History often reads as a hard and grim experience. But people are remarkably resilient and funny, even when the going is very hard.
— Jim Murphy
That's why you put out records: hoping that people will connect with them. I mean, I play music for myself, for sure, and I would still play music even if people didn't like it. But it means a lot when it connects to people and they enjoy it. But it's funny: you get criticism as much as you get praise. It kind of evens out after awhile.
— Jim James
There's something that's really fun about the challenge of making the mundane funny, too, I think.
— Jim Gaffigan
I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny.
— Jim Carrey
The funny thing about cinema is, usually when they do a story that has African Americans in it, there always has to be a white guy who's the savior.
— Jim Brown
I love Charles Barkley, he's a good friend of mine and he's a funny guy. He knows nothing about college basketball. Less than nothing.
— Jim Boeheim
I've been very lucky to work with people I think are funny and who are really awesome human beings.
— Jillian Bell
It's really easy to be funny. You get a lot of funny people in a room, the show is funny.
— Jill Soloway
Writing for 'Rooster' was a strange experience. It's funny, once you tap into a voice, words just start to flow. You know when you've hit a spirit or captured something.
— Jez Butterworth
Tom Hardy is such a good egg. He's a total teddy bear. He loves his dogs and his kids. He's a true artist. But he's a lovely, naughty, funny man.
— Jessie Buckley
I was so flat-chested in high school that I thought I'd better be funny if guys were going to like me.
— Jessica St. Clair
It's quite funny in that I once won Rear of the Year at my school! I was about 17 in the sixth form and we used to have an end of year celebration and give out different awards. I even got a little trophy!
— Jessica Ennis-Hill
Funny how defined we are by how we present ourselves to the world.
— Jessica Chastain
And if I have kids one day, I can tell them that I was famous on Instagram, which is really funny, and they will think that I’m really lame. Everything is temporary.
— Jessica Barden
I think politics is extremely funny in and of itself.
— Jesse Watters
I guess the more serious you play something, if the context is funny, then it will be funny and it doesn't really require you to be necessarily, explicitly humorous, or silly.
— Jesse Eisenberg
I probably would have gone the M.F.A. route except I was a dad at 19, and it made more sense to go to work for a newspaper and support a kid that way. But the funny thing is, that detour became the most important step in my developing as a novelist.
— Jess Walter
I consider myself very lucky. God has a funny way of bringing some things around and knocking you in the head with the ultimate destination. Something I should have achieved quite easily took me a long time to get around to. It came in His time, not mine.
— Jim Morris
I just want to be known as funny.
I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one's intensity is funny.
— Jim Dine
Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.
I regret behaving badly when I was younger. I did not know any better at the time. The thing is that the incidents that I caused were not funny... Youth is wasted on the young. It is better to have the wisdom of an old man in a young body... I was a bit foolish and teased people, trying to be funny.
— Jim Broadbent
For sheer sexiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no.
— Jilly Cooper
I don't think it's a contradiction to find painfulness funny.
After doing Johnny I wanted to just do something, I wouldn't say innocent, but to not have any care in the world. Lots of setups and horrible happenings but its funny.
— Jhonen Vasquez
Brad Pitt's role in 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith' - I want to do that so bad! That's one of my favorite movies of all time, and that character was so funny.
— Jessie Usher
I was doing a college show for the first time, and there was this 20-year-old gay male who's been diabetic his entire life. He said, 'I really wanna get into stand-up.' I was like, 'Oh, my God, do you realize how interesting and inherently funny you are? Go do all the comedy that you wanna do.' I care about that.
— Jessica Williams
I'm a big Geena Davis fan. I have a Geena Davis-signed baseball, which is funny because I don't get signatures from most baseball players I meet.
— Jessica Mendoza
When I was 12, I snapped my arm in two. My wrist still has a funny bump because they didn't join it back together so great.
— Jessica De Gouw
I've never gotten to do romantic comedy like most of the girls. Maybe because I'm fit, people assume that I'm not funny?
— Jessica Biel
I'm always trying to find the next comedian that just gives me something a little funny to combine with all of the depressing news that I'm processing.
— Jesse Williams
People can rationalize in funny ways to hold onto their dreams and needs.
— Jesse Plemons
There's a misunderstanding about what nonsensical things are - the idea that they're just funny, and that's the beginning and the end of it. Nonsense is not 'not sense' - it operates at the edge of sense. It teems with sense - at the same time, it resists any kind of universal understanding.
— Jesse Ball
I do find it funny, actually, why I'm not more of a Corbyn fan. I am a classic Corbyn fan, really. Not so much on the foreign policy, but I'm leftwing, pro-immigration, pro-welfare spending, there's very little that we wouldn't agree on.
— Jess Phillips
Most of the gaffes I've made have not been funny - they've been stupid.
— Jim Lehrer
Comics write to their point of view. If you're an exceedingly irreverent comedian, you've got to see where that point of view fits or produces the most funny.
I remember certain people in the audience laughing and I wanted to ask: 'What are you laughing at? This isn't funny.' Now I realize that laughter can come from insecurity. They don't know how they should be feeling.
— Jim Dale
I just walk funny.
It's funny how a film about a murderous old English toff can help you.
My friends make me laugh: funny Instagram videos, but mostly people falling over. It's so bad, but it never gets old. I just love how people cover up their falls. The whole experience of 'Oh, I just fell, and I'm going to run out of the fall and pretend I did this on purpose.' I just like to see how people cover up their mishaps.
— Jillian Hervey
It's hard enough to be a lady writer. Doubly hard to be a funny lady writer.
I got to draw monsters, robots and write funny stories. I loved doing that stuff and working with the actors. But it got to be less and less that stuff and more about trying to be everywhere and not being able to do one thing very enjoyably.
My grandparents would never admit to being Tasmanian, but I think it's really great and funny. But I guess, in the past, Tasmanians just weren't quite accepted. You had that lazy reference to them being felons.
— Jessie Cave
When I read a script, I have to see the funny, and if I can see it's funny, it helps me to be able to transmit that.
— Jessica Walter
I like guys who are honest and funny. Looks come and go; I want to be 65 years old and laughing with my husband.
— Jessica Lowndes
Acting, for me, has never been about wanting attention or wanting to be seen. It's funny that I'm in a profession where that's where I am. There's so much I want to express; it's about connecting with another person and the intimacy of what that is, and so I have to overcome my shyness.
There’s a tendency to still show women as being one way or the other - you’re either soft and shy or you’re really ballsy and funny, but I think that we’re everything.
I think it's just funny, the things that come out of people's mouths, whether it's a politician, whether it's an average person on the street - and to be honest with you, sometimes these politicians sound like average people on the street.
Jesse Tyler Ferguson is probably one of the funniest people I've ever met in my life. Everything the kid does is funny. I think he tunes his life to being funny.
— Jesse L. Martin
Why do I love Roald Dahl? His voice, more than anything. It's irreproducible. It's so musical, and it's funny even when it's not trying to be, which is most of the time.
— Jesse Andrews
