Eugene Levy Quotes

I'm not a joke guy; I'm not a stand-up comic.

Eugene Levy

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• The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • World
  • Mankind
  • Joke

• My dad is a really funny guy, and we would make jokes about my leukemia. When my friends would come over, we would joke about it, too.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Friends
  • Guy
  • Funny

• I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Joke

• We joke about it in the entertainment industry: Every actor wants to be a musician, and every musician wants to be an actor.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Actor
  • Entertainment
  • Joke

• I'm not the type of person who thinks up a joke and has to tell everyone.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Up
  • Person
  • Everyone

• Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Art
  • Joke
  • Salt

• My chicken ain't no joke. I ain't scared to go up against the Colonel, tastewise.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Up
  • Scared
  • Joke

• We have a marriage of people of various cultures coming together. It's not a joke. It's real.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • People
  • Real
  • Together

• We are a very united group. We like to have fun, we like to joke around.

  

  Sam Brown
  • Fun
  • Group
  • Joke

• Somebody would think I was trying to get favored treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. And that's a joke.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Trying
  • Moon
  • Joke

• What I would do in order to be popular was, I'd put myself on line and joke around and be funny, and I was always known as the crazy kid.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Funny
  • Crazy
  • Popular

• Richard Lewis is the master at taking a joke that he's told a million times in a row in the past year, on the road, and making it look like he's pulling it out of thin air.

  

  Artie Lange
  • Past
  • Air
  • Road

• If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Suicide

• A sense of humor is rare. It isn't telling a joke about how there are three ways to get to heaven. It's being in a restaurant and hearing someone say, Everyone's got their tale of woe, and then turning around and saying, Unfortunately, in life, there's more woe than tail.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Life
  • Heaven
  • Joke

• Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • People
  • Joke
  • Dry

• They have been a joke with regards to the selection. I didn't say that earlier because I thought I'd get sent to Alaska and they don't have a regional there.

  

  C. Vivian Stringer
  • Joke
  • Selection
  • Regards

• Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle - and not just in the sense of money, by the way. The Beatles are untouchable. That’s just a joke.

  

  Bono U2
  • Joke
  • Reports
  • Deatle

• You should not take old people who are already dead seriously. It does them injustice. We immortals do not like things to be taken seriously. We like joking. Seriousness, young man, is an accident of time. It consists, I don't mind telling you in confidence, in putting too high a value on time. I, too, once put too high a value on time. For that reason I wished to be a hundred years old. In eternity, however, there is no time, you see. Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Man
  • Joke
  • Confidende

• Couldn't we end this interview with what I really want to say? That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship -- everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers. If we could end this article saying just that, we'd get down to what we should all be talking about. Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Feeling
  • I Believe
  • Joke

• Medieval alchemists, despite their lust for gold, considered mercury the most potent and poetic substance in the universe. As a child, I would have agreed with them.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Universe
  • Child
  • Gold

• Learning to be your natural self in front of five cameras and a silent studio takes time. Trying to be funny under duress is probably a lot like trying to play golf relaxed under pressure.

  

  Colin Jost
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Funny

• The only mistake I ever made was not listening to my gut.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Mistake
  • Listening
  • Gut

• I think umpires have too much power, without any system of checks and balances and the more money a player makes, the more the umpire tries to show off that power to him. Unfortunately, since I signed my contract my strike zone has suddenly become a lot larger.

  

  Ozzie Smith
  • Money
  • Power
  • I Think

• I'm not a joke guy; I'm not a stand-up comic.

  

  Eugene Levy
  • Joke
  • Stand-up comedian