Silly Quotes

It's silly to work hard the whole week and then spoil it by not preparing properly before the game.

Acting can be a really silly thing. It's like playing dress-up.

Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I'd never used it. I'm 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s.

Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.

It's silly that anyone in this world tells you that there are only certain people that can marry you.

Of all the things I do, acting is the thing that grabs most, but there's another level on which it strikes me as being a little silly. In the end you're dressing up and deciding to be somebody.

Apparently nobody really read it, it was a cheap movie, it fit their schedule in terms of things so fine, let the guy make that high school comedy. I used to work with Mel Brooks so they figured oh it's going to be one of those really silly movies and that's how it got made.

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.

Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me.

I'm very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in 'Morning Glory' with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.

It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.

I honestly don't understand the big fuss made over nudity and sex in films. It's silly.

It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.

If you met my dad, I think a lot of things would be put to rest. Because my pops is a pretty silly guy. But, Coldcut, they're based in the U.K. I'm a big fan of jazz music, so American music has had a big influence on what I listen to.

I don't have a grand master plan, but I try to be thoughtful when I can and also silly. It's part of the fun.

If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.

My Brilliant Career was beautifully directed, but I had a bit of trouble with myself in it. It was a silly script, based on a book this 16-year-old girl wrote.

I loved cutting together simple commercials about margarine or soft drinks - all kinds of silly products - but I tried to make the commercials different.

What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?

A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.

He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.

Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.

My singing wasn't horrible, but my dancing really made it look silly. It's not like I'm a horrible singer that can't sing. But I don't have the consistency or the presentation skills that a good performer has.

I noticed there were so many people, especially women, who would come up to me having recognized me from TV and say, 'I heard you were a math person, why math? Oh my gosh, I could never do math!' I could just see their self-esteem crumbling; I thought that was silly, so I wanted to make math more friendly and accessible.

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

I show them the funny part, the silly part, the laughing part, the crazy part and then the really deep, deep part where I'm talking from my heart to these people. Because I've been through everything they've been through.

I remember when I was a dancer and I had to do this performance and I was really nervous about it, and I happened at that moment to go see 'Flashdance.' I mean, it's silly, but I walked out of that movie going 'what a feeling!' I walked out with confidence.

It would have been very impossible to deal with this attention when I was younger. I'm thrilled with the success, but at this point I also think it's hilariously silly.

People ask 'do you make a conscious effort not to swear?' - if you're doing silly stuff you're not tempted to put swearing in. All the comics from my childhood, who were funny without swearing, were the people that influenced me. What I do is quite traditional anyway.

I have had time to analyze my feelings. I am certain that they are totally neurotic, sexist, silly, and a big waste of time.