Famous Quotes & Sayings

Constance Wu

I do think there are some actors that can get away with trying to be funny, and they're still funny because they're just likeable, and you want to see them. Me, though, when you see me trying to be funny, it's like the worst thing in the world. It's needy, it's cloying, it's manipulative - it's bad.

Don Rickles

If something strikes me as funny, I'll put it in my performance.

Mark Twain

The past may not repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme

Becky G

I look at old performance videos now, and it's really funny - I thought I was such a gangster!

Brad Goreski

I'm obsessed with sparkle for men. It's so funny watching people's reaction to a disco-ball shoe!

Bill Hader

There are some really funny women at 'SNL,' man.

Bill Hader

Pete Davidson - he's in the movie 'Trainwreck.' He has a small part in it. I told Lorne Michaels about him, said he was really funny.

David Walton

It's funny how when your kids get sick, they get even cuter when they have a stuffed nose and they mouth breathe.

David Walton

Chemistry's a funny thing. It can be instantaneous, but it helps when you know someone.

David Cross

It's not about trying to be funny all the time. It's more of a document that hopefully is funny.

Christina Baker Kline

My parents are a bedrock. And I have three complex, strong, and funny sisters who inspire and sustain me.

Denis Leary

Some people expect me to be funny all the time, and I'm not necessarily funny all the time.

Bill Cosby

If you watch kids looking at something on television, even something that's produced for them and is supposed to be funny, what you'll notice is that they don't laugh.

Tim Hetherington

The funny thing about war is that people feel you need to be morally outraged. I feel morally outraged about it, and I've been doing it for long enough to feel morally outraged, because I have been in massacre scenes in West Africa, and I've been doing this for a long time now.

Tim Conway

My parents were very funny - they didn't know it. But they were. They were actually sharing an IQ.

Kurt Vonnegut

I'm screamingly funny, you know, I really am in the books. And that helps because I'm funnier than a lot of people, I think, and that's appreciated by young people.

Imelda Staunton

I've always tried to fight against, 'Oh, who's that small funny actress? Let's get her.'

British politics, as the world knows, is a joke. Yet it's rarely funny.

If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents.

Lele Pons

The inspiration for my Vines comes from thinking about funny and relatable experiences from my daily life.

Chelsea Handler

I went out with a guy who once told me I didn’t need to drink to make myself more fun to be around. I told him, I’m drinking so that you’re more fun to be around.

Nick Wechsler

Being funny has always mattered a lot to me. It's why I started acting - to make my friends laugh.

Linda Kozlowski

After 'Crocodile Dundee,' I turned down lots of stuff, most of it where I'd play the girlfriend of some funny man.

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

Lynda Barry

My strips are not always funny, and they can be pretty grim at times, and I know I lose readers because of it, but I can't do anything about it - my work is very much connected to something I need to do in order to feel stable.

H. L. Mencken

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

Richie Benaud

Rory Bremner I have no problem with; he is a satirist, and a very funny one, too.

What most readers do not realize is that it takes a particular genius to write funny, to satirize.

Ethan Hawke

We live in a funny time. If you don't go corporate, you can't compete. You're relegated as irrelevant. People used to admire that.

Samuel Goldwyn

Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them.

Samuel Butler

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

Samuel Butler

A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

Samuel Butler

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.