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

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.

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

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

But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny people laugh. If it's not they don't.

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

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

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

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

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

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'm not going to go out of my way.

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.

It's 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.

It's a funny thing - when I'm 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's a real primal thing watching someone get hurt. It's funny and accessible.

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

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's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?'

Everyone comes up to me saying 'Cooee Julie! Hello!' as if I know them. Of course I don't 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.

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

I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.

But if something funny happens I can't resist. I have to tell the people.

There are so many funny women in the world and there has been for so many years so I'll be happy when people can just move on from that and things can just be 'comedies' and not 'female' or 'male ' and everyone gets an equal opportunity.

I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for different reasons at different times.

Funny is not a color. Being black is only good from the time you get from the curtain to the microphone.