Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Krasinski

A good part's a good part. You can play serious and funny moments with a well-written role.

Jane Elliot

I love playing smart and tough and having funny lines.

Jim Larranaga

When the horn did it at the end, and it was blaring in my ears, I put the managers on the line and made them run. How funny do you think that was to our players?

Tommy Chong

I've met a lot of jazz musicians in my day, and they're all funny.

Art Linkletter

Each generation has been an education for us in different ways. The first child-with-bloody-nose was rushed to the emergency room. The fifth child-with-bloody-nose was told to go to the yard immediately and stop bleeding on the carpet.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

If I can sell tickets to my movies like Red Sonja or Last Action Hero, you know I can sell just about anything.

Aziz Ansari

I'm in a situation with this girl that's as hopeless as overthrowing the Bush administration.

Aziz Ansari

Do It Under the Influence Yourself! That's what we're shooting for! Get drunk and make your dreams come true.

Ayn Rand

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

Ayn Rand

I think it's funny. There was a time when men were afraid that somebody would reveal some secret of theirs that was unknown to their fellows. Nowadays, they're afraid that somebody will name what everybody knows. Have you practical people ever thought that that's all it would take to blast your whole, big, complex structure, with all your laws and guns - just somebody naming the exact nature of what you're doing?

Ayn Rand

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

Ayn Rand

So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?

Bertrand Russell

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

Bertrand Russell

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

Bertrand Russell

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

Benjamin Disraeli

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

Benjamin Disraeli

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Benjamin Disraeli

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

Benjamin Disraeli

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

Benjamin Disraeli

Her Majesty is not a subject.

Benjamin Disraeli

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Benjamin Disraeli

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Benjamin Disraeli

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

Benjamin Disraeli

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Ben E. King

Yeah. I've been pretty fortunate to travel I guess, all around the place.

Carl Sandburg

In democracy both a deep reverence and a sense of the comic are requisite.

Carl Sandburg

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

Cameron Diaz

I've been noticing gravity since I was very young.

C. S. Lewis

It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.

Karl Kraus

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

Calvin Coolidge

I have never been hurt by what I have not said.

Calvin Coolidge

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

Buster Keaton

A comedian does funny things. A good comedian does things funny.