I laugh every day. There are days when my laughs are pretty hollow. Dust comes out of your mouth, and your bones make a funny sound. But I’m laughing. – James L. Brooks
It’s a funny thing because you look at the careers of other filmmakers, and you see them sort of slow down, and you realize, maybe this becomes harder to do as you get older. That’s sort of a cautionary thing. I hope it doesn’t happen to me. – Joel Coen
Nothing has ever touched on what fun childhood was. Summer holidays were bliss. We made home movies, with real stories in them. My father had such charm and charisma, and made everything so funny. – Jane Birkin
The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver. – Jay Leno
I’ve always said that instead of watching a guy juggle seven things amazingly I would rather see a really bad juggler who’s really funny. – Jeff Dunham
I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn’t give my lyrics, and it’s all wrong in the book, and I giggle. It’s funny. – Jonathan Davis
Funny is the world I live in. You’re funny, I’m interested. You’re not funny, I’m not interested. – Jerry Seinfeld
I showed what I can do with butter, right? Eighty-five percent increase in sales. I’m very proud of them Country Life ads. They were funny and clever and classy like the Toblerone ads I grew up with. – John Lydon
I think sometimes in comedy the characters are often sacrificed for the joke, and it’s more important for it to be funny than for there to be love. – Jenny Slate
It’s funny when people say, ‘I don’t think Julia likes me.’ Honey, if I don’t like you, you’re going to know about it. – Julia Roberts
Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren’t about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that. – Ice Cube
I truly think comedy is – being funny is DNA. My dad was a doctor, a wonderful doctor, and people still come up to me today, ‘Your father helped my mother die.’ You know what I’m saying? He made her laugh ’til she died. My father was always very funny. – Joan Rivers
If I’m in an uncomfortable situation, I think I can say something funny to defuse it. Sometimes you can’t. – Jack Whitehall
It’s funny when you know you’re playing two characters and you’re aware of how you have to play each one into your performance of the other. You’re constantly at the back of your mind thinking and it all gets a bit confusing. – Jamie Dornan
It’s funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9. – Josh Lucas
By 1961, when I got my first copywriting job, ‘my kind’ were suddenly in demand. The creative revolution had begun. Advertising had turned into a business dominated by young, funny, Jewish copywriters and tough, sometimes violent, Greek and Italian art directors. – Jerry Della Femina
As a child, one of my defense mechanisms was to try to be funny. My mom tried to nurture that by putting me in acting class. But I got bored when we stopped pretending to be trees and actually had to work. – Ian Gomez
It find it funny how people from Boston and New York hate each other because of pro teams. – Julian Casablancas
Republicans can be a funny bunch. They’re against affirmative action, but they always seem to be able to find people of color to fill a slot just when they’re most needed. – John Ridley
Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks. – Joel Osteen
It was a long time ago: ‘Angela’s Ashes’ by Frank McCourt. It was a great story that was lasting, and I loved it so much. I also love Nora Ephron. I gobble up everything she writes. Also, I love Anthony Bourdain, very irreverent and funny. – Isabel Gillies
Because I grew up with women, I have a certain amount of charm, and I’m all right to get on with, kind enough, funny enough, blah blah blah. – James Nesbitt
I actually was class clown, but I don’t know how that happened because I’ve never been considered an outwardly funny person. – Janeane Garofalo