I'm not the type of guy who's funny in the room. I'm the guy who's funny late at night on a computer, trying to construct jokes.
To me, what separates a funny movie from a good movie is something personal.
Optimism isn't funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. It's exaggeration.
Evelle: Do they blow up in funny shapes? Grocer: Nope. Unless round's funny.
Sport: You're a funny guy - but looks aren't everything.
Try to maintain the perspective that, in time, everything disintegrates and returns to its initial form.
But I'd play on everything from pop records to a lot of the glam stuff to rock stuff to classical stuff. I used to get called to do all those things, it was great.
Something can be humorous without being funny. The difference is when it’s humorous, a person says, “That’s funny,” and when it’s funny, a person can’t say anything because they’re too busy laughing.
The funny thing about life is, there's nothing better to do than live it.
I don't know now if I'm funny. I just keep talking and hope that I hit something that's funny.
I guess the more serious you play something, if the context is funny, then it will be funny and it doesn't really require you to be necessarily, explicitly humorous, or silly.
And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.
I have funny bones. If there's ever any kind of tension, I'll always be the one to try and be funny to loosen things up.
I wasn't particularly funny in high school, but I grew up with three older brothers who were quite funny.
In order for comedy to be funny you have to play the truth of the moment. But if you're not being completely truthful to the basis of the character, its not going to be funny.
No comedian's wife thinks he's funny. The first few years of the marriage, maybe. I was funny as hell the first couple of years.
I don't have to be bam, bam, bam, funny when I'm working. I can tell stories, and there's some funny in them.
Youa: You're funny. Walt Kowalski: I've been called a lot of things, but never funny.
Max Fischer: War does funny things to men.
Being heard and understood is “one of the greatest desires of the human heart.
You may be the only guy my age I've ever met who knows what bergamot is, much less that it's in Earl Grey tea." "Yes, well," Jace said, with a supercilious look, "I'm not like other guys. Besides," he added, flipping a book off the shelf, "at the Ins...