Funny Quotes

Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.
– Jerry Lewis
Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor, but I always knew who was funny, who to hang out with.
– Andrew Stanton
Europe is scooters. Europe is five young people on one bench sharing a chocolate bar. Their idea of entertainment and fun is so much different than ours, which is exactly why a movie about them would be funny.
– Mike Myers
During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.
– Jerry Stiller
Don't remember me as too nice or beautiful or funny, because then you'll be disappointed.
– Celia Johnson
Do you want me to apologize after every joke? If it doesn't offend somebody it's probably not a joke. It's probably an observation that's not funny. It's gotta offend somebody somewhere.
– Jeff Ross
Do you know, it's funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage.
– Stevie Wonder
Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.
– Joey Adams
Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you she is after your barn.
– Hesiod
Do I have a long-term plan? Kind of. I have a general direction, I think. But it's funny what comes down the pike.
– Jeff Bridges
Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself.
– Cathy Guisewite
Comedy's so subjective, and if someone comes to watch, doesn't get it, doesn't find it funny, then fine.
– Johnny Vegas
Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.
– Norm MacDonald
Comedy is so subjective. You could be in a room with 400 people laughing at a joke and you could just not think it's funny. You're just sitting there like, 'Am I in the twilight zone? Why is everyone laughing?' It's such a personal thing. People have such a personal visceral response to comedy.
– Todd Phillips
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
– Peter Ustinov
Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.
– Larry Hagman
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.
– Marlon Wayans
Comediennes are the lucky ones, because if you're funny, you can be 125 years old and they will still accept you.
– Joan Rivers
Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not.
– James Lipton
Chris Hemsworth is like Christopher Reeve in that he can do two things: he can wear a big red cape without a shred of self-consciousness. But he's also funny as hell, and he's so sweet. So with all the fish-out-of-water stuff, he's so funny. So he does almost two jobs in a way.
– Tom Hiddleston
Cheryl Cole and Katy Perry are two of the hottest girls in the world - and so normal and funny with it. If I was a few years older they are the kind of girls I'd like to date. I want a younger version of Cheryl and Katy - a mixture of the two would be hot.
– Justin Bieber
Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying then without money?
– Ogden Nash
By no means do I want to be a piece of meat for the rest of my career. It's funny when you get asked to do a talk show, and then they follow it up with requesting you take your shirt off.
– Kellan Lutz
By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
– Richard Dawkins
But, sooner or later I'd love to do a comedy. I mean I think that, you know, people don't think that that's in my wheelhouse because I've sort of played a lot of dramatic stuff and that's certainly a side of myself that I want at some point in the right context, in the right stuff, that I find really funny.
– Matthew Fox
But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know.
– Charlie Sheen
But if something funny happens, I can't resist. I have to tell the people.
– Kathy Griffin
But I think you can make fun of anything as long as it's funny enough.
– Sarah Silverman
But I think Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang really got that thing where, if a movie reads really funny and then has some dramatic or violent or sinister stuff in it, you can't forget that primarily it has to be even funnier than you read it or that other stuff doesn't work.
– Robert Downey, Jr.
But I think funny and talent will always win out I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're funny you will get over all of that.
– Wanda Sykes
Boston is actually the capital of the world. You didn't know that? We breed smart-ass, quippy, funny people. Not that I'm one of them. I just sorta sneaked in under the radar.
– John Krasinski
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
– Susan Sontag
Billy is a funny, cheeky, lovely boy and I love being with him. Parenthood is terrifying though. I can barely walk past a building without panicking that it's going to collapse on his head.
– Rufus Sewell
Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.
– Harold Ramis
Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you are fine.
– Evan Davis
Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.
– Hank Azaria
Being funny is one of my greatest strengths. I can make girls smile when they're down, and when they're having a good time, I can carry on the joke.
– John Krasinski
Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown.
– Fanny Brice
Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.
– Jim Carrey
Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.
– Julia Sweeney
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
– Will Rogers
Back in the '70s, like one of my favorite movies ever was 'The Bad News Bears', and that was a kids' movie, but I don't think of it that way. I think of it as just a great movie because Walter Matthau was so funny and so harsh with those kids.
– Jack Black
At the end of the day it's got to be a good movie, it's got to be a funny movie, and it's got to make people think, 'Hey, I couldn't have spent my time any better.'
– Tom Hanks
At school I was very shy. I wasn't funny really.
– Michel Gondry
At home in L.A., Sunday is lazy. It's the wife and me lying in bed with coffee, watching 'The Soup' or something funny on TiVo. The kid will occasionally join us. Eventually, breakfast is at a place down the street called Paty's. And we always have some kind of great dinner - my wife makes a great roast beef.
– Eric McCormack
As soon as you are trying to be funny or dramatic, that's when things start feeling fake and boring.
– Joseph Gordon-Levitt
As soon as I realized you could be funny as a job, that was the job I wanted.
– Seth Rogen
As I get older, I just prefer to knit.
– Tracey Ullman
As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children.
– P. J. O'Rourke
As a writer, or as a filmmaker, you have to present yourself, and part of what yourself is is what you're interested in, or what you think is funny, or what you think is sad, or what you think is horrible.
– Charlie Kaufman
As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965, I didn't know that funny women existed. It wasn't until I got back to England that I realised women could be funny.
– Jenny Eclair
Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime.
– Red Skelton
Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.
– Michael Morpurgo
And there's a visceral fun in watching Team America and making it, like taking a puppet and throwing it against the wall. Because it's not CG, there's something funny about it.
