Funny Quotes

• I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that.

  

  Jamie Foxx
  • Funny

• Culturally, it's really funny to me that people respect the weird guy as an artist. There can be a curmudgeon in the corner with spiders building nests in his hair, and he hasn't bathed for three weeks, but for whatever reason, he's more creative than the guy sitting next to him that's showered and is talking to everybody.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • People
  • Guy
  • Respect

• Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else's expense. And I find that that's just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else's feelings.

  

  Ellen DeGeneres
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Bullying

• I was a very quiet child growing up. I always knew that I was funny - I just never put it to use.

  

  Spoken Reasons
  • Child
  • Use
  • Quiet

• You initially become funny as a kid because you're looking for attention and love. Psychologists think that's all to do with mother abandonment. I think John Cleese has his depressions, and Terry Gilliam's the same. All of us together make one completely insane person.

  

  Eric Idle
  • Together
  • Mother
  • Attention

• Relax, you're among friends now. The long hard day is over and the roly-poly funny man is before you.

  

  Craig Ferguson
  • Long
  • Friends
  • Relax

• When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Nice

• I think that I identify with Philadelphia for a lot of reasons. Without even thinking about it, I called myself 'Philly's Constant Hitmaker' when I first got a MySpace, before I had any real hits. It was kind of just a funny slogan, basically lifted from the Rolling Stones' first album, 'England's Newest Hit Makers.'

  

  Kurt Vile
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Funny

• Eddie Murphy said once in an interview that nothing is offensive if it's funny. I sort of agree with that, but if something's funny and you're the subject of it, sometimes it's more offensive. If someone's insulting you, you want them to sound like an idiot.

  

  Artie Lange
  • Sound
  • Idiot
  • Eddie Murphy

• Sometimes I feel like there are people just waiting for me to fall. The funny thing is, I can't give them anything. I have just never been a partier, even in school.

  

  Jordin Sparks
  • People
  • School
  • Fall

• I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working.

  

  Peter Sellers
  • Funny

• My mother and father were very strange people. They tried to be funny which is always very sad to me.

  

  Jonathan Winters
  • People
  • Mother
  • Father

• The thing about 'Harry Potter' is it's great fun because of the people - I was usually with Julie Walters and Mark Williams, Brendan Gleeson, Robbie Coltrane, and the kids. Wonderful, funny, amazing people. If you're going to hang around on a set bored, you might as well do it with Julie Walters.

  

  David Thewlis
  • People
  • Great
  • Kids

• Regardless of how funny I want to be, I don't ever have a problem speaking from my heart or speaking honestly to people.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • People
  • Heart
  • Funny

• I got married. My wife changed her name. I know some women have a problem with that. But I wanted her to have my old girlfriend's name. So call me old-fashioned, but this fella does what the Bible tells.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Comedy
  • Problem
  • Wife

• I always loved acting, and that's what I wanted to do. It's funny that my first big role is a role where I'm going into a studio to record my singing.

  

  Deborah Joy Winans
  • Funny
  • Singing

• We did a thing that we would call we call 'hirstories.' H - I - R - S - T - O - R - Y. I would enact a young Mort. And that always felt - it was so funny - it felt more difficult than playing Maura.

  

  Jeffrey Tambor
  • Funny

• We want to be funny. We want to make people laugh... We'll do whatever it takes.

  

  Colin Mochrie
  • People
  • Funny

• Volleyball anchored me at a time in my life when I needed it. It gave me a reason for being this big, big girl.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Life
  • Time
  • Girl

• I thought I was funny as a kid.

  

  Jo Brand
  • Funny

• You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.

  

  Ellen DeGeneres
  • People
  • Women
  • Why

• I never really considered 'Quantum & Woody' a comedic book or a funny book. I never thought of it as a satire.

  

  Christopher Priest
  • Book
  • Funny

• I think I was always a class clown growing up and a funny kid. I never really knew how to channel that until I got into high school.

  

  Lauren Lapkus
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• It's funny, a lot of people think I take myself seriously because I come off so serious sometimes. But it's not that I take myself seriously, I take what I do seriously.

  

  Laurence Fishburne
  • People
  • Funny
  • Serious

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