Funny Things famous quotes
04-14-2025
-
They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them.
-- A. A. Milne -
It's a funny thing about me. I don't have any interest in food most of the time now, although when I was a kid I was always hungry
-- Alan Ladd -
One day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell each other, "My little computer said such a funny thing this morning".
-- Alan Turing -
My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.
-- Alan Turing -
Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.
-- Alice Hoffman -
It's a funny thing, the more I practice the luckier I get.
-- Arnold Palmer -
The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman, and you don't know that.
-- Arthur Miller -
It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.
-- Barbara Pym -
What makes a good animated movie is being able to balance adult and knowing in-jokes and also just out and out funny things that make all people laugh. The idea that it's actually something that will appeal to a family, that's the trick.
-- Benedict Cumberbatch -
Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. Its a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less funny things can take place later. It really is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.
-- Billy Collins -
There's lots of kinds of chains. You can't see most of them, the one's that bind folks together. But people build them, link by link. Sometimes the links are weak, snap like this one did. That's another funny thing, now that I think of it. Sometimes when you mend a chain, the place where you fix it is strongest of all.
-- Bruce Coville -
A comedian does funny things. A good comedian does things funny.
-- Buster Keaton -
It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.
-- C. S. Lewis -
There were tons of bronzed Scandinavian types at the Sorbonne. Marvellously blond and healthy and shining white teeth. Funny thing though, because someone told me that if you actually go to Scandinavia none of the people who actually live there look like that. It's just a front they put up when they're abroad.
-- Charlotte Bingham -
I like funny things, but I don't find myself particularly funny.
-- Chris Messina -
You know, the funny thing about Lorne and that show is that, you can go over one million things, but in a business of bean counters, he still likes to laugh at small things and creates a show around it.
-- Colin Quinn -
You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written by people much like themselves. They think that writers are all dead long ago--they don't expect to meet them in the street or out shopping. They know their stories but not their names, and certainly not their faces. And most writers like it that way.
-- Cornelia Funke -
The funny thing about these uniforms is that you hang them in the closet and they get smaller and smaller.
-- Curt Flood -
I'm sure that people who have been tweeting funny things have ended up on writing staffs of a late night show.
-- Dane Cook -
What you do with it and things like that, but I basically chose this after I read it because I thought it was different and funny and unique and dark - things that I like to do.
-- Danny DeVito -
The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors.
-- Dar Williams -
I think that the episodes are like mini horror films really; the characters make bad decisions early on and these things just snowball for them and get worse and worse. And that's what I find funny.
-- Dave Rowntree -
The funny thing is that I had never actually watched TV.
-- Dave Willis -
You'd put yourself in a play and get to know the system and learn how to be directed, and then you could be a director. So, I've just always done it. It was always a hobby. The funny thing was that when I started to get paid to do it as a professional job, I lost my hobby. I don't know what to do. I have to take up something else now.
-- David Oakes -
We sit in a room for months trying to think of funny things.
-- David Walliams -
Chemistrys a funny thing. It can be instantaneous, but it helps when you know someone.
-- David Walton -
Here's the funny thing about the response I've been aware of to my dating famous people: It's been very negative. I'm either not good-looking enough, not a good enough actor or not successful enough for these people.
-- Dax Shepard -
And the funny thing was if you made the best of it, if you smiled through every storm, the bad things were never as terrible as you expected them to be, and the good things were better than anything you could have wished for yourself.
-- Dean Koontz -
If you look at the game and everything, it's not quite like looking at an animated film, because that's total character. This, this is really movement, but it's got funny little things if you look for the humor. They're actually getting to the character.
-- Don Bluth -
Some people say funny things, but I say things funny.
-- Don Rickles -
A comic says funny things. A comedian says things funny.
-- Ed Wynn -
I look crazy, but I'm not. And the funny thing is, that other people don't look crazy, but they are.
-- Eden Ahbez -
Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end.
-- Edward Albee -
Funny thing about the monster. The worse he treats you, the more you love him.
-- Ellen Hopkins -
It's a funny thing - when I'm crazed with work, spending time with my children relaxes me. Yet, at the end of a long weekend with them, the very thing I need to relax is a little work and time away from them!
-- Emily Giffin -
I like happy things, I'm really calm and peaceful. I like birds, bees, I like people. I like funny things that make me happy and gleeful... like when my teacher sucked my wee-wee in pre-school!
-- Eminem -
It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what’s changed, is you.
-- Eric Roth -
It was my mom who told me, "Ernie, if you make even one person happy with your smile or a funny thing you did every day, you'll have accomplished a great deal." And that's all I've ever tried to do.
-- Ernest Borgnine -
We went through all the scenes and they became kind of funny and they expanded a little bit and because it seemed to be working so well in the movie, they added a couple of things later on in the movie and that's how it turned out.
