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		When anybody laughs, he has no mind, no thought, no problem, no suffering.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				H. W. L. Poonja
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I used to write out of angst. My writing was quite miserable, quite angry, even when it was funny. It was based on this sadness and tired emotional disdain for the world.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				David Thewlis
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		People are getting careers from YouTube and uploading videos. And they're totally different - you can't necessarily be funny on a video, and then all of a sudden you're live in a theater. You don't have the tools yet. It's a lot more involved to go from being funny on a little iPhone screen to being live in front of people and being funny.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Wanda Sykes
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Jill Soloway is a friend of mine. She does 'Transparent,' and she's amazingly funny and brilliant and bright. And I love her show.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kenya Barris
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just try to get into the character, into his or her head. Try to make it as funny, as scary or as wild as I can so that I really like it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Sam Raimi
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I remember people saying: 'You look funny, your hair is so black, you have a flat nose,' but I didn't think of it being racism, and I still don't. But there was a sense of difference, of being an outsider.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Sadie Jones
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		It was funny on '24' because I'm a Scots-Canadian, and I was working with the great Scottish actor Tony Curran, and we were both playing Russian gangsters.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Callum Keith Rennie
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'm very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in 'Morning Glory' with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Rachel McAdams
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The Midwest breeds funny, eccentric people, to varying degrees. You play shows not because you're expecting to get a record deal, but to do something fun outside of mowing lawns. Everything else is just gravy... Or mustard.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Patrick Carney
			
			
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		What I do onstage, there's maybe .0001 percent of the population that acts like that. I talk like that because it makes me laugh, and because I know a couple of people that talk like that. They're really that Southern. And they do funny things. I love 'em; they're awesome. They're good people.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Larry the Cable Guy
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Illeana Douglas
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My fans are so funny, they make me laugh so much. I've got some really, really, funny, clever fans.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ellie Goulding
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Lance Armstrong
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		There have been so many discussions about my weight: How is she going to lose weight? Is she going to lose weight? When is she going to lose weight? It's kind of it's funny.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Chrissy Metz
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		For me, 'Jaws' is much more of an adventure movie, but when it's scary, it's terrifying. When it's funny, it's hilarious. When there's drama, it's the most sincere stuff on screen. When there's adventure, there's swashbuckle. It's all those things.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Dan Trachtenberg
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Have you seen the bologna that has the olives in it? Who's that for? 'I like my bologna like a martini. With an olive.' 'I'll have the bologna sandwich - dirty.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jim Gaffigan
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		If an executive producer has written a certain line, and an actress says it, and it's not very funny, you don't dare go to them and say, 'I don't like this,' because it will make your life miserable.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bonnie Hunt
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I never thought, 'I'm going to learn how to be funny now!,' and I'm still surprised when other people think I'm funny. I just learned to make jokes as a way of moving through the world. It helps me deal with all sorts of discomfort and boredom.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Lisa Hanawalt