Best Being Funny Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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.”

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Author:Jen Lancaster

“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.”

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Author:Faith Prince

“What a sad business is being funny!”

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Author:Charlie Chaplin

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

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Author:David Letterman

“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.”

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Author:Chris Pratt

“Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so irritating.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“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.”

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Author:Sarah Silverman

“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.”

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Author:Robert Benchley

“There are few lonelier sights than a good comedian being funny in a movie that doesn't know what funny is.”

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Book:Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007

Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007

“It is a difficult thing to like anybody else's ideas of being funny.”

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Book:Everybody's Autobiography

Source: Everybody's Autobiography

“I think being successful in comedy is being funny and making jokes - anything beyond that is the icing on the cake.”

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Author:Jimmy Carr

“People have said to me for a long time, "Man you're funny." I say, "Well, I'm quick," but being funny on purpose, take after take - that's why I said for me it was new territory, and so by improvising something might come out that might be good. And it's film, so they can cut it if it isn't.”

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Author:Denzel Washington

“In a late-night monologue, it's not just about being funny; you have to come off as knowledgeable. You have to cultivate a persona of trust and intelligence and likeability.”

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Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“Being funny should be an incidental byproduct of trying to get to something truthful, not a destination in itself.”

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Author:Alain de Botton

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

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Author:Gilbert Gottfried

“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.”

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Author:Gilbert Gottfried

“being funny is a way of being liked and a way of dealing with sadness.”

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Author:Wendy Wasserstein

“Personally I don't spend much time thinking about being funny. For me it's always been just a way to get by, a way to be likable yet to remain removed. When I speak up, it's not because I have any particular answers; rather, I have a desire to puncture the pretentiousness of those who seem so certain they do.”

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Book:Bachelor Girls

Source: Bachelor Girls

“Even when I'm being funny, I'm deadly serious.”

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Author:Lily Tomlin

“I don't really hashtag things. Unless I'm talking to somebody and I'm being funny and I say something mean but then I'm like, Hashtag...something that's funny. I like to only hashtag funny things, not real stuff.”

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Author:Bella Thorne

“You bet being funny helps accomplish things. I've always maintained that people don't realize how many brain cells it takes to be funny. And politics ought to be fun -- after baseball it's our next favorite national pastime.”

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Author:Ann Richards

“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.”

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Author:Matt Groening

“Being funny wasn't a career choice growing up, it was my way out of situations; a way to survive another day.”

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Book:I Am the New Black

Source: I Am the New Black

“There's only one true superpower amongst human beings, and that is being funny. People treat you differently if you can make them laugh.”

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Author:Jeff Garlin

“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.”

Stuff Comedy Who You Are Boring Being Funny Be Who You Are

Author:Jeff Garlin

“[In] 2029, I think, computers will match and exceed human intelligence in the ways we're now superior, like being funny, where we still have an edge.”

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Author:Ray Kurzweil

“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.”

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Author:Amy Schumer

“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.”

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Author:Mitch Hedberg

“The first obligation I have is to be funny; it's my first impulse and an instinct. I like being funny and finding the jokes.”

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Author:George Carlin

“I always knew she was being funny, but when I tell my therapist that my mom played the trust game with me and let me fall on the ground, my therapist does not find that funny. She's like, "That's the reason for everything! That's why you have such a hard time with trust!" And I'm like, "I don't really have a hard time with trust. I thought it was funny."”

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Author:Kathleen Hanna

“Being funny, in some ways, is about being connected to psychology.”

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Author:Noah Baumbach

“I've always made a point of playing parts where weight has nothing to do with it, and not just weight but looks. It's about being funny and being interesting, and I think there are a lot more interesting things to play than being overweight.”

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Author:Sarah Baker

“I love being funny! I started in the theater when I was 9 and, believe it or not, always played the funny part!”

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Author:Robert Knepper

“I'm not focused on the outrageousness. I'm just focused on being funny, and raising my kids. I don't even read the newspaper, I don't read that crap.”

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Author:Tracy Morgan

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

Life Is Energy Being Funny Judo

Author:Jon Stewart

“The trouble with improv is that it is often about being funny in the moment without any real consideration for the bigger picture.”

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Author:Simon Pegg

“Jewish introspection and Jewish humor is a way of surviving . . . if you're not handsome and you're not athletic and you're not rich, there's still one last hope with girls, which is being funny.”

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Author:Mike Nichols

“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.”

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Author:Zooey Deschanel

“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.”

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Author:Marc Maron

“Onstage, it's all just a heightened and more elaborate version of me. When you're standing onstage, your adrenaline is going, your enthusiasm is at full tilt, and the excitement helps elevate you're attitude. I've always wanted to be as close to myself offstage, being funny with my buddies, and that's what I've worked hard on - being authentic to who I really am.”

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Author:Dane Cook

“People don't understand that when I'm on the show I'm totally relaxed, hanging out, having a fun time, watching videos, and being goofy. Sometimes I say stupid comments, just being funny, and people think I'm a dumb person.”

People Thinking Persons Sometimes Shows Fun Stupid Video Dumb Hanging Out Comment Just Being Relaxed Goofy Being Funny Fun Times

Author:Chanel West Coast

“It's just for some reason I've got just as many fans that only like me when I'm yelling or being funny or whatnot, and jumping up and down on a pogo stick while playing a fancy lead guitar. And they get mad when I sing a heartfelt emotional song and if there's an album full of them.”

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Author:Butch Walker

“It's nice to represent a woman who can be bigger than what you see as a typical skinny actress - being funny and desirable at the same time.”

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Author:Kether Donohue

“It's just occurred to me that some horror films everybody laughs because they're so ridiculous and they're so frightening in a way, the filmmakers' are trying everything, that they just end up being funny.”

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Author:Susan Hill

“As an actor, you can really play the intensity and gravity and seriousness of the moment, and just rely on the circumstances being funny. The joke is kind of the situation you're in, or the way you're reacting to something, as opposed to the characters just saying something witty.”

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Author:Ed Helms

“The hardest thing for me to do, and the best thing I've done and learned as an actor is to sacrifice being funny in certain circumstances in order to do something that makes sense for the story or the character, or emotionally.”

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Author:Jonah Hill

“There's a fear that I don't think people are interested in my actual opinion. I just think people are interested in me being funny.”

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Author:Nick Thune

“The way I survived growing up in Jersey City was by being funny. It wasn't by being tough. Nobody thought of me as a tough kid, except for the kids I beat up.”

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Author:Michelle Rodriguez

“I don't think of any sentence as a "one-liner", but I do pay attention to how people actually speak when they are being funny. Rhythm is key.”

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Author:Lorrie Moore

“I think my way of being "funny" is just saying things that people think but have learned not to say, whereas, I haven't learned not to say them.”

People Thinking Way Havens My Way Just Saying Being Funny

Author:Victoria Chang

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