Quotes of: Funny-story Keyword

A joke is a way to say, 'I'm going to do something funny now. If I don't get a laugh at the end, I'm a failure.'

Penn Jillette

It's not common for a woman on television, especially if she's the mom of the family, to be funny. She's usually a straight man or foil.

Martha Plimpton

It's a funny business. I kind of compare it to baseball. I'm always looking for a home run.

Billy Mays

I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.

Ian Frazier

The funny thing is, the girls that I'm always up against for roles are pretty nice and cool, like Emma Watson. She's awesome.

Amanda Seyfried

I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.

Maurice Sendak

I love being a dad, it keeps me fit and inspired and children are so funny. They always supply you with acting material!

Wesley Snipes

Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.

Julia Sweeney

I am dating, but it is hard to find someone quick enough and funny enough. I am quite demanding.

Anne Robinson

It's a funny feeling to work with people who you consider your colleagues and to realize that they actually are young enough to be your children.

Alan Alda

I've been to many funerals of funny people, and they're some of the funniest days you'll ever have, because the emotions run high.

Albert Brooks

Twitter, to me, works if you're funny. Twitter doesn't work as a promotional tool unless you do it very, very, very occasionally.

Albert Brooks

I think 'Breaking Bad' is brilliant. Good drama in the U.S. is also so funny and blurs the line between light and dark.

Arthur Darvill

Teaching someone to be funny is like teaching someone to be fast. They're already fast. You're just making them faster.

Ali Farahnakian

It's funny because 'West Wing' is similar to 'Game of Thrones' in some ways, as it was very hard to pull off back then.

Alex Graves

It's funny, there are so many women who are former executives and have taken all that stress and anxiety and transferred it onto their kids.

Ana Gasteyer

Twitter's a lot of work! That's the first thing I would say. There's so much pressure to be funny.

Ari Graynor

If you do a Western that's funny, there's no way people don't call it a spoof or a parody, even though it may not be.

Adam McKay

I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

Andy Warhol

People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'

Al Yankovic

Whether it's an innate ability or an acquired way of regarding the world around us, being labeled as funny can only be accepted as a compliment.

Alan Zweibel