Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" The funny thing about having all this so-called success is that behind it is a certain horrible emptiness. "

Related Quotes:

" I'm extremely grateful that I found writing, but it doesn't make it any more peaceful. "

" Maori get pigeonholed into the idea they're spiritual and telling stories like 'Whale Rider' and 'Once Were Warriors,' quite serious stuff, but we're pretty funny people, and we never really have had an opportunity to show that side of ourselves, the clumsy, nerdy side of ourselves, which is something I am. "

" The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around. "

Thomas A. Edison

" You know how old I am? I'm so old, I remember when Letterman used to be funny and it was presidents who were serious. That's how old I am. "

" Instant gratification takes too long. "

" A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children. "

" I'd say Jon Stewart has remained funny the entire time. Jon always makes it funny first. And he's just, he's talking about serious things, but in a funny way. Other comedians will talk about serious things in a serious way, and then you don't know what's going on. "

" The funny thing is people won't let me pay for things. I'll be in a restaurant and the manager will say, 'Oh no, it's on the house.' "

Richard Branson

" I'm a pretty funny guy, and I would love to do a comedy with a bunch of funny guys - movie-star guys, where they could help me through it. "

" I had everything I'd hoped for, but I wasn't being myself. So I decided to be honest about who I was. It was strange: The people who loved me for being funny suddenly didn't like me for being... me. "

Ellen DeGeneres

" It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance. "

" Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. "

" It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean. "

" I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth. "

" It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse. "

Adlai E. Stevenson

" It's really funny because the same people who loved me as Stringer Bell were the same people that were watching 'Daddy's Little Girls' literally in tears. "

" I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. "

" Being nice can be funny. A lot of my jokes are like, 'Let me take a bad situation and try to put the best spin on it.' "

" I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me. "

" Phil Hartman was brilliant, and Dave Foley is a really funny guy. Phil Hartman was actually even funnier offstage than he was onstage because he would say nasty things. Dave Foley's very funny, very witty guy, very quick. "

" I'm very, very amateur, which is funny because I'm not in the amateur leagues. "

" I really love showing up at work at 10 A.M., trying to make it funny until 3 P.M., and then going home. It's like comedy bankers' hours. "

" I don't say things to be offensive; I say things because they're funny to me. It amuses me. "

" Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. "

" Who knew Rob Lowe was funny? On 'Parks and Rec,' we've got some of the funniest comedy writers, some of the funniest comedians in the world working there. And if anything, we don't just effuse to one another and be like, 'Oh, Rob Lowe's really funny,' if he wasn't. "

" There's no such thing as soy milk. It's soy juice. "

" Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. "

" What after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean. "

Christopher Fry

" When I'm on stage, it's really intense. My mind is going a million miles an hour, trying to remember my act, trying to say it all the right way. It's funny how different it looks and how it's happening. There are three Fellini circuses in my head, and outwardly it looks like I'm going to get a bagel. "

" Someone told me that when they go to Vermont, they feel like they're home. I'm that way at Saks. "