Being funny Quote by Wendy Wasserstein Download Open image “being funny is a way of being liked and a way of dealing with sadness.” — Wendy Wasserstein ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Being funny Comedy Funny Humor Sadness Way
People often think that you have a sense of humor because you think that life is funny. Life isn't funny at all. It's appalling… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
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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 Copy Share Image
I think being funny had something to do with feeling like an outsider, not feeling cool - insecurity. — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share Image
Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
One of the things about what . . . I do - writing plays - is that a poll is not taken before you… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
anyone who writes plays is unbelievably persistent, because there isn't a need in the world for plays. Somehow you internally have to feel a… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
I really worked at becoming more assertive, and now none of my friends talk to me. — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I just… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
Personally I don't spend much time thinking about being funny. For me it's always been just a way to get by, a way to… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents. — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
No matter how successful I become as a playwright, my mother would be thrilled to hear me tell her that I'd just lost twenty… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
I very much write from characters. Those people start speaking, and then I have them in the house with me and I live with… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
“In the world of The Age of Innocence , a financial disaster or moral scandal would permanently exile a guest from the finest dinner… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share Image
If you don't follow the stock market, you are missing some amazing drama. — Mark Cuban Copy Share 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 Copy Share Image
It is a difficult thing to like anybody else's ideas of being funny. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share Image
