Amuse Quote by Jay Chandrasekhar Download Open image “We only ever write jokes that amuse us.” — Jay Chandrasekhar ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Amuse Jokes Only Us Write
As for jokes, I don't think it's necessarily that what I write is funny. — Peter David Copy Share Image
I've never written jokes. I mean, I'll write things on a piece of paper and riff on them onstage. — David Cross Copy Share Image
I think things evolve into jokes. I don't generally write them down as jokes. I talk them out. — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
Not all times jokes intended to make you laugh. Sometimes they intended to make you think. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm from Chicago. And I was an actor in high school and college, and I wanted to see if I could make a run… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
'Super Troopers' did well but not crazy-well theatrically. But it did so well after that it - in ancillary markets - that it became… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
The thing about people from Chicago and the Northwest suburbs is that they're very cocky. I think that serves us well in the show… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
Colgate is the epitome of having it both ways. Academically, it ranks in the top twenty schools in the country, but it is also… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
Ultimately, in regular television, you've got seven or eight executives and maybe 50 people in the room with dials who are deciding whether a… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
To me, I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and my identity is of a suburban Chicago person. It's not like, 'Oh, I'm… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
In 2010, The Princeton Review ranked Colgate the most beautiful campus in America - I agree. — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
A lot of filmmaking is just sort of slowed down by lawyers who feel they're more important than the filmmakers. — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
Occasionally, we would shoot something and think, 'This is it; we are over the line.' But the test audiences didn't have a problem with… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
Often, when you're in some of these writing rooms for... and the most restrictive is network television, right? They say, 'Wow, that's a great… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
Filmmaking, at the end of the day, is really - in addition to the story and all of the equipment and the actors, it's… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit: it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate,… — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
I certainly know all about the Jersey jokes that amuse the rest of the country. You've probably heard them. Our state bird is the… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
Now, all writing - all the arts - are a form of 'Pay attention to me,' but there's also the flip side. Like, I… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
'The Truth About Lorin Jones' will undoubtedly shock and offend as many readers as it will amuse, since it dares to make fun of… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Scandinavia is boring. People living there apparently have little to do. And as European history teaches, when there is nothing much to do, you… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
I just always remember there being an ability to amuse schoolmates. Not in a kind of 'dance-around-at-the-front-of-the-room-with-his-trousers-off' way, but probably with a sardonic quip.… — Stephen Merchant Copy Share Image
It only works because we still amuse each other. After we have been working with other people, it is so refreshing to laugh unreservedly… — Adrian Edmondson Copy Share Image
“Enjoy the music in your earbuds in your own head. Dancing and singing because you enjoy the tune so much you can't contain yourself… — Paula Heller Garland Copy Share Image
The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
My sister is older than me and would often go off, so I grew up alone in a sense. I had to amuse myself… — Amanda Donohoe Copy Share Image