Funny People Quotes

It's a mystery why certain people find certain things funny.

A lot of people that are always trying to be funny and "on" and performing are just hiding. It's just a cover for what they really are and how they really feel.

Comedy clubs can be brutal. Those people are for real, and if you aren't funny, they aren't laughing. They don't care who you are.

It's very difficult once you've been on telly because people know what you do. They give you a little bit of grace but then they're harsher if you're not funny, so you have to be funny.

I hate stand-up comics; I think funny is something you are, not something you desperately try to be in front of a roomful of obnoxious people.

When people say to me: would you rather be thought of as a funny man or a great boss? My answer's always the same, to me, they're not mutually exclusive.

Billy Tauzin is one of the most interesting people in Washington. He is smart, funny, and interesting.

The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know - for comedians are the caricatures among us.

There are a lot of funny people and a lot of unfunny people. Some of them are women and some of them are dudes.

I think the kick to doing comedy is just to get in a film with really funny people and let them do their jobs. I find that in most comedies, I'm not the funny one, which works out great.

I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.

I know a lot of funny people in a lot of funny places.

People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'

Sometimes I feel like there are people just waiting for me to fall. The funny thing is, I can't give them anything. I have just never been a partier, even in school.

Particularly beautiful people were like particularly funny-looking people, though. Once you know them you mostly forgot about it.

I guess funny people are attracted to funny people, and then you get comedy marriages.

I like being around funny people.

I think all the funny people were bullied. When they talk about outlawing bullying, it's like, what? You want no Comedy Central?

There's a lot of very funny people I'd love to work with that I've never met, of course. I love Steve Martin and Jim Carrey.

I have a lot of people in my life who are truly ridiculous characters, and they're very, very funny people, but they don't really try to be. They're not cracking jokes.

I find my fans are really funny people. Most comedians can't say that about their fans.

I love working with smart-funny people.

I love Ice Cube and Charlie Day. They're brilliant men, great actors and very funny people.

I always hate telling my jokes in print 'cause I always feel like it reads so not funny and people read it and they think, 'Oh, so that's what that guy does in his stand-up? That's terrible.'

With a sketch show, it's "a bunch of people and they're being funny." In a way that you can't really explain it.

There's a sense here in L.A. that everybody's aware of everybody all the time. It's funny but we choose it. People who are here want to be here, including me.

Usually the intention of the artistic effect is too sophisticated for most people to understand, sort of like a joke that they don't get so they don't think it's funny.

There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.

Intellectually, I think everyone really knows that women are funny, but it's a weird thing that people keep trotting out.

Personality is a real aphrodisiac, when somebody is charming or funny. I think certain jobs attract certain types of people.

People are always surprised that I have a funny side because I'm usually so intense, strong and dramatic. But, I'd love to do something really, really silly and funny.

I love anybody funny. I think my ten-year-old sister is really funny. She makes me laugh way more than most people do.

I think there's something in the fact that it's hard to be good looking and funny. You have to have an oddball quality; people have to sympathise with you to find you funny.

These people haven't seen the last of my face. If I go down, I'm going down standing up.

People sometimes say to me: "Craig, get out of my garden."

Instead of dumping all my money on an independent film that nobody would watch and most people would make fun of behind my back, I decided, 'I'm just going to buy a house.'

If you think I'm one of the people who try to be funny at breakfast you're wrong. I'm invariably illtempered in the early morning.

The way this country deals with drugs is just not funny. What a waste of everyone's time and effort. What a waste of a lot of people's lives.

As a professional journalist, I have always been fascinated by people who appear to have even more spare time than I do.

It takes a minimum of six people, working in close harmony, to successfully flush a nautical toilet. That's why those old ships carried such large crews.

There are a couple hard things. One, getting a funny idea that people can relate to; a funny idea or a funny script; there's a million pitches.

Stand up is really fun because if I think of a joke or a funny idea, then I can just go and tell some people and if they laugh, they laugh right away.

Peter Falk and Denis Leary today walked into a Starbucks and shot 27 people, without any announcement whatsoever.

People usually survive their illnesses, but the paper work eventually does them in. Filing a claim for insurance is terminal.

By putting myself out there the way I've been doing people see me as a real person. Even though I do character voices and funny noises the stories are still real and I put them all out there.

Sometimes [high school speech team] was funny, other times it was just talking, but it gave me the confidence to speak in front of people after doing that for a whole year.

I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.

Probably because I'm bald. Don't the bald people always play doctors and principals? Yeah, isn't that funny? And lawyers. A lot of lawyers and judges.

On the key to a successful Twitter account: Write the things that you think are funny and that's what's gonna click with people.

I'll tell you what I like about Chinese people: they're hanging in there with the chop sticks, aren't they? You know they've seen the fork. They're staying with the sticks.