I love ‘Goodfellas’ because it’s a great movie – it’s funny and there is action at perfect points. I just think Martin Scorsese makes everyone look really cool. – Booboo Stewart
First and foremost when you’re doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you’re living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It’s hard to be funny in that realm. – Adam McKay
For 35 years, I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren’t funny. Some of them weren’t appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that. – Al Franken
You know, funny is this weird word for me. I hear is so many times it has no meaning anymore. – Bruce McCulloch
If you haven’t got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. – Alice Roosevelt Longworth
If you do a Western that’s funny, there’s no way people don’t call it a spoof or a parody, even though it may not be. – Adam McKay
To me, little Mike Wazowski is one of the best characters I ever got to play because he was funny. He was outrageous. He got angry. He was romantic. He was a full, well-rounded character. – Billy Crystal
I love New York. I was sad, depressed and incredibly moved by our fellow countrymen and what they’ve done. I wanted to give people a chance to see something funny, have a distraction. – Ben Stiller
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
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
I was foreign and Jewish, with a funny name, and was very small and hated sport, a real problem at an English prep school. So the way to get round it was to become the school joker, which I did quite effectively – I was always fooling around to make the people who would otherwise dump me in the loo laugh. – Alain de Botton
The funny thing is, the girls that I’m always up against for roles are pretty nice and cool, like Emma Watson. She’s awesome. – Amanda Seyfried
Well what’s funny is, again, people say they believed what was going on, but again, Bob’s hands are about three times bigger than his feet. So these are very caricatured. – Brad Bird
A lot of times girls think they’re funny, but they want to pretty at the same time, and if you want to be funny, you have to be willing to get ugly. – Amy Sedaris
Even though I never worked with her, it was still really cool to have Brooke Shields on set. She was so nice and so funny. – Atticus Shaffer
I’m like the master of ceremonies being funny, and then sometimes people you’re with, girlfriends and stuff, are like, ‘God I wish I had the person on stage to be with all the time.’ – Artie Lange
I’m a normal person. You say something about me, I’m going to say something back, funny or not. I’m just going to be me. It’s nothing against them. I’m just doing what you do to me. – Austin Seferian-Jenkins
Jake Johnson wanted to make clear that he was the great American actor, not just the funny guy on ‘New Girl.’ – Colin Trevorrow
It’s so funny because my mom is Thai and my dad is this big American guy – and our food tastes were so similar growing up. He was meat and potatoes, I was meat and potatoes. – Chrissy Teigen
Comedy is the slave of time. What seemed funny then is unlikely to seem funny now, just as what strikes us as funny now would not have seemed funny then. – Craig Brown
My mother was a nurse, and in her era, most diseases weren’t understood; people put mustard plasters on knees and rubbed camphor on your chest if you had a cough and did funny things to you if you had tuberculosis – all these things that really made very little difference once proper treatments were brought in. – Barry Marshall
He is very dry but also very funny… I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it’s not a good place for you to be. – Colin Quinn
One time when somebody showed up in a wedding dress, but I never knew if it was a joke, or she was serious. She asked me to marry her. She was serious. It was pretty funny. – Bryan White
I thought it would be funny to go to my Korean dry cleaner and ask her about my head shot, as if it’s the most important thing in the world, and as if it’s something that everyone should weigh on because it’s important to me. – Billy Eichner