Life Quotes

Life goes by fast. Enjoy it. Calm down. It's all funny. Next. Everyone gets so upset about the wrong things.

~ Joan Rivers

I find, when you're an optimist, life has a funny way of looking after you.

~ Simon Sinek

You know, it wasn't even that I'm a funny guy, I just loved stand-up comedy and I wanted to do it. It was one of the few things in my life that I knew I was going to be able to do, and I also felt as though I'd be able to do it the way I wanted to do it.

~ Bill Burr

Life can be dramatic and funny all in the same day.

~ Jennifer Aniston

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

~ Jane Wagner

I'm really not that funny in real life! But I am the best audience one could find. I love to laugh.

~ Carol Burnett

The funny guy doesn't get the girl until later in life. High school, college, everyone still wants the brooding, dangerous guy you shouldn't have.

~ Will Ferrell

To handle that stardom, the red carpets, the photo shoots, people all of a sudden recognizing you and following you in everyday life, it's a bit weird. It's strange, and it can have funny effects on you in terms of do you like it or don't you like it. Some people run away from it, some people embrace it; I found a good middle ground.

~ Roger Federer

I am interested in shows that are not out-and-out gag fests: you see the truth of a broken heart behind them. That is what life is like: it's really funny, you see funny things as soon as you step out of the room, but underneath that is a whole bag of broken hearts. It's that real pain and that real hilarity that makes life so intriguing.

~ Tamsin Greig

The inspiration for my Vines comes from thinking about funny and relatable experiences from my daily life.

~ Lele Pons

Here's the thing - I'm single, I haven't been married, I don't have kids yet. If I do have kids I would be interested to see them in my life, so here's a movie for kids and I'm in there and I'm supposed to be kind of funny for kids.

~ Garry Shandling

If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

~ Will Rogers

Being a stand-up is my mission in life; it's my passion. My ongoing goal is to simply be funny, on my own, in front of a roomful of strangers.

~ Jerry Seinfeld

It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.

~ Jimi Hendrix

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

Well in the book Carrie was my alter ego. In real life, Sarah Jessica and I don't look anything alike. But people do say that we sound alike. Sarah Jessica is an adorable girl and she is very funny.

~ Candace Bushnell

My father was a really funny guy. He lived a good long life. And he was the reason I wanted to be funny and become a comedian and a comedy writer, so to say that he's somewhat of a mythic figure in my life would be an understatement.

~ Carol Leifer

A reputation takes years and years and years to build, and it takes one press of a button to ruin it. Don't let that happen to you. You've done so much work; you've put in so much effort. Don't let one moment ruin your entire life because you wanted to be funny or you were mad or because you had a mood.

~ J. J. Watt

Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?

~ Ogden Nash

I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

~ Woody Allen

What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy.

~ Tom Robbins

There are a lot of funny things that happen in one's life.

~ Pierce Brosnan

In person, my father is so friendly, so considerate, so funny, and so real. I have admired my father all of my life, and I love him with all my heart.

~ Tiffany Trump

I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.

~ Kate Klise

What's funny is that the idea of popularity - even the use of the word 'popular' - is something that had been mostly absent from my life since junior high. In fact, the hallmark of life after junior high seemed to be the shedding of popularity as a central concern.

~ Susan Orlean

It's funny, but you get to a time in your life when you think you have all the friends you will ever have.

~ Liam Neeson

People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.

~ Mark Ruffalo

Before the Kennedys were elected, there had been older Presidents. Then here was this devastatingly attractive young couple with two beautiful children. They were so intelligent, graceful, gracious and funny. They enjoyed life so much. That's what caught America's eye.

~ Letitia Baldrige

Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it.

~ Philip Seymour Hoffman

One of the funny things in life to me is a guy who takes himself very seriously.

~ Dennis Farina

Working for President Nixon was the most extraordinary professional experience of my life. He was endlessly fascinating: brilliant, visionary, kind, generous, warm, funny - and yes, a good man.

~ Monica Crowley

I will say this about the truth - that it's one of those crisis rules, whether you are a client or someone who's living their life just every day - is that the truth has a funny way of not going away, and telling the truth is extremely important in dealing with any problem or crisis.

~ Judy Smith

In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read magazines, and a poem takes less time than an article.

~ Caroline Kennedy

The magic in performing as an entertaining ventriloquist happens when the characters come to life and the interaction between the separate personalities on stage becomes 'real.' Then don't forget that the act has to be funny, and to me, being funny and entertaining any given audience is more important than anything.

~ Jeff Dunham

I like the hot-cold, the sugar-salt, being able to play over-the-top and dramatic things - in the same film. Just as in my life, I can be very funny and at other times almost extinguished.

~ Jean Dujardin

My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.

~ Ian Hislop

When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life.

~ Richard Lewis

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

~ Simone Weil

To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.

~ Richard Bach

Lyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a little of the lessons I've learned in my own life.

~ Ronnie James Dio