It stops being funny, when it starts being you.

“It's like the old pie-in-the-face routine: it stops being funny when it starts being you.”

— Stephen King

At the end of the day I'm writing comedy. If you get too realistic as a comedy writer with your disasters, it stops being…

— Simon Rich

Ego is hilarious - especially the vanity of a comedian. As soon as you see one start worrying about how cool he is or…

— Ricky Gervais

You don't want to keep on mentioning being blind because it stops being funny - if you are just talking about that, people are…

— Chris McCausland

For me to train and get ready for racing, I can't just sit in the gym all the time and that's the way it…

— Mark Webber

A perfect dinner for me is being with people I really want to be with. It starts and stops with my company and my…

— Catherine Bach

Businesses have come and gone at Homeboy Industries. We have had starts and stops, but anything worth doing is worth failing at. We started…

— Greg Boyle

Fiction is supposed to be immersive and supposed to be entertaining and narrative, so structures have to be buried a little bit. If they…

— Eleanor Catton

It's hard to say when the life of a band starts and stops... but playing music together is an act of trust. When that's…

— Kim Gordon

Nobody can stop you but you. And shame on you if you're the one who stops yourself.

— Damon Wayans

If you're successful and growing, you can manage any way you want to. Growth makes so many dimensions of management easier. It's when growth…

— Clayton Christensen

One of the places the full stop is really being revised in a really fundamental way is on the Internet. You look at the…

— David Crystal

I have a one-track mind. That's all that I'm interested in - love. And the lack of it. When it stops.

— John Cassavetes

Until your heart stops beating

— Jacob Black

When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art.

— Tony Bennett