I definitely knew I wanted to be an actor in high school. I was doing plays and musicals, and I loved 'Saturday Night Live' and thought that was what I wanted to do - funny sketches and comedies. So I knew then, but I didn't know how to go about it, but I found my way.
— Jerry Trainor
Being a stand-up is my mission in life; it's my passion. My ongoing goal is to simply be funny, on my own, in front of a roomful of strangers.
— Jerry Seinfeld
A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it.
It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.
With Jerry Bruckheimer, you know you'll get your money's worth. You're getting huge action sequences, it's going to be funny, and you know it's going to look great.
— Jerry O'Connell
Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.
— Jerry Lewis
By 1961, when I got my first copywriting job, 'my kind' were suddenly in demand. The creative revolution had begun. Advertising had turned into a business dominated by young, funny, Jewish copywriters and tough, sometimes violent, Greek and Italian art directors.
— Jerry Della Femina
What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.
— Jerome K. Jerome
You can't teach standup comedy. You can teach someone how to formulate a joke, but making it funny is different.
— Jermaine Fowler
The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London.
— Jeremy Northam
Crashing is never funny, but sometimes you can jump up, laugh at your stupidity, and go, 'What the hell was that?'
— Jens Voigt
I think sometimes in comedy the characters are often sacrificed for the joke, and it's more important for it to be funny than for there to be love.
— Jenny Slate
I guess now that I think back, I used to play priest and be a funny priest. I don't know, I grew up in such a Catholic family that I kind of liked to test the boundaries a little bit and I think I had fun watching my mom laugh.
— Jenny McCarthy
It's interesting with my blog, because it feels to me less like a blog and more like a forum, because my readers are so funny and leave hysterical comments. And I'm not being humble when I say that very often, the comments are so much better than the post originally was.
— Jenny Lawson
If you have a movie that doesn't strive to go to a certain emotional point, you can do anything and it will be fine and funny. But if you have something pretty emotional at its core, you have to make it right. You don't want it overwrought or unearned. Everything has to be moving towards this one thing.
— Jennifer Yuh Nelson
This is going to sound cheesy, but with acting there are so many tools. When you're on camera, you're using all of it. You're using the voice, you're using your body, you're using wardrobe, all of it, but it's funny, once you take all of those things away, you realize how much you rely on the physicality.
— Jennifer Stone
A romantic comedy has to be funny and make you think about life; but the obstacle that has to be overcome is key.
— Jennifer Lopez
I don't think my judgment is that good. I don't know what is funny.
— Jerry Stiller
I don't need you to be funny. I don't want to be entertained.
The IRS! They're like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!
Don't write us off. Nobody thought we'd win the World Series in 2005, but we did. There are years when we think we're great, and we're bad. I mean, the funny thing about this game is that you can't figure it out.
— Jerry Reinsdorf
God hadn't made me handsome, but he'd given me something, I always felt: funny bones.
We've finally told the world that this is sports entertainment, and I think one of the best forms of entertainment is anything that's fun or funny, something that you really enjoy watching or listening to.
— Jerry Lawler
Funny, I don't feel any more powerful today than yesterday.
— Jerry B. Jenkins
You meet somebody on a bus or something, and they say, 'Thank you for the World Cup; it was so good to see,' and stuff like this - it's funny.
— Jerome Boateng
I was influenced by a lot of comedy growing up, I had good parents. They were funny, too. My mom was hilarious; my dad was hilarious. I guess being at home around the environment was just a good stage to get started.
It seems like everybody's perception of me is very bipolar. To one group, it's overpaid, overrated; to another group, it's underpaid, underrated, underdog. It's funny to me because there's no real balance.
— Jeremy Lin
I start writing songs first as an entertainer, and I like funny stories that wrap up with dignity.
— Jens Lekman
I always thought that farts were funny, and I always thought that they were mine to talk about because they came out of my body.
Sometimes people come to my shows and think I'm a Christian artist, and they put their hands up in the air, like they do. But first of all, I'm a Jewish girl from the Valley, and I'm from Los Angeles. It's funny to be misinterpreted.
— Jenny Lewis
As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965, I didn't know that funny women existed. It wasn't until I got back to England that I realised women could be funny.
— Jenny Eclair
I think I want what every girl wants in a man. I would like him to be funny, honest, trustworthy. These are the basic qualities that we all look for in a man.
— Jennifer Winget
Commissioners are obsessed with young people, which is funny because they don't watch telly - only old people do.
— Jennifer Saunders
I know people will think it's funny because I've done glamour modelling in the past, but I felt embarrassed about my body and just wanted to cover it up.
— Jennifer Ellison
During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.
Funny is the world I live in. You're funny, I'm interested. You're not funny, I'm not interested.
I think it's funny to be delicate with subjects that are explosive.
I think of myself as a funny guy but nobody thinks I'm funnier than my daughters.
I turned down 'Some Like It Hot.' See how smart I am? I felt I couldn't bring anything funny to it. The outfit was funny. I don't need to compete with the wardrobe.
It was funny that rank-and-file evangelicals were ahead of all the leadership. They saw for decades conservative Republicans had made promises to them on issues that were important to Christians and conservatives when they were running for office. But when they won, they didn't keep those promises.
— Jerry Falwell, Jr.
I'm inspired by people who are unapologetically themselves, from Bill Cosby to Fahim Anwar. Just funny people.
— Jerrod Carmichael
Humor was how I got through everything in my life. I used to find a funny way to get out of situations. That's who I was. That's who I am!
I was always worried with comedy - what if I came to work and I wasn't in a funny mood? That hasn't been an issue.
— Jeremy Sisto
I don't think I am particularly funny. In fact, I know I'm not.
— Jeremy Clarkson
Every wedding is slightly different from the other. But you always get to meet the funny uncle and the weirdo relatives, and there's always someone trying to beat you up for not playing enough Beatles songs or something.
It's funny; in fashion, you can never relax and feel like it's all sorted. Every season, you have to give yourself a challenge and come up with something new and fresh.
— Jenny Packham
It's funny how a song can start in your mind, and then when it goes through all the filters, it ends up in a totally different spot.
I can't watch other people doing comedy. As soon as somebody starts being funny I have to turn off because it upsets me. I get comedy indigestion. I just hate anybody else being funny. That's my job.
I don't write literary fiction - I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny and have things to say about men and women and families and children and life in America today.
— Jennifer Weiner
I would really like to do a really cool one-hour show, maybe on, like, HBO or something like that; or something that I've spent a couple of years developing so it would be exactly the character and exactly in with a huge push behind it; or I would maybe want to do a sitcom; something light and funny.
— Jennifer Love Hewitt
