Quotes for Funny

I served 18 months in Northern Ireland and that was very scary. I remember when we were told do you want the good news or the bad news first. We wanted the good news - we're going to Cyprus. The bad news? We're going to Northern Ireland first. All the black blokes looked at each other and thought, 'that's really funny.'

Nigel Benn

I never thought I was funny, but I enjoy being funny.

Nora Dunn

You don't think that mean people can be funny, and Jane Lynch is the epitome of that. If there could be, like, a gay version of 'Mean Girls,' I'd totally be in it.

Alex Newell

It's painful for me to watch someone who isn't funny. It's horrifying to sit in the back and watch some guy who just totally sucks.

Joe Rogan

The key to doing 'Harold and Kumar' movies is you make it earnest. Primarily what we do is make Harold and Kumar's relationship and friendship believable, and we don't actually work on being that funny.

John Cho

I consider myself very lucky. God has a funny way of bringing some things around and knocking you in the head with the ultimate destination. Something I should have achieved quite easily took me a long time to get around to. It came in His time, not mine.

Jim Morris

That is the job of a comedian: To take unpleasant subject matter and forcibly, with his hands, wring the funny out of it.

Katt Williams

I would love to be more specific, but really, any type of bird is the funniest animal. They have to move awkwardly when walking. They have beady eyes; they are very suspicious. They can't do anything right. They have no hands, which is inherently funny.

Kurt Braunohler

For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents.

James Herriot

During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.

Jerry Stiller

The original outline for 'Mississippi Grind' was actually an attempt to go funny. But when we showed it to people we realized that maybe it wasn't as funny to other people as it was to us - we have a pretty specific sense of what's funny - and then we thought, O.K., we need to do this more like we would actually make one of our movies.

Ryan Fleck

I'm so bad at dancing that I've actually been in two movies where the director of the film saw me dancing and thought it was so funny that in one movie they had me do it as the mental dancing of a real simple person. The other one was, like, to-be-laughed-at dancing. That's how bad my dancing is.

Emily Hampshire

I grew up a really shy kid, but I always surrounded myself with a lot funny people. It depends on the day - if I feel like being quiet, I will be. I'm not a complete goofball, though.

Manny Montana

One of the things I love about Helena Bonham Carter is that she is ravishing, but she does as much as she can to play it down and look funny. She doesn't let her looks get in the way. I hugely respect that.

Eileen Atkins

I did a lot of sitcoms, and being funny isn't about being beautiful. Usually, beautiful people aren't the funny people.

Maura Tierney

The funny story was that I actually quite fancied David's best friend Jerome first, and then Jerome let me down easy that he was gay. He's now one of my best friends and I married David.

Monica Galetti

I was determined to make a movie - about families and a love story - that black women would be proud to see and which would depict them as being smart, loving, sensitive, sexy, and funny.

Salim Akil

All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.

Casey Stengel

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.

Oliver Herford

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

Saul Bellow