-- Eugene Levy -
Another funny thing about having friends was that they expected things of you. they made you want to not be a terrible, awful, execrable person. They made you feel worse when you were one. It was a lot easier not to have any friends.
-- Francine Pascal -
When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.
-- Francois Truffaut -
It's a funny thing about writing. You get so balled up in a story idea that you lose your perspective and forget that human being might read your words someday.
-- Gary Reilly -
He had no one but himself to blame, for he’d opened himself up to it. Just a fraction at first, like a crack in a window. But the funny thing was, once you welcomed in a breeze, there was no stopping what came next. A wind, a storm, thunder and lightning, until you could no longer reach the window to close it—and didn’t really want to anyway. That’s what this new darkness was. Evil in its purest form... -Paris
-- Gena Showalter -
Funny thing, every time an angel appeared to someone in the Bible, the first thing he'd say was, "Fear not."... I guess they were pretty spectacular.
-- Gilbert Morris -
You know, albums are a funny thing. They're not like an intellectual decision. It's a collection of your kind of musings.
-- Glen Hansard -
Time is a funny thing. I was always puzzled with the way a single day could stretch itself out to the point of eternity in your mind, all while years melted down into the fraction of a second.
-- Gloria Naylor -
A funny thing about tolerant people? They're really only tolerant when you agree with them.
-- Greg Gutfeld -
It is a funny thing, but when I am making music, all the answers I seek for in life seem to be there, in the music. Or rather, I should say, when I am making music, there are no questions and no need for answers.
-- Gustav Mahler -
Play out a boring game to the end and funny things can happen; Fischer knew it.
-- Hans Ree -
The funny thing is that people see one film like 'Racing Stripes' or 'Ice Princess' and all of a sudden, slip me into this category of 'that's what she's always involved in.
-- Hayden Panettiere -
The funny thing about good people—people like Daneca—is that they really honestly don’t get the impulse toward evil. They have an incredibly hard time reconciling with the idea that a person who makes them smile can still be capable of terrible things. Which is why, although she’s accusing me of being a murderer, she seems more annoyed than actually worried about getting murdered. Daneca seems to persist in a belief that if I would just listen and understand how bad my bad choices are, I’d stop making them.
-- Holly Black -
Those lips had curved into a knowing half smile that did funny things to her insides. And like a match tossed to gasoline, her body sparked alive and flames licked every inch of her.
-- J. Lynn -
While I was busy hating Vegas, and hiding from Vegas, a funny thing happened. I grew to love Vegas.
-- J. R. Moehringer -
I think back to some of the things Harry said and some of the things I said trying to be funny. If I said them now, it would be on the front page of every newspaper in the country.
-- Jack Buck -
But the funny thing is, I broke my finger not on set doing kung fu. I broke my finger when I fell down the stairs prior to going on set
-- Jaime King -
The funny thing is, I've never really hurt myself in an action movie. I've done 'Wanted,' 'X-Men,' 'Welcome To The Punch,' even 'Trance' to a certain extent has little bits of action and stuff, but I've never really hurt myself at all - not even like a sprained ankle.
-- James McAvoy -
The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective.
-- James Patterson -
There are some quite funny things about getting famous and stuff, but I think there comes a point where you have to think to yourself, "Well, am I doing this because I want to go to a party and meet Britney Spears? Or am I doing it because I want to create something that excites me?"
-- Jarvis Cocker -
When I first saw Ellie, I knew it was her-- she was my fantasy. I didn't want it to be true, but every time I met her it was obvious, and the funny thing was that she was better than the fantasy, like I got more stuff than I'd imagined.
-- Jenny Downham -
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 -
Loyalty was a funny thing. So was love. They both bit you when you least expected it.
-- Jodi Lynn Anderson -
Change is a funny thing. We never are quite sure what we are becoming or even why. Then one day we look at ourselves and wonder who we are and how we got that way. Only one thing about change remains constant...it is always painful
-- Jodi Picoult -
Kids cannot follow stories. They don't know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening.
-- John Kricfalusi -
Success is a funny thing. It means different things to different people. For me, I am always pleased when people connect to our brand. It means we are executing in a manner that speaks to a wide variety of businesses.
-- John Varvatos -
The funny thing is you oddly don't really say goodbye to all the characters you've played. There's like a chest of drawers in your head that you can always access. They're always around. I'm not sure if that's healthy. But they're all there.
-- Johnny Depp -
There's something about comedy, funny things, that people want to pass them along. Serious things and personal things are much more privately enjoyed. That's why there are not a lot of sad viral videos.
-- Jonathan Coulton -
That's a funny thing, fame. People definitely do treat you differently. When you begin to be successful, people say, 'Don't go changing.' Well, that's easy to say, but the fact is, you don't change at all -- other people do.
