Funny Quotes

Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it.
– Philip Seymour Hoffman
Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
– Stephen Hawking
Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
– Quentin Crisp
Life is funny and it is interesting how we make it as serious as possible.
– Elisha Cuthbert
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
– George Bernard Shaw
Life can be dramatic and funny all in the same day.
– Jennifer Aniston
Leno, Conan. They are both really funny. They really know how to land one.
– Jimmy Fallon
Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny parts, and the other way around. Because in a comedy you look for what's serious. I think that's true. Sometimes things are really funny if you're absolutely earnest. If you're really serious, it's hilarious.
– Christopher Walken
Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh.
– Tom Lehrer
Kyle Baker's work is really funny, but it's also got a very clear vision.
– Bill Sienkiewicz
Keep your sense of humor, my friend if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny anymore.
– Wavy Gravy
Karaoke isn't fair when you're a comedian. The whole idea is to get people laughing and enjoying themselves, and I'm a professional funny guy.
– Chris Rock
Jon Stewart is exactly the same guy he's always been, only with money. He knows that the moment he really believes he's important, the funny goes away and he becomes Bill O'Reilly, except shorter and Jewish.
– Denis Leary
Jon Stewart hires people that he thinks are funny. That's it. That's the only requirement.
– Olivia Munn
Johnny Rotten. He's a big fan of mine. I used to see him out in the audience in England and he'd stand up and holler. He's funny. Smart too, and a nice guy. Don't think he's a jerk because he isn't.
– Don Van Vliet
Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it.
– Ben Stiller
Japanese people have a funny habit of abbreviating names.
– Shigeru Miyamoto
It's unbearable when someone changes around you. Just imagine that your life partner changes, then it is difficult to cope with. Or your mother. Or your father. They were strong and now they're like a baby - it's not so funny.
– Michael Haneke
It's sort of an action flick. You can't be that funny trying to steal diamonds.
– Anthony Anderson
It's so funny, because right now I'm very tired and my brains a little dead, I tend to get very focused and serious. So, I'm probably coming off a lot more like Scully right now.
– Gillian Anderson
It's so funny when you're actually directing because things start popping that you don't expect to pop, and something that you think is going to pop, maybe doesn't quite have the impetus that you thought it might.
– Stephen Moyer
It's so different when you change your hair color, you're treated so differently. It's a very funny experience. It's fun - I love changing up my hair.
– Kate Bosworth
It's simple, if it jiggles, it's fat.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
It's really funny because the same people who loved me as Stringer Bell were the same people that were watching 'Daddy's Little Girls' literally in tears.
– Idris Elba
It's painful for me to watch someone who isn't funny. It's horrifying to sit in the back and watch some guy who just totally sucks.
– Joe Rogan
It's only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I'm skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I'm big, when I was big, I never thought about it.
– Karl Lagerfeld
It's not so much what you learn about Mumbai, it's what you learn about yourself, really. It's a funny old hippie thing, but it's true as well. You find out a lot about yourself and your tolerance, and about your inclusiveness.
– Danny Boyle
It's interesting that whenever I meet some of the other Bond girls, I always have something in common, and it is an interesting sorority. We all share about our Bonds. 'Did your Bond do that?' 'Yes mine did!' So it is quite funny conversations. We may as well be in high school.
– Jane Seymour
It's interesting - I always thought when I was doing more melodramatic stuff like 'Everwood' that the directors were constantly reeling me in and stopping me from being funny.
– Chris Pratt
It's harder to be funny if you're handsome than if you're very normal-looking. It's just more relatable. You're the underdog. I mean it's funny to see people struggle, and you don't buy that Brad Pitt is struggling, you know that guy could be the most skill-less guy in the world, but if you look like that you will be fine for the rest of your life.
– Jonah Hill
It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
It's funny: I've been very successful and done a lot of films, and I don't really have an agent - I don't really pursue jobs, I let people come to me.
– Rick Baker
It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.
– Gary Oldman
It's funny. You succeed, but now where are you gonna go from there? I've got to keep proving that I can laugh or cry more real each time.