– Trey Parker and Matt Stone
And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.
– Molly Ivins
And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.
– Fran Drescher
And regardless of the fact that in this country, certainly in the arts, we treat comedy as a second-class citizen, I've never thought of it that way. I've always thought it to be important. The last time I looked, the Greeks were holding up two masks. I've always thought of it not only as having equal value, but as the craft of it, being funny.
– Jeff Daniels
And of course Marc Cherry heightens it and makes it hilarious. But there's so many universal themes in the show, and he made it so funny. We knew he was onto something if he could keep it up and, thankfully, he did.
– James Denton
And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that's funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there's all kinds of advantages to it.
– Al Franken
And I like to keep whatever is mine remaining that way. It's a funny little game to play and it's a slippery slope. I always say to myself I'm never going to give anything away because there's never any point or benefit for me.
– Kristen Stewart
And at the time, it is funny how you can look at something and say, for example with my shoulder injury, when it first happened I said this is the worst thing that could happen to me. Why me, why now? Now I look back and say it was probably the best thing that happened to me.
– Drew Brees
Always remember your kid's name. Always remember where you put your kid. Don't let your kid drive until their feet can reach the pedals. Use the right size diapers... for yourself. And, when in doubt, make funny faces.
– Amy Poehler
Also, in a funny way, if you have been happily married there are no unresolved areas, nothing to prove to yourself after the other dies.
– Nigella Lawson
All these jokes have been pre-approved as funny by me.
– Mitch Hedberg
All the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911.
– Lewis Black
All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
– Casey Stengel
All my children inherited perfect pitch.
– Chevy Chase
Actually I never did stand up. I'm not that funny.
– Maynard James Keenan
Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.
– Harold Ramis
A waffle is like a pancake with a syrup trap.
– Mitch Hedberg
A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it.
– Jerry Seinfeld
A romantic comedy has to be funny and make you think about life but the obstacle that has to be overcome is key.
– Jennifer Lopez
A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
– Ernest Hemingway
A lot of baby boomers are baby bongers.
– Kevin Nealon
A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.
– Billy Corgan
A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
– Barbara Corcoran
A film that I love is 'Raising Arizona' and that's funny but it's quite indie and weird and odd and quirky. I'd love to do something like that. Who knows?
– Stephen Moyer
A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
– Steve Martin
A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.
– Milton Berle
A comedian's body is funny as well as his mind being funny, his whole personage is funny.
– Bobby Darin
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
– Groucho Marx
'Married with Children' was racy. It was sexist. It was a lot of things, but mostly it was funny.
– Katey Sagal
'Lucky' is for laughs, and there's really nothing funny that I'm doing on 'Dexter.' I think more than anything, both comment on the fact that anybody is capable of anything. Just because they are the shy guy in the corner doesn't mean that they are a harmless little bunny.
– Colin Hanks
'Funny People' is my favorite performance of myself to date. Even though it's a comedy and there are serious moments, I really felt like Leo felt like a real person. It didn't feel like I was playing myself. Whether it's a comedy or drama, I just try to make it as realistic as possible.
– Jonah Hill
'Funny Games' was conceived as a provocation. My other films are different. If people feel my other films are, or respond to them as provocation, then that's quite different. 'Funny Games' is the only one of mine where my intention was to provoke the audience.
– Michael Haneke
'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' is a good one because it not only turned out, I think, to be a really funny movie but it was also a delight to shoot. We were in the South of France, working with Glenne Headly and Michael Caine and Frank Oz the director - who were just fun.
– Steve Martin
'Come out' is so funny to me because I've never been in.
– Adam Lambert
Forgiveness is a funny thing, it warms the hearts and cools the sting.
– Peter Allen
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
– Isaac Asimov
I don't think fat is pretty. If I saw some big fat leopard walking through the jungle, I'd start laughing. Or if I was at the races, I saw some 150-lb. greyhound running against the other lean greyhounds, I'd start laughing too. It doesn't seem very natural. It doesn't look healthy. It doesn't look sleek or stealth. It looks funny. I think that's why people through history laugh at fat people. They're round and funny-looking.
– Kirstie Alley
It's so funny that people specify that year because in a way it was the biggest battle for me health wise.
– Brady Anderson
I'm obsessive about the kind of melodrama of getting through the days and trying to make them good and funny and a happy experience. But my feeling towards the fans is that they delivered me from darkness.
– Tom Baker
Don't get me wrong, there are sometimes if I go and see a really funny comedy, that I wished I had smoked a joint. I'll be honest with you. That's the truth.
– Stephen Baldwin
Funny, nothing ever happens nowadays.
– Edgar Bergen
A rich man's joke is always funny.
– Thomas Edward Brown
If Nader were to win the Presidency and pull the US out of Iraq the day after, I think it would be hysterically funny to watch Noam Chomsky criticizing Ralph Nader for the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi deaths resulting from the ensuing civil war.
– Craig Bruce
We make everything funny, you wouldn't believe the things we laugh at. We're always laughing-people think we're completely mad!
– Emma Bunton
The one thing that disturbs me about Alec is that people don't realize that he's really funny.
– Daniel Baldwin
I think back to some of the things Harry said and some of the things I said trying to be funny. If I said them now, it would be on the front page of every newspaper in the country.
– Jack Buck
Will is extremely funny. The tights, though, they were a little vulgar. I just looked at the tights and there's nothing funny about them!
– James Caan