Funny Quotes

When something is truly funny, it's funny all the time.

When I first envisioned 'Funny Games' in the mid-1990s, it was my intention to have an American audience watch the movie. It is a reaction to a certain American cinema, its violence, its naivety, the way American cinema toys with human beings. In many American films, violence is made consumable.

I don't think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.

All the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911.

Memories are doing funny things to us.

There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary.

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.

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?

I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

You know, Stephen says, in the movies no one ever goes to the bathroom. They shave, they brush their teeth. He goes right at this sort of funny taboo we have about the bathroom, and he turned it into this nightmare, you know, your worst fear of what's in there.

People used to be funny about approaching me, but now they seem to think I'm as sane as anyone who's done what I've done in movies can be.

I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh.

Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

I like getting up in front of an audience. It's fun when you go to a baseball game and the crowd is cheering you. I can't deny it. And it's very funny, too. Sometimes you're shy; you go somewhere and everyone's looking at you, so you feel a little self-conscious.

I'm a misplaced American, but don't know where I was misplaced.

But Wall Street people are in fact very smart; they're funny, they're not company men who work their way up the chain.

I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.

I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny and have things to say about men and women and families and children and life in America today.

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.

Yes, I see the Mobile Base System really is the shoulder of the arm. The arm is right there, like a human arm. It's really funny to look at the similarities between a human arm and the Canadian robotics arm.

It's not so much what you learn about Mumbai, it's what you learn about yourself, really. It's a funny old hippie thing, but it's true as well. You find out a lot about yourself and your tolerance, and about your inclusiveness.

I wasn't even 20 at the time, but it taught me something about drugs. They can take a good man, a warm, funny, loving family man, and turn him into a loser and worse.

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London.

A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.

Kids enjoy laughing and are seldom bored when they find something funny. They also ask questions, often to adults, because they understand that the more words they can comprehend about a funny story or a joke, the more they'll enjoy it.

One lion thinks it's just hilarious to tackle us. He's very funny about it... and we always know when it will happen.

As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.