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But if something funny happens, I can not resist. I have to tell the people.

I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.

I have always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.

Everyone comes up to me saying, Cooee, Julie! Hello! as if I know them. Of course I do not bloody know them. Am I flummoxed by it? Sometimes. I think, Ooh, love, go easy. For a time, I did feel this pressure that I had to be funny, but it passes.

Oh all the time when Victoria Wood and I did our series. There were people asking Can women be funny? People still ask that. It is like asking: Can women breathe in and out?'

I was the little, funny one. I felt I was the child among grown women.

It is a real primal thing, watching someone get hurt. It is funny and accessible.

It is a funny thing - when I am 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!

It is 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 had seen movies before that that had made me laugh, but I had never seen anything even remotely close to as funny as Richard Pryor was, just standing there talking.

I wouldn't totally rule out doing Letterman or the Tonight Show if I had a set that I just happened to write that I thought was funny but was still appropriate for network censors. But I am not going to go out of my way.

The audience changes every night. You are the same person. You have to speak your mind and do the stuff that you think is funny and makes you laugh.

The misconception is that standup comics are always on. I do not know any really funny comics that are annoying and constantly trying to be funny all the time.

I used to say I wanted somebody funny and intelligent, but kindness is the most important quality in a man.

The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy.

I think it is always funny when you see kids do Shakespeare.

But with comedy it is a simple premise. If it is funny, people laugh. If it is not, they do not.

Hitchcock had a charm about him. He was very funny at times. He was incredibly brilliant in his field of suspense.

One lion thinks it is just hilarious to tackle us. He is very funny about it... and we always know when it will happen.

Working with Chaplin was very amusing and strange. His films are so funny, but working with him, I found him to be a very serious man. Whereas the films of Hitchcock are macabre, he could be a very funny man to work with, always telling jokes and holding court. Of course, when I worked with Charlie he was getting older.