Spoken Reasons Quotes

I was a very quiet child growing up. I always knew that I was funny - I just never put it to use.

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• William and I feel that every child deserves to be supported through difficult times in their lives.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Feel
  • Child
  • Difficult

• What is extraordinary about the character of Edna - and I speak as though I am completely outside this character and I am talking to you - I'm, as it were, in the wings, and she's on stage, and every now and then she says something extremely funny, and I stand there and think: 'I wish I'd thought of that.'

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Character
  • Funny
  • Stage

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

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • American
  • Funny
  • Nobody

• It's only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I'm skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I'm big, when I was big, I never thought about it.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Funny
  • Thought
  • Clothes

• It's quite a job, so to speak, when you can really be with your child for 21 out of 24 hours.

  

  Natalie MacMaster
  • Job
  • Child
  • Speak

• I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. It's funny - people ask me that, and I don't know what to tell them.

  

  Mackenzie Rosman
  • People
  • Up
  • Funny

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

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Funny
  • See
  • Others

• The less lines, the better. I am the silent film actor, but not in a slapstick sort of way. Film is an image-based medium, so whatever you can say without the words is far more provocative and punctuating. If the lines are not funny or if they don't advance the story, sometimes it's hard. I hate talk in movies.

  

  Callum Keith Rennie
  • Words
  • Funny
  • Hate

• I never hated my father. I would have named my child Usher regardless. I never hated myself because I carried his name, because I made it mean what I wanted it to mean.

  

  Usher
  • Father
  • Myself
  • Child

• Training a puppy is like raising a child. Every single interaction is a training opportunity.

  

  Ian Dunbar
  • Opportunity
  • Single
  • Training

• I don't think there's an illustrator who's as good as a Titian or a Rembrandt... but then, Rembrandt was a bit of an illustrator on the quiet, you know?

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Good
  • Know
  • Quiet

• 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

• Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Dark

• 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

• If you're quiet, and you don't speak out, you're never going to get anything accomplished.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Never
  • Speak
  • Quiet

• It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Me
  • Child
  • Paint

• I have no sense of a model or predecessor when I write a memoir: For me, the form exists as a method of processing material that retains too many connections to life to be approached strictly and aesthetically. A memoir is a risk, a one-off, a bastard child.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Life
  • Risk
  • Child

• I was a very nerdy child. I never fit in, so I became laboriously studious.

  

  Iman
  • Never
  • Child
  • Nerdy

• There's also a certain rhythm to the way Jews talk that might be funny.

  

  Larry David
  • Funny
  • Talk
  • Jews

• When I retire, the only thing that concerns me is that no one can say that I was a bad team-mate or disrespectful or self-important.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Important
  • Bad
  • Retire

• Any project that I find encouraging that isn't attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Interest
  • Project
  • Encouraging

• The press has no better friend than I am, no one who is more ready to acknowledge . . . its tremendous power for both good and evil.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Power
  • Friend
  • Acknowledge

• I was a very quiet child growing up. I always knew that I was funny - I just never put it to use.

  

  Spoken Reasons
  • Funny
  • Child
  • Use