Funny People Quotes

Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you're different in a society, you're funny.

I've always been attracted to humor and funny people in general. It's a joy to make people laugh, but it's not as fun as laughing yourself.

I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up.

Golf is a funny game. It's done much for health, and at the same time has ruined people by robbing them of their peace of mind. Look at me, I'm the healthiest idiot in the world.

Here’s what I tell people now when they come to my shows: “First of all, thank you for stimulating the economy, or at least my economic package.”

This (French-Kissing) is a really sexy thing to do, according to the French people, although you should bear in mind that they also like to eat snails.

I'm used to explaining to people why my jokes were funny.

I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person-as the people in this room will attest.

I always tell people that to be the funny person in a Steve Martin movie is like getting a call that Keith Moon wants you to play drums on his record. He should be playing drums on his record.

The fans of 'The Hunger Games,' of the book, are very passionate. It's funny: Even at my concerts there are people holding up 'Cinna' signs.

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.

A lot of people like cats. Take the Pope, for example: I read recently that he was a cat-oholic!

It's weird... people say they're not like apes. Now how do you explain football then?

Lying to other people is fine and usually funny, but lying to yourself is tacky.

People here are funny. They work so hard at living, they forget how to live.

I find anger to be funny. I find people that are so wrapped up in their own personalities to be funny, and lost. Like myself in real life.

Don't boo people! Don't boo! Be more specific! Like, 'WHY ARE YOU DOING THAT?! I HATE THAT! I HATE IT!'

We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.

I've been to many funerals of funny people, and they're some of the funniest days you'll ever have, because the emotions run high.

I'd rather be the bloke laughing at other people. I don't need to make people laugh. I surround myself with funny people. I laugh all the time.

I definitely work pretty hard to stay present and focused. I've also tried to create a life for myself where I'm surrounded by honest, loyal, and funny people, because I like to laugh.

I do get funny people sometimes coming up to me in supermarkets in America with my picture in their pocket, which is a bit strange.

Adulthood feels like walking around in the desert with a bag over your head, being bumped into by people who rob you as they bore you.

I did Scottish footballer of the year this year, attempted to do some comedy at that. Not the brightest people in the world. There were seven O-Levels in that room, and they were all mine.

I can count on one hand the number of people who wrote me a thank you letter after having an interview, and I gave almost all of them a job.

Humor was also a defense mechanism from getting picked on at school. If I could be funny maybe people wouldn't bother me.

People should just be aware of how they are eating... yesterday I had a McDonald's breakfast and pizza too - but that's bad.

I love Fidel Castro...I respect Fidel Castro. You know why? A lot of people have wanted to kill Fidel Castro for the last 60 years, but that motherfucker is still here.

I learned that people in wheelchairs are allowed to have marathons … which, to me, seems like cheating, but what are you gonna say?

There's good and bad in every arena. It's funny, some people, the reason they're in the underground is because they're lazy and don't make things happen for themselves.

I think that it's hard for vain people to be funny. I think you can look any way you want as long as you have a good sense of humor about yourself.

Sometimes the funniest people don't know that they're funny - like the administrators in my high school.

I'm just the least funny person in a room full of funny people, which is basically every single day of work for me.

Socially, it is funny. People are annoyed because, really who is a clown?.

I don't want to be a facilitator for other funny people. It doesn't seem smart for me to be in a comedy and not be funny. My spirit can't take it.

I think I knew I was funny in Elementary School. I think most funny people realize it when they're young. It tends to come out of stress or trauma - something that makes you want to be funny.

[I like to] engage with funny people, or weird people, or, you know, kind of off people. [Whereas when I meet] anybody who's ... normal ... I'm not curious, I'm not interested.

As an actor, when you're doing comedies, you're around fantastic, funny people and you hopefully have a really good time doing it.

The hardest exercise for most of us fat people is that one where we push our chairback from the dinner table.

The people from 'The State' are close friends, but also some of the most incredibly funny people I know.

I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren't funny.

Americans are funny people: first you shock them, then they put you in a museum.

To me, there's nothing funnier than funny people in peril, because it's just a great springboard for people to be at a heightened emotionality and things get funnier.

I love funny people. I met and became friends with some of the funniest people ever. Gilda Radner, bless her soul; Martin Short; Dave Thomas; Eugene Levy.

Funny people don't really laugh very much.

Did you see where President Reagan finally got a hearing aid? People have been telling him to get one for years, but he couldn't hear them.

It's just easier to make fun and cut down. It's kind of a way of life in America. If you can make people want to hear what you're going to say, it can be cruel and funny.

It's a one-to-one dialogue. You open your mouth and you're talking to 6 million people.

Welcome to Glasgow - the city where we punch people who are on fire.

It is more worthy in the eyes of God . . . if a writer makes three pages sharp and funny about the lives of geese than to make three hundred fat and flabby about God or the American people.