Colin Quinn Quotes
You can't make everybody laugh. You gotta just do what you think is funny. Just be obstreperous to everybody.Colin Quinn
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What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and sometimes the world, and work on it and see how people react. You don't need Standards & Practices or notes from lawyers or producers to tell you what's funny.
Natasha Leggero -
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
H. L. Mencken -
Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.
Anton Zaslavski -
When you're a woman, you have to work harder to get a laugh... I follow so many hilarious women on Twitter. It's a daily reminder that women get to be funny.
Rainbow Rowell -
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
Isaac Asimov -
But I think funny and talent will always win out; I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're funny you will get over all of that.
Wanda Sykes
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I'm smart enough to know to work with smart people.
Idina Menzel -
What's funny in 'The Mayor of MacDougal Street' is how Dave Van Ronk talks a lot about the time and how exciting it was and how electric it was.
Oscar Isaac -
My voice is distinctive: there's a rhythm to it, and also, it's funny. I was just blessed with a funny-sounding voice.
Wanda Sykes -
In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get – The Future!
Dan Quayle -
I think it would be funny for people to read in obituaries of me that my major contribution to the arts was the popularization of the phrases 'neutral facial expression' and 'screaming in agony.'
Tao Lin -
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
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I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it's like this - the script is like this sad, funny, desperate love song to the lost American man.
Oliver Platt -
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 -
I like children - fried.
W. C. Fields -
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 -
I have my website, The Ruckus, which is an Internet site, similar to the Funny or Die format, where people post funny videos. I get a chance to rate their videos; they get a chance to blog and kick it with me.
J. B. Smoove -
I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.
Eddie Izzard
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I don't sit down to write a funny story. Every single thing I sit down to write is meant to be sad.
Lorrie Moore -
My first son was born in Los Angeles; he's a Mexican-American.
Diego Luna -
As part of my relationship with my wife and my daughter, and we share everything and talk about everything.
Boris Kodjoe -
I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them.
Albert Ellis -
Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life.
John Millington Synge -
You can't make everybody laugh. You gotta just do what you think is funny. Just be obstreperous to everybody.
Colin Quinn