Seth MacFarlane Quotes

Chris Elliott could read the phonebook and he's funny.

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• It may sound funny, but it's true: I tried to put myself through the 12-step program. I didn't want to attend a real meeting; my role didn't really require that, and I feel those meetings are sort of sacred, and they're anonymous for a reason. I tried to deal with some of my love of snacks - and I relapsed a lot.

  

  Octavia Spencer
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• Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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• 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
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• 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
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• I'm doin' something different. I mean, I talk a little bit about race and interracial dating, but it's not the heart of my act. I just try to do what I think is funny; there's no huge message or through line.

  

  Hannibal Buress
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• I can always get better. A lot of my ex-girlfriends don't think I'm funny.

  

  Dane Cook
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• The funny thing is that I'm the girl who no one sees at the beach. Ask anyone who's traveled with me. Normally, I'm in so many layers, I look like Lawrence of Arabia!

  

  Vera Wang
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• It's just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious.

  

  Adam McKay
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• But I've never looked at myself as being particularly funny.

  

  Tea Leoni
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• What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?

  

  W. Clement Stone
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• It's funny, my kids and I live together, and I have a lot of actor friends. So my kids think everyone is on television every now and again, since everyone they know pops up here, but there's a whole rap of things they won't watch until they're 16 or 17.

  

  Dallas Roberts
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• If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.

  

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

  

  Adam Carolla
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• In my film 'Queen', there was a funny moment with the bra. My director called and said they are blurring the bra. They said it is vulgar. Our director was furious about it. We are artistes... We see props as they are. A woman's bra is not a danger to the society.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
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• We didn't even think about it, you know? I used to collect laser discs, and you'd have some college professor analyzing It's a Wonderful Life or Citizen Kane, and now it is pretty funny - the idea of commentary for a silly kid's movie, you know?

  

  Dana Carvey
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• He knew that women appreciated neither irony nor sarcasm, but simple jokes and funny stories. He was amply provided with both.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
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• He's probably the single most untalented person I've heard in my life. He's a two-bit pretentious academic, and he can't play rock'n'roll, because he's a loser. And that's why he dresses up funny. He's not happy with himself, and I think he's right.

  

  Lou Reed
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• Relax, you're among friends now. The long hard day is over and the roly-poly funny man is before you.

  

  Craig Ferguson
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• I did musicals. It's funny, because I can hide behind a character and a voice, but when I have to bring myself and my own voice to it, it's very nerve-wracking.

  

  Ashleigh Murray
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• I think bolstering free trade is a boon to the dollar.

  

  Carly Fiorina
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• I believe in a free market of ideas and not shying away from debate.

  

  Kevin McCarthy
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• People's personalities get tweaked at weddings.

  

  Peter Dinklage
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• Growing up, my sisters were both into dancing, so I went to a lot of dance recitals, mostly because there were always pretty girls in leotards.

  

  Jason Sudeikis
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• Chris Elliott could read the phonebook and he's funny.

  

  Seth MacFarlane
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