Funny Things Quotes - Page 11

• There are some quite funny things about getting famous and stuff, but I think there comes a point where you have to think to yourself, "Well, am I doing this because I want to go to a party and meet Britney Spears? Or am I doing it because I want to create something that excites me?"

  Jarvis Cocker

  Party, Thinking, Want

  Interview with Scott Plagenhoef, pitchfork.com. April 2, 2007.

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• The funny thing was, you see, that Mike Fink didn't think of himself as a murderer. He thought of life as a contest, and dying was what happened to those who came out second best, but it wasn't the same as murder, it was a fair fight.

  Orson Scott Card

  Fighting, Thinking, Dying

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Red Prophet: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.235, Macmillan

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• Time's a funny thing, bending, warping, stretching, and compressing, all depending on perspective.

  Lisa Genova

  Perspective, Bending, Stretching

  Lisa Genova (2013). “Love Anthony”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman, and you don't know that.

  Arthur Miller

  World, Salesman, Knows

  Arthur Miller (1998). “Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem”, p.73, Penguin

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• You'd put yourself in a play and get to know the system and learn how to be directed, and then you could be a director. So, I've just always done it. It was always a hobby. The funny thing was that when I started to get paid to do it as a professional job, I lost my hobby. I don't know what to do. I have to take up something else now.

  David Oakes

  Jobs, Play, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• Nothing is ever finished. It's a funny thing. I actually think that's really the more natural way of stories or songs.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Song, Thinking, Stories

  "Joseph Gordon-Levitt Talks HITRECORD ON TV Season 2, Influencing Other Work, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 12, 2015.

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• Even through my good-looking youth, I wasn't called on for any romantic parts, which is okay. What I was called on to do, I enjoyed doing. The funny thing about life is that if you live long enough, I think, you'll get every wish you ever had. It'll all come true.

  Morgan Freeman

  Thinking, Long, Wish

  "Morgan Freeman and Virginia Madsen Talk THE MAGIC OF BELLE ISLE, THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, and Turning SIDEWAYS Into a Play". Press conference, collider.com. July 4, 2012.

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• The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all. I can't describe how deeply I love them all.

  Paul Auster

  Character, Feels, Deep Inside

  "Third Screen: Paul Auster, “Invisible” Man". Interview with Vickie Karp, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 5, 2009.

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• Education is this funny thing. You deal for several years with organized information, and then you go out into the world and you never see any of that ever again. There's no more organized information.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Years, World, Information

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• I look crazy, but I'm not. And the funny thing is, that other people don't look crazy, but they are.

  Eden Ahbez

  Crazy, People, Looks

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• When people say it's a funny thing about them, you will probably be able to control your hysterics. They are only getting ready to announce the shattering fact that they don't like something. And it's not going to be something that's really quite awful, like suttee or apartheid; it's going to be something small.

  Peg Bracken

  People, Able, Awful

  Peg Bracken (1969). “I Didn't Come Here to Argue”

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• When I wake up I look like a madman, like something out of a horror movie! That's why I sleep alone. But the funny thing is that I'm very impeccable and clean before I go to bed. It's just like right before I'm going out.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Sleep, Bed, Going Out

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• The funny thing is, nationalism only could have come about in Europe after the invention of printing. You could have this thing that was a book in a vernacular language, and you could imagine there were other readers of this book who you couldn't see, but they were a theoretical union of readers who all use the same language. That is kind of a prerequisite for a national fantasy. You need that thing, and it's a strange thing.

  Ben Katchor

  Book, Europe, Unions

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Don't talk anybody, don't come near! Can't you see the fish might hear? He thinks I'm playing with a piece of string; He thinks I'm another sort of funny thing, But he doesn't know I'm fishing - He doesn't know I'm fishing. That's what I'm doing - Fishing.

  A. A. Milne

  Thinking, Lakes, Sea

  A. A. Milne (2011). “Now We Are Six”, p.68, Egmont UK

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• People say Yogi (Berra) is a strange guy, and I've heard Yogi say some funny things. But he has a beautiful wife, he's rich, and he's famous. I don't see anything strange about that.

  Mickey Mantle

  Beautiful, Baseball, Wife

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• I'm sure that people who have been tweeting funny things have ended up on writing staffs of a late night show.

  Dane Cook

  Writing, Night, People

  "Dane Cook Talks Comedy Special TROUBLEMAKER, Following His Plan for a Live Show, His Upcoming Indie 400 DAYS, and More". Interview with Christina Raddish, collider.com. October 17, 2014.

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• What I do onstage, there's maybe .0001 percent of the population that acts like that. I talk like that because it makes me laugh, and because I know a couple of people that talk like that. They're really that Southern. And they do funny things. I love 'em; they're awesome. They're good people.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Couple, People, Laughing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think religion is a funny thing because, when you see somebody who can really break it down, sometimes it feels foolish what you believe.

  Kevin Costner

  Believe, Thinking, Sometimes

  "Actor-filmmaker Kevin Costner, Part 2". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 25, 2012.

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• I want a Goddamn strong statement on marijuana, I mean one that just tears the ass out of them. You know, its a funny thing, every one of the bastards that are out for legalizing marijuana is Jewish.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Strong, Mean, Marijuana

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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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• Sisterhood is a funny thing. It's easy to recognize, but hard to define.

  Pearl Cleage

  Sisterhood, Easy, Hard

  Pearl Cleage (1993). “Deals With the Devil: And Other Reasons to Riot”

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• If you just stop and think, baby, honey, love is a funny thing. Whatever you put in, thats what you expect to gain.

  Jimmy Reed

  Baby, Love Is, Thinking

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• There were tons of bronzed Scandinavian types at the Sorbonne. Marvellously blond and healthy and shining white teeth. Funny thing though, because someone told me that if you actually go to Scandinavia none of the people who actually live there look like that. It's just a front they put up when they're abroad.

  Charlotte Bingham

  Europe, White, People

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• marrows - alas! - are arriving in a steady stream at the back door. ... Oddly enough, the majority of people who grow them in Fairacre say, as they hand them over: 'Funny thing! I don't care for them myself. In fact, none of the family likes them!' But still they plant them. It must be the fascination of seeing such a wonderful return for one small seed, that keeps marrow-growers at their dubious task.

  Miss Read

  Doors, Hands, People

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• it's a funny thing about Hollywood. Once you've been out here awhile, it's hard to go someplace else, and it gets harder the longer you stay here. Takes some real propulsion to make you leave.

  Pamela Moore

  Real, Hollywood, Propulsion

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