Being funny Quote by Kumail Nanjiani

I was never trying to be funny. Being funny feels to me like an alternate form of confessionality - that is, a way of…

— Dan Chiasson

I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world…

— Calvin Trillin

being funny is a way of being liked and a way of dealing with sadness.

— Wendy Wasserstein

People often can't separate, or can't understand, that to be funny is to be serious; it's a way of pulling people in and not…

— Nick Cave

I think I knew I was funny in Elementary School. I think most funny people realize it when they're young. It tends to come…

— Anonymous

Being funny, in some ways, is about being connected to psychology.

— Noah Baumbach

Whether it's an innate ability or an acquired way of regarding the world around us, being labeled as funny can only be accepted as…

— Alan Zweibel

Like, I feel like I'm funny, despite the fact that I keep getting rejected by people less funny than me.

— Neal Brennan

Me, as myself, I don't think I'm particularly funny. But I've noticed that people in my life always have found me amusing. Which, when…

— Madeline Kahn

Humor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem, a way of standing off and looking at one's problem…

— Rollo May

I always thought I was funny, but I was very sensitive, and very provocative just to get a rise out of people.

— Marc Maron

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