Do I have a long-term plan? Kind of. I have a general direction, I think. But it's funny what comes down the pike.
I thought I was funny as a kid. I used to play tricks on my brothers - I'd tie a two-shilling piece to a bit of cotton, then pull it away as they went to grab it.
I know people will think it's funny because I've done glamour modelling in the past, but I felt embarrassed about my body and just wanted to cover it up.
If you are doing stand-up comedy, you have to be confident in what you are doing. That doesn't mean just because you are confident you are funny.
When I was 12, I snapped my arm in two. My wrist still has a funny bump because they didn't join it back together so great.
Dali had a good sense of humor - obviously you could tell just looking at him; he was funny.
A romantic comedy has to be funny and make you think about life; but the obstacle that has to be overcome is key.
Because I grew up with women, I have a certain amount of charm, and I'm all right to get on with, kind enough, funny enough, blah blah blah.
After doing Johnny I wanted to just do something, I wouldn't say innocent, but to not have any care in the world. Lots of setups and horrible happenings but its funny.
We have actors from other films, from 'Baywatch,' and so on, and these people are looking exactly the opposite of what they are. The transformations were so smooth, and so funny to watch, it was unbelievable.
Don DeLillo's 'White Noise,' which I read when I was 19. It showed me that a book can be funny as hell and deadly serious.
For some reason and I don't know why, but I don't think that I'm funny in California. So I always want to do my movies east somewhere.
When you have an entire amphitheatre of people laughing that way, it makes you feel so funny and it frees you to go further than you probably would.
Being a black woman, there's so many different sides of us. We are funny, silly, romantic, professional, smart, and we have good jobs.
I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don't have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me.
It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.
I particularly like Twitter, because it's short and can be very funny and informative. It's a little bit like having your own radio program.
There's nothing funny the first time about telling a story about getting beat up and it makes you leave high school.
I tell you, it's funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.
David Letterman used to say, 'I wasn't the class clown, but I wrote for him,' and that's exactly it. You want to be known to be funny without having it pointed out.
People don't want to listen to a celebrity tweeting about their charities and shows. That's why comedy writers do well - we put out little funny ideas.
