Funny Quotes

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.
– Gertrude Stein
It is funny because the guy who is my boss now, Howard Stern, has a similarity there. He got big being a regular guy. He wasn't the greatest looking guy in the world.
– Artie Lange
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
– H. L. Mencken
It is easy for me to love myself, but for ladies to do it is another question altogether.
– Johnny Vegas
Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus, or just a really cool Opotamus?
– Mitch Hedberg
Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.
– Zach Galifianakis
In this world, everyone wants to know everything about you, and I think that's funny.
– Leighton Meester
In terms of the creative side of it, it's really been a thing where you come up with the funny stuff is usually at a bar or out talking to people or whatever.
– Trey Parker
In my experience, it's not just that serious books get a hearing on comedy shows. But serious books get a serious hearing, as well as a funny one, on comedy shows.
– Michael Mandelbaum
In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really was funny. I wish I had understood Italian.
– Sugar Ray Leonard
In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.
– Rita Rudner
In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.
– George Carlin
In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read magazines, and a poem takes less time than an article.
– Caroline Kennedy
If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.
– Billy Wilder
If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.
– Richard Russo
If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.
– Logan P. Smith
If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.
– Dane Cook
If you think something's funny, go with that. Most comedians pull jokes from a place of honesty.
– Olivia Munn
If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.
– Larry David
If you look at the game and everything, it's not quite like looking at an animated film, because that's total character. This, this is really movement, but it's got funny little things if you look for the humor. They're actually getting to the character.
– Don Bluth
If you have a secret, people will sit a little bit closer.
– Rob Corddry
If you could cross a lion and a monkey, that's what I'd be, because monkeys are funny and lions are strong.
– Marlon Wayans
If you can't tell a spoon from a ladle, then you're fat!
– Demetri Martin
If you can find the line between sympathetic and creepy, you have reached a very funny area.
– Jason Segel
If you are a great dramatic actor then you often don't know if people are enjoying your stuff at all because they are sitting there in silence. But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.
– Steve Coogan
If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.
– Mary Douglas
If my kid couldn't draw I'd make sure that my kitchen magnets didn't work.
– Mitch Hedberg
If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we'd know who she was?
– Adam Carolla
If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.
– Calvin Trillin
If I'm in something funny, I like to try and find some kind of serious line in it that people can relate to.
– Ron Livingston
If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents.
– Marcelene Cox
If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
– William Lyon Phelps
I've thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was on the Comics Pages. They were able to pull off intelligent social comment, pure truths not found elsewhere in the news pages, and had the ability to make it all funny, entertaining, and pertinent.
– Elayne Boosler
I've started looking at my own father a bit funny. He assures me, though, that I really am the son of a Scottish postman.
– Craig Ferguson
I've never really understood that. It's a funny thing people sometimes accuse us of condescending to our characters somehow-that to me is kind of inexplicable.
– Joel Coen
I've got to get on myself to be sharp, funny and loose.
– David Spade
I've dated some women who have turned me on to some funny things that are strange for men to actually do, but these things have become part of my process. I think the things I do for my appearance help make me look better. I even colour my hair because I like how it makes me look.
– Ryan Seacrest
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.
– Albert Brooks
I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.
– Billy Connolly
I've always found it easier to be funny than to be serious.
– Molly Ivins
I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
– Carl Hiaasen
I've actually tried to roast somebody that I don't like, and it doesn't go well. Either they're a bad sport or I'm not as funny as I could be.
– Jeff Ross
I'm very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in 'Morning Glory' with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.
– Rachel McAdams
I'm thankful for the three ounce Ziploc bag, so that I have somewhere to put my savings.
– Paula Poundstone
I'm terrible at practical jokes. I do them too well, so they're not funny. I end up saying, 'Oh, no, I'm joking, I'm joking.'
– Anna Torv
I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you.
– Robin Williams
I'm so unprofessional on set it's not even funny.
– Katharine McPhee
I'm so single. It's funny. I'm usually a relationship girl. I love being in love and having a partner in crime. But it's good to be your own partner in crime. God, that makes me sound like I have multiple-personality disorder.
– Brittany Snow
I'm smart and I can be really funny and interesting and I can go toe-to-toe with anybody in a conversation.
– Megan Fox
I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them later.
– Mitch Hedberg
I'm one of those hovering mothers and I know it's really important to have an independent child, so I'm trying to back off, but it's hard. I love him so much, and he's so funny and cute to me.
– Selma Blair
I'm on so late I'm definitely the last seconds of anyone's attention. So I just want to give them something dumb to laugh at, so they go, 'That's funny,' then fall asleep.
– Jimmy Fallon
I'm odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet.
– Angelina Jolie
I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of meeting me.
– Jonathan Safran Foer
I'm not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? I'm really kind of stupid at home and more serious in public.
– Roland Joffe
I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.
– Will Rogers
I'm not a movie guy, I'm not a TV sitcom guy, but whatever seems to fit and is funny is good for me.
– Dave Attell
I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion.
