Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce McCulloch

Is it spoken word? Kinda, but that's a weird area. Is it comedy? Well, it's funny but no, it's not comedy.

Bill Engvall

It's funny: people who meet me say, 'I thought you'd be different.' But I'm still the same guy.

Alan Alda

Achingly funny as it was, Larry Gelbart's writing gave off sparks that turned a hard light on the way we are.

Adlai Stevenson

A funny thing happened to me on the way to the White House.

Mary Ellen Mark

Every photograph is the photographer's opinion about something. It's how they feel about something: what they think is horrible, tragic, funny.

Every so often, I like to go to the window, look up, and smile for a satellite picture.

Ali Farahnakian

Baseball players practice, runners practice, so how can you practice being funny? You get up onstage. You train as an improviser, playing make-believe, using the vernacular of improvisation, saying 'yes and' to other people's ideas, making statements.

Sean Hayes

At the beginning of 'Will and Grace', I played Jack as the funny next-door-neighbor type, as we've seen in the past. And I thought that was my role.

Simon Rich

At the end of the day I'm writing comedy. If you get too realistic as a comedy writer with your disasters, it stops being funny.

Jennifer Saunders

Commissioners are obsessed with young people, which is funny because they don't watch telly - only old people do.

Dick had a knack for saying funny things and they were off the cuff. You never knew what would come out of his mouth sometimes.

Bobby Jones

Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course...the space between your ears.

Kym Whitley

I've always wanted to work with children, to help people, and to be funny.

Ali Farahnakian

Teaching someone to be funny is like teaching someone to be fast. They're already fast. You're just making them faster.

Sometimes students find it funny when it happens to someone else.

Maisie Williams

Sometimes people think they know you and they go, 'Hey!' and then they realize that they've just seen you on the television. That's kind of funny sometimes.

Jenny Lewis

Sometimes people come to my shows and think I'm a Christian artist, and they put their hands up in the air, like they do. But first of all, I'm a Jewish girl from the Valley, and I'm from Los Angeles. It's funny to be misinterpreted.

Julian Clary

I've nothing funny to say, but thank you,

Candice Wiggins

The tradition with the tree ... to me, it's funny.

The times I've tried not to be funny, it's never worked, and the times I'm trying not to be dark and just be funny, that never works, either. As varied as my subject matter is, I think the worldview is pretty consistent: seeing darkness and seeing humor.

Anderson Cooper

I see the show. I don't see anything funny about it. It's just me with my family, at home,

Matthew Lillard

Thing is, I'm a funny actor, but I'm not good at being funny. I'm going to ramble for a second: I'm an actor who can make things funny in the moment, like in stakes or in circumstances or out of character.

Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.

Jerry Coleman

Tony Gwynn, the fat batter behind Finley, is waiting.

Jerry Coleman

Turner was like a pencil. He bent around that pitch!

Britney Spears

Where the hell is Australia anyway?

Natasha Leggero

What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and sometimes the world, and work on it and see how people react. You don't need Standards & Practices or notes from lawyers or producers to tell you what's funny.

Courtney Barnett

What's funny about the slacker thing, people project an image of what they think a musician is: young, slack, unemployed - like a really romantic idea of a poet, writer or musician - which isn't really true a lot of the time. I don't reckon you would know anything about me if I wasn't moderately hard-working.

The public votes with their wallets and this is an affirmation that funny is money.

Will Rogers

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to someone else

There was a lot going on. I kept looking back and forth. We thought it was kind of funny when the music was playing during the wrestling matches. But it was fun.

Faith Hill

A man who is right by your side through everything makes you happy. But he can leave your side to make dinner once in a while!

Eugene Ormandy

Someone came too sooner.