Being Funny Quotes - Page 5

• Whether you have a show or not, you can still be somewhere being funny.

  Wanda Sykes

  Shows, Stills

  Source: www.elle.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• I'm not someone who shies away from darkness being funny.

  Brett Gelman

  Darkness

  Source: collider.com

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• Being funny wasn't a career choice growing up, it was my way out of situations; a way to survive another day.

  Tracy Morgan

  Growing Up, Careers, Choices

  Tracy Morgan, Anthony Bozza (2009). “I Am the New Black”, p.15, Spiegel & Grau

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• Comedy isn't really something where you get discovered. You can't network your way to being funny or talented. It's not hard to get seen if you're funny. If you're funny, talented, and work hard, you will go somewhere.

  Amy Schumer

  Hard Work, Way, Comedy

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• Doing stand-up takes the fun out of being funny.

  Doug Stanhope

  Fun

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• [In] 2029, I think, computers will match and exceed human intelligence in the ways we're now superior, like being funny, where we still have an edge.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Thinking, Way, Computer

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• I never analyze stuff with comedy because it's boring. It makes you stop being funny. Just be who you are and do what you do, and you're either funny or you're not.

  Jeff Garlin

  Be Who You Are, Stuff, Comedy

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• Personally I don't spend much time thinking about being funny. For me it's always been just a way to get by, a way to be likable yet to remain removed. When I speak up, it's not because I have any particular answers; rather, I have a desire to puncture the pretentiousness of those who seem so certain they do.

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Humor, Thinking, Desire

  Wendy Wasserstein (1991). “Bachelor Girls”, Vintage

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• You bet being funny helps accomplish things. I've always maintained that people don't realize how many brain cells it takes to be funny. And politics ought to be fun -- after baseball it's our next favorite national pastime.

  Ann Richards

  Baseball, Fun, Cells

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• I don't really hashtag things. Unless I'm talking to somebody and I'm being funny and I say something mean but then I'm like, Hashtag...something that's funny. I like to only hashtag funny things, not real stuff.

  Bella Thorne

  Real, Mean, Talking

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Even when I'm being funny, I'm deadly serious.

  Lily Tomlin

  Serious, Comedy

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• Even though I do a more traditional type of being funny on television, I still know a lot of comedians and stand-ups and improv actors.

  Busy Philipps

  Comedian, Actors, Television

  Source: collider.com

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• Being funny should be an incidental byproduct of trying to get to something truthful, not a destination in itself.

  Alain de Botton

  Trying, Truthful, Should

  Twitter post from Feb 02, 2013

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• Jewish introspection and Jewish humor is a way of surviving . . . if you're not handsome and you're not athletic and you're not rich, there's still one last hope with girls, which is being funny.

  Mike Nichols

  Girl, Athletic, Handsome

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• Onstage, it's all just a heightened and more elaborate version of me. When you're standing onstage, your adrenaline is going, your enthusiasm is at full tilt, and the excitement helps elevate you're attitude. I've always wanted to be as close to myself offstage, being funny with my buddies, and that's what I've worked hard on - being authentic to who I really am.

  Dane Cook

  Attitude, Tilt, Enthusiasm

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• In a late-night monologue, it's not just about being funny; you have to come off as knowledgeable. You have to cultivate a persona of trust and intelligence and likeability.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Night, Knowledgeable, Late

  "Anthony Jeselnik on roasting, ripping off Jack Handey, and giving the devil his own TV show". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 12, 2013.

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• People have said to me for a long time, "Man you're funny." I say, "Well, I'm quick," but being funny on purpose, take after take - that's why I said for me it was new territory, and so by improvising something might come out that might be good. And it's film, so they can cut it if it isn't.

  Denzel Washington

  Cutting, Men, Long

  Source: collider.com

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• I think being successful in comedy is being funny and making jokes - anything beyond that is the icing on the cake.

  Jimmy Carr

  Successful, Thinking, Cake

  "Stand up and be counted, comedians" by Charlotte Cripps, The Independent, January 31, 2007.

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• The trouble with improv is that it is often about being funny in the moment without any real consideration for the bigger picture.

  Simon Pegg

  Real, Trouble, Moments

  Source: collider.com

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• I think that if you're serving yourself before you're serving a story then that's where you end up being not funny. It's not about being funny, it's about telling a story and then the comedy comes out of the situation, I think.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Thinking, Stories, Comedy

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• I'm not against people just being funny or telling stories. I don't need to delve into the soft, dark core all the time. If it happens, it happens.

  Marc Maron

  Dark, People, Needs

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I think being funny had something to do with feeling like an outsider, not feeling cool - insecurity.

  Kumail Nanjiani

  Thinking, Feelings, Insecurity

  "Kumail Nanjiani Can Totally Relate to His Character on HBO’s 'Silicon Valley'". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. January 2016.

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