Top 1200 Funny Story Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

The decision as to what's funny and what is not funny shall rest solely with Mr. Freberg.

It's never fun to run out of gas while on a road trip, But the adventure of trying to find gas when your in the middle a nowhere usually ends up being a funny story a few years down the line.

If something's awful, I find it funny. If something's funny, I find it funny. It's my natural, go-to place.

Being me is funny. I've made this weird character, and I think it's really funny.

Ain't it funny how a moment could just change your life, and you don't want to face what's wrong or right. Ain't it strange how fate can play a part, in the story of your heart.

I love funny people, and when I'm with funny people, or people who are amusing in their weirdness, I love it. Because that to me is funny, as opposed to someone who stops and says, 'Hey let me tell you a joke.'

I wanna be funny, but if I have a chance to make a point while being funny - why not?

The truth is really funny. It's uncomfortable sometimes, it's dramatic sometimes, but it's really funny. Life is funny.

I don't like people whose job it isn't to be funny, to tell me what is and isn't funny.

I've been too funny in my life to have to play a character who's... moderately funny.

You can give a guy a funny line, but you can't make him say it funny.

There are quite a few very funny people in my life. You know those people who don't mean to be funny, they just come out with these zingers that just make you howl with laughter. Usually you find these people in the road crew. A good crew is a key to a healthy funny bone.

I like to be friends with funny guys, but I don't want to date a funny guy.

If you are truly offended by an 80-year-old man saying you're not funny, then you're probably not funny.

People are getting careers from YouTube and uploading videos. And they're totally different - you can't necessarily be funny on a video, and then all of a sudden you're live in a theater. You don't have the tools yet. It's a lot more involved to go from being funny on a little iPhone screen to being live in front of people and being funny.

In every show that you see, there's some stuff that's funny and some stuff that is not, or there might be stuff that you find funny and I don't. That would be true for any show, however funny or popular.

When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn't read that way.

It's not about trying to be funny all the time. It's more of a document that hopefully is funny.

I'm not a broad comedy guy. I've been funny in movies, but I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who's sometimes funny.

Foreign novels are less action-oriented. They have a different pace; they’re more reflective. They challenge us to look for the story, find the story within the story.

I grew up with an extremely funny dad, and my mom is super funny.

There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary.

Sometimes I want to do something that's really funny and other times I read an indie script that is going to be made for nothing but I want to do it because I think that I can connect with something in the story.

I wonder what it is that the people who criticize me for telling this story truly object to: is it that I have dared to tell the story? Or that the story turns out not to be the one they wanted to hear?

I love to do comedy, and I don't think of things as drama or comedy. I think that if it's a funny line, it's a funny line. If it's a funny moment, it's a funny moment.

A story is a way to say something that can't be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is. You tell a story because a statement would be inadequate. When anybody asks what a story is about, the only proper thing is to tell them to read the story. The meaning of fiction is not abstract meaning but experienced meaning.

There are no funny lawyers - only funny people who made a career mistake.

Professional cinema image-taking should integrate, serve, interest, and enhance the story. I judge cinematography not just for a story well told but for what the story is.

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

The Side Effects of Dying in Your Pants isn't really funny… Alright, it's a little funny.

Why do all these people want [comedians] to be serious? The reason they want that is these are people who aren't funny. Anybody funny can be serious, but people who have no sense of humor, they can never be funny - and frankly, they're jealous. There's very few comic actors. Think about it. There aren't that many. It's hard because you have to be able to do both.

There are a lot of comedic actors who are just out to be the funny one and get all the laughs and they'll sacrifice your joke, the scene, the story just to be the star. All they want is attention and to be number one. You can spot those guys from a mile away and they're the worst.

There's a difference between delivering real funny and just silly funny.

I've always really enjoyed sounds and alliteration and funny words and funny melodies.

I'm not a naturally funny man. I find that I can only be funny, if I become someone else.

I was always good at being observationally funny - like, contributing something funny to the conversation.

Funny is only something that others know about you - you can't be funny by yourself.

I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one's intensity is funny.

Every story teaches you how to write that story but not the next story.

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it's funny. And it's not funny. It's not.

Comedy is not commercial; it is risky, because what is funny in one place isn't always funny somewhere else.

One time, Bert and I were making out for so long it wasn't even funny..But then it was funny.

We just keep trying to beat every show with the funny stick until it's funny

My parents were funny. My brothers were funny. We just laughed and had a good time. Growing up, it breeds that. It breeds your funny. It breeds your creativity.

Whether you work in news, sport, politics, whatever, it's exactly the same; a story is a story, is a story. I consider myself first and foremost a journalist.

We feel no obligation to follow the news cycle. In other words, I felt no obligation to cover story in anyway, because we're not like I said, we're not journalists. And at that point, there's nothing sort of funny or absurd or to say about it.

Comedy is learning to be funny, and you learn to be funny in small rooms with young audiences.

If there's an audience, I think they're going to expect me to be funny. But what if I'm not funny? What if I fail?

When you hide another story in a story, that’s the story I am telling the children.

Wakolda or The German Doctor is a very intimate story. It is the story of a teenage girl and the way she falls in love with a monster. It is the story of a hunt and of a seduction.

The Jewish story is the story of wandering. It is the story of extraordinary heterogeneous complication.

What's funny isn't really me. What I do is point out what I find funny in others.

It doesn't matter how many times the audience has heard it before. If it's funny, it's funny.

I'm a prankster, so some of the - you know, I like a good joke. I think when it's funny, it's funny.

I'm always more motivated by the pain of a funny character than by what makes him funny.

People who do not have funny in them are not funny when they read funny lines. Sorry. Just doesn't work that way. Seriously, this is the biggest rule of all. You live and die with your casting decisions. Your actors are the heart and soul of the whole thing. Without brilliant actors, you will not have a brilliant film.

I think you can't go into any story-breaking process thinking, 'What if they come off as unlikeable?' You just gotta break the story because if you know who your character is, the story will tell you. The story will dictate and say, "This feels off-kilter for this particular person."

In reality, as a comedian, you're successful because you're funny, and you should be able to be funny about anything.

It's not hard for me to be funny. But it's really hard. I don't think a lot of people are funny. I meet a lot of people, and most of them aren't funny.

The story of the Kelly system is a story of secrets - or if you prefer, a story of entropy.