Top 35 Funny Things Quotes

Memories are doing funny things to us.

I’d done drag since I was 14, for special occasions, and in 2010 a friend of mine with her own burlesque group was looking for a host. During a party I was just fooling around, taking the microphone, saying stupid, funny things, and she asked me afterward if I wanted to host her burlesque show every Saturday.

I’ve dated some women who have turned me on to some funny things that are strange for men to actually do, but these things have become part of my process. I think the things I do for my appearance help make me look better. I even colour my hair because I like how it makes me look.

When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen.

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

I live in a wonderful world of make-believe. A world of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. A world of Winnie the Pooh and Edward Bear. Things like that. Wonderful things. Funny things.

What I do onstage, there’s maybe .0001 percent of the population that acts like that. I talk like that because it makes me laugh, and because I know a couple of people that talk like that. They’re really that Southern. And they do funny things. I love ’em; they’re awesome. They’re good people.

I’m somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition.

I just feel like there are a lot of funny things that happen in this world and I guess that’s for the good and the bad.

I love airports because funny things always happen at them. They’re giant complexes full of urgency, seriousness, and confusion. Where am I supposed to be? Which way do I go? And that’s just the staff.

Some characters think more like me than others; some think more like my dad or someone else. It certainly is made up of my experiences, things I’ve heard, things I think are funny, things I think are sad. There’s sort of a strange, blurry version of yourself in there.

From the earliest memories I have, I liked physical, funny things.

I like funny things, but I don’t find myself particularly funny.

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

Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end; and I am at just the very beginning of what I hope will be a long and satisfying life in the theater. But, whatever happens, I am grateful to have had my novice work received so well, and so quickly.

There’s a difference between being a comic and a comedian. A comic is a guy who says funny things, and a comedian is a guy who says things funny, and he has a style and point of view that will last much longer.

Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. It’s a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less funny things can take place later. It really is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.

I’m not a person who can spontaneously say funny things.

I used to work at NASA in Virginia. It was nothing glamorous; I was just tasked with making code compile for obscure projects, and I wasn’t very good at it. Now I spend most of my time drawing pictures and looking at funny things on the Internet, which in retrospect is largely what I did at my old job, too.

From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.

I’m more interested in – I was going to say putting on an interesting show, but then when I think about it, it’s more like putting on several interesting shows. I think I’m more interested in doing funny things than calculating how I’ll best be received.

I feel like people only want to hear me say funny things. Like, I don’t tweet about my kids or being a mom, ever, because I’m very aware that that’s annoying for people to hear.

Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that’s where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.

I don’t really have funny things to say about politics. I wish I did, but I don’t.

A lot of people didn’t know I was doing Broadway. They thought I was one of those guys who was famous for being famous. I was the one who sat next to Charles Nelson Reilly and said funny things.

I don’t write material. Funny things happen to me in the course of a day, and I just make notes.

You know, if you play on home soil sometimes funny things can happen and you have that push of the crowd.

Andy was a character, and the two of us did have some things in common. We appreciated funny things, didn’t like serious things.

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

I used to work with autistic children, and they said a lot of funny things to me.

I just talk about the funny things in my life, and the idea is that my observations reflect the lives of my audience – so people are really laughing at themselves. This is the theory, anyway, and I am aware that in print, that it doesn’t appear to be very funny. But it is, and I am definitely funny.

I think there are a lot of really funny things in ‘The Descendants,’ but there’re a lot of different tones in that movie, in the same way that ‘Transparent’ has a lot of different tones.

One of the funny things about Wonder Woman is that everybody does love her. She does win everybody over at some point.

Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I can be even remotely amusing.

Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.