Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: funny

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often - but I'm well preserved.

How could anyone like me for my true self? Being gay, disabled, loud and funny was too much in one 5ft person.

In my circle of friends, I've always been loud and funny and talkative. But as soon as I step out of that circle, I get very quiet and introspective. I don't want the spotlight on me.

I realized I was gay in the shower one day with Barbra Streisand. It happened while I was lathering, rinsing, and repeating with Pert Plus. As I was belting out the chorus to my favorite song from 'Funny Girl,' 'Oh my man, I love him so, he'll never know...' it hit me.

I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience. I'm not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts. And I'm certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.

Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I can be even remotely amusing.

I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire.

I can't even look at daily comic strips. And I hate sitcoms because they don't seem like real people to me: they're props that often say horrible things to each other, which I don't find funny. I have to feel like they're real people.

I'm a misplaced American, but don't know where I was misplaced.

You know how old I am? I'm so old, I remember when Letterman used to be funny and it was presidents who were serious. That's how old I am.

Everything I experience in life, I put through the sausage-maker that is comedy, and then try to make it funny for others. Whether that is healthy or not remains to be seen.

My dad has blond hair, my grandmother has blue eyes. My daughter has blue eyes and blond hair. So it is pretty funny to me that I'm so heavily identified as an Asian person.

It's funny, because there are so many stereotypes out there about actors and movie stars in general, but I've had a great opportunity to meet a lot of them, and maybe it's just because they don't behave that way around me, but I rarely see that kind of abuse of power.

I've dated some women who have turned me on to some funny things that are strange for men to actually do, but these things have become part of my process. I think the things I do for my appearance help make me look better. I even colour my hair because I like how it makes me look.

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

I never liked you, and I always will.

I read part of it all the way through.

Let's have some new cliches.

Include me out.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.

I grew up between Detroit and Ghana, and I had to make friends in an instant. It sharpened my wit, and also, just for my own sanity's sake, I felt like I wanted to entertain myself. So I'm going through all these experiences, and I ask myself, 'Is this crazy? Is it? Wait, what's so funny about this?'

The funny thing about having all this so-called success is that behind it is a certain horrible emptiness.

People like my voice, which is funny because all my life my family has joked about my nasal voice.

Latinos, Asians, African-Americans, women - we're all trying to find our place in this world of cinema and television and theater. And the great thing with comedy is that most of the time, you could be orange. It doesn't matter, as long you're funny.

Michael Bates was a very funny actor; he'd served in India, could speak Urdu, and had great comic timing.

My dad is a storyteller. I've heard his funny stories 500 times, but I would never stop him because he tells them so brilliantly and still knows where to put the funny bit.

But I think you can make fun of anything as long as it's funny enough.

It's funny what a few no-hitters do for a body.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

I have gotten a couple of letters meant for Mr. Bean aka Rowan Atkinson. These letters would say things like, 'You're so funny, you make me laugh, with your big rubbery face,' and I would say, 'You can't mean me!'

Comedy is only funny when there's real pain.

Once you get past funny, my other qualities are so below average. It's not like I'm handy.

To me, what separates a funny movie from a good movie is something personal.

Without hurting anybody, we all tend to laugh at others' discomfort. When someone slips on a banana skin and falls it's funny.

I'm, like, super-clumsy and weird and funny and dorky.

We are supposed to enjoy the good stuff now, while we can, with the people we love. Life has a funny way of teaching us that lesson over and over again.

My chin's too big. And my nose - my nose is funny.

Everyone who has ever met me for at least five minutes knows I'm a really funny person. I love to laugh and to make people laugh, so writing comedy comes naturally to me.

I find, when you're an optimist, life has a funny way of looking after you.

Me carrying a briefcase is like a hotdog wearing earrings.

A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.

How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven.

I can speak Esperanto like a native.

What's funny is that all the artists I've collaborated with, I get this feeling that they want me to win. They're always asking my opinion, always giving me advice.