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source: "Q&A: Jeff Garlin on Getting Arrested, the Chicago Cubs, and the Future of Curb Your Enthusiasm". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. July 12, 2013.

topic: People, Laughing, Treats, Funny People, Being Funny

I am not afraid of death. I just don't want to be there when it happens.

- Woody Allen

source: "Death: A Comedy in One Act". Book by Woody Allen, 1975.

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Afraid Of Death, Meaningful Death

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

- Steve Martin

source: FaceBook post by Steve Martin from Jun 14, 2011

topic: Funny, Witty, Laughter, Every Night, My Sunshine

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

- Jim Carrey

topic: Funny, Laughter, Eye, Her Eyes, Lovers Eyes

Not being funny doesn't make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humor does.

- David Rakoff

source: David Rakoff (2002). “Fraud: Essays”, p.103, Anchor

topic: Doe, Sense Of Humor, Persons, Being Funny

Being funny in life is a lot more like judo. It's using the energy...

- Jon Stewart

topic: Energy, Judo, Being Funny

I think that comedy is a good defense for a child. Because you know childhood is a nightmare as it is. And so why not use comedy and being funny as a defense to get through your life as opposed to drugs, alcohol and good looks? Because those things are dangerous when your young.

- Joy Behar

topic: Children, Thinking, Childhood, Being Funny

I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.

- Calvin Trillin

topic: Thinking, Mind, World, Being Funny

You, the actor, must be aware of when you're being funny, but the character you're playing should always be oblivious to the fact.

- Jon Lovitz

topic: Character, Actors, Facts, Oblivious, Being Funny

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

topic: Country, Art, Class, Being Funny, Second Class Citizens

If you don't follow the stock market, you are missing some amazing drama.

- Mark Cuban

topic: Funny, Drama, Missing, Being Funny

Being funny is not the same as being happy.

- Dana Gould

topic: Being Funny

I'd rather not have a moment when I'm known for my looks; being funny and interesting lasts longer.

- Kelly Ripa

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Interesting, Looks, Lasts, Being Funny

You should tell the truth as often as you can, but in such a way as people don't believe you or think that you're being funny.

- Auberon Waugh

topic: Believe, Thinking, People, Being Funny

I don't think of myself as being funny. But life takes strange turns.

- Frank Gorshin

topic: Thinking, Strange, Turns, Being Funny

A new poll shows that Americans now believe that Bill Clinton is more honest than President Bush. At least when Clinton screwed the nation, he did it one person at a time.

- Jay Leno

topic: Believe, President, Bills, Being Funny

When I first met Jack, I was terrified of him. I wasn't expecting a fun, laughing, enjoyable, exciting guy. I walked into his office like most people, with my knees knocking together. I was scared.

- Suzy Welch

topic: Fun, Power, Laughing, Being Funny

I never thought I was funny, but I enjoy being funny

- Nora Dunn

topic: Enjoy, Being Funny

Women can do anything men can do. Except math, chess, running, jumping, lifting stuff, fixing things, making money, hockey, surfing, driving, making decisions, being tall, taking out the garbage, tipping, fishing, being funny (on purpose), reading a map, listening to good bands, writing, running the country, inventing anything important, or being fun to hang out with.

- Daniel Tosh

topic: Country, Running, Fun, Tall, Good Bands

I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.

- Chris Tucker

topic: Creative, Comedian, Be Creative, Stand Up Comedian, Being Funny

Viral videos arent just about being funny. Theyre about identity creation.

- Ricky Van Veen

topic: Identity, Video, Creation, Viral, Viral Videos

I think there’s something really sexy about being funny and being quirky and weird. I think we’re in a generation where we’re accepting weirdness and individuality, and I think that’s the most important part.

- Denise Bidot

topic: Sexy, Thinking, Individuality, Being Funny

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.

- Jay Leno

topic: Funny, Mean, Thinking, Being Funny

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.

- Robert Benchley

source: Life Magazine, March 8, 1929.

topic: Writing, Knowing, Serious, Being Funny

As a kid, I was terrified. I was a bed wetter and I had to go to sleepaway camp every summer, which was humiliating and terrifying. I had lots of insecurities and scaredness. I covered it with being funny and tough, but it's hard to be tough when you're making your cot in your bunk over soaking wet sheets and acting like nobody can smell anything.

- Sarah Silverman

topic: Summer, Kids, Smell, Being Funny, Bunk

I always thought when I was doing more melodramatic stuff like Everwood that the directors were constantly reeling me in and stopping me from being funny. I've always tried to find a funny angle on things, and 99 percent of the time, it just doesn't work.

- Chris Pratt

topic: Directors, Stopping, Stuff, Being Funny

Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.

- David Letterman

topic: Funny, Sarcastic, Purpose, Being Funny

Being funny is a symptom of what's underneath. You're pumping out all that energy because something else is going on inside you, some opposing force, something uncomfortable.

