I'm always in situations where you can't be funny and yet I want to do it anyway.

I think it's always funny when somebody thinks you're going to do something super sexy and then you don't.

With Portlandia I don't think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously. We're okay with making somebody feel uncomfortable or uneasy.

I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny.

I remember listening to the radio as a kid and finding that the songs always made me feel more peaceful. Funny but the more hurtin' the music was the better it made me feel. I think of that now when I write my songs. I may not be feelin' the blues myself but I'm writing them for other people who have a hard life.

One can always come up with funny lists and jokes. You know what? I take it back. Not everyone can always come up with funny lists and some jokes. I'm very lucky to have a gift where I can do that pretty ably.

You can't be funny for funny's sake. You try to get as outrageous situation as you can but it always has to be believable and based in real character motivations and what people would really do.

I have funny bones. If there's ever any kind of tension I'll always be the one to try and be funny to loosen things up.

The token gay character is always so funny and so fantastic. That's happened a lot. Or they're often purely victims.

I always just wanted to be funny. I never really planned to be scary.

When it comes to war we focus more on the mainstream coverage of the event rather than the event itself. People dying is never funny. Protest puppets are always funny.

Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor but I always knew who was funny who to hang out with.

And the funny thing is I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.

I've always found it easier to be funny than to be serious.

It's a funny relationship that makeup artists have. I always feel kind of like a dentist. People look at me and think of pain.

It's interesting - I always thought when I was doing more melodramatic stuff like 'Everwood' that the directors were constantly reeling me in and stopping me from being funny.

Sometimes comics will make the observation that it's not jokes that are funny it's characters that are funny. And isn't that true! That's why I always kill jokes. I'm terrible at them because I get the joke right but I can't get the character right and it just goes down like a lead balloon.

There's always something funny about men chasing women.

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.

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.

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

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.

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