Funny Things Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• The problem is that we live in an uptight country. Why don't we just laugh at ourselves? We are funny. Gays are funny. Straights are funny. Women are funny. Men are funny. We are all funny, and we all do funny things. Let's laugh about it.

  Bob Newhart

  Country, Laughter, Gay

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• Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end.

  Edward Albee

  Careers, Ends

  Edward Albee (2009). “Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee”, p.3, Da Capo Press

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• The funny thing about having all this so-called success is that behind it is a certain horrible emptiness.

  Sam Shepard

  Emptiness, Certain, Horrible

  "Sam Shepard opens up". interview with Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2010.

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• I like happy things, I'm really calm and peaceful. I like birds, bees, I like people. I like funny things that make me happy and gleeful... like when my teacher sucked my wee-wee in pre-school!

  Eminem

  Teacher, School, People

  "Song: 'I'm Shady'". 1999.

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• It's a funny thing about weaknesses....Most people will tell you they know their weaknesses. When asked, they'll tell you, 'Well for one thing, I'm overgenerous.' ... that's what innkeepers are for.

  David Gemmell

  People, Weakness, Wells

  "Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde". Book by David Gemmell, Ch. 1, 1984.

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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'm not melancholy; I'm a happy-go-lucky person, kind of silly. I like funny things. I have a lot of energy. I tend to like music that's mellow, though.

  Norah Jones

  Silly, Energy, Lucky

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

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• The number one metaphor I have in my mind for writing a screenplay is that...you're trying to climb a mountain blindfolded. And the funny thing about that is, you think, 'Okay, that's hard because you're climbing up a rock face, and you don't know where you're going, and you don't know where the top is, you can't see what's below you...' But actually the hardest part about climbing a mountain blindfolded is just finding the mountain.

  Michael Arndt

  Writing, Thinking, Numbers

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I joke around a lot about the manic times because they're funny. We manics do outrageous things and it is part of our colorful nature.

  Patty Duke

  Manic, Outrageous, Jokes

  Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.133, Bantam

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• The funny thing is, the girls that I'm always up against for roles are pretty nice and cool, like Emma Watson. She's awesome.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Funny, Girl, Nice

  "Amanda Seyfried's March 2012 Cover-Shoot Gallery". Glamour Interview, www.glamour.com. February 1, 2012.

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• I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Funny, Thinking, Patterns

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