When a dramatic actor does a funny film, people are like, 'Wonderful! I didn't know he was funny!' But when it flips, people can get really thrown by it.
Whoever came up with the term “Funny Bone” must have been a masochist, because hitting it is not funny at all…
Marlin: If this is some kind of practical joke, it's not funny, and I know funny. I'm a clownfish.
Steve Rogers: Is everything a joke to you? Tony Stark: Funny things are.
My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about - having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.
I don't know if you know you're funny, but you enjoy being funny. I know I'm funny because people tell me I am, but when I watch myself, it doesn't make me laugh. Does that make sense? Because I know the jokes, and to me, I feel like I'm pulling the ...
Richard Vernon: [Andrew laughs at Bender's backtalk] You think he's funny? You think this is cute? You think he's "bitchin," is that it? Let me tell you something. Look at him - he's a bum. You want to see something funny? You go visit John Bender in...
The trick of 'Up' was to balance the sad stuff with the silly stuff.
Love is a funny thing. The ones we love don't always love us back.
Fame is a funny thing, like a secret, both are hard to keep.
Funny way to spend your life, though, studying another chap's versifying.
For my first gig, I got $75. I could make money being funny, so I pursued it as a career and have turned it into a lucrative business.
I suppose anybody just losing it and sputtering curses is pretty funny. But I think it would be more of a challenge, much more of a challenge, to make a cursing dad funny.
One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.
Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.
Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.
Well, I mean, if a joke or humor is bawdy, it's got to be funny enough to warrant it. You can't just have it bawdy or dirty just for the sake of being that - it's got to be funny.
I think there's something in the fact that it's hard to be good looking and funny. You have to have an oddball quality; people have to sympathise with you to find you funny.
You can't be funny for funny's sake. You try to get as outrageous situation as you can but it always has to be believable and based in real character motivations and what people would really do.
As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965, I didn't know that funny women existed. It wasn't until I got back to England that I realised women could be funny.
But the funny thing is, I broke my finger not on set doing kung fu. I broke my finger when I fell down the stairs prior to going on set.
