Being Funny Quotes

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I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny.

Not being funny doesn't make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humor does.

I'd rather not have a moment when I'm known for my looks; being funny and interesting lasts longer.

In a late-night monologue, it's not just about being funny; you have to come off as knowledgeable. You have to cultivate a persona of trust and intelligence and likeability.

I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.

You, the actor, must be aware of when you're being funny, but the character you're playing should always be oblivious to the fact.

You should tell the truth as often as you can, but in such a way as people don't believe you or think that you're being funny.

A comedian's body is funny as well as his mind being funny, his whole personage is funny.

Something about New York, man: You can do more comedy there probably than you can anywhere in the world. If you're interested in being funny, New York is the place to go.

I think being successful in comedy is being funny and making jokes - anything beyond that is the icing on the cake.

I can't even really tell a joke. I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work but it ain't easy.

Being funny in life is a lot more like judo. It's using the energy.

What a sad business is being funny!

The trick is always to write in pairs because if at least two people find it funny, you've immediately halved the odds of it not being funny.

I think being funny had something to do with feeling like an outsider, not feeling cool - insecurity.

I love being funny! I started in the theater when I was 9 and, believe it or not, always played the funny part!

The pressure to being a comedian is being funny, but I've given that up, so there is no pressure whatsoever.

Even when I'm being funny, I'm deadly serious.

I think maybe I became funny because as a kid, I was a Jew in a town of no Jews, and being funny just instinctively came about as a way to put people at ease around me.

I think you figure out how to be funny by necessity. It's not a natural thing, being funny in the face of tragedy is kind of demented.

The way I survived growing up in Jersey City was by being funny. It wasn't by being tough. Nobody thought of me as a tough kid, except for the kids I beat up.

I love being funny and talking with fellas.

I think the second you think that you're funny is when you stop being funny.

There are few lonelier sights than a good comedian being funny in a movie that doesn't know what funny is.

I don't think of any sentence as a "one-liner", but I do pay attention to how people actually speak when they are being funny. Rhythm is key.

Jewish introspection and Jewish humor is a way of surviving . . . if you're not handsome and you're not athletic and you're not rich, there's still one last hope with girls, which is being funny.

If something is shocking without being funny it's hard to justify.

There's a fear that I don't think people are interested in my actual opinion. I just think people are interested in me being funny.

I don't think of myself as being funny. But life takes strange turns.

I think everyone is born funny. Sadly, some lives beat it out of them. I don't know what allows someone to keep being funny and actually make a career of it.

The first obligation I have is to be funny; it's my first impulse and an instinct. I like being funny and finding the jokes.

I never thought I was funny, but I enjoy being funny

[In] 2029, I think, computers will match and exceed human intelligence in the ways we're now superior, like being funny, where we still have an edge.

I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!

The trouble with improv is that it is often about being funny in the moment without any real consideration for the bigger picture.

Being funny wasn't a career choice growing up, it was my way out of situations; a way to survive another day.

Look, I had to take chances or it wasn't fun being funny.

I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.

Robin Williams learned technique. He has the technique of being funny.

I decided I like that mode. It's how I think - it's my voice. I like being funny and sad at the same time, or funny and disturbing at the same time. It's my natural voice.

Being funny is not the same as being happy.

When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.

being funny is a way of being liked and a way of dealing with sadness.

I think a lot of comedic actors, on their close-up they can deliver. But when it comes to reacting to other people being funny, that's work in itself.

It's nice to represent a woman who can be bigger than what you see as a typical skinny actress - being funny and desirable at the same time.

I'm a big fan of comedians not having to apologize for anything. Nowadays it seems comedians are always apologizing for being funny.

Whether you have a show or not, you can still be somewhere being funny.

Until I was about 14, I was a fat boy, or at least I looked like a fat boy. I think that being funny was a bit of a defence mechanism for me, so I ended up being a bit of a joker.

The nightmare is you spend the rest of your life being funny at parties and then people say, 'Why didn't you do that when you were on television?'

I'm not focused on the outrageousness. I'm just focused on being funny, and raising my kids. I don't even read the newspaper, I don't read that crap.