I'm always in situations where you can't be funny, and yet I want to do it anyway.
Hitchcock had a charm about him. He was very funny at times. He was incredibly brilliant in his field of suspense.
David Mamet's writing is pretty spectacular, obviously. I like the honesty of it; I like how funny it is and how sad it is.
But a funny thing happened four years later. I was invited to play for an alumni team against the Red Wings.
I want to be part of movies that have important and interesting subjects but are not depressing and are rather satirical and funny.
I think you could take any Bruckheimer movie and do it with puppets, and it would be screamingly funny.
There are a lot of really funny guys who are very natural in what they do: Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, Seth Rogen.
Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.
It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.
Slap-stick comedy is really funny, unless you're the one getting slapped with the stick.
Le Chiffre: You are funny man, Mr. Bond.
[subtitled version] Georg: Why are you doing this to us? Paul: Why not?
[first lines] [subtitled version] Anna: Björling... Suliotis? Georg: Almost. Björling is easy.
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