You can't teach somebody how to be funny. You're either funny or you ain't.

We live in a funny time. If you don't go corporate you can't compete. You're relegated as irrelevant. People used to admire that.

Straight men just can't imagine the bliss of being in a relationship with someone who finds farting as funny as they do.

Leno Conan. They are both really funny. They really know how to land one.

As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965 I didn't know that funny women existed. It wasn't until I got back to England that I realised women could be funny.

I can't watch other people doing comedy. As soon as somebody starts being funny I have to turn off because it upsets me. I get comedy indigestion. I just hate anybody else being funny. That's my job.

To me what separates a funny movie from a good movie is something personal.

I think when you do comedy you play by a different set of rules. No one really wants you to be in that good shape. Being in good shape implies a level of vanity that isn't necessarily funny.

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

I don't know who the hell Paul Lynde is or why he's funny and I prefer it to be a mystery to me.

There's always something funny about men chasing women.

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

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.

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

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 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.

For some reason and I don't know why but I don't think that I'm funny in California. So I always want to do my movies east somewhere.

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

People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny.

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.

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

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.

Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not.

It's 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.