“I’m an off-road racecar driver. And I think every woman in my life has told me that’s not a sensible hobby. But when I was growing, even more than I wanted to be funny, I wanted to be a racecar driver. That’s all I thought about. I worked for a race team when I was 15 and I traveled with them.”
– Dax Shepard
“I think if they put a laugh track on ‘Intervention,’ it would be funny.”
– Zach Galifianakis
“Kyle Baker’s work is really funny, but it’s also got a very clear vision.”
– Bill Sienkiewicz
“We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I’ve ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the ‘Girlfriend in a Coma’ is, like, really funny.”
– Zach Galifianakis
“It’s funny: I’ve been very successful and done a lot of films, and I don’t really have an agent – I don’t really pursue jobs, I let people come to me.”
– Rick Baker
“When I was in high school I used to sit by myself in the cafeteria – not necessarily by choice – but I thought it was funny to talk to people that weren’t there.”
– Zach Galifianakis
“Laughter is involuntary. If it’s funny you laugh.”
– Tom Lehrer
“What’s funny about that is when I was writing Twilight just for myself and not thinking of it as a book, I was not thinking about publishing, and yet at the same time I was casting it in my head. Because when I read books, I see them very visually.”
– Stephenie Meyer
“I auditioned for a solo in church and got it. I was about seven and I sang a song called, ‘Jesus, I Heard You Had a Big House’ and I remember people standing up at the end and me thinking, ‘Oh, I think I’m going to like this.’ That’s how it all began. Sounds funny to say you got your start in church, but I did.”
– Kristin Chenoweth
“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
“When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn’t about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.”
– Paul Merton
“I’m a big fan of certain new acts. I love any genre of music, and I think it’s really great to see that there are new artists coming through. It’s kinda funny to think that I’m like the old man on campus now. But I’m really happy for groups like One Direction. I think they’re really good guys.”
– Joe Jonas
“They’re great girls. They’re very funny, they’re very smart, they’re fun to be with. They’re very lively, as I think people can tell. And you know, they’re very confident girls.”
– Laura Bush
“It’s funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9.”
– Josh Lucas
“It’s a funny thing about me. I don’t have any interest in food most of the time now, although when I was a kid I was always hungry.”
– Alan Ladd
“And 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
“I’m always in situations where you can’t be funny, and yet I want to do it anyway.”
– Tim Heidecker
“I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.”
– Julia Louis-Dreyfus
“I wasn’t even 20 at the time, but it taught me something about drugs. They can take a good man, a warm, funny, loving family man, and turn him into a loser and worse.”
– Michael Bergin
“In my experience, it’s not just that serious books get a hearing on comedy shows. But serious books get a serious hearing, as well as a funny one, on comedy shows.”
– Michael Mandelbaum
“I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for.”
– Donna Tartt
“It’s a bit like school camp, shooting a film. Everyone’s on heat. It’s a strange energy. It’s full of adrenalin. I funnel my excess energy in funny little ways. I do a lot of dancing in my trailer. I love music.”
– Alice Englert
“Funny, how moms can tell you what to do no matter how old or big you are.”
– Gabrielle Reece
“Here’s the funny thing about the response I’ve been aware of to my dating famous people: It’s been very negative. I’m either not good-looking enough, not a good enough actor or not successful enough for these people.”
– Dax Shepard
“I didn’t grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny – those are the things I got feedback on.”
– Lauren Graham
“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
“When you are not treated seriously, you develop comically. Its sense of oneself is so fractured and fragile that it’s like the picked-on kid who has to become funny.”
– Scott Thompson
“It is possible in this world to be pretty and funny and successful all at the same time.”
– Olivia Munn
“I got pregnant at 40 by surprise. It’s funny, because when we found out we were pregnant, I said, ‘Okay, let’s experience that.’ You just have to just go with it because it’s rare.”
– Julianna Margulies
“I think it’s always funny when somebody thinks you’re going to do something super sexy and then you don’t.”
– Olivia Munn