Funny Quotes

With Portlandia, I don't think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously. We're okay with making somebody feel uncomfortable or uneasy.

I wear a necklace, cause I wanna know when I'm upside down.

It's funny, I get really nervous when I audition for voiceovers.

I'm smart and I can be really funny and interesting and I can go toe-to-toe with anybody in a conversation.

This is funny because I just had a job over the summer for VH1, a project I did called Strange Frequency where I got to play a Goth rock band singer.

I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-four per cent of the time.

I was the little, funny one. I felt I was the child among grown women.

The funny thing is all these school shootings that we have, always happen in very religious communities. Maybe it's because the centre of their lives is a big fat nothing and it's just a fantasy and there's nothing there. I think maybe that might have something to do with it.

It's funny how intimate it feels to get a text.

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

To all the girls out there who think being funny is not sexy, you are wrong!

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

Not everybody agrees on what's funny, obviously.

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.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.

Communism is like one big phone company.

I've done so many funny jobs. I worked at a farmer's market through high school. I worked in the stock room of Ralph Lauren. I graduated to salesperson at Ralph Lauren, which was a big deal to me. I've been a P.A. I've been a stand-in. I've been an assistant's assistant.

It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'

Most shows, you really have to force it. And everybody's nervous, and the network is nervous, and they've all got their notepads out, and they're all going to give notes on what they think is funny, and everybody's trying to spin their jokes, and this was so - the script was so good that we didn't have to really do anything, and it made it so easy for us to do well.

At the end of the day it's got to be a good movie, it's got to be a funny movie, and it's got to make people think, 'Hey, I couldn't have spent my time any better.'

And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.

I'd rather not have a moment when I'm known for my looks; being funny and interesting lasts longer.

I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.

I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic... That to me was funny.

Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial.

Hitchcock had a charm about him. He was very funny at times. He was incredibly brilliant in his field of suspense.

Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.

I just think that it's such a good show and timeless and still very funny, and that just makes me happy to have that whole first season in one concentrated space for people to enjoy so that it's not hit and miss trying to find it in syndication always.