Funny Guy Quotes

• I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.

  Campbell Scott

  Opportunity, Funny Things, Guy

  "PROCESS: Tom Gilroy and Campbell Scott on Acting, Directing and Details, Part I". Interview with Tom Gilroy, www.indiewire.com. December 19, 2001.

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• I like drama. I love being in a drama where I get to be the funny guy. That's what I really love the most.

  John Leguizamo

  Drama, Love Is, Guy

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• Yet there are some people - Steve Allen would dissect comedy forever; he's a really funny guy, but he would love talking about comedy. I'm doing it right now and you all seem bored.

  Bob Saget

  Talking, People, Bored

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

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• I moved to New York to do theater, and I got cast in a play that was funny, and then I was the funny guy. I did a movie that was funny, and then I was the funny guy.

  Steve Zahn

  New York, Play, Guy

  "Q&A – Steve Zahn Says A Perfect Getaway Forced Him to Pay Attention". AMC Interview, www.amc.com.

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• I don't really necessarily think I'm a funny guy, but I like the opportunity to take on something that I don't feel I'm the best at doing.

  Sean William Scott

  Opportunity, Thinking, Guy

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• The funny guy doesn't get the girl until later in life. High school, college, everyone still wants the brooding, dangerous guy you shouldn't have.

  Will Ferrell

  Girl, School, College

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• I don't get offered many dramatic roles. As soon as my face pops up in a movie, everyone knows I'm the funny guy.

  Chris Elliott

  Guy, Roles, Faces

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• The truth is that Ron is my hero. He's always there for his friends - sometimes belligerently, but there nevertheless. He's also the comic relief in stressful situations; the funny guy with a great one-liner. And no matter how scared he may be, he will put aside his fears to support and protect the people he loves. To me, that represents true courage.

  Rupert Grint

  Hero, Stressful Situations, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Karaoke isn't fair when you're a comedian. The whole idea is to get people laughing and enjoying themselves, and I'm a professional funny guy.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Ideas, People

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• I answered an ad, for a campus cartoonist at the university I was in, my freshman year. I was like, Oh, I can draw, and I'm sort of a funny guy. I should try this. Then they paid me to do a comic strip for the paper.

  Dan Povenmire

  Years, Guy, Trying

  "We Just Keep Trying to Beat Every Show With the Funny Stick Until It's Funny". Interview with Dana Stevens, www.slate.com. June 10, 2015.

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• I'm usually not the straight guy. I'm sometimes more the funny guy, depending on the situation.

  John Kapelos

  Guy, Sometimes, Situation

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My dad was in the army so we moved around a lot and I changed schools every year and had to make new friends, and I found that if I was the funny guy I could do that easier.

  Jason Gann

  Dad, School, Army

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are a lot of really funny guys who are very natural in what they do: Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, Seth Rogen.

  Will Ferrell

  Guy, Hills, Natural

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• I like funny guys and those, for some reason, tend to be nerdy guys.

  Megan Fox

  Funny, Guy, Reason

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• I'm a pretty funny guy, and I would love to do a comedy with a bunch of funny guys - movie-star guys, where they could help me through it.

  LeBron James

  Funny, Stars, Guy

  Interview With Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. September 4, 2009.

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• My father was a really funny guy. He lived a good long life. And he was the reason I wanted to be funny and become a comedian and a comedy writer, so to say that he's somewhat of a mythic figure in my life would be an understatement.

  Carol Leifer

  Father, Long, Guy

  Carol Leifer (2009). “When You Lie About Your Age, the Terrorists Win: Reflections on Looking in the Mirror”, p.3, Villard

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• For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be the funny guy.

  George A. Romero

  School, Kids, Guy

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• I'm an unorthodox type of guy, a funny guy - at least I think I'm funny. And one of the things I like to do is come up with nicknames for myself.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Funny, Thinking, Guy

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• I think of myself as a funny guy but nobody thinks I'm funnier than my daughters.

  Jerry O'Connell

  Daughter, Mother, Thinking

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• My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration.

  Mike Myers

  Father, Silly, Inspiration

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• I don't consider myself, you know, in real life one of those funny guys. My comedy comes through my work.

  Eugene Levy

  Real, Guy, Comedy

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• Phil Hartman was brilliant, and Dave Foley is a really funny guy. Phil Hartman was actually even funnier offstage than he was onstage because he would say nasty things. Dave Foley's very funny, very witty guy, very quick.

  Joe Rogan

  Witty, Guy, Nasty

  "A Cuppa Hot Joe". Interview with J. C. Shakespeare, www.austinchronicle.com. May 4, 2001.

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• In a man, I like funny guys. A guy who doesn't have a lot of therapy, who's mature. A man, not a boy.

  Maura Tierney

  Boys, Men, Guy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've just seen really, really funny guys, and if I didn't know them, I wouldn't know they were funny from the television. I don't know what it does, it just sucks it away.

  Norm MacDonald

  Guy, Doe, Television

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.

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• You have to realize that Mel [Gibson], he's a funny guy. He's got a wicked sense of humor.

  Keith Carradine

  Guy, Wicked, Sense Of Humor

  Source: www.avclub.com

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