David Zucker Quotes

Chevy Chase and Bill Murray - we thought those guys were funny. We love Bill Murray, but we didn't think they were right for Airplane! because it would step on the joke if there was a known comedian.

David Zucker

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• You know what? At the end of the day, funny is funny. I hope to see the end of all the female cliches that are written in a lot of comedies that are named chick flicks.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Hope
  • Funny
  • Day

• A mate of mine told me recently, 'It's the first time I've seen you work, Worthington.' I thought that was quite funny, but he was right.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Time
  • Work
  • Funny

• I have an unfortunate personality.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Funny
  • Personality

• I think Secretary's funny, it is about sex, and there's a lot of sex in it, sex is the key, but you're talking about a lot of other complicated things.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • Think
  • Funny
  • Sex

• I like children - fried.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Children
  • Funny
  • Like

• I got tired of books where the boy is a bit thick and the girl's very clever. Why does it have to such an opposition? Why can't they be like the girls and boys that I know personally, who are equally funny and equally cross? Who get things equally wrong and are equally brave? And make the same mistakes?

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Why
  • Girl
  • Funny

• Jack Black is so funny! On and off screen, like, he would make you laugh every day. He's hilarious.

  

  Caitlin Hale
  • Black
  • Funny
  • Day

• 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'm probably the guy who keeps it loose around the room and tries to joke around with guys before the game, keeping things funny.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Guy
  • Game
  • Funny

• I think if you're trying to be funny, sometimes you're bending a piece of metal in a direction it doesn't want to go. And sometimes comedy just needs to find itself.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Funny

• My wife and I ran through 'Justified' in, like, a day. And that is such a funny, amazing show.

  

  Adam Pally
  • Funny
  • Day
  • Amazing

• I am the ultimate California girl, which is funny, being that I'm Canadian.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Girl
  • Funny
  • California

• You put funny people in funny costumes and paint them green and we could talk about anything we wanted to, because that was the only thing that fascinated Gene about this particular genre.

  

  Majel Barrett
  • People
  • Funny
  • Green

• If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Life
  • Live
  • Funny

• It's funny because I grew up with the T.V. on 24 hours a day. And the more money I made, the more T.V.s we had.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Money
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• You can't be funny for funny's sake. You try to get as outrageous situation as you can but it always has to be believable and based in real character motivations and what people would really do.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • People
  • Real
  • Character

• I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Funny
  • Food
  • Wine

• After doing Johnny I wanted to just do something, I wouldn't say innocent, but to not have any care in the world. Lots of setups and horrible happenings but its funny.

  

  Jhonen Vasquez
  • World
  • Funny
  • Innocent

• Some guys may play around and say a couple of things, but if I say it, I mean it. I may laugh, it may be funny, but if I say I'm going to get you, I'm going to get you.

  

  Deontay Wilder
  • May
  • Funny
  • Couple

• The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people's eyes before you even put out an album.

  

  J. Cole
  • People
  • Today
  • Eyes

• The revolution comes when two strangers smile at each other, when a father refuses to send his child to school because schools destroy children, when a commune is started and people begin to trust each other, when a young man refuses to go to war and when a girl pushes aside all that her mother has 'taught' her and accepts her boyfriends (sic) love.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • People
  • Children
  • School

• I hope in general that my music allows somebody to follow what they really like doing.

  

  Donald Glover
  • Music
  • Hope
  • General

• Chevy Chase and Bill Murray - we thought those guys were funny. We love Bill Murray, but we didn't think they were right for Airplane! because it would step on the joke if there was a known comedian.

  

  David Zucker
  • Funny
  • Airplane