Funny Quotes

I don't think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.

Ben Stiller

I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.

Mercedes McCambridge

In my experience, it's not just that serious books get a hearing on comedy shows. But serious books get a serious hearing, as well as a funny one, on comedy shows.

Michael Mandelbaum

Life can be dramatic and funny all in the same day.

Jennifer Aniston

Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.

Michael Pollan

Maybe I'm delusional but I'm usually funny. It's not 100% but I have a pretty good batting average.

Adam Carolla

I think there have always been funny women, from Carol Burnett to Joan Rivers. When the audience sees a woman, they innately know she's worked twice as hard to get there, she's had to prove that she can be the leader, first, and then be funny on top of it. She has to emit a confidence that she's in control.

Wendy Liebman

I like the hot-cold, the sugar-salt, being able to play over-the-top and dramatic things - in the same film. Just as in my life, I can be very funny and at other times almost extinguished.

Jean Dujardin

I always like to watch comics and it's interesting that you can tell if someone's funny in 10 seconds.

Christopher Walken

I can speak Esperanto like a native.

Spike Milligan

It's really funny because the same people who loved me as Stringer Bell were the same people that were watching 'Daddy's Little Girls' literally in tears.

Idris Elba

I don't know now if I'm funny. I just keep talking and hope that I hit something that's funny.

Craig Ferguson

It is easy for me to love myself, but for ladies to do it is another question altogether.

Johnny Vegas

Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you are fine.

Evan Davis

Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else's expense. And I find that that's just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else's feelings.

Ellen DeGeneres

There's a darkness under 'The Hangover' because ultimately there's a missing person and it's not really that funny. There's a sort of darkness under it that I love, and still people are laughing as hard if not harder than they did in 'Old School.'

Todd Phillips

I don't care what the haters and naysayers say. If they make jokes about me, I'll laugh because they'll probably be funny.

Paula Deen

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.

Tina Yothers

All my children inherited perfect pitch.

Chevy Chase

I thought 'Borat' was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasn't some studio-produced script with 14 writers.

Steve Martin