Attention Quote by Steven Wright

Everyone, everywhere, and all the time, used to laugh at me when I was growing up. So, when I was around 18, I thought,…

— Emo Philips

I was never funny. There were funny people I was around, but I wasn't a funny guy. I was dead serious about everything. I…

— Deon Cole

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

— Spoken Reasons

I always wanted attention, and I realized I could make people laugh.

— Lusia Strus

I was always good at being observationally funny - like, contributing something funny to the conversation.

— Jon Hamm

I was never funny. I'd be funny once a year at Christmas. I'd do impressions of how people talked and danced, but that stopped…

— Carlos Mencia

I always made people laugh, and everybody wanted me to sit at the table with them. I don't joke as much as I used…

— Missy Elliot

I feel things can always be funny, but that's probably because I have some kind of leftover childhood need to make people laugh. For…

— Jesse Eisenberg

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

Weirdly, for someone who wanted to be funny, I didn't like a lot of attention.

— Michael Keaton

I made sure that instead of people making fun of me, like every comedian probably says, I made fun of myself first so they…

— Eliza Coupe

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

— Anthony Jeselnik