In something like 'Frank,' which is a comedy, albeit a strange and emotional one, you can absolutely put in deleted scenes, and we did because they were just funny and great, but they weren't necessary in the overall structure.
— Lenny Abrahamson
Go for broke with what you believe and what you think is funny and what you're good at.
— Lennon Parham
There's so many other talented women of color who write funny things every day, and I want them to be recognized, I want them to have a seat at the table because we're out here.
— Lena Waithe
It's funny, I never considered that people are going to see me on the show and maybe stop me on the subway.
— Lena Dunham
I started making skits, and I started, like, getting more followers, and, like, my friends told their friends, like, 'Oh, she actually be funny.'
— Lele Pons
Now when I see something beautiful or funny or sweet, sometimes I reach for my camera, but other times I think, 'I need to let this moment exist. I don't have to capture everything. I just want to experience it.'
— Leelee Sobieski
Only bad golfers are lucky. They're the ones bouncing balls off trees, curbs, turtles and cars. Good golfers have bad luck. When you hit the ball straight, a funny bounce is bound to be unlucky.
— Lee Trevino
When I tell a joke, I don't think about who's listening to it. I tell the jokes I think are funny.
— Lee Mack
It's funny, because when you tell people you've stopped drinking, there's an automatic reaction. People ask, ‘Was it a lifestyle choice or were you waking up in a skip?'
When you have a lousy football team, you learn to be funny.
— Lee Corso
The funny thing is the songs that people think are about me probably aren't. And the songs that are probably are the ones they wouldn't think... so that's where it kind of is funny.
— LeAnn Rimes
You know, Stephen says, in the movies no one ever goes to the bathroom. They shave, they brush their teeth. He goes right at this sort of funny taboo we have about the bathroom, and he turned it into this nightmare, you know, your worst fear of what's in there.
— Lawrence Kasdan
Since kindergarten, I was the shortest kid in class. They always put me toward the front in school pictures, because you couldn't see me if I was in the back. It was kind of funny.
— Laurie Hernandez
If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.
— Laurence J. Peter
Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.
You have to go as hard as you possibly can, or it's going to be weak. Whenever I find myself not committing fully to a character, it's not as funny. It doesn't have that clear point of view, and you find yourself wandering all over the place, whereas committed characters make strong choices that are clear to the audience.
— Lauren Lapkus
I didn't grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny - those are the things I got feedback on.
— Lauren Graham
Generally speaking, cancer - not that funny of a thing. When you hear about it, you don't go, 'Oh, hilarious!'... But within that - comedy, tragedy, hand-in-hand.
I had a moment - and I don't know if it was funny, necessarily, but I realized the effect I could have on people - when I was doing a production of 'The Little Prince,' and I played the snake.
I've never directed before, so I need to make sure that people know that I can. The movie that I've written, 'The Sophisticates,' is a... small ensemble comedy and I hope it's charming and funny.
— Lena Headey
There's always an article coming out, saying, 'The new thing is funny women!'
The inspiration for my Vines comes from thinking about funny and relatable experiences from my daily life.
When I had my daughter, Louisanna, two and a half years ago, I started recording every funny or sweet thing she said or did on my phone.
Eddie Drake is sort of this loose cannon, funny, edgy guy, who has this really foolish, foolish mustache.
— Lee Tergesen
Bobby Ball, who plays my dad in 'Not Going Out,' is very funny. He has a magical sense for comedy that nobody has been able to replicate.
Loads of blokes think they're funny, but it counts for nothing unless you get up and have a go.
The Florida Gator head is long and funny looking. It scrapes my nose. Every time I put that thing on I get scraped and blood comes down my face.
I want to be in 'Funny Girl.' And I want Ryan Murphy to direct it.
— Lea Michele
It's funny: when you're an artist, your own work goes in and out of fashion with you.
— Laurie Simmons
I reach for funny books all the time to help me get through life.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
It's funny, a lot of people think I take myself seriously because I come off so serious sometimes. But it's not that I take myself seriously, I take what I do seriously.
— Laurence Fishburne
Society is really coming to a point where they're not asking if women can be funny anymore. We all know they obviously are.
It is funny, the things you miss about a more conventional lifestyle. I miss seemingly mundane tasks, like cleaning the kitchen, moving my furniture around to achieve just the right look, and checking the mailbox. I miss making my bed in the morning before work.
— Lauren Gibbs
'Playing House' works because we're being supremely honest to what we think is funny and not what we think other people think is funny.
I'm not a broad comic, but I think I can be funny and I think I make people laugh.
— Lennie James
I never thought of myself as like, a funny person.
I mean, I - it's so funny, I am, you know, I am, you know, a working woman out in the world, but I still live with my parents half the time. I've been sort of taking this very long, stuttering period of moving out.
In this world, everyone wants to know everything about you, and I think that's funny.
— Leighton Meester
I love movies that are funny and scary and truly emotional all in one film, and I don't feel like I see movies like that a lot.
— Lee Unkrich
I've got a funny way of looking at things. It's because I'm dyslexic, and I was diagnosed with ADD when I was younger. And I'm left-handed as well.
— Lee Ryan
If I am old-fashioned, it's not a conscious decision. I just do material that I think is funny.
I don't really find things funny unless they're deeply tragic at the same time. I think if you're funny just for the sake of being funny, it's just frivolous nonsense. To me, all the best comic plays have been written about really serious and rather bleak things.
— Lee Hall
I'm a pretty funny guy, and I would love to do a comedy with a bunch of funny guys - movie-star guys, where they could help me through it.
— LeBron James
It's funny because when I got 'Jarhead' and 'Avatar' and all those movies, 'Leprechaun' still to this day airs on BET. I was thinking, 'Will they just let it go? I finally have a body of work that can speak much better to what I can do than just Leprechaun.'
— Laz Alonso
I do like writing. When I was a little kid, I used to love writing funny, silly stories - and my mom would always encourage it. I don't know why I ever stopped!
And I think comedy obviously a great way to get a message out because you know the reason why things are funny is because they're true.
— Laurie David
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Being a black woman, there's so many different sides of us. We are funny, silly, romantic, professional, smart, and we have good jobs.
— Lauren London
I think I was always a class clown growing up and a funny kid. I never really knew how to channel that until I got into high school.