– Jeff Bridges
It's funny. When I saw the script in my inbox and it said 'Sparkle,' I thought, 'For real? It's really called 'Sparkle?'' I was wondering, too, how does 'Jordin Sparks as Sparkle' sound?
– Jordin Sparks
It's funny. People often compare me to other humor essayists. They're usually quite nice comparisons I will accept those gladly. But I am always sort of appalled at the idea of being lumped with other, more chick-y female writers. And the truth is probably that neither comparison is accurate.
– Sloane Crosley
It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.
– J. D. Salinger
It's funny, when people talk about the 70s I can tell you the year of every album but when it comes to the later efforts I can't remember the exact years, it's funny isn't it?
– Steve Hackett
It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first explain to me what you mean by 'making it': Do you want to be a rock star or do you want music to be your livelihood?
– Eddie Van Halen
It's funny, though, with films, because you can incorporate a variety of elements, and sometimes that can work for you and sometimes I think it can work against you.
– Guy Pearce
It's funny, though, because when I first started going to races after we met, I was extremely nervous. It's like being backstage and hoping you don't trip over something or break an amp or accidentally speak into a live microphone, so I was really hesitant.
– Ashley Judd
It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.
– Abel Ferrara
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.
– Sam Shepard
It's funny, I never considered that people are going to see me on the show and maybe stop me on the subway.
– Lena Dunham
It's funny, I do try to maintain health. I started doing Bikram yoga which is that hothouse yoga, the 105 degrees yoga for 90 minutes. It's great, you purge out all the sweat and you're drinking water.
– Bryan Cranston
It's funny, I can sit through the worst horror film ever made but even a quite good romantic comedy can drive me nuts.
– Jason Reitman
It's funny, having the same name as someone. Me, Emma Watson and Emma Stone, the amount of times I've been called Emma Watson or Emma Stone is so funny. It's just 'cause we're all named Emma. None of us look alike.
– Emma Roberts
It's funny, growing up there was never anybody around me with any kind of artistic bent.
– Nick Offerman
It's funny, but you get to a time in your life when you think you have all the friends you will ever have.
– Liam Neeson
It's funny, but when I arrived in California to start college I was much more interested in becoming a surfer and cruise along in life from one beach to the next. I didn't plan out any huge career for myself.
– Benicio Del Toro
It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9.
– Josh Lucas
It's funny, because when you're younger you're in a rush to be 18 or 21 or whatever. But then you hit 30. And now, the days go by like hours. You think, 40, man, this could be the halfway point. It could be the three-quarters point, you know? Who knows?
– Mark Wahlberg
It's funny, because I'm a man of strong opinions and when I make one, I stand by it even if it starts to appear incorrect to me after a while.
– Danny Bonaduce
It's funny, because I sometimes feel that I'm most creative when I'm pregnant.
– Georgina Chapman
It's funny, because I never think of myself as Little Miss All-Together.
– Courteney Cox
It's funny, because I did all of these interviews as soon as I had the baby, and they were asking questions, and I really didn't have an idea of anything, because I was so blurry.
– Emily Procter
It's funny, because '1600 Penn' was the first time I really started to read the reviews, because I am an executive producer and I wanted to see what people were enjoying and not enjoying as a means to an end, right?
– Josh Gad
It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it.
– Maya Lin
It's funny with fiction - once you cut something, it hasn't happened anymore.
– George Saunders
It's funny when you're a kid how you can acclimate to almost anything.
– Adam Carolla
It's funny when people say you have sex appeal or call you the next Brad Pitt. I just laugh. I'm not that. I don't want to be that.
– Kellan Lutz
It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.
– Jimi Hendrix
It's funny to be a critic.
– Leslie Fiedler
It's funny that there was so much disturbance about having a Catholic in the White House with Kennedy, and when we finally get a religion in the White House that's causing a lot of conflicts, and concerns, and disturbances for a lot of people, it's in the Bush Administration.
– Roger Ebert
It's funny that it all becomes about clothes. It's bizarre. You work your butt off and then you win an award and it's all about your dress. You can't get away from it.
– Reese Witherspoon
It's funny that I got to do 'On the Road' because the thing that had the biggest impact on me growing up was reading books. I was very inspired by the book and this spirit of Dean Moriarty and how envious we all are of somebody who can be that carefree.
