Funny Quotes to Make You Laugh – Page 9 | GloryQuotes

Chris Elliott could read the phonebook and he's funny.

Seth MacFarlane

Save your rejections so that later when you are famous you can show them to people and laugh.

Meg Cabot

I'll let you in on a secret: I can't stand Jay Ward. I hate being compared to Rocky and Bullwinkle. It's just a different style of humor.

John Kricfalusi

With comedy I can search for the profound.

Dario Fo

I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one's intensity is funny.

Jim Dine

It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.

Edward de Bono

My brother was a great audience, and if he liked the picture, he would laugh and laugh and laugh, and he would want to keep the picture. Making people laugh with an image I had created... what power that was!

Lynn Johnston

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Nobody should try to play comedy unless they have a circus going on inside.

Ernst Lubitsch

You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.

You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show.

Joe Klein

There's nothing more difficult to do than comedy.

Robert Evans

People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny.

Richard Russo

Seven days without laughter makes one weak.

Mort Walker

I realize that humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive.

Anne Wilson Schaef

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Jokes are grievances.

Marshall McLuhan

We are not here to laugh.

Charles de Gaulle

Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.

Barry Sonnenfeld

It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals.

I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I'm doing. I don't give a damn if half the audience walks out.

David Antin

Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.

R. L. Stine

If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself.

Frederic William Farrar

It's very hard to write humor.

Mark Strand

I'm traveling the world, ripping rooms apart with my stupendous comedy.

Todd Barry

If you look at the game and everything, it's not quite like looking at an animated film, because that's total character. This, this is really movement, but it's got funny little things if you look for the humor. They're actually getting to the character.

Don Bluth

Johnny Rotten. He's a big fan of mine. I used to see him out in the audience in England and he'd stand up and holler. He's funny. Smart too, and a nice guy. Don't think he's a jerk because he isn't.

Don Van Vliet

It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.

David Herbert Lawrence

I would do it today because the thing that appealed to me was not necessarily the mechanics of the robot, but it was his personality and how funny and charming he was.

John Badham

I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic language in a good novel.

James Humes

A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs.

Alexander Payne

I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said.

Lyn Nofziger

Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.

George Gurdjieff

I really think that sex always looks kind of funny in a movie.

William Friedkin

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public.

Jessica Mitford

It's funny to be a critic.

Leslie Fiedler

It's funny because I think a lot of it is simply... We've never considered ourselves satirists, but because we're on Comedy Central and because we're South Park on Comedy Central, we can do any topic we want.

Trey Parker

One of the jokes on our flight is that, if we have a normal entry day going, the plan is for me... to actually take the orbiter first and fly it for maybe 10 or 15 seconds and then hand it on over to Scooter.

Duane G. Carey

We were the only ones interested in comedy. Everybody else wanted to be Martin Scorsese.

Matt Stone

Transforming a line like that makes it into a belly laugh instead of a laugh against us.

Terence Young

It's perfectly okay if you don't understand every single one of them. For one thing, I make a lot of corny jokes, and you have to be 40 years old to get some of them.

Brian P. Cleary

If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.

Edward W. Howe

And when you're on your own there is that terrifying possibility that you may be the only person on the planet who thinks it's funny - and you have no way of finding out.

Denis Norden

There was the joke about Switzerland being an island surrounded by land. This was never true.

Samuel Schmid

The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion.

John Keegan

This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I wanted to do a comedy, so this was just the right one.

Ismail Merchant

What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.

Bern Williams