Funny Things Quotes - Page 8

• I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what things are funny and not.

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Thinking, Ivory, Psychology

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• There's a constant flow of child actors. It's kind of funny to watch the new crew come through. I think, You poor little things. You're going to have to struggle for a long time.

  Tina Yothers

  Time, Children, Struggle

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• People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny.

  Richard Russo

  People, Ask Me, Asks

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• I think Secretary's funny, it is about sex, and there's a lot of sex in it, sex is the key, but you're talking about a lot of other complicated things.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Sex, Thinking, Keys

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• I think back to some of the things Harry said and some of the things I said trying to be funny. If I said them now, it would be on the front page of every newspaper in the country.

  Jack Buck

  Country, Thinking, Trying

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• I remember getting a Phoenix Suns T-shirt. I had that Phoenix Suns T-shirt forever. It's the funny things you remember as a kid, but it was a blast.

  Jonathan Lipnicki

  Kids, Phoenix, Forever

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The funny thing is, strangers still seem to feel comfortable coming up to me and saying things, but now usually it’s because they recognize me, and they say nice things.

  Todd Solondz

  Nice, Stranger, Feels

  Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

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• The funny thing is, about the time I let go of any aspiration toward worldly success, that's about the time I started writing decent work.

  Ben Fountain

  Letting Go, Writing, Aspiration

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• We went through all the scenes and they became kind of funny and they expanded a little bit and because it seemed to be working so well in the movie, they added a couple of things later on in the movie and that's how it turned out.

  Eugene Levy

  Couple, Littles, Kind

  "An interview with Eugene Levy" by Sarah Kuhn, www.ign.com. June 10, 2003.

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• The funny thing about commercials to me is that many of them now don't even mention the product until the very end. You don't really know what the commercial is all about. They're kind of like little movies, like shorts, and that's why I think they're so entertaining.

  Kevin Nealon

  Thinking, Littles, Kind

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• The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.

  Vince Gill

  Song, People, Perception

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• If you look at the game and everything, it's not quite like looking at an animated film, because that's total character. This, this is really movement, but it's got funny little things if you look for the humor. They're actually getting to the character.

  Don Bluth

  Character, Games, Looks

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• You know, the funny thing about Lorne and that show is that, you can go over one million things, but in a business of bean counters, he still likes to laugh at small things and creates a show around it.

  Colin Quinn

  Funny, Laughing, Likes

  "Interview: Colin Quinn picture". www.askmen.com.

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• I've dated some women who have turned me on to some funny things that are strange for men to actually do, but these things have become part of my process. I think the things I do for my appearance help make me look better. I even colour my hair because I like how it makes me look.

  Ryan Seacrest

  Funny, Thinking, Men

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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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• 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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• Funny thing about being a U.S. senator, the only thing the law says you have to be is 30 years old. Not another single requirement. They just figure that a man that old got nobody to blame but himself if he gets caught in there.

  Will Rogers

  Men, Years, Law

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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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• 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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• If you're talking about Java in particular, Python is about the best fit you can get amongst all the other languages. Yet the funny thing is, from a language point of view, JavaScript has a lot in common with Python, but it is sort of a restricted subset.

  Guido van Rossum

  Python, Views, Talking

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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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• Politicians can do more funny things naturally than I can think of to do purposely

  Will Rogers

  Thinking, Politician, Can Do

  Paula Love, Will Rogers (1972). “The Will Rogers book”, Texian Pr

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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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