– Garrett Hedlund
It's funny recently I've started to notice people's impersonations of me, and it's basically like a hyperactive child.
– Dave Grohl
It's funny I actually made poorer decisions when I sobered up then when I was screwed up.
– Corey Feldman
It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music.
– Tom Petty
It's funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.
– Bjork
It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'
– Ice Cube
It's funny how making odd noises can get you into strange situations sometimes.
– Eric San
It's funny how many people will come to Vegas to see your show where they might not come out to see you unless you come to their hometown.
– Reba McEntire
It's funny how intimate it feels to get a text.
– Sophie Ellis Bextor
It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!
– Garth Brooks
It's funny how I use social media because I don't use it to promote my restaurants that much. I use it for social issues and I think that's what it's for. I do a few things - I mess around with music a lot because that's a passion of mine. If something strikes me and I want to share it, I do.
– Tom Colicchio
It's funny because it's funny.
– David Spade
It's funny because I'm a sucker for glitz and glitter when it comes to clothes and nail polish, but with my makeup, I'm more comfortable with a natural look. It feels more like me.
– Alison Sweeney
It's funny because I think a lot of it is simply... We've never considered ourselves satirists, but because we're on Comedy Central and because we're South Park on Comedy Central, we can do any topic we want.
– Trey Parker
It's funny because 'The Book of Mormon' is 'The Book of Mormon' now. When I was doing it at the very beginning, and I was a part of it for four years and always believed in it, I never really knew if it was going to be more than a convention for 'South Park' fans.
– Josh Gad
It's funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay emotionally coming and going. Neither has it easy.
– Hedy Lamarr
It's funny - if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it's them.
– Tracey Ullman
It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I'm rounder in the face, I like to say, 'This is my long-term look.' Or 'This is my wife-and-kids look right here.'
– Garrett Hedlund
It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious.
– Bill Hicks
It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.
– Scarlett Johansson
It's a funny thing: You want so badly for people to see what you do - you're proud of it - and I like the effect that movies have on people. But the attention can also make me uncomfortable.
– Kristen Stewart
It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.
– Zora Neale Hurston
It's a funny thing because you look at the careers of other filmmakers, and you see them sort of slow down, and you realize, maybe this becomes harder to do as you get older. That's sort of a cautionary thing. I hope it doesn't happen to me.
– Joel Coen
It's a funny thing - when I'm crazed with work, spending time with my children relaxes me. Yet, at the end of a long weekend with them, the very thing I need to relax is a little work and time away from them!
– Emily Giffin
It's a funny show. The characters are surprisingly likable, given how ugly they are. We've got this huge cast of characters that we can move around. And over the last few seasons, we've explored some of the secondary characters' personal lives a bit more.
– Matt Groening
It's a funny relationship that makeup artists have. I always feel kind of like a dentist. People look at me and think of pain.
– Rick Baker
It's a bit like school camp, shooting a film. Everyone's on heat. It's a strange energy. It's full of adrenalin. I funnel my excess energy in funny little ways. I do a lot of dancing in my trailer. I love music.
– Alice Englert
It would be pretty funny to see a Beverly Hills white girl with mad rap skills.
– Tori Spelling
It was always a fantasy of mine growing up - my favorite program was always 'Little House on the Prairie' - so I always wanted to wear those looks. When I was a child, I wouldn't let my mom put me in anything but calico dresses and now... whaddaya know, every day I'm in a calico dress, basically, so it's kind of funny.
– Chloe Sevigny
It used to be that you had to make female TV characters perfect so no one would be offended by your 'portrayal' of women. Even when I started out on 'The Office' eight years ago, we could write our male characters funny and flawed, but not the women. And now, thankfully, it's completely different.
– Mindy Kaling
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
– Thomas Sowell
It sounds funny, but the 2008 Olympics were something that just kind of happened, and I was lucky they came at a point when I was uninjured and well prepared. As a gymnast, you can't ask for much more.
– Shawn Johnson
It is possible in this world to be pretty and funny and successful all at the same time.
– Olivia Munn
It is funny what a year can do.
– Victor Cruz
It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.
– Gertrude Stein