Most of my ideas just come out funny.

Don't come on to be funny - come on to solve problems.

— Keith Johnstone

With comedy, don't try to be funny. That's really helped me. Just say the lines as you would say them, interact with other characters,…

— Ariel Winter

One can always come up with funny lists and jokes. You know what? I take it back. Not everyone can always come up with…

— John Hodgman

'Come out' is so funny to me because I've never been in.

— Adam Lambert

During the course of the year a number of ideas just come up automatically. I could be walking down the street. Or shaving. An…

— Woody Allen

Sometimes you run out of ideas, just like if you are a writer or whatever. Then you just have to wait around for something…

— Martina McBride

I'm always talking to people. It's not that complicated. I just find somebody and say, "Do you have any ideas." If they do, we…

— Judd Apatow

My initial ideas are just a starting place. As a record goes along, it becomes more about making discoveries and getting excited about new…

— Paul Gilbert

Sometimes I find bringing in my old ideas is just detrimental.

— Bear McCreary

A lot of us who are creative and have all these great ideas just don't have the money to do it.

— Kerby Jean-Raymond

Sometimes ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It's a mysterious process, but…

— J. K. Rowling

I don't have a room full of writers pitching ideas. It's just me out of my head.

— Louis C. K

And after a while, you just pare things down more and more and more, until you get to certain basic things which just -…

— Robert Barry

I've always moved between media. Some ideas just work better in some media than others.

— Warren Ellis

“For nonfiction projects, ideas are everywhere. They just go by in a ceaseless stream.”

— John McPhee