'Funny Games' was conceived as a provocation. My other films are different. If people feel my other films are, or respond to them as provocation, then that's quite different. 'Funny Games' is the only one of mine where my intention was to provoke the audience.
— Michael Haneke
I went to the University of San Francisco on an athletic scholarship. I didn't study in high school. I was just there to get by and to play basketball. But a funny thing happened to me when I got to college. I got challenged by the work and the professors.
— Michael Franti
I was like the funny guy in sixth form. When we used to do showcases, I'd host them, and I would do, like, little comedy segments.
— Michael Dapaah
Once an actor told me he went to the Shakespeare School of Acting, and I said, 'I went to the Shakespeare of Acting, too' and he said, 'Oh really?' And I said, 'I went to Shakespeare Elementary School in Chicago.' He didn't take the joke well, he didn't laugh and didn't think it was funny - I thought it was funny. It's all the same to me.
— Michael Clarke Duncan
If I think something's funny, I try to mold it into a joke as soon as possible. Once I have a joke, I say it a million different ways on stage until I find a rhythm and it feels like it's as good as it can be.
— Michael Che
My wife, my daughters, even my grandchildren are funny. You've got to keep a sense of humor because anger destroys you.
— Michael Caine
I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor and I am only learning now stupidly that you can't read tongue. When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn't read that way.
— Michael Buble
I allow a lot of room for improvisation and funny stuff. I always feel planned.
— Michael Bay
What some folks find funny, other folks find tragic.
— Melvin Van Peebles
Jason Statham is funny, I never knew that.
— Melissa McCarthy
The letters I really love are from young actresses who were worried they had to fit a certain look. They say I've opened it up. And I don't just mean plus-size girls. You can push things now. With all the great performances in 'Bridesmaids', it changed how people see funny women.
I think the funny thing about acting for me - and I hold it in a very holy, spiritual way - not to be overly fundamentalist about it, but it's that important to me - is that it is an ancient healing art.
— Melissa Leo
The funny thing about making this record and being away from the girls and on my own in LA is that it allowed me to reflect on how much we've accomplished.
— Melanie Chisholm
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
— Mel Brooks
I have to tell you I enjoy Jon Stewart. That's the truth. I actually think he's very funny. I've paid to see him do his stand-up routine.
— Megyn Kelly
It's funny when you follow your own sort of bliss, then other people tend to respond in kind, meaning audiences. It's really weird how that works, but it does seem to apply to 'Nancy & Beth' especially.
— Megan Mullally
I started 'Will & Grace' when I was 39, and Nick started 'Parks and Rec' when he was 39. And he's really on the same trajectory; it's all happening with the same timing. It's so funny to see it all happening again.
It's unbearable when someone changes around you. Just imagine that your life partner changes, then it is difficult to cope with. Or your mother. Or your father. They were strong and now they're like a baby - it's not so funny.
I've played villains on stage - you know, the Iagos and so on - but I think of myself as a funny person. I mostly did comedies before I did TV work.
— Michael Emerson
People just want to have a bit of fun, something uplifting, funny, that's got a melody to it. That's what we try to do.
Some things hit close to home with people, and it's going to be hard to tell someone who lost somebody on 9/11 that a 9/11 joke is funny.
My parents are both really, really funny, and my little sister is a really good painter, and my other sister is a really good writer.
— Michael Cera
I don't do it often, but I do cry. I also laugh a lot; people tell me I'm funny and I do like to laugh.
I wasn't even 20 at the time, but it taught me something about drugs. They can take a good man, a warm, funny, loving family man, and turn him into a loser and worse.
— Michael Bergin
The panda is a funny, lovable animal, which defends its territory well. It's strong but calm. It suits me perfectly.
— Metta World Peace
I wrote a pilot for myself. It's about a Latina actress trying to make it in Hollywood. It's pretty funny.
— Melonie Diaz
At some point in the past, it was decided that women in comedy are never supposed to be shown in an unflattering light. But in comedy, you need all of your tools to be funny.
Funny is funny, and it can come in 8 billion different shades and flavors, so I think it's silly to kind of limit it.
Video is a funny thing. It's one thing to be an artist, singer-songwriter, and use words and create pictures in people's minds. And then be asked to do video for it, to actually give a certain visual for your song.
— Melissa Etheridge
I'm not on Twitter because I'm worried I'd be really dull, which would be tragic for someone who's supposed to be funny.
— Mel Giedroyc
I don't really like hospitals that much. People are sick; sometimes it can be depressing. There's people going through a lot of pain in there. It has that funny smell.
— Mekhi Phifer
What's funny is I probably still have some calligraphy business cards floating out in the world, and I can't wait for someone to call me in a month or something, and say, 'Can you do these for my son's Bar Mitzvah?'
— Meghan Markle
Sean is so funny. One time he went to Ireland for two weeks with his mother, and Ireland is so beautiful, and he got back; we were like, 'How was it?' and he was like, 'Ugh I was so bored.'
It's so funny because people always think of me as being a little bit country or assume that I am from the South - I don't know why!
— Megan Hilty
Maybe that is why kids like Dumbledore: because he is funny rather than a miserable old sod with a long white beard.
— Michael Gambon
Yeah, it's funny, working on a show with as large a cast as we have here, your work gets sort of compartmentalized. There's still about half the cast that I've never had a scene with but I have missed working with Terry.
I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.
— Michael Crichton
Watching someone getting really angry can be very funny - if it doesn't affect you, you can laugh at it, and the sillier the thing he's angry about, the funnier it is.
There's magic all around us: Our smartphones are magical, 3-D printers are magical. So I feel that as a magician, if I can pull off something that seems real and convincing enough that I can explain why it's happening and have people believe it, it really is fascinating. And funny.
— Michael Carbonaro
Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.
I feel like an '8 Mile' Eminem compared to 'My Name is.' Whenever my name is brought up, it's in a 'Slim Shady' way, and it's funny, and I'm lighthearted, but at the same time, every once in a while, I like to take it seriously.
— Michael Beasley
I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.
— Mercedes McCambridge
I love Charlie, Billy Burke's character. Writing for him is so spectacular, he's so funny and wry and every scene he's in he just takes. There's a scene in 'Eclipse' where Bella tells him she's a virgin, and it's the funniest, most awkward scene I've ever seen on film.
— Melissa Rosenberg
There are a lot of funny women in my life. I never understand those movies where there's eight funny guys and two women who don't have any opinion or humour.
It's funny; as I get older I'm reverting to my roots - I want to plant stuff.
There's been so many different types of musicals, and it's a funny genre because there's a fine line between clever and stupid. It really takes a genius to know how to do it.
If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
Sitcoms are designed for normal people who just want to turn on their TV and get a laugh. It's not high-brow, you don't have to work so hard, and it's meant to be a relatable genre. That's why I love it so much - my fans are from 8 years old to 80 years old, because everybody can relate to what's funny.
— Megyn Price
Every day after school for 10 years, I was on the set of 'Married... with Children,' which is a really funny and perverse place for a little girl in a Catholic school uniform to grow up.
I secretly had this name 'Nancy and Beth' come into my mind, and I thought, 'Oh my God, that's such a funny, interesting, weird name for a band.'
