Quotes about Funny

“Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.”

“That's what people forget about, is that when things are very, very powerful in a sad way, they have that possibility of also being over-the-top, hysterically funny.”

“It's fun to do something funny and have the director laughing. It makes you feel good.”

“The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.”

“James Caan told me at the end of filming 'Elf' that he had been waiting through the whole film for me to be funny - and I never was.”

“I am naturally prone to fun or to be funny, but when I talk about myself in interviews, then it's an intellectual exercise.”

“Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.”

“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.”

“There's a lot more to me than just funny.”

“As a woman, you can be funny and 50, but you can't do much else - unless you're Helen Mirren!”

“For some reason and I don't know why, but I don't think that I'm funny in California. So I always want to do my movies east somewhere.”

“If you have a secret, people will sit a little bit closer.”

“I like funny girls.”

“If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.”

“I am odd-looking. I sometimes think I look like a funny Muppet.”

“I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.”

“God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.”