Being Funny Quotes

• I think being funny is not anyone's first choice.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Thinking, Choices

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• I am not afraid of death. I just don't want to be there when it happens.

  Woody Allen

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Death: A Comedy in One Act". Book by Woody Allen, 1975.

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  A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Witty, Laughter

  FaceBook post by Steve Martin from Jun 14, 2011

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• Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

  Jim Carrey

  Funny, Laughter, Women

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• Not being funny doesn't make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humor does.

  David Rakoff

  Doe, Sense Of Humor, Persons

  David Rakoff (2002). “Fraud: Essays”, p.103, Anchor

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• I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.

  Chris Tucker

  Creative, Comedian, Be Creative

  "Chris Tucker wants to 'do something different'". Interview with Miki Turner, www.today.com. August 7, 2007.

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• Women can do anything men can do. Except math, chess, running, jumping, lifting stuff, fixing things, making money, hockey, surfing, driving, making decisions, being tall, taking out the garbage, tipping, fishing, being funny (on purpose), reading a map, listening to good bands, writing, running the country, inventing anything important, or being fun to hang out with.

  Daniel Tosh

  Country, Running, Fun

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• I never thought I was funny, but I enjoy being funny

  Nora Dunn

  Enjoy

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• When I first met Jack, I was terrified of him. I wasn't expecting a fun, laughing, enjoyable, exciting guy. I walked into his office like most people, with my knees knocking together. I was scared.

  Suzy Welch

  Funny, Power, People

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• People want me to be funny all the time. They think I'm being funny no matter what I say or do and that's not the case. I rarely joke unless I'm in front of a camera. It's not what I am in real life. It's what I do for a living.

  Christopher Guest

  Real, Thinking, People

  "Featured Filmmaker: Christopher Guest" by Ken P., www.ign.com. May 12, 2003.

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• I can't even really tell a joke. I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work but it ain't easy.

  Madeline Kahn

  Hard Work, Guilty, Easy

  "At Home With: Madeline Kahn; Funny? Yes, but Someone's Got to Be" by Michael Specter in The New York Times, www.nytimes.com. April 8, 1993.

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• Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor. Humor inspires sympathetic good-natured laughter and is favored by the healing-power gang. Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.

  Florence King

  Football, Laughter, Healing

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.140, Macmillan

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• The goal is to win. It's not about making money. I have many much less risky ways of making money than this (buying Chelsea football club). I don't want to throw my money away, but it's really about having fun and that means success and trophies.

  Roman Abramovich

  Funny, Success, Sports

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• I'm about being funny. If I can make a joke using profanity, I will. But for the most part, that can get awfully old and boring.

  Howard Stern

  Funny, Bored, Boring

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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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• 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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• 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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• A new poll shows that Americans now believe that Bill Clinton is more honest than President Bush. At least when Clinton screwed the nation, he did it one person at a time.

  Jay Leno

  Funny, Believe, President

  "Scarborough Country" with Joe Scarborough, www.nbcnews.com. May 19, 2006.

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• I don't think of myself as being funny. But life takes strange turns.

  Frank Gorshin

  Thinking, Strange, Turns

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• My wife is funny. And I dabble in it. So being funny is big around our house. But what's surprised me is my daughter can do an English accent. I don't know how she learned this.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Daughter, Wife, House

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• You shouldn't get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.

  Bob Newhart

  Truth, Truth Is

  "Bob Newhart: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. December 18, 2008.

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• The hardest part, for real, is probably when you just don't feel like going on stage and being funny.

  Greg Giraldo

  Real, Stage, Hardest

  Interview With Maggie Serota, www.avclub.com. September 17, 2009.

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• I've always liked being funny and making people laugh. I was a cut-up when I was a kid, and was always doing bits for my friends and family.

  Busy Philipps

  Kids, Cutting, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Being funny is a gift, and, when done well, is an art form.

  Craig Ferguson

  Art, Done, Form

  "American on Purpose". Book by Craig Ferguson, 2009.

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• I figured if I could put together being funny about stuff and actual events, maybe I could do something that wasn't being done much. Because the reporters that I met out there were funny, and they had hilarious stories that just didn't fit in the AP/UPI/New York Times foreign-correspondent style. They couldn't use the things they had. But I could.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  New York, Style, Together

  Source: www.avclub.com

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