Being Funny Quotes - Page 3

• Something about New York, man: You can do more comedy there probably than you can anywhere in the world. If you're interested in being funny, New York is the place to go.

  Dave Chappelle

  Funny, New York, Men

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. March 7, 2001.

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• If something is shocking without being funny it's hard to justify.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Justify, Shocking, Hard

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• I never know when I am being funny, and the other way too. I don't think you can think about that. I don't think you can try to be funny. Some people are just funny.

  Christopher Walken

  Funny, Thinking, People

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• You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side, they don't like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot's mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Funny, Pain, People

  "Terry Bradshaw bares all in 'Failure to Launch'". www.today.com. March 9, 2006.

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• Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so irritating.

  Bill Gates

  Funny, Success, Business

  "Why I Hate Spam" by Bill Gates, www.wsj.com. June 23, 2003.

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• I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Funny, School, Hands

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• I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny.

  Jim Carrey

  Funny, Stupid, Support

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• Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you are fine.

  Evan Davis

  Believe, Long, Tricks

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• A comedian's body is funny as well as his mind being funny, his whole personage is funny.

  Bobby Darin

  Funny, Comedian, Mind

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• I had everything I'd hoped for, but I wasn't being myself. So I decided to be honest about who I was. It was strange: The people who loved me for being funny suddenly didn't like me for being... me.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, People, Strange

  "Ellen DeGeneres Shows Us How To Live Our Own Truth" by Siobhan Kukolic, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 28, 2016.

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• President Bush says he needs a month off to unwind. Unwind? When the hell does this guy wind?

  David Letterman

  Funny, Wind, Guy

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• When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.

  Paul Merton

  Creating, Remember, Realised

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• In Africa, we were around thousands of people who have seen a lot of poverty, but they were fun at the end of the day.

  Angelina Jolie

  Inspirational, Funny, People

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• On the way up here to the podium, a gentleman came up to me and said, "Governor, you are as good a politician as you were an actor." What a cheap shot.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Funny, Gentleman, Criticism

  "Schwarzenegger: No Country More Welcoming Than the USA". Address to the Republican National Convention, edition.cnn.com. September 01, 2004.

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• A comedy isn’t about being funny...a comedy is about characters who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Character, May, Comedy

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• I think about Old Nick carrying me into the truck, I'm dizzy like I'm going to fall down. "Scared is what you're feeling," says Ma, "but brave is what you're doing." "Huh?" "Scaredybrave." "Scave." Word sandwiches always make her laugh but I wasn't being funny.

  Emma Donoghue

  Fall, Thinking, Laughing

  Emma Donoghue (2015). “Room: Picador Classic”, p.86, Pan Macmillan

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• A comedy isn't about being funny," said Mrs. Baker. "We talked about this before." "A comedy is about character who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all. That's how I know." "Suppose you can't see it?" "That's the daring part," said Mrs. Baker.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Character, Bakers, May

  Gary D. Schmidt (2009). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.262, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Wait. Let me guess. You’re giving me the cold shoulder, right?” With that, she sighed. “Shouldn’t you be with your friends, staring at yourselves in the mirror?” He laughed. “That’s funny. I’ll have to remember that.” “I’m not being funny. I’m being serious.” “Oh, because we’re so good-looking

  Nicholas Sparks

  Mirrors, Giving, Waiting

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• Donald Rumsfeld. Love him or hate him, you've gotta admit: a lot of people hate him.

  Jon Stewart

  Love, Funny, Hate

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• The nightmare is you spend the rest of your life being funny at parties and then people say, 'Why didn't you do that when you were on television?'

  Conan O'Brien

  Party, People, Television

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think maybe I became funny because as a kid, I was a Jew in a town of no Jews, and being funny just instinctively came about as a way to put people at ease around me.

  Sarah Silverman

  Kids, Thinking, People

  "Diary of a TV Killer: Sarah Silverman". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. April 16, 2010.

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• I've had an experience through music that has touched almost every part of me. It educated me in ways that I didn't get educated in school. So we try to lay on a bit of that, through being funny, being serious, playing hard.

  Bruce Springsteen

  School, Trying, Way

  "Glastonbury 2009: Bruce Springsteen". Interview with Steve Lamacq, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 27, 2009.

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• I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

  Andy Warhol

  Funny, War, Mean

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• The modelling was fun but I don't see it the same as music, because with modelling, I was just kind of lucky, I just fell into it. I got discovered at a train station when I'd just turned 15, I was working full-time by 16, moved overseas and then just kept at it and made it a life. Whereas with my music, I've really struggled through and worked hard, learnt how to write and I've kept developing that.

  Erica Packer

  Funny, Hard Work, Writing

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• Look, I had to take chances or it wasn't fun being funny.

  Mel Brooks

  Fun, Looks, Chance

  "Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview". Interview with Alex Belth, www.thedailybeast.com. February 16, 2014.

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