can. We're just women, you know.”
“I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny.”
“I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'”
“I love Mikhail Bulgakov. He is very original and takes the story to unexpected places. I didn't realise political writing could be so funny.”
“And there's a visceral fun in watching Team America and making it, like taking a puppet and throwing it against the wall. Because it's not CG, there's something funny about it.”
“So often, I read scripts and am like, 'This would never happen in real life. It's not trying to be funny. It's trying to be serious.'”
“Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.”
“Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.”
“I'm not a believer in the pratfall. I don't think it's funny just to have someone fall down.”
“They did that little thing on South Park, and they mentioned my name and had a character of me judging a Halloween contest. It was really funny.That made me the coolest aunt on earth.”
“There's a constant flow of child actors. It's kind of funny to watch the new crew come through. I think, You poor little things. You're going to have to struggle for a long time.”
“It's funny, growing up there was never anybody around me with any kind of artistic bent.”
“When I was in college, I was in the theater department, which for anyone who has been involved in any kind of theater program, you know that it's really wacky and tight-knit, a real family. Me and my good friends from college would do random shows and plays that were sometimes serious, but most of the time really goofy and funny.”
“With Portlandia, I don't think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously. We're okay with making somebody feel uncomfortable or uneasy.”
“Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens.”