Amusing Quotes

The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.

My reputation was a bit exaggerated. Things were written in newspapers, then copied, then doubled. One of the reasons why I never disclaimed that, was because I found it amusing. But I also constructed such an image for myself in order to gain more of a private life.

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.

I die pretty much every year. I find it amusing.

I mean I can do it when I'm very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.

I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares?

What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience - experience of all kinds, vital and profound at its greatest, amusing or entertaining at another level.

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.

Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.

It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an enormous shift in how it's done, but yet you can't put your finger on someone who actually did it.

I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I'll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points, and then I'll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.

I left the table where there were important people and had lunch with my husband and a few friends. The reception was organised in my honour, so it was rather amusing.

Things people say strike me as amusing, and I am prone to saying out loud what everybody's thinking.

I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

I find it amusing on one level, poignant on another, when people try to get recognition from an outside source. It's sad.