-- Jonathan Rhys Meyers -
Nothing is ever finished. It's a funny thing. I actually think that's really the more natural way of stories or songs.
-- Joseph Gordon-Levitt -
I'm always busy. You know, the more I do, the more ideas I have—that's the funny thing. The brain is a muscle, and I'm a kind of body builder.
-- Karl Lagerfeld -
I went to go see 'Final Destination' which you have to be 17 and over to see and they're like 'Uh, we need to see your I.D.' Here's the really funny thing is that I actually had done my hair and makeup that day. If I don't do my hair and makeup I can understand it but I had actually made an effort to look older.
-- Kay Panabaker -
I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what things are funny and not.
-- Keenen Ivory Wayans -
What has been happening more lately - of course, I also put in my bio, I say I do the voice of Goliath, but some people go - you know, I say something, and it's a funny thing when you work in this business, people will talk out loud in front of you like you're not there.
-- Keith David -
Comedy should never be over-analysed. It's either funny or it isn't. There's a subtle difference between those who say funny things and those who say things funny.
-- Ken Dodd -
You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.
-- Ken Kesey -
The funny thing about commercials to me is that many of them now don't even mention the product until the very end. You don't really know what the commercial is all about. They're kind of like little movies, like shorts, and that's why I think they're so entertaining.
-- Kevin Nealon -
The funny thing about television is that once you start to do it you never get time to watch it.
-- Kevin Sorbo -
It's a funny thing... but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.
-- Khaled Hosseini -
The really funny thing is that my mom and my dad never, ever, ever wanted me to be in this businessbut it just kind of happened. I blame it all on my mom who was still dancing on stage with me when she was however many months pregnant. I always say that I was dancing and acting in the belly. I feel like it’s something I was born with and inspired by my family since I grew up backstage, watching them perform. I guess it was just a natural path for me.
-- Ksenia Solo -
What I do onstage, there's maybe .0001 percent of the population that acts like that. I talk like that because it makes me laugh, and because I know a couple of people that talk like that. They're really that Southern. And they do funny things. I love 'em; they're awesome. They're good people.
-- Larry the Cable Guy -
That's the funny thing about life. We're rarely aware of the bullets we dodge. The just-misses. The almost-never-happeneds. We spend so much time worrying about how the future is going to play out and not nearly enough time admiring the precious perfection of the present.
-- Lauren Miller -
That's where depression hits you most - your home life. It doesn't affect your work. I can't do this zany, wacky, funny thing any more. I haven't been like that for a long time.
-- Lenny Henry -
Funny thing how you first meet the woman that you marry. I first met the wife in a tunnel of love. She was digging it.
-- Les Dawson -
Though the funny thing about never being asked for anything is that after a while you start to feel like maybe you don’t have anything worth giving.
-- Lev Grossman -
That's the funny thing about religion: it doesn't matter what you say, you're going to upset someone.
-- Lewis Black -
That's the funny thing about old hurts- they just wait for new heartache to come along and then show up, just as sharp and horrible as the first day you woke up with the world changed all around you.
-- Lilith Saintcrow -
The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill pen for hour after hour.
-- Lincoln Child -
Time's a funny thing, bending, warping, stretching, and compressing, all depending on perspective.
-- Lisa Genova -
Grand Slams are funny things. You have to try to find a way to get through the first week and put yourself in a position in the second week. A lot of strange things happen.
-- Lleyton Hewitt -
It is a funny thing what the brain will do with memories and how it will treasure them and finally bring them into odd juxtapositions with other things, as though it wanted to make a design, or get some meaning out of them, whether you want it or not, or even see it.
-- Loren Eiseley -
One funny thing is, though, I wear my watch on my right hand and I'm actually right-handed. People always wonder why - I don't know myself, I've just always done it that way and I like it the way a good watch fits on my right wrist.
-- Luke Evans -
The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
-- Macaulay Culkin -
People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.
-- Mark Ruffalo -
What a funny thing painting is. The abstract painters always insist on their connection with the visible reality, while the so called figurative artists insist that what they really care about, is the abstract qualities of life.
-- Marlene Dumas -
The funny thing about stop signs is that they're also start signs.
-- Maureen Johnson -
The funny thing is, London is an incredibly interesting city. It's very sexy and it's very different, with the Thames winding through it like a snake.
-- Mel Smith -
The funny thing about making this record and being away from the girls and on my own in LA is that it allowed me to reflect on how much we've accomplished.
-- Melanie Chisholm -
Memory is a funny thing. It tricks you into believing that you've forgotten important moments, and then when you're raking your brain for a bit of information that might make sense of something else, it taps you on the head and says, "Remember when you told me to put that memory in the green rubbish bin? Well, I didn't, I put it in the black recycling tub, and it's coming your way again.
-- Melina Marchetta
