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The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation ...
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility....
Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost....
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more....
All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why....
Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is no...
The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audien...
The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two ani...
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long....
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My gift is to be funny....
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....
There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary....
I'm not so funny. Gilda was funny. I'm funny on camera sometimes. In life, once in a while. Once in a while. But she was funny. She spent more time wo...
I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting a...
It's so funny because my mom is Thai and my dad is this big American guy - and our food tastes were so similar growing up. He was meat and potatoes, I...
It's been very funny to try to act like an adult. Even getting dressed. Every day, I'm like, 'Should I wear a blazer and walk around with an umbrella?...
My mother is very funny. She is from a village; she has a typical village kind of humour. Often she says a lot of things she herself isn't aware is a ...
I've always loved 'Umbrella.' Funny enough, my ex-husband wrote that, and I'm not saying it was meant for me or anything - people will start twisting ...
Funny is the world I live in. You're funny, I'm interested. You're not funny, I'm not interested....