Betray Quote by Anonymous

I was a very quiet child growing up. I always knew that I was funny - I just never put it to use.

— Spoken Reasons

Part of my writing style can be attributed to my mother's impatience with comedy, because whenever I told her a story she would say,…

— Patricia Marx

I didn't tell any of my friends that I wanted to be a comedian, because I was superstitious. I thought if I told people,…

— Steven Wright

I was intentionally curbing the impulse to be funny and hiding the ability. I wrote any number of very serious attempts at poems, short…

— Patrick deWitt

Writing a book has about it some of the anxiety of telling a joke and having to wait several years to know whether or…

— Alain de Botton

When I was younger, I used humour as a tool to avoid getting too serious with people - if there was deep emotional stuff…

— Matthew Perry

I was a bit of a show-off at school. I told jokes a lot because I wanted to have friends.

— Ainsley Harriott

I was always thinking the funny things but was always quiet and scared to be made fun of.

— Nikki Glaser

Sometimes, it's best to keep quiet. Silence can say so much without you ever having to say a single word.

— Anonymous

Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.

— Doris Lessing

I think the reason I became funny was because if I made people laugh, they would let me keep talking.

— Anthony Jeselnik

Everyone has been in a social situation where you say something and it goes unnoticed, then someone else says the same thing and everyone…

— Sloane Crosley