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

  Jim Carrey

  Funny, Laughter, Women

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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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• 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 just know from experience that reading a funny poem aloud, especially at the beginning of a public reading, can have a certain effect. Somehow narrowing the spectrum of possible emotional reactions. So while I like it when people laugh at my poems, and I definitely enjoy being funny in them, I don't really think that's the most important thing that's going on, at least not to me.

  Matthew Zapruder

  Reading, Emotional, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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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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• To all the girls out there who think being funny is not sexy, you are wrong!

  Chad Michael Murray

  Girl, Sexy, Thinking

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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 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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• 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 actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.

  Calvin Trillin

  Thinking, Mind, World

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• With a sketch show, it's "a bunch of people and they're being funny." In a way that you can't really explain it.

  B. J. Porter

  People, Way, Bunch

  Source: www.dead-frog.com

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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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• 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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• The trick is always to write in pairs because if at least two people find it funny, you've immediately halved the odds of it not being funny.

  Steve Coogan

  Writing, Odds, Two

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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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• 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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• I love being funny and talking with fellas.

  Eddie Jemison

  Love Is, Talking, Fellas

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think of myself as a theatre comic instead of club comic because I tend to talk for a bit before I start being funny. I don't really do the one-liners and five second bits or whatever. But it's good to work stuff out sometimes.

  Dylan Moran

  Thinking, Theatre, Clubs

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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