- Faith Prince

topic: Energy, Symptoms, Force, Being Funny

I’m instantly mortified by my fat, uncontrollable mouth, but that’s when it occurs to me that my humor is a self-defense mechanism. Even though I may come off like a stark raving asshat, being funny is the most important tool I have to stay sane. The ability to say what I think is the key to allowing me to feel in control.

- Jen Lancaster

topic: Thinking, Self, Keys, Uncontrollable, Defense Mechanisms

By the way, I'm funniest when I'm not being funny. I'm better to laugh at than with, pretty much.

- Jemima Kirke

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Laughing, Way, Being Funny

I'm a big fan of comedians not having to apologize for anything. Nowadays it seems comedians are always apologizing for being funny.

- Kevin Dillon

source: "Kevin Dillon Talks ‘Entourage’ Ending, Keeping Johnny Drama Alive". Interview With Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 30, 2011.

topic: Comedian, Fans, Apologizing, Being Funny

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

topic: Silly, Character, Voice, Being Funny

I think you figure out how to be funny by necessity. It's not a natural thing, being funny in the face of tragedy is kind of demented.

- Downtown Julie Brown

source: "Julie Brown: Being funny in the face of tragedy is kind of demented". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. October 20, 2010.

topic: Thinking, Tragedy, Faces, Natural Things, Demented

I can't watch other people doing comedy. As soon as somebody starts being funny I have to turn off because it upsets me. I get comedy indigestion. I just hate anybody else being funny. That's my job.

- Jenny Eclair

source: "A funny five minutes with Jenny Eclair". Interview with Mirror.uk, www.mirror.co.uk. May 2, 2010.

topic: Jobs, Hate, People, Being Funny, Turn Off

That's the beauty of our show. Comedy or politics. We're sort of a mix. A space age polymer of both. A synthetic comedy-like material.

- Jon Stewart

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Funny, Space, Age, Polymers, Being Funny

I saw something stupid in the paper today - a new alarm clock that makes no noise. It's for people who don't like loud noises. Instead, it slowly hits you with light and gets brighter and brighter until you wake up. I already have one of those... it's called a window.

- Jay Leno

source: "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (Episode #9.31)". Talk-Show, February 14, 2001.

topic: Funny, Stupid, Light, Loud Noises, Alarm Clocks

People want me to be funny all the time. They think I'm being funny no matter what I say or do and that's not the case. I rarely joke unless I'm in front of a camera. It's not what I am in real life. It's what I do for a living.

- Christopher Guest

source: "Featured Filmmaker: Christopher Guest" by Ken P., www.ign.com. May 12, 2003.

topic: Real, Thinking, People, Being Funny

I can't even really tell a joke. I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work but it ain't easy.

- Madeline Kahn

source: "At Home With: Madeline Kahn; Funny? Yes, but Someone's Got to Be" by Michael Specter in The New York Times, www.nytimes.com. April 8, 1993.

topic: Hard Work, Guilty, Easy, Being Funny

Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor. Humor inspires sympathetic good-natured laughter and is favored by the healing-power gang. Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.

- Florence King

source: Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.140, Macmillan

topic: Football, Laughter, Healing, Being Funny

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!

- Taylor Lautner

source: "‘Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills’ Recap: Camille’s Claws Come Out" by Rebecca Shapiro, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 5, 2013.

topic: Fun, Thinking, Having Fun, Being Funny

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

topic: Happiness, Smile, Girl, Being Funny

On 'The Simpsons,' I will say that we definitely like to comment on what's going on in the world, and we try to be funny. If we can figure out a way of being funny about it, then we've gone part of the way of accomplishing our task.

- Matt Groening

source: "‘The Simpsons Movie’: Our Animated Interview Matt Groening". Hollywood.com interview, www.hollywood.com.

topic: Trying, Tasks, Gone, Being Funny

The pressure to being a comedian is being funny, but I've given that up, so there is no pressure whatsoever.

- Gilbert Gottfried

topic: Comedian, Pressure, Given, Being Funny, No Pressure

A lot of people who claim they're political comedians are just comedians who have opinions. But they stop being funny the minute they give their opinions.

- Gilbert Gottfried

source: "Gottfried's key to political humor". Interview with Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. August 2, 2013.

topic: People, Giving, Political, Being Funny

The goal is to win. It's not about making money. I have many much less risky ways of making money than this (buying Chelsea football club). I don't want to throw my money away, but it's really about having fun and that means success and trophies.

- Roman Abramovich

topic: Funny, Success, Sports, Football Clubs, Will To Win

I'm about being funny. If I can make a joke using profanity, I will. But for the most part, that can get awfully old and boring.

- Howard Stern

topic: Bored, Boring, Profanity, Being Funny

The trick is always to write in pairs because if at least two people find it funny, you've immediately halved the odds of it not being funny.

- Steve Coogan

topic: Writing, Odds, Two, Overwhelming Odds, Being Funny

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