I thought, ‘Oh that’s what happens. You put a song out and everyone likes it.’ Well, then a funny thing happened: I started putting more songs out, and none of them did the same thing. – Mike Posner
The simile has to match the tone of its surroundings and has to be like a little joke. Writing a simile that isn’t funny on some level is quite hard. – Ned Beauman
My hair has never been my greatest feature, so that was funny enough unto itself that my hair became so focused on. – Jennifer Aniston
It’s funny, people don’t think of ‘Cloverfield’ as being restrained because it’s a handycam movie, but the only reason it’s a handycam movie is because that was supposed to be the reality of the situation. – Matt Reeves
I like idolator.com a lot. Every once in a while they shred me on there, but it’s usually pretty funny. – Pete Wentz
It’s funny – when I first started as an actor, obviously there were long periods of being idle and all you want to do is work. So if I ever get the compulsion to feel like I should complain or feel like I want to take a break, I just remember how I was before and be very grateful for it. – Neil Jackson
It’s not common for a woman on television, especially if she’s the mom of the family, to be funny. She’s usually a straight man or foil. – Martha Plimpton
Given the current state of publishing, I think it helps to have a brand name on the cover of your book. Comedians are proven commodities with built-in audiences. They may not have the writing chops of a Dave Eggers, but they’re salacious and funny and self-reflective. – Michael Showalter
I’m always more motivated by the pain of a funny character than by what makes him funny. – Jason Alexander
I’m a sucker for a funny script. And then, as soon as I don’t wanna be, one comes along and grabs me. – Meg Ryan
I grew up in Middle America and I don’t think my family was very funny, but I watched ‘The Princess Bride.’ I always wanted to be an actor. I didn’t know anything about it. I’d never seen any plays or anything and I watched that movie over and over and over again. – Missi Pyle
I didn’t plan to be the rude middle-class comedian. You write a certain type of joke that you find funny, and mine happen to be often rude. Yes, it’s juvenile, but that’s me. – Jimmy Carr
You know what’s funny is, when I made ‘Saw,’ I got accused of being a fascist; when I made ‘Insidious,’ I got accused of being godless, and now I made the ‘Conjuring’ films, and I’m accused of being too much God. – James Wan
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
When I was a kid, the idea of gettin’ paid to paint your face… listen, I grew up in Ossining, New York, a nice little town by the Hudson, and nothin’ ever interested me except being your usual high school big shot, which I was an’ loved it, played all the sports and goofed around, always out on the street with the guys, everything was funny t’me. – Peter Falk
When I first got to New York, Comedy Central was the only place to go if you weren’t on HBO or network. And then FX, Adult Swim, and other sort of ventures came up, and all of a sudden there were other places to go, and I think Comedy Central is making a concerted effort to become a place where smart, funny weirdoes can come and do their stuff. – Nick Kroll
It seems like everybody’s perception of me is very bipolar. To one group, it’s overpaid, overrated; to another group, it’s underpaid, underrated, underdog. It’s funny to me because there’s no real balance. – Jeremy Lin
It is easy for me to love myself, but for ladies to do it is another question altogether. – Johnny Vegas
Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it’s a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed. – Neil Gaiman
Filming is a funny combination of having a good time and not being able to wait until it’s over. – Nicole Holofcener
I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny. – Illeana Douglas
These days, rock ‘n’ roll is much more about rock than about roll. I don’t do rock. But I’m interested in that roll part, because that’s the funny little bit that makes it hip. – Nick Lowe
We have a curious relationship with ‘funny’ in the U.K. We love to laugh, but we also think that making people laugh is just a little bit second-tier, especially in a literary context. – Nick Harkaway
I always tell people that to be the funny person in a Steve Martin movie is like getting a call that Keith Moon wants you to play drums on his record. He should be playing drums on his record. – Jason Schwartzman
Being a humorist is not a voluntary thing. You can tell this because in a situation where saying a funny thing will cause a lot of trouble, a humorist will still say the funny thing. No matter how inappropriate. – P. J. O’Rourke
The funny thing is that when you have any form of presentation to your band, meaning you have the foresight to see outside of your creativity, you have a bigger vision. – Nikki Sixx