“I don't think know if anything's going to translate anywhere. You're making a movie, you hope it's going to be funny, you can't think about how it's going to go over.”
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“If you can find the line between sympathetic and creepy, you have reached a very funny area.”
“I don't think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.”
“I love New York. I was sad, depressed and incredibly moved by our fellow countrymen and what they've done. I wanted to give people a chance to see something funny, have a distraction.”
“Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it.”
“If you take a bunch of superstars and put them in a room where they don't have their assistants and entourage, it's funny to see what happens.”
“Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.”
“I think one of the basic tasks in life - one of the nice things we can do for each other - is to take things that are horrible and scary and make them acceptable and less frightening and, if possible, funny. It feels great to succeed at that.”
“I appreciate humor so much, but I'm actually not a funny girl.”
“During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.”
“I remember interviewing someone I actually felt bad for, and therefore didn't want to take an ironic stance against him. It actually turned out to be a really funny piece.”
“I don't think my judgment is that good. I don't know what is funny.”
“It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.”
“Sometimes we have to actually say, I think you're really funny, but none of your jokes are going to make it on the air. So just answer my questions. Seriously.”
“I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion.”
“The prospects for a coherent, hilarious and consistent American comedy seem to lessen every year, as the poor waterlogged, gassy corpse called 'Evan Almighty' proved when it floated ashore recently. So there's a temptation to think too highly of Robin Williams's uneven but occasionally funny 'License to Wed.'”
“'Lucky' is for laughs, and there's really nothing funny that I'm doing on 'Dexter.' I think more than anything, both comment on the fact that anybody is capable of anything. Just because they are the shy guy in the corner doesn't mean that they are a harmless little bunny.”
“There have been times when I felt suicidal and I would stop my head from going in that direction of negativity because I thought there'd be something I'd miss that was funny in the future. If there's a chance I'm going to laugh tomorrow then want to live to experience that.”
“And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.”
“I liked getting the best villain award. I thought that was funny.”
“The music industry is really funny, when you have a hit record, everyone knows who are you, everyone wants to do duets with you, then if you have a miss, people suffer from amnesia.”
“This is funny because I just had a job over the summer for VH1, a project I did called Strange Frequency where I got to play a Goth rock band singer.”
“I mean, I'm married first of all to one of, if not the most wonderful women in the world. She is everything - funny, attractive, hard-working, she has integrity, she loves me to bits.”
“A film that I love is 'Raising Arizona' and that's funny but it's quite indie and weird and odd and quirky. I'd love to do something like that. Who knows?”