– Anthony Anderson
I'm not a believer in the pratfall. I don't think it's funny just to have someone fall down.
– Harold Ramis
I'm never afraid to try something if I think it's funny. And I know I'll regret it if I don't.
– Seann William Scott
I'm like, bursting. I should be working. I don't want to take a break. It's funny, on set, I don't have to go to the bathroom, I don't have anything wrong, I'm perfectly fine, so through-and-through. I'm not hungry. I'm literally not even in my own body.
– Kristen Stewart
I'm kidding about having only a few dollars. I might have a few dollars more.
– James Brown
I'm just not one of those naturally funny, relaxed actors who enjoy the spotlight and are so good at it.
– Heath Ledger
I'm good at coming up with wacky characters and funny dialogue.
– Marlon Wayans
I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?
– Lenny Kravitz
I'm for whatever gets you through the night.
– Frank Sinatra
I'm blonde and tanned and normal-sized! I'm sweet, shy, funny, have a big heart and I'm nice - and I like to eat.
– Paris Hilton
I'm an unorthodox type of guy, a funny guy - at least I think I'm funny. And one of the things I like to do is come up with nicknames for myself.
– Shaquille O'Neal
I'm an off-road racecar driver. And I think every woman in my life has told me that's not a sensible hobby. But when I was growing, even more than I wanted to be funny, I wanted to be a racecar driver. That's all I thought about. I worked for a race team when I was 15 and I traveled with them.
– Dax Shepard
I'm always in situations where you can't be funny, and yet I want to do it anyway.
– Tim Heidecker
I'm a pretty funny guy, and I would love to do a comedy with a bunch of funny guys - movie-star guys, where they could help me through it.
– LeBron James
I'm a misplaced American, but don't know where I was misplaced.
– Ruby Wax
I'm a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone's life.
– Mitch Hedberg
I'm a big fan of certain new acts. I love any genre of music, and I think it's really great to see that there are new artists coming through. It's kinda funny to think that I'm like the old man on campus now. But I'm really happy for groups like One Direction. I think they're really good guys.
– Joe Jonas
I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.
– Mercedes McCambridge
I'd like to get four people who do cart wheels very good, and make a cart.
– Mitch Hedberg
I'd like to do a film which is funny.
– Clive Owen
I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
– Tahar Ben Jelloun
I wouldn't totally rule out doing Letterman or the Tonight Show if I had a set that I just happened to write that I thought was funny but was still appropriate for network censors. But I'm not going to go out of my way.
– Joe Rogan
I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.
– Howard Nemerov
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
– Bertrand Russell
I would love to play 'Funny Girl' or 'Evita,' but I idolize the women who have played those parts. I don't know if there needs to be another version of those shows.
– Idina Menzel
I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.
– Dan Stevens
I would do it today because the thing that appealed to me was not necessarily the mechanics of the robot, but it was his personality and how funny and charming he was.
– John Badham
I would call it a comedy variety show. We have some people just doing straight standup. We usually try to have one musical act of sort. So its just people being funny in different ways, not just sketch, not just standup, not just characters, all of those things.
– Todd Barry
I wish I had the nerve not to tip.
– Paul Lynde
I wish I could be as thin as Jessica Simpson. I think she looks gorgeous! I have had Jessica on my show several times, and I can tell you that girl is genuine and funny with a great self-deprecating sense of humor.
– Rachael Ray
I wear a necklace, cause I wanna know when I'm upside down.
– Mitch Hedberg
I wear black skinny-fit jeans - I can't get away from them. It's funny because I wore baggy jeans for ages, then one day my friend convinced me to try on a skinny pair and I thought they were great.
– Shaun White
I watched a lot of silent directors who were absolutely great like John Ford and Fritz Lang, Tod Browning, and also some very modern directors like The Coen Brothers. The directors take the freedom within their own movies to be melodramatic or funny when they chose to be. They do whatever they want and they don't care about the genre.
– Michel Hazanavicius
I watch things that are fun, or funny, or interesting.
– Martha Plimpton
I wasn't even 20 at the time, but it taught me something about drugs. They can take a good man, a warm, funny, loving family man, and turn him into a loser and worse.
– Michael Bergin
I was the little, funny one. I felt I was the child among grown women.
– Julie Walters
I was so afraid to even read a paper in front of my classmates. It is very funny because at that point my teachers would never have believed that I could speak in front of an audience of over 2,000 people.
– Petra Nemcova
I was making my living from a joke about my appearance that I didn't understand, and in a way still don't, because when I look in a mirror it doesn't seem funny to me.
– Wallace Shawn
I was going through a little bit of turbulence in my career. And so, it's funny how turbulence itself will make you hold onto something for security. And so the only thing I knew is trust in the Lord and lean not unto your own heart, in all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy path.
– Emmitt Smith
I was doing sketches that were funny but socially irresponsible. I felt I was deliberately being encouraged and I was overwhelmed.
– Dave Chappelle
I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry.
– Norman Wisdom
I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, 'You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit.' As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.
– Mitch Hedberg
I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.
– Audrey Hepburn