Funny Quotes

• I have nothing to lose, but something to gain.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Funny
  • Loses
  • Gains

• Feminist humor raises consciousness. And the reason it's funny is because it stands something on its head. Goodness knows you've got to have a sense of humor if you do feminism full-time, I tell you.

  

  Eleanor Smeal
  • Time
  • Humor
  • Feminist

• 'Ugly Betty' has been the most important thing I've ever done, easily. I was able to do more with one character than I can ever imagine doing again - Hilda was hilariously funny and emotionally deep... I really got to showcase what I could do with a character.

  

  Ana Ortiz
  • Important
  • Done
  • Character

• I longed for funny stories about the sort of children who lived in my neighborhood.

  

  Beverly Cleary
  • Children
  • Funny

• There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.

  

  Kevin James
  • World
  • Feeling
  • Feelings

• If you could cross a lion and a monkey, that's what I'd be, because monkeys are funny and lions are strong.

  

  Marlon Wayans
  • Strong
  • Funny
  • Lion

• Fate has it in for me to be an exhibit: that funny old lady from the telly.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Funny
  • Fate

• Writing is a funny thing. It's not like you're working on a schedule. It comes in fits and starts.

  

  Daphne Guinness
  • Writing
  • Funny

• I really love showing up at work at 10 A.M., trying to make it funny until 3 P.M., and then going home. It's like comedy bankers' hours.

  

  Chris Eigeman
  • Up
  • Work
  • Trying

• It was a scandal when I did French 'Playboy' in 2008, though I was never actually nude in it. I think it's really funny that I'll have a cover of 'Playboy' to show my grandkids.

  

  Lily Cole
  • Funny

• It's hard to make a movie that is both funny and emotional, that has something to say and is clear to the audience.

  

  Christopher Miller
  • Movie
  • Funny
  • Emotional

• For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be the funny guy.

  

  George A. Romero
  • School
  • Guy
  • Catholic

• I love to do comedy, and I don't think of things as drama or comedy. I think that if it's a funny line, it's a funny line. If it's a funny moment, it's a funny moment.

  

  Kathy Baker
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• I never got a pass mark in math... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books. Funny me consorting with all these learned folks, as though I were their long lost brother. I guess they are unaware of the fact that I am ignorant about the whole thing.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Long
  • Art
  • Lost

• I don't write on set. I also - in a funny way, I don't really differentiate between the writing and directing. I think it's all sort of the same thing.

  

  Alex Garland
  • Writing
  • Funny

• Most of the people in my family were pretty funny. Everyone had a good sense of humor. I came to California right after college, wanting to be a musician.

  

  Andy Kindler
  • People
  • Good
  • Family

• I started making skits, and I started, like, getting more followers, and, like, my friends told their friends, like, 'Oh, she actually be funny.'

  

  Lele Pons
  • She
  • Friends
  • Funny

• I've played a ghost, cat, snake. I've been funny, sad. I've been filmed flying on screen. So why not spend time on something else? I don't need to accept everything I'm offered.

  

  Maggie Cheung
  • Time
  • Why
  • Sad

• I think there's something in the fact that it's hard to be good looking and funny. You have to have an oddball quality; people have to sympathise with you to find you funny.

  

  Chris O'Dowd
  • People
  • Good
  • Quality

• Imagine having journalists in your own home and not even covering the furniture with plastic sheets first.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Home
  • Funny
  • Covering

• Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Time
  • Science
  • Mean

• There is a remarkable breakdown of taste and intelligence at Christmastime. Mature, responsible grown men wear neckties made of holly leaves and drink alcoholic beverages with raw egg yolks and cottage cheese in them.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Men
  • Christmas
  • Xmas

• Fast is only cool if it's melodic and has substance.

  

  Yngwie Johan Malmsteen Alcatrazz
  • Inspiring
  • Substance
  • Guitarist

• It's funny because I never studied, I never took a class. So everything I do is very innate and organic; I don't really have words for it. It is a communion with spirit. I don't get in my own way and allow the character to do what it's going to do.

  

  Kimberly Elise
  • Character
  • Words
  • Funny

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