Funny Things Quotes - Page 9

• The Cable Guy was underbudgeted, so it was always a debate about whether we could have more days or certain things that we needed, because the budget was determined before the script was written. So that made it a hard production on everybody. But it's also a funny thing, because it's one of those movies that cost $40 million to make and made $100 million around the world, but at the time, it seemed like a disaster that it didn't make hundreds of millions of dollars, because Jim was on such a tear. But it was actually a successful movie.

  Judd Apatow

  Successful, Guy, Tears

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 1, 2011.

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• The funny thing in France is that writers are not allowed to retire, because the French government say you are still earning money from books you wrote 20 years ago.

  Peter Mayle

  Book, Government, Years

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• That's a funny thing, because it's 3 rivals who get a long great on the club that are friends [Neimar, Lionel Messi and Louise Alberto Suarez]. And it's something kinda impossible to imagine that it would happen. But it did and things have been working for us. Of course we mess with each other when someone goes to the national team, but we get a long great.

  Neymar

  Team, Long, Messi

  Source: neymarwithlove.tumblr.com

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• I'm always doing what I can to look for and just feel out funny things that are happening in the scene and improvise off of them.

  Thomas Lennon

  Looks, Scene, Feels

  "Exclusive: Thomas Lennon on A VERY HAROLD AND KUMAR CHRISTMAS 3D; Says There's a Lot of Nudity Including Showering Nuns". Interview with Steve 'Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. August 5, 2010.

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• I still don't understand why when you put a piece of paper in a tray with solution in it, it comes up. It's still, in a sense, magic to me. It's a funny thing, you know. I've got two kids, and when they were very young, they used to come in the darkroom and I thought they'd be astounded by that. Nothing. When they got a little older, then they got astounded by it.

  Garry Winogrand

  Kids, Two, Magic

  Source: www.zinzin.com

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• ...It's all sort of dreams and it's all illusion. It's theater; it's not real. We're making up stories, you know, and people tend to run into you and believe you are your characters. And I suppose the funny thing is the longer you go, you do become sort of some version of [your characters]. You both diverge from them - you know - you live, but you also permanently inhabit that geography and that mental space - and so you do morph a little bit. We do become what we imagine.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Dream, Wisdom, Running

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• The funny thing is you oddly don't really say goodbye to all the characters you've played. There's like a chest of drawers in your head that you can always access. They're always around. I'm not sure if that's healthy. But they're all there.

  Johnny Depp

  Goodbye, Character, Healthy

  "Public Enemies - Johnny Depp interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Chemistrys a funny thing. It can be instantaneous, but it helps when you know someone.

  David Walton

  Helping, Instantaneous, Knows

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• Death isn't a funny thing. We're all lucky to be living.

  Pauly Shore

  Lucky

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I never intended to make a living from music. That's the funny thing. I wanted to be a journalist.

  Pete Seeger

  Journalist, Wanted

  Source: www.folkmusicworldwide.com

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• In the United States, many people said you can't have folk music in the United States because you don't have any peasant class. But the funny thing was, there were literally thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people who loved old time fiddling, ballads, banjo tunes, blues played on the guitar, spirituals and gospel hymns. These songs and music didn't fit into any neat category of art music nor popular music nor jazz. So gradually they said well let's call it folk music.

  Pete Seeger

  Song, Art, Hymns

  Source: www.folkmusicworldwide.com

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• What makes a good animated movie is being able to balance adult and knowing in-jokes and also just out and out funny things that make all people laugh. The idea that it's actually something that will appeal to a family, that's the trick.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Ideas, Knowing, People

  "Q&A: Benedict Cumberbatch talks Penguins Of Madagascar". Interview with Andy Lea, www.dailystar.co.uk. December 7, 2014.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Once I chanted the Hare Krishna mantra all the way from France to Portugal, nonstop. I drove for about twenty-three hours and chanted all the way. It gets you feeling a bit invincible. The funny thing was that I didn't even know where I was going. I mean I had bought a map, and I knew basically which way I was aiming, but I couldn't speak French, Spanish, or Portuguese. But none of that seemed to matter. You know, once you get chanting, then things start to happen transcendentally.

  George Harrison

  Mean, Speaks French, Feelings

  "The Mantra 'Keeps Me in Tune with Reality'". Interview with Mukunda Goswami, www.beliefnet.com. September 4, 1982.

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• A lot of comedies are based on the reaction shot. You have one person doing something stupid and one person is generally the straight man, and the laughs generally come on the reaction of the straight man to the funny thing the other person has done.

  Richard Ayoade

  Stupid, Men, Laughing

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. June 3, 2011.

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• The funny thing is, last summer we were golfing together, me, him and Alonzo Mourning. I don't know how to golf, but it's an unbelievable opportunity to go out and golf with one of the greats. And he's out there making fun of my swing - I can't hit the ball - and I'm getting frustrated because I'm a competitor. So Alonzo pulled me aside and said, 'Man, you're getting the chance to golf with Bill Russell. How many people can say they've done that?' And I looked at him and said, 'You know what? You're right.'

  Dwyane Wade

  Summer, Fun, Golf

  "Here's One Reason to Like the Heat" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. November 17, 2010.

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• Experience is a funny thing. You dont always have it when you need it.

  Patrick Chan

  Needs

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• The funny thing about gold is how quickly it can tarnish.

  Robyn

  Gold

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• We moved to Baltimore, Maryland, in 1979, when I was five. The funny thing is that, even though Baltimore had one of the top murder rates in the country in those days, I grew up hearing about how dangerous New York was.

  Philipp Meyer

  Country, New York, Hearing

  Interview with Jennifer L. Knox, www.newyorker.com. June 14-21, 2010.

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• Funny thing, employment. If you keep doing it, you keep getting paid.

  N.K. Jemisin

  Employment, Paid, Ifs

  N. K. Jemisin (2011). “The Kingdom Of Gods”, p.158, Hachette UK

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• Loyalty was a funny thing. So was love. They both bit you when you least expected it.

  Jodi Lynn Anderson

  Loyalty, Expected, Bits

  Jodi Lynn Anderson (2006). “Peaches”, HarperCollins Children's Books

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• My goal was to show that even if people work in a garage or a supermarket, they have very funny things to say. We never hear their voices.

  Michel Gondry

  Voice, People, Goal

  "Michel Gondry on His Animated Noam Chomsky Doc and the Money It Takes to Dream Big". Interview with Matt Patches, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 21, 2013.

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