Being funny Quote by Jemima Kirke

“By the way, I'm funniest when I'm not being funny. I'm better to laugh at than with, pretty much.”

Jemima Kirke

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (10 ratings)

More by Jemima Kirke

People are confusing me with a good actor when I'm just a good mimic. When someone asks me to play a nun from the…

Jemima Kirke

Image

I think I did a lot of really stupid stuff really quickly in my twenties and that sort of led me to want to…

Jemima Kirke

Image

Being humble and sweet is the hardest thing you can do.

Jemima Kirke

Image

I've never been one to just do what I'm told. I don't say that necessarily with pride, it's just something that has gotten me…

Jemima Kirke

Image

But I'm interested in the Barnes Collection in Philadelphia. I hear there are some of the worst Matisses there. I like seeing bad art…

Jemima Kirke

Image

Portraiture keeps me humble. It's simple and straightforward. There is nothing more interesting I can make up than the figure sitting right in front…

Jemima Kirke

Image

I come from a family of all women and one boy, my brother. We're all women and we're all precocious and opinionated and like…

Jemima Kirke

Image

I've been painting and making things since I was little.

Jemima Kirke

Image

I think Damien Hirst is hilarious. And I think he's a true artist. He's not hilarious first; I think he is a real artist,…

Jemima Kirke

Image

Acting is secondary - I don't feel like it's going to stick around because it's not something I want to do forever. My art…

Jemima Kirke

Image

My opinions of which of my works are good are vastly different than other people's. There is one that I'm obsessed with but I…

Jemima Kirke

Image

I want lots of kids and I want a garden and I hope to stay married to my husband. I hope to be working…

Jemima Kirke

Image

Explore all 25 Jemima Kirke quotes

More Being funny quotes

Being funny is one of my greatest strengths. I can make girls smile when they're down, and when they're having a good time, I…

John Krasinski

Image

I direct with energy. I believe in energy. I think energy is an electric thing in actors. I try to inspire, encourage, and make…

Matthew Lillard

Image

I think my way of being "funny" is just saying things that people think but have learned not to say, whereas, I haven't learned…

Victoria Chang

Image

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

Robert Klein

Image

I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of…

Taylor Lautner

Image

If you don't follow the stock market, you are missing some amazing drama.

Mark Cuban

Image

For my first gig, I got $75. I could make money being funny, so I pursued it as a career and have turned it…

Tracy Morgan

Image

It is a difficult thing to like anybody else's ideas of being funny.

Gertrude Stein

Image

You know, I love airplane food. I'm not being funny; I'm not being ironic. It reminds me of being 12 years old and putting…

Josh Freese

Image

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

Joan Smalls

Image

Thing is, I'm a funny actor, but I'm not good at being funny. I'm going to ramble for a second: I'm an actor who…

Matthew Lillard

Image

On 'The Simpsons,' I will say that we definitely like to comment on what's going on in the world, and we try to be…

Matt Groening

Image

Browse all 218 Being funny quotes

Being funny Quote by Jemima Kirke

Related quotes

More by Jemima Kirke

More Being funny quotes