I think my way of being "funny" is just saying things that…

I think maybe I became funny because as a kid, I was a Jew in a town of no Jews, and being funny just…

— Sarah Silverman

I want being funny to be something that I can just use rather than something I need.

— Simon Amstell

I never analyze stuff with comedy because it's boring. It makes you stop being funny. Just be who you are and do what you…

— Jeff Garlin

Personally I don't spend much time thinking about being funny. For me it's always been just a way to get by, a way to…

— Wendy Wasserstein

I was the troublemaker, always being funny - that's just who I am.

— Joan Smalls

Part of my defence mechanism is humour, so sometimes when I'm being funny, it's just as a way of stopping people from getting in.

— Simon Amstell

Just saying, things ain't always bad just 'cause you don't understand 'em or ain't like 'em. That's like thinking anybody who's smarter or faster…

— Karen Marie Moning

As an actor, you can really play the intensity and gravity and seriousness of the moment, and just rely on the circumstances being funny.…

— Ed Helms

I'm a Brit and I just put myself on tape, back in London, for a very distant American project that I thought I didn't…

— Samuel Barnett

We've learned never to say never. Anything is a possibility.

— Mark Frost

One thing I've learned in my career is that you don't have to answer people right away. I've learned how to say, "Can I…

— Vanessa Bell Calloway

“I see,' said Colin, which is what he had learned to say when he had nothing to say.”

— John Green

I've learned not to say, 'No, I'd never do that.'

— Yngwie Malmsteen

I’ve not learned the acceptable way of saying you fascinate me...I’ve not even learned how to say I like you without frightening people away-

— Nikki Giovanni

“He sniffed, and said as others had before him and others no doubt would again, "I have learned never to say, 'Never again.”

— Tracy Kidder