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.
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.
You know I love you,' said the other mother flatly. 'You have a very funny way of showing it,' said Coraline.
Humans did not want to know about non-humans. Funny thing was most non-humans felt the same way, happy to hide their abilities and talents to avoid witch hunts and wholesale slaughter.
My father was really good with math. It's a funny thing, I don't remember my father or my mother being so mechanical-minded. My father always wanted to be a doctor, but he came from a really poor family in Georgia, and there was no way he was going t...
I probably would have gone the M.F.A. route except I was a dad at 19, and it made more sense to go to work for a newspaper and support a kid that way. But the funny thing is, that detour became the most important step in my developing as a novelist.
I don't think it's any coincidence that I lost my religious faith and 'manned up' in the same year. I was described somewhere as a lapsed Catholic, which is funny because I'm not going back! I want to achieve things rather than live life in an animal...
