Amusing Quotes

I've been told to speed up my delivery when I perform. But if I lose the stammer, I'm just another slightly amusing accountant.

St. Michaels Mount is a favourite place of mine; people will walk across to the Mount all day and assume they will be able to walk home. The spectacle of hundreds of people realising that the path they walked over on is disappearing under several feet of water is very amusing.

As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children.

This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I wanted to do a comedy, so this was just the right one.

Film sets are constantly amusing because you really are creating something that is so very surreal, and I kind of like that.

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.

Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.

Now, as a comic, if you're vaguely amusing you can go straight into TV, then you play the O2 and then everyone's sick of you.

It's rather amusing at my advanced age to become a sex symbol.

However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

I only went to one Star Trek convention and that was in the late '80s. I hadn't gone to a convention before that. It was quite amusing, with the people dressed up and all of that.

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Working with Chaplin was very amusing and strange. His films are so funny, but working with him, I found him to be a very serious man. Whereas the films of Hitchcock are macabre, he could be a very funny man to work with, always telling jokes and holding court. Of course, when I worked with Charlie he was getting older.

Sometimes I have wondered whether life wouldn't be much more amusing if we were all devils, and no nonsense about angels and being good.

When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.

I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.

Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He got up and said he couldn't work with people who laughed at him!

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.