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I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive.

It is funny, though, with films, because you can incorporate a variety of elements, and sometimes that can work for you and sometimes I think it can work against you.

Comedians do not laugh. They are too busy analyzing why it is funny or not.

What was really funny is that as I got older all those guys who called me a sissy in junior high school wanted me to be their best friend because they wanted to meet all the girls that I knew in figure skating.

I can not not find humor in elements of most parts of life, but at the same time nothing ever seems perpetually funny to me.

And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.

Also, in a funny way, if you have been happily married there are no unresolved areas, nothing to prove to yourself after the other dies.

People often ask me how I make things funny. I do not make things funny.

If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.

For some reason and I do not know why, but I do not think that I am funny in California. So I always want to do my movies east somewhere.

I took P.S. I Love You thinking it was going to be a little funny, and I ended up crying every day on that film.

I think Saturday Night Live', starting in the 1970s, really gave women an outlet to be funny. A lot of those women went on to have film careers, from Kristen Wiig now to Tina Fey and Gilda Radner.

I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It is not very funny, but it is sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.

When I was doing ensemble theater and comedy work, I felt I had some talents. But when I started doing my shows in Berkeley and found that I could be funny on my own, I was shocked.

Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.

People just do not laugh when their family is violated, and you do not shrug it off. You band together and you defend together. It is a funny, primitive instinct.

There is always something funny about men chasing women.

I do not know who the hell Paul Lynde is, or why he is funny, and I prefer it to be a mystery to me.

Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They are so awful, they are really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics.

As soon as I realized you could be funny as a job, that was the job I wanted.