There's a bunch of different flavours of funny. It's all about the execution of it.
— Jason Bateman
The thing about For Better or Worse is the only thing that made me an okay director for that is that I have a sense of humor, and it was supposed to be funny.
— Jason Alexander
I was raised by my grandparents, and they always made sure that I had a pencil and some paper, whether we were in the car or at a restaurant. While they were enjoying a nice meal, I would be sitting there drawing funny pictures of the waitress.
— Jarrett J. Krosoczka
I'd love to do a comedy. I'm terrified of comedy. I don't think I'm funny, but I guess that's why it's so thrilling.
— Jared Padalecki
I'm always so impressed by people who can just stay super mellow and still be extremely funny.
— Janet Varney
I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person.
— Janeane Garofalo
All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.
— Jane Wagner
But it's funny, I really was quite introverted as a child. I just liked music, so mum and dad bought me a piano when I was seven - I actually got up to Grade Seven at the London College of Music on piano.
— Jane McDonald
Once you start classifying and trying to identify your own comedy style, you've ceased to be funny.
— Jane Lynch
I find something funny when it lives on many levels - a level of self-deprecation, of knowledge and heightened reality.
— Jane Krakowski
Nothing has ever touched on what fun childhood was. Summer holidays were bliss. We made home movies, with real stories in them. My father had such charm and charisma, and made everything so funny.
— Jane Birkin
I was approached to do 'MythBusters' in 2002. I didn't think it would go anywhere, but I guess anything can happen if you wear a funny hat and have lots of facial hair.
— Jamie Hyneman
As a kid, I had to be funny.
— Jamie Farr
It's funny, but as time goes by, I get stopped in airports all the time, and it's always about 'Shannon's Deal.'
— Jamey Sheridan
What's funny is, when I made 'Saw,' I got accused of being a fascist, when I made 'Insidious,' I got accused of being godless, and now I made the 'Conjuring' films, and I'm accused of being too much God.
— James Wan
Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?
— James Thurber
I love my funny poems, but I'd rather break your heart. And if I can do both in the same poem, that's the best.
— James Tate
I guess there's nothing funny about a guy who looks conservative and has it all together, but it's satisfying to see a conservative guy crumbling inside, and I think a lot of American comedy has cottoned on to that.
I'm always more motivated by the pain of a funny character than by what makes him funny.
What's funny is that an old Web site of mine just had one fake bio, and everyone went crazy for it. So when I made the new Web site, I thought, 'I just need to make this one even more absurd.'
I'm a sucker for gag reels and teaser trailers for new seasons. One of the great parts of panels, especially on a show like 'Supernatural,' which can be so dark, it's fun to get up there and laugh and remember we're only telling a story. Seeing Eric Kripke and Ben Edlund up there being so funny always makes me laugh.
Ellen DeGeneres is brilliant. She’s funny, she’s warm and she doesn’t hurt anybody on her show.
— Janet Hubert
I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person-as the people in this room will attest.
It's interesting that whenever I meet some of the other Bond girls, I always have something in common, and it is an interesting sorority. We all share about our Bonds. 'Did your Bond do that?' 'Yes mine did!' So it is quite funny conversations. We may as well be in high school.
— Jane Seymour
If you're contriving something, if you're making something up, it's not funny. You can tell. It's instant. It has to come from someplace real.
I always ended up having the funny part in Shakespeare, but I really thought I'd be doing theater. That was my ambition for myself.
Grandchildren are the Furbies of the offspring world. They're cute, they're funny, you can play with them and then put them away when they start to get on your nerves.
— Jane Fallon
When my father died, my mother came back from being Mrs. Birkin to being Judy Campbell. She was a stunning actress. She came out of her shell. She was herself again: this very independent, funny, intellectual lady - and was able to perform again, which was her life before meeting my father squashed it out.
I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that.
— Jamie Foxx
It's funny how you get a bit older and become more accepting of things. When you're in your twenties, you're skeptical of everything. I definitely felt like that.
— Jamie Dornan
I had just finished working on a play, and we started to talk to the 'Happy Endings' folks. There was interest from both sides, which was exciting, because I thought it was very fresh. Adam Pally's just a really funny, talented dude. I thought I'd be great to jump on and do some comedy.
— James Wolk
You know what's funny is, when I made 'Saw,' I got accused of being a fascist; when I made 'Insidious,' I got accused of being godless, and now I made the 'Conjuring' films, and I'm accused of being too much God.
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
I'm most drawn to characters who are compelling and repellant at the same time, very often right at the same moment, and who are frightening and funny all at once.
— James Spader
Jerry Seinfeld has an interesting theory. He goes, '20 pounds up or down, and you lose your funny.'
I recently spent quite a bit of time in Sheffield, England, which is where I'm from. I wouldn't move back there, but it's funny when you spend a bit of time in the place where you were brought up. You kind of realize how that place has had quite a big effect on you or made you a certain way.
— Jarvis Cocker
I'm too busy thinking what I'm going to say next to remember what I've said, but my staff tells me I'm sometimes funny. Not always on purpose, though.
— Jared Polis
It's easy to be silly in real life, but making stuff up onstage, that seemed hard. Better to be the funny person off-the-cuff in the room than to risk being unfunny onstage.
I don't really have funny things to say about politics. I wish I did, but I don't.
When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.
This may sound funny, but as much as the 'Today' show matured me, it also was something of a cocoon. I'd been happy there. I never went into the boss's office and pounded my fist on the desk, saying, 'Give me more money! Give me a prime-time show!'
— Jane Pauley
It has to come from a truthful place in order to be funny.
Honestly, it's hard to learn about comedy from comedians. Comedy is not something that you necessarily learn or can imitate. You're funny or you're not, and you hope what you're doing is funny.
— Jane Levy
I love playing smart and tough and having funny lines.
— Jane Elliot
I watch 'The Bachelor'. It's one of those things where I always think if it didn't exist and it was on 'SNL,' we would think it would be a ridiculous, funny idea. But it actually exists... It's a glorious train wreck that I love to watch.
— Jamie-Lynn Sigler
You know what? I never really factor Hollywood into anything. I'm a black actor, so I can't really control what Hollywood thinks. I gotta go do my thing, and my jokes have got to be funny. Whatever I do has got to be great.
It's funny when you know you're playing two characters and you're aware of how you have to play each one into your performance of the other. You're constantly at the back of your mind thinking and it all gets a bit confusing.
The townspeople outside the reservations had a very superior attitude toward Indians, which was kind of funny, because they weren't very wealthy; they were on the fringes of society themselves.
— James Welch
You can succeed as a terrible director, but try doing that with stand-up: try being a terrible comedian and getting up on stage. The funny will win out very, very quickly.
— James Veitch
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
