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  • I think of myself as a theatre comic instead of club comic because I tend to talk for a bit before I start being funny. I don't really do the one-liners and five second bits or whatever. But it's good to work stuff out sometimes.

    Source: brightestyoungthings.com
  • I just know from experience that reading a funny poem aloud, especially at the beginning of a public reading, can have a certain effect. Somehow narrowing the spectrum of possible emotional reactions. So while I like it when people laugh at my poems, and I definitely enjoy being funny in them, I don't really think that's the most important thing that's going on, at least not to me.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • The nightmare is you spend the rest of your life being funny at parties and then people say, 'Why didn't you do that when you were on television?'

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I never know when I am being funny, and the other way too. I don't think you can think about that. I don't think you can try to be funny. Some people are just funny.

    Funny   Thinking   People  
  • 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.

    People   Way   Bunch  
    Source: www.dead-frog.com
  • Being funny wasn't a career choice growing up, it was my way out of situations; a way to survive another day.

    Tracy Morgan, Anthony Bozza (2009). “I Am the New Black”, p.15, Spiegel & Grau
  • You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side, they don't like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot's mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain.

    Funny   Pain   People  
    "Terry Bradshaw bares all in 'Failure to Launch'". www.today.com. March 9, 2006.
  • Look, I had to take chances or it wasn't fun being funny.

    Fun   Looks   Chance  
    "Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview". Interview with Alex Belth, www.thedailybeast.com. February 16, 2014.
  • I've always liked being funny and making people laugh. I was a cut-up when I was a kid, and was always doing bits for my friends and family.

    Kids   Cutting   People  
    Source: collider.com
  • The trouble with improv is that it is often about being funny in the moment without any real consideration for the bigger picture.

    Real   Trouble   Moments  
    Source: collider.com
  • A comedy isn't about being funny," said Mrs. Baker. "We talked about this before." "A comedy is about character who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all. That's how I know." "Suppose you can't see it?" "That's the daring part," said Mrs. Baker.

    Character   Bakers   May  
    Gary D. Schmidt (2009). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.262, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.

    Funny   School   Hands  
  • I`ve not really been angling to be a comedian. I knew comics and I loved them and I loved being funny, but I didn't understand the whole concept of becoming one. My first couple of times on stage, I was like, "This is what I'm doing for sure." I was so excited.

  • Comedy isn't really something where you get discovered. You can't network your way to being funny or talented. It's not hard to get seen if you're funny. If you're funny, talented, and work hard, you will go somewhere.

    Hard Work   Way   Comedy  
  • I think maybe I became funny because as a kid, I was a Jew in a town of no Jews, and being funny just instinctively came about as a way to put people at ease around me.

    Kids   Thinking   People  
    "Diary of a TV Killer: Sarah Silverman". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. April 16, 2010.
  • When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.

  • Being funny is a gift, and, when done well, is an art form.

    Art   Done   Form  
    "American on Purpose". Book by Craig Ferguson, 2009.
  • I've had an experience through music that has touched almost every part of me. It educated me in ways that I didn't get educated in school. So we try to lay on a bit of that, through being funny, being serious, playing hard.

    School   Trying   Way  
    "Glastonbury 2009: Bruce Springsteen". Interview with Steve Lamacq, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 27, 2009.
  • On the way up here to the podium, a gentleman came up to me and said, "Governor, you are as good a politician as you were an actor." What a cheap shot.

    "Schwarzenegger: No Country More Welcoming Than the USA". Address to the Republican National Convention, edition.cnn.com. September 01, 2004.
  • It's fun when you're driving, and people wave at you, and you wave back. I think you either like people or you don't. I mean, I don't want to put on sunglasses. That's why I'm in show business.

    Funny   Mean   Thinking  
  • I never thought I was funny, but I enjoy being funny

  • I think that if you're serving yourself before you're serving a story then that's where you end up being not funny. It's not about being funny, it's about telling a story and then the comedy comes out of the situation, I think.

  • I'm not against people just being funny or telling stories. I don't need to delve into the soft, dark core all the time. If it happens, it happens.

    Dark   People   Needs  
    Source: www.believermag.com
  • Until I was about 14, I was a fat boy, or at least I looked like a fat boy. I think that being funny was a bit of a defence mechanism for me, so I ended up being a bit of a joker.

    Thinking   Boys   Fats  
  • I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!

    Fun   Thinking   Bigs  
  • I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny.

    Funny   Stupid   Support  
  • Nine-tenths of the value of a sense of humor in writing is not in the things it makes one write but in the things it keeps one from writing. It is especially valuable in this respect in serious writing, and no one without a sense of humor should ever write seriously. For without knowing what is funny, one is constantly in danger of being funny without knowing it.

    Life Magazine, March 8, 1929.
  • I think being funny is not anyone's first choice.

  • I never analyze stuff with comedy because it's boring. It makes you stop being funny. Just be who you are and do what you do, and you're either funny or you're not.

  • Being funny is not the same as being happy.

    "Brains Behaving Badly: Why So Many Comedians End Up Self-Destructing" by Dana Gould, www.rollingstone.com. August 27, 2014.
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