“Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.”
Laughter is free therapy. These quotes are here to make you smile, snort, or genuinely laugh out loud. They cover the absurdity of life, the comedy of human nature, and the particular genius of people who can make a serious point while being hilarious.
“The fans of 'The Hunger Games,' of the book, are very passionate. It's funny: Even at my concerts there are people holding up 'Cinna' signs.”
“Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.”
“I wouldn't totally rule out doing Letterman or the Tonight Show if I had a set that I just happened to write that I thought was funny but was still appropriate for network censors. But I'm not going to go out of my way.”
“'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' is a good one because it not only turned out, I think, to be a really funny movie but it was also a delight to shoot. We were in the South of France, working with Glenne Headly and Michael Caine and Frank Oz the director - who were just fun.”
“If at first you don't succeed... so much for skydiving.”
“It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it.”
“So often, I read scripts and am like, 'This would never happen in real life. It's not trying to be funny. It's trying to be serious.'”
“It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.”
“It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.”
“I mean, sometimes... a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don't deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of acting is to be truthful, and they get that mixed up sometimes, or don't even notice that that's the thing.”
“The word 'funny' is a bit like the word 'love' - we don't have enough words to describe the many varieties.”
“I don't really get shaken very much. People could heckle me, a spotlight could go out, I could forget a lyric... I'm not operating on somebody's brain, you know what I mean? So I just think it's all funny.”
“If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we'd know who she was?”
“People used to be funny about approaching me, but now they seem to think I'm as sane as anyone who's done what I've done in movies can be.”
“A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live.”
“I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that.”