Although it seems shocking to say so, grief is a funny thing. On the one hand, you're numb, yet on the other, something inside is trying desperately to claw its way back to normal: to pull a funny face, to leap out like a jack-in-the-box, to say "Smi...
Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there's so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it.
Marty: [to Ray, out in back of the bar] You think I'm funny, I'm an asshole? No no no... what's funny is HER... what's funny is, I had you two followed, because if it's not you she's sleeping with, it's someone else... what's funny is, when she gives...
I'm not so funny. Gilda was funny. I'm funny on camera sometimes. In life, once in a while. Once in a while. But she was funny. She spent more time worrying about being liked than anything else.
A joke is a way to say, 'I'm going to do something funny now. If I don't get a laugh at the end, I'm a failure.'
It's funny because 'West Wing' is similar to 'Game of Thrones' in some ways, as it was very hard to pull off back then.
If you do a Western that's funny, there's no way people don't call it a spoof or a parody, even though it may not be.
Whether it's an innate ability or an acquired way of regarding the world around us, being labeled as funny can only be accepted as a compliment.
In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone is not.
It's funny, after a while, you get tired of having to fight someone because they don't like the way you look.
Often, joking for me is a way of diffusing the awkwardness of a situation, so it's kind of exhilarating to be a part of projects where there's nothing funny or lighthearted.
Bigots are actually funny to me in the way that people who still wear parachute pants give me a chuckle.
Also, in a funny way, if you have been happily married there are no unresolved areas, nothing to prove to yourself after the other dies.
It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples and oranges. The writer and the actor are one.
So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.
I guess funny people are attracted to funny people, and then you get comedy marriages.
Some people say funny things, but I say things funny.
There is definitely a pressure for funny people to be funny. People want them to perform all the time.
One funny thing is, though, I wear my watch on my right hand and I'm actually right-handed. People always wonder why - I don't know myself, I've just always done it that way and I like it the way a good watch fits on my right wrist.
Samantha: Is that weird? You think I'm weird? Theodore: Kind of. Samantha: Why? Theodore: Well, you seem like a person but you're just a voice in a computer. Samantha: I can understand how the limited perspective of an unartificial mind might perceiv...
I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for.
