Jokes Quotes
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I was very shy as a kid but when I found out I could perform and have people's attention everything changed for me. My mom likes to joke that until I was eight or nine I only knew what my sneakers looked like because I constantly walked around with my head down. But all of a sudden the stage made sense and that's what brought me out of my shell and a monster was created.
Justin Timberlake NSYNC -
I'm really bad with jokes. I would have to say Limp Bizkit.
Brian Molko Placebo
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The joke is that U2's new record only looked like a virus. Enjoy mining bitcoins for me losers.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace -
Fat jokes to me are always, always hilarious, as long as they're done towards yourself.
Zach Galifianakis -
People have a comic bent or an angularity to their thinking, and those are the people who make jokes. And it's usually people who were in an environment, when they were young, where jokes were at a premium, or at least considered important to a life. My parents always listened to the comedy radio shows, we went to the comedy movies, and my parents appreciated comedy. So kids listen and follow what their parents like.
Carl Reiner -
All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.
Yahoo Serious -
There is no such thing as an appropriate joke. That's why it's a joke.
Michael Scott -
There were many times when I kept silent about being Jewish as I got older, when Jewish jokes were told.
William Shatner
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I think it gets uncomfortable when you try to act like you didn't just tell a joke that bombed.
Bill Burr -
I never ceased to be surprised when southern whites, at their homes or clubs, told racial jokes and spoke so derogatorily of blacks while longtime servants, for whom they quite clearly had some affection, were well within earshot.
Walter Cronkite -
I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.
Sandra Bernhard -
Anybody can make jokes. But unless they come from conviction, and there's truth in them, you haven't nailed it. They aren't as funny as they could be, and they don't make a point.
Dan Jenkins -
I do like rude jokes. They're men jokes.
Engelbert Humperdinck -
There are always a lot of jokes and good vibes floating through the studio so tattooing all day doesn't feel like a job. It's rewarding to see my clients as excited as I am.
William Webb
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Passengers don't like changing planes. That means waiting time, stress, running around. There's a joke that the hub principle is supposed to have been invented by cargo firms. The baggage doesn't care where and how it's pushed around.
Stelios Haji-Ioannou -
Taking a call girl to an STD fair... there's a joke here.
Donald Glover -
My best jokes are so cheap. All I do is say things sarcastically.
Adam Brody -
We actually talked about Adam Sandler during the creation of 'Trolls,' because he does know how to time jokes.
Walt Dohrn -
One nice thing about making jokes is that you don't have to prove them.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I did a 'Last Comic Standing' audition in 2006, where you're just performing for three people in a comedy club, in a big comedy club, and I remember them cutting me off, asking about my name in the middle of one of my jokes. Yeah, it's just real weird when you're doing stand-up in that type of sterile, unnatural setting.
Hannibal Buress
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I am a crazy online shopper. My husband always jokes, Another box arrived! Airplanes used to be my sanctuary for reading books, but now I have to peruse Gilt sales.
Lisa Ling -
There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable
Benoit Mandelbrot -
'Master Blaster,' by Stevie Wonder, is up-tempo and fun, like Stevie himself. Stevie's always making jokes; he really knows how to put people at ease. He's one of my inspirations, as a musician and a person.
Ziggy Marley -
There has to be irony, both in design and in the objects. I see around me a professional disease of taking everything too seriously. One of my secrets is to joke all the time
Achille Castiglioni