Being funny Quotes

I love being funny and talking with fellas.

— Eddie Jemison

What a sad business is being funny!

— Charlie Chaplin

Being funny is not the same as being happy.

— Dana Gould

I enjoy laughing at other people being funny.

— Josh Widdicombe

A lot of men are competitive about being funny.

— Arden Myrin

Being funny is everything to me.

— Allison Jones

Even when I'm being funny, I'm deadly serious.

— Lily Tomlin

Being funny is a very serious business.

— Soupy Sales

Whether you have a show or not, you can still be somewhere being funny.

— Wanda Sykes

A comedian's body is funny as well as his mind being funny, his whole personage is funny.

— Bobby Darin

Being funny is a gift, and, when done well, is an art form.

— Craig Ferguson

Doing stand-up takes the fun out of being funny.

— Doug Stanhope

There's nothing worse than trying to be funny and not being funny.

— Neal Brennan

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

— Simon Amstell

Look, I had to take chances or it wasn't fun being funny.

— Mel Brooks

Everybody in my family's funny. Being funny was highly encouraged in our family, I think.

— Catherine O'Hara

I'm a big fan of comedians not having to apologize for anything. Nowadays it seems comedians are always apologizing for being funny.

— Kevin Dillon

The way I survived growing up in Jersey City was by being funny. It wasn't by being tough. Nobody thought of me…

— Michelle Rodriguez

There are few lonelier sights than a good comedian being funny in a movie that doesn't know what funny is.

— Roger Ebert

I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was…

— Jim Carrey

That's the beauty of our show. Comedy or politics. We're sort of a mix. A space age polymer of both. A synthetic…

— Jon Stewart

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

— Simon Rich

Nikki 4 u to become the best u have 2 beat the best n the BE$T is me k nikki coz I'm…

— COR3Y WHITMORE

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

— Jeff Garlin

People use the guise of art, and artistic expression, to do all kinds of hateful things. It's like Trump and everybody else…

— Luvvie Ajayi

Jewish introspection and Jewish humor is a way of surviving . . . if you're not handsome and you're not athletic and…

— Mike Nichols

I would call it a comedy variety show. We have some people just doing straight standup. We usually try to have one…

— Todd Barry

I can't watch other people doing comedy. As soon as somebody starts being funny I have to turn off because it upsets…

— Jenny Eclair

I guess I'm pleased and proud of the respect of my peers, and that when I disappear from the scene or from…

— Robert Klein

I always wanted to make strangers and friends and family laugh. I was over ten years younger than my brothers. It was…

— Gary Gulman

Comedy isn't really something where you get discovered. You can't network your way to being funny or talented. It's not hard to…

— Amy Schumer

You bet being funny helps accomplish things. I've always maintained that people don't realize how many brain cells it takes to be…

— Ann Richards

The newspaper industry when I came along in the mid-70s was rich and powerful and growing and hungry for material and open…

— Dave Barry

The modelling was fun but I don't see it the same as music, because with modelling, I was just kind of lucky,…

— Erica Packer

I just think it should be illegal to call somebody fat on TV. . . . I think when it comes to…

— Jennifer Lawrence

I just know from experience that reading a funny poem aloud, especially at the beginning of a public reading, can have a…

— Matthew Zapruder

If you try to be funny, you're not being funny.

— John Gordon Sinclair

I can't prevent myself of being funny.

— Gaspar Noe

Being funny is very complex.

— Genndy Tartakovsky

I'm good at being funny.

— Tom Stoppard