Chris Hemsworth is like Christopher Reeve in that he can do two things: he can wear a big red cape without a shred of self-consciousness. But he's also funny as hell and he's so sweet. So with all the fish-out-of-water stuff he's so funny. So he does almost two jobs in a way.

Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.

As soon as you are trying to be funny or dramatic that's when things start feeling fake and boring.

It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals.

It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way that is being drunk and being the father of their son.

Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying then without money?

As I get older all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children.

To succeed in life you need three things: a wishbone a backbone and a funny bone.

If I studied all my life I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know.

From there to here and here to there funny things are everywhere.

I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things and I have succeeded fairly well.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.

I never said most of the things I said.

I know I was a great friend to Tiger Woods. But when you have a relationship that's involves business and friendship - and the business part comes to an end - things always get a little blurry.

One of the great things personally coming to Hawai'i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson.

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.

Marriage for a woman at least hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.

My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free it was 1972 with the exception of two little one-shot one-song things. But that's just for friends out of friendship for the people involved and also because it was fun.

Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.

When I was growing up my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all the other things a mom is) and I was always grateful for that because I knew she was someone I could talk to and joke with and argue with and that nothing would ever harm that friendship.

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.