I never know when I am being funny and the other way too. I don't think you can think about that. I don't think you can try to be funny. Some people are just funny.

Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny parts and the other way around. Because in a comedy you look for what's serious. I think that's true. Sometimes things are really funny if you're absolutely earnest. If you're really serious it's hilarious.

What other people call dark and despairing I call funny.

You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side they don't like you as much. I find too that I can hide behind the idiot's mask being funny and you never see the sorrow or the pain.

Without hurting anybody we all tend to laugh at others' discomfort. When someone slips on a banana skin and falls it's funny.

The funny thing is I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own - after all I've never had a husband.

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

My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra.

We need two kinds of acquaintances one to complain to while to the others we boast.

It is easy for me to love myself but for ladies to do it is another question altogether.

I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.

A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live.

Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.

What's another word for Thesaurus?

By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's I mean.

I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks they are always locking three.

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now and we don't know where the hell she is.

They took their meals together and it was remarked on such occasions when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test that they never quarrelled or disputed the possession of a favourite fruit with each other.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

I think romance is friendship and attraction sort of meeting together and that does influence what I'm writing a lot. I try to establish the attraction obviously but I also think it's important to show the characters having actual conversations about things other than their feelings for each other - and to develop their friendship on the page.

Rock n' roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands and that for me suggests brotherhood family friendship and community.

People are roasting each other at parties at work events around the fire. It's so fun. People are busting each other's chops and it's a sign of affection truly. It's a true test of love and friendship: can you make a man laugh at himself? So what makes a good burn? Go after targets you love and respect. And hit 'em hard.