I feel like you could watch 'Grand Budapest' without sound, and it would still be funny.
— Wyatt Cenac
For me, funny is funny, and what's unfortunate is these comedians aren't being allowed to operate in rooms for everybody and that everybody can laugh and say, 'Okay, I find that person funny, and I don't just have to find them funny because they look like me.'
I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
— Woody Allen
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
— Winston Churchill
Funny songs aren't usually that good. Like Weird Al and maybe a couple of Beatles songs, but it's kind of hard to bring humor into rock music in an interesting way.
— Win Butler
I thought it was really funny that half the people I autographed things for said, 'Autograph the back of my phone.' I was like, 'What? Really? Seriously?' They didn't have anything else.
— Willow Shields
You need to be silly to be funny.
— William Shatner
What's very funny is when you see amateurs filming something, they do some things no professionals would dare to do. They instinctively do things that are very avant-garde and useful.
— William Klein
Violence is not funny.
— William Friedkin
One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.
— William Feather
Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.
— William Arthur Ward
I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.
— Will Rogers
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
There's always going to be someone as funny as you or funnier.
— Will Ferrell
My kind of wanting to be funny didn't come from need, necessarily. The closest I can analyze it is that it was an easy way to make friends, I found out. It was just a great kind of social tool.
I think anyone who has, you know, is in any sort of artistic pursuit, kind of goes up and down with the way they feel about their work. And I, for the most part, am pretty happy person. But, yeah. I go through definite periods of time where I'm not funny. I'm not good. I'm - I don't feel original.
I always find it actually funny that the analysis is that the characters I play in comedies are the manchild, the adolescent, characters that refuse to grow up. And yet, if you look back in the history of comedy all the way back to the Marx brothers, that's a big part of comedy.
There are plenty of people I've seen and thought that person is funny, or that person is really talented, and they've got something, but maybe the buying public doesn't see the same thing I see, or the stars don't align in the right way for them.
I think being funny is not anyone's first choice.
My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.
The discovery I made was that, really, in America, if you went to high school in our country, it doesn't really matter where you went to high school. In a funny way, all high schools are the same.
— Winnie Holzman
Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
— Wilson Mizner
Chris Rock is a very funny man.
— Willie Geist
If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
— William Lyon Phelps
I like dark humor. I think the world is very funny and tragic, and my photographs are basically dark Jewish humor.
I really think that sex always looks kind of funny in a movie.
The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.
Somebody once said that my look was like if Aileen Wuornos got acquitted and got a book deal. And I was like, 'That's wrong, but it's really funny.' And I've always thought that she was kind of like a gold mine for parody because there's all these things that went wrong in her life.
— Willam Belli
If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.
It's funny: the older I get, the more I can pick out when people are acting.
— Will Forte
There are a lot of really funny guys who are very natural in what they do: Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, Seth Rogen.
When a dramatic actor does a funny film, people are like, 'Wonderful! I didn't know he was funny!' But when it flips, people can get really thrown by it.
I know the nature of comedy, and you never know what will happen with the next movie or whether people will find it funny.
James Caan told me at the end of filming 'Elf' that he had been waiting through the whole film for me to be funny - and I never was.
The role of a comedian is to go in and make something funny. That might be a situation where I'm writing, a situation where I'm in control, like standup or something of my own that I'm making, or it might be something like being an actor in someone else's project.
I failed to make the chess team because of my height.
Banjos are funny instruments. They can get pretty irritating.
— Winston Marshall
The music in Haiti is all tied up in voodoo and African rhythm, and so there's this funny thing: go to a voodoo ceremony, and then go to a Catholic church and tell me which music you liked better, to which one the music is more integral.
Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.
TV deals in very broad strokes. Like, 'Oh, that's my dumb friend', or, 'That's my funny friend.' A true best friend, a sidekick, has to be a little deeper then that. You have to feel like there's nothing either character won't do. That someone really, really has their back.
— Willie Garson
I try to write stories that are thrilling and full of mystery and funny all at the same time, stories that raise moral questions but come up with very few moral answers, stories that emotionally touch readers through the characters.
— William Lashner
With its missed lines and falling tombstones, 'Dark Shadows' was sometimes inadvertently funny, but what made the show work was the fact that the actors and the writers took it all very seriously.
— William J. Mann
I'm not funny ha-ha, but I look for real humour in just about everything I've ever played.
— William Fichtner
If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like.
Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.
I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.
I don't know if I was a funny kid. I would say I was a loud and weird kid.
I'd love to become like Bill Murray, who was so funny on 'Saturday Night Live' and has gone on to do some of the landmark comedies people like. And then to add this whole other phase to his career with 'Lost in Translation' and 'Rushmore.' I always felt to be able to have something similar to that would be great.
For people who have done comedy after a certain point in time, I think there's a base level of, 'O.K., I think I'm decently funny.' But unless you just have some massive ego, I really think you're still fighting against that.
The funny guy doesn't get the girl until later in life. High school, college, everyone still wants the brooding, dangerous guy you shouldn't have.
