Being funny has always mattered a lot to me. It's why I started acting - to make my friends laugh.

That's my only goal. Surround myself with funny people, and make sure everyone has a good time and works hard.

During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.

Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you are fine.

The human brain is a funny thing: it's very susceptible to tempo and melody. You put the right words to it, and it becomes very influential.

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

You can't make everybody laugh. You gotta just do what you think is funny. Just be obstreperous to everybody.

My self-confidence can be measured out in teaspoons mixed into my poetry, and it still always tastes funny in my mouth.

Who the hell calls at two in the morning?""Maybe it's Matt Wilde, confessing his love," Lindsay says."Very funny,

You know you’ve reached the end of a relationship: when your lover now demands that your jokes be funny before they laugh.