Abe Burrows Quotes

You can teach taste, editorial sense, but the ability to say something funny is something I've never been able to teach anyone.

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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

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

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • People
  • American
  • Funny

• People are going to label you anyway, but the one that bugs me the most is when they say, 'One of the funniest female comedians.' There's s no 'funniest male comedians.' You're either a funny comedian, or you're not!

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Funny
  • Comedian

• I saw Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained,' and you could say a lot of things against it, but it was incredible fun. I don't like blood and gore, and I am very squeamish about violence, but Tarantino's violence is actually funny.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Fun
  • Funny
  • Violence

• Life is funny. If you don't laugh, you're in trouble.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Life
  • Funny
  • Laugh

• I wish I could be as thin as Jessica Simpson. I think she looks gorgeous! I have had Jessica on my show several times, and I can tell you that girl is genuine and funny with a great self-deprecating sense of humor.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Great
  • She
  • Girl

• I used to say I didn't want to teach. I was still excited about dancing. It's hard to do both. It's as exhausting teaching as it is to dance.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Want
  • Dance
  • Teach

• Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.

  

  O. Henry
  • Up
  • Home
  • Funny

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

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Funny
  • Food
  • Wine

• I'm usually always very happy and funny and positive. It's only when I'm tired that I get a little low energy.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Happy
  • Energy
  • Funny

• David Mamet's writing is pretty spectacular, obviously. I like the honesty of it; I like how funny it is and how sad it is.

  

  T. R. Knight
  • Writing
  • Pretty
  • Funny

• It was Toto that made Dorothy laugh, and saved her from growing as gray as her other surroundings. Toto was not gray; he was a little black dog, with long silky hair and small black eyes that twinkled merrily on either side of his funny, wee nose.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Long
  • Black
  • Small

• I don't want to be the one to break it to you, but the future ain't that funny.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Future
  • Funny

• Making movies was a real weird kind of adult experience. In a way it was like MIT, in that it was a great education. The big lesson is, people are people. They're smart, funny, creative people, but they're people.

  

  Charlie Korsmo
  • People
  • Great
  • Real

• My act is pretty much me reflecting on what I want to talk about and what I think is funny and what has happened to me.

  

  Brian Posehn
  • Pretty
  • Funny

• I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what things are funny and not.

  

  Keenen Ivory Wayans
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Funny

• When you're around people who are trying to be funny all day and trying to one-up each other, that's just naturally - if you want to do it - it's going to make you better.

  

  Colin Jost
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• Chris Farley, I was a huge fan of his growing up. I would love to do something kind of slapstick and funny, maybe where I could change my look even a little bit.

  

  Jaimie Alexander
  • Up
  • Funny
  • Growing

• Things that go on at Happy Times are very funny this year, and if you were watching last year, some of the people you saw then as basically extras emerge as real characters in their own right this season, at least to some degree.

  

  Ellen Muth
  • People
  • Real
  • Happy

• I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • First
  • Odd
  • Exceptions

• When you bring in multi-brand retail items into the country, you're not just bringing the products, but you're also harming local manufacturers.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Country
  • You
  • Retail

• In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Time
  • Battle
  • Sides

• You feel better when you're eating food that retains nutritional value.

  

  Amber Heard
  • Food
  • Value

• You can teach taste, editorial sense, but the ability to say something funny is something I've never been able to teach anyone.

  

  Abe Burrows
  • Funny
  • Ability
  • Teach