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It's a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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That's the funny thing about trying to escape. You never really can. Maybe temporarily, but not comp...
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STEVE BREEN You have to have a sense of humor about all of it - the Emmys and politics and everything.
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If someone is trying to share a laugh and you personally do not find it funny, then just move on and...
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KATE WALSH I don't have hard numbers about this, but the impression I get is that the amount of eyeballs yo...
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Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation of man, a peril to the peace of the w...
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"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS
To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Happiness does not create humor. There's nothing funny about being happy. Sadness creates humor. Kra... CHARLES M. SCHULZ
To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. GOLDA MEIR
To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD
The great thing about acting is that you get to be a lot of different things in one lifetime. You ge... EVA AMURRI
One of the things non-aboriginal Canadians learned from aboriginal people over the last 400 years is... JOHN RALSTON SAUL
I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ... NEIL GAIMAN Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI The fun thing about writing a book with multiple paths and multiple endings is you really get to exp...
RYAN NORTH
Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... JOSEPH CONRAD It's one thing to have your partner tell you he or she has multiple personalities, and it's another ...
TRACY ALDERMAN TV writing is tricky to navigate because you have so many different personalities - the actors, mult...
ROGER AVARY When Humor Falls Flat
“Humor is not a "one-size fits all" guarantee. What is hilarious ...
SUSAN C. YOUNG To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH
To be, or not to be: what a question! E.A. BUCCHIANERI I mean the cool thing about the movies is that you get to try on these different personalities and d...
EDWARD BURNS It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't hav...
RANDY NEWMAN At first you want to have a reputation as being talented or funny or...you know...special. As you go...
JON FAVREAU
If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a ... ORLANDO BLOOM
If you try to be funny, you're not being funny. JOHN GORDON SINCLAIR
Marry me. Nay, marriage will cost us precious moments together. Let us make sweet, passionate love r... KIERSTEN WHITE
The funny thing is I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own - after all I've never had ... FRANCESCA ANNIS
You have to have a sense of humor about life to get through it. KESHA I think you figure out how to be funny by necessity. It's not a natural thing, being funny in th...
JULIE BROWN A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE
There's something very authentic about humor, when you think about it. Anybody can pretend to be... BILLY COLLINS
Though the funny thing about never being asked for anything is that after a while you start to feel ... LEV GROSSMAN I think that it's hard for vain people to be funny. I think you can look any way you want as lon...
TARAN KILLAM
It's a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM You are not just a funny person or just a journalist. Most people are hybrids of having a smart opin...
KATIE NOLAN What's happening with feminism in general is I think that, as a woman, you're not limited to...
ERIN FOSTER
Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life. WILLIAM GOLDMAN
The fun is getting to wear multiple disguises and getting to explore multiple personalities and brin... JENNA FISCHER He is charged with multiple murder for the siege.
ARTURO LOMIBAO I think the most important thing journalism taught me is to mine for details. The details are key. Y...
KAREN ABBOTT
It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT
You get spoiled as a novelist because you get to be the director and the editor, and you play all th... JO NESBO
Honestly, I like someone who is really grounded, super sweet, honest. I need them to have a sense of... CASPER SMART
It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It we... TESSA DARE The funny thing about television is that once you start to do it you never get time to watch it.
KEVIN SORBO
You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel. HARRY BELAFONTE
The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody ... ROBERT M. PIRSIG
Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny ... WAVY GRAVY People don't realize it's not just about being funny, and they don't know how perceptive...
ERIK GRIFFIN The funny thing about fake ass people is that they don't exist in my world so get real or get the fu...
JOHN MAIORANA (GIOVANNI) Being a humorist is not a voluntary thing. You can tell this because in a situation where saying a f...
P. J. O'ROURKE I don't think that there's necessarily a side to drama that has to be completely bleak. You ...
AMY SEIMETZ
I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor an... MICHAEL BUBLE
He was so much the picture of different kinds of assimilation that it was almost a case of multiple ... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of ... AL FRANKEN
To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be... AL GOLDSTEIN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
Not everyone has the time to be normal. LJUPKA CVETANOVA
That's the funny thing about trying to escape. You never really can. Maybe temporarily, but not comp... JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT
It's a funny thing about that bust. As time goes on it seems to get younger and younger. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
If we really exist merely to fulfill God’s plan: then life is a television drama; with God being t... MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.
J. TILLMAN It's not about being funny. It's about being candid and real. This is a marked shift in our approach...
BEN STUART I'm Jim Phillips, I have multiple personalities. I'm also a skindiver, a puppeteer, and I wa...
RYAN STILES With TV, you just have to finish the days and get the episodes out. And it's always going to be ...
DYLAN O'BRIEN The thing to remember about being young is you eventually get old.
EZRA KLEIN
The great thing about not being American is that you don't assume you know what a Southern accen... CATE BLANCHETT The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to ...
MICHAEL YORK The best thing about switching from being an actor to being a director is that you don't have to sha...
DICK POWELL
Try to find someone with a sense of humor. That's an important thing to have because when you ge... ED SHEERAN
The best thing you can do when you're not feeling funny is go out and get more stimuli from the ... ROB DELANEY It's different. But I was definitely ready, and I was charged about it. How could you not be?
AL LEITER I've always had a penchant for dialects. I remember getting detention and being told, 'Have ...
NOLAN NORTH
I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler p... VERA FARMIGA It’s a funny thing, one day you’re living and the next day you’re not sometimes, whether you h...
DAN GROAT
It's an odd beast, fame. It's got multiple personalities. WOODY HARRELSON
People want me to be funny all the time. They think I'm being funny no matter what I say or do a... CHRISTOPHER GUEST I don't think you can teach people how to be funny. You can make suggestions about how to speak ...
GEORGE CUKOR I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a...
WALLACE SHAWN One thing I would say is real cops have real gallows senses of humor and make incredibly funny and i...
DANIEL J. GOOR Are you being the best you can be? Are you doing the best you can do? Do you have the best you can h...
LORRIN L. LEE
You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then... TERRY BRADSHAW I have been in dialogue with my family about what can actually be done. We've come up with this ...
WADADA LEO SMITH You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it.
ALLEN KLEIN
I appreciate humor so much, but I'm actually not a funny girl. EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI It's a fun job, but it's stressful because you have to be funny. You have to have punch line...
STEVE BREEN You have to have a sense of humor about all of it - the Emmys and politics and everything.
BILLY EICHNER Not that there is anything funny about the whole thing, but there is some humor in seeing all these ...
GREG RIGAMER
If someone is trying to share a laugh and you personally do not find it funny, then just move on and... JOHN PATRICK HICKEY I don't need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It's ver...
KATE WALSH I don't have hard numbers about this, but the impression I get is that the amount of eyeballs yo...
RANDALL MUNROE I compare Stephen Sondheim with humor, because humor is unanalyzable. You can't analyze humor. Y...
ELAINE STRITCH I have a really dry sense of humor. I don't think it's funny when people wink at the camera....
TOPHER GRACE
Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation of man, a peril to the peace of the w... E. F. [ERNST FRIEDRICH] SCHUMACHER Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation of man, a peril to the peace of the w...
E. F. SCHUMACHER
Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You ... TED RALL
I think all good drama is funny. All the best drama is ultimately very funny. Life is funny. You can... THOMAS JANE
My film refuses to be a pamphlet. My screenwriter, Tony Kushner, and I were hoping to make it a visc... STEVEN SPIELBERG
I should say, one of the things about being a widow or a widower, you really, really need a sense of... JOYCE CAROL OATES
