Danny Kaye Quotes

I'm just an entertainer. All I want to be is funny. I never aspired to play Hamlet.

Danny Kaye

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• I landed the female lead role on 'Chuck' within three days of landing in L.A., so it was a little overwhelming, and I definitely felt like I got thrown into the deep end.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Deep
  • End
  • Lead

• I was funny around my family. My family, they're pretty funny, too.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Family
  • Pretty
  • Funny

• 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.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • People
  • American
  • Funny

• People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • People
  • Great
  • Funny

• But I think funny and talent will always win out; I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're funny you will get over all of that.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Funny
  • Win
  • Talent

• What's funny in 'The Mayor of MacDougal Street' is how Dave Van Ronk talks a lot about the time and how exciting it was and how electric it was.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Time
  • Funny
  • Street

• This may sound funny, but I feel my most beautiful when I'm clean, fresh out of the bath. I don't have to be dressed up. I could be in comfy clothes at home hanging out with my family.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Up
  • Family
  • May

• Scott Foley was always fun because he's a very funny guy. So I liked working with him a bunch.

  

  Ian Gomez
  • Fun
  • Guy
  • Funny

• Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Funny
  • See
  • Others

• We try to make the name longer and longer every year. First, it was 'Larry the Cable Guy's Christmas Spectacular.' Then it was 'It's a Very Larry Christmas.' Now it's 'Larry the Cable Guy's Hula-palooza Christmas Luau.' I'll tell you what it is: It's funny. That's what it is. Who cares what the name of it is? It is a funny special.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Guy
  • Funny
  • Christmas

• Being a humorist is not a voluntary thing. You can tell this because in a situation where saying a funny thing will cause a lot of trouble, a humorist will still say the funny thing. No matter how inappropriate.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Funny
  • Situation
  • Saying

• If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Funny
  • Would
  • Wearing

• Turns out you have a really fun time if you go to work every day and focus on being silly and funny and happy!

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Time
  • Work
  • Happy

• Flirting is funny. And it's awkward and weird.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Funny
  • Weird
  • Awkward

• I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Great
  • True
  • Funny

• Being funny is a symptom of what's underneath. You're pumping out all that energy because something else is going on inside you, some opposing force, something uncomfortable.

  

  Faith Prince
  • Energy
  • Funny
  • Inside

• I have my website, The Ruckus, which is an Internet site, similar to the Funny or Die format, where people post funny videos. I get a chance to rate their videos; they get a chance to blog and kick it with me.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • People
  • Funny
  • Die

• It's a weird thing. Rick Springfield wrote 'Jessie's Girl,' and he probably gets sick of talking about 'Jessie's Girl.' The thing is, I didn't write 'Blurred Lines.' I didn't direct the music video. I'm really happy for the success, but it is kind of a funny thing to follow me around.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Success

• I consider myself a player who fights and gives everything on the pitch. Those who know me and appreciate those values understand what I say.

  

  Diego Costa
  • Player

• Sometimes, we find common ground; more often, we don't.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Sometimes
  • Find
  • Often

• I wrote a book of essays about New York called 'The Colossus of New York,' but it's not about - you know, when I'm writing about rush hour or Central Park, it's not a black Central Park, it's just Central Park, and it's not a black rush hour, it's just rush hour.

  Colson Whitehead
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Black

• Because glass is at once structural and transparent, it is relatively easy to consider the integration of structural and environmental building performance within a single integrated skin.

  

  Neri Oxman
  • Single

• I'm just an entertainer. All I want to be is funny. I never aspired to play Hamlet.

  

  Danny Kaye
  • Funny
  • Hamlet