A director recommended me for the role on 'Soap.' They said, 'She plays heavy roles, murderesses and the like.' He said, 'On stage, she could be very very funny.'
Fencing is a funny sport. Competitive fencing is not really very applicable to the stage world unless you're fighting with a rapier during the Renaissance, you know?
It's funny that all these goths paint their faces with such white make-up and that is the actual colour of my skin, I am that pale!
It's the details and the human element that makes 'Recount' entertaining. Even though we know how the election ends, it plays like a thriller. It's also funny.
I really like 'Passion of the Christ.' I like that movie. I also like 'We Were Soldiers,' and 'Braveheart.' And 'Napoleon Dynamite' - that movie was funny.
The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill pen for hour after hour.
Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical.
It's funny because being comedic and happy and lighthearted is who I am as a person, so they're easier emotions for me to connect with.
I didn't think I was a humorless shrew in 'Knocked Up.' I think the women are just as funny as the men are in that movie.
I don't sit down to write a funny story. Every single thing I sit down to write is meant to be sad.
Only bad golfers are lucky. They're the ones bouncing balls off trees, curbs, turtles and cars. Good golfers have bad luck. When you hit the ball straight, a funny bounce is bound to be unlucky.
You know being relevant or coming up with something interesting, funny to say about what's current is just as hard as it might ever be depending on the serendipity of it all.
Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you're the funniest person you've ever heard of.
I think your tendency when you play yourself is to accentuate something about you that you think is the funny thing about you.
I don't do it often, but I do cry. I also laugh a lot; people tell me I'm funny and I do like to laugh.
My parents are both really, really funny, and my little sister is a really good painter, and my other sister is a really good writer.
I've seen all the Judd Apatow movies, and I'd love to have a really funny little part in one of them some day.
Obviously we know Bill Hader is funny and charming, but my question is, can he do raw humanity and naturalism? I think so.
It's funny. I did give birth to an alien on 'The X-Files.' And it's just the teaser, so I'm dead before we even get into the episode.
I think Secretary's funny, it is about sex, and there's a lot of sex in it, sex is the key, but you're talking about a lot of other complicated things.
Sometimes people get mad at The Simpsons' subversive story telling, but there's another message in there, which is a celebration of making wild, funny stories.
