Funny Quotes

If it gets laughs, it's funny.

~ Rachel Dratch

However, frat-boy humor is funny and it always will be.

~ Craig Kilborn

Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor, but I always knew who was funny, who to hang out with.

~ Andrew Stanton

Those who knew Lincoln described him as an extraordinarily funny man. Humor was an essential aspect of his temperament. He laughed, he explained, so he did not weep.

~ Doris Kearns Goodwin

Comedy is still alive, and there are still funny people. Jews are still overrepresented in comedy and psychiatry and underrepresented in the priesthood. That immigrant Jewish humor is still with us.

~ Robert Klein

But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early writing was very dark and had a gothic tone to it.

~ Seth Grahame-Smith

Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens.

~ David Hyde Pierce

Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny anymore.

~ Wavy Gravy

But it was this tough little character part that I was playing, a very funny little guy that I invented over a weekend, because I realized I was not contributing to the humor of this thing. And I had to do something.

~ Dabney Coleman

Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.

~ J. Tillman

We have always had gross humor. But we try for funny, not gross.

~ Shawn Wayans

I like to think my sense of humor is sort of smart and dumb at the same time. I like to work on multiple levels - smart and dumb, funny and sad, profound and mundane, cynical and hopeful.

~ Robert Lopez

I grew up as a very sarcastic person. I was always the class clown, and to date girls, I had to be really funny. I was really skinny growing up. I was so thin, I had to run around in the shower to get wet. That kind of thin. So I always had to rely on humor and sarcasm.

~ Kurt Fuller

I think the Cold War works as a great analogy or simile for different kinds of conflict. It's funny, when you look back at it, it's one of the last times that the boundaries were clear. Now, as we see on 'Homeland,' there are no clear boundaries and enemies.

~ Matthew Rhys

When it comes to war, we focus more on the mainstream coverage of the event, rather than the event itself. People dying is never funny. Protest puppets are always funny.

~ Mo Rocca

The funny thing about war is that people feel you need to be morally outraged. I feel morally outraged about it, and I've been doing it for long enough to feel morally outraged, because I have been in massacre scenes in West Africa, and I've been doing this for a long time now.

~ Tim Hetherington

I do public appearances. I'm bluff, hearty, goofy. I wear loud clothes, and I read the funny bits. I occasionally get taken to task for one thing or another, and I acknowledge my fault, my flaw, my failure, and I move on.

~ Nick Harkaway

A joke is a way to say, 'I'm going to do something funny now. If I don't get a laugh at the end, I'm a failure.'

~ Penn Jillette

Pure unadulterated success is not as funny as failure.

~ Will Arnett

Over the years, I learned that in my career, unlike in life, sometimes my wheelchair is its own automatic door opener. I was able to win the OWN competition by applying one simple principle: be funny, and admit you suck before anyone else can call you out on it. In other words, make the narrative of your failure a comedy.

~ Zach Anner

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

~ Douglas Adams

We are supposed to enjoy the good stuff now, while we can, with the people we love. Life has a funny way of teaching us that lesson over and over again.

~ Sheena Easton

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.

~ Charles Darwin

It's so different when you change your hair color, you're treated so differently. It's a very funny experience. It's fun - I love changing up my hair.

~ Kate Bosworth

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

~ André Maurois

For me, Twitter works best as a way of taking pictures of being stuck in traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge. If people really want to read really funny quips about life, parenting, and pop culture, then by all means read Michael Ian Black's tweets.

~ Michael Showalter

I really like 'Shameless' because it brings up important issues, but we get to talk and laugh and look at something that's really important that's a problem, like alcoholism and bad parenting. It's done in a funny, smart way.

~ Justin Chatwin

It's a funny thing. I'll be in my home town of Columbus at a restaurant or something, and the waiter maybe asks, 'What do you do?' and I say, 'Oh, I'm in a band... Twenty One Pilots,' and he'll say, 'Cool, I'll check it out. I never heard of them.' And then I say, 'In September we're playing the Schottenstein Center,' and it's like, 'What?!'

~ Tyler Joseph

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

I used to love being the class clown. I loved to make jokes and make people laugh. There was a set of students who would find it funny. But the cool students were like, 'Eeew!'

~ Issa Rae

I read the script for Wonder Boys, and I said that was almost perfect, it was so classy, cool and funny. It's a really specific thing. We stuck to it, it turned out good and a lot of people liked it.

~ Robert Downey

Cool is the enemy of funny. You can't be cool and be funny at the same time. Only Eddie Murphy could do that.

~ Tracy Morgan

I'd love to date somebody cool, fun, funny.

~ Rihanna

It is so cool to think that there are two female, Indian actresses on prime-time American network television who are considered attractive and funny and smart.

~ Hannah Simone

High school is when I started to get my sense of fashion together. My queen was Candice Swanepoel, who is a friend of mine now, which is kind of funny, but in high school, I was obsessed. I love her street style: she is always in cool boyfriend jeans, boots, and an awesome coat, which is very much like what I wear.

~ Gigi Hadid

It's funny because the action figures are cool, and then I enjoy the magazines because that's me. Obviously, the fans are wonderful - they're so excited - but I'm not Rey, and people tend to not be able to differentiate the two.

~ Daisy Ridley

There's nothing less funny than someone who looks cool. There's nothing more unappealing.

~ Eric Wareheim

All the people who run agencies, all the important people in agencies have taken communication courses, marketing courses, advertising courses, and courses basically teach advertising as a science, and advertising is so far from a science it isn't even funny. Advertising is an art.

~ George Lois

My brothers were funny, and there was a lot of shtick and comedy and nastiness and violence and fighting and sports.

~ Alec Baldwin

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