c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
What's interesting about Laurel and Hardy is that in most comedy teams, there's a straight man, and then there's the funny guy. And with Laurel and Hardy, they're both the funny guy.
— Christopher Guest
People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.
— Mark Ruffalo
My sister and I - she's a musician - we jam all the time. We always play around for giggles with stuff that seem unconventional or stuff that seems funny. A lot of the stuff sometimes is just a response from jam sessions in her room, so she'll be on the guitar or the keyboard, and we'll just start singing and doing stuff.
— Andra Day
Before the Kennedys were elected, there had been older Presidents. Then here was this devastatingly attractive young couple with two beautiful children. They were so intelligent, graceful, gracious and funny. They enjoyed life so much. That's what caught America's eye.
— Letitia Baldrige
All my children inherited perfect pitch.
— Chevy Chase
Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish.
— Chevy Chase
I would love to do a movie with Albert Brooks; we're so different, but I find him so funny, and I can be just as seemingly narcissistic as he comes off, the 'it's all about me' kind of thing.
— Chevy Chase
It's funny when people say, 'I don't think Julia likes me.' Honey, if I don't like you, you're going to know about it.
— Julia Roberts
The follow your dreams thing is really important because so many people are railroaded into taking other paths by their family, their friends, people who should be supportive going, 'What are you talking about?' Even just seemingly regular career paths, but if it's not what people expect for you they kind of react funny.
— Joan Jett
I have a very low level of recognition, which is fine by me.
— Dylan Moran
The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
— Jean de la Bruyere
Do I like being thought of as attractive? I don't know anyone on Earth who doesn't, but I do find it funny.
— Benedict Cumberbatch
I find it very easy playing Bond. I think he's hilarious. He gets himself into some extraordinarily funny situations.
— Daniel Craig
I mean, I - it's so funny, I am, you know, I am, you know, a working woman out in the world, but I still live with my parents half the time. I've been sort of taking this very long, stuttering period of moving out.
— Lena Dunham
I never thought of myself as like, a funny person.
— Lena Dunham
It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.
— Dave Barry
Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it.
— Philip Seymour Hoffman
Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.
— Marilyn vos Savant
Things can be funny when people are uneasy. It softens them up and stops them falling asleep on the sofa. I like those moments where people half-smile and half-wince.
— Mark Haddon
I look at old performance videos now, and it's really funny - I thought I was such a gangster!
— Becky G
One of the funny things in life to me is a guy who takes himself very seriously.
— Dennis Farina
Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
— Josh Billings
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
— Josh Billings
Working for President Nixon was the most extraordinary professional experience of my life. He was endlessly fascinating: brilliant, visionary, kind, generous, warm, funny - and yes, a good man.
— Monica Crowley
I think our Batman had to be fun, light-hearted, funny, tongue-in-cheek... and I think that made kind of an homage to those earlier comic books, where Batman always had a quip or something.
— Adam West
I have the curse of thinking funny!
— Adam West
I'm an unorthodox type of guy, a funny guy - at least I think I'm funny. And one of the things I like to do is come up with nicknames for myself.
— Shaquille O'Neal
It's funny because being comedic and happy and lighthearted is who I am as a person, so they're easier emotions for me to connect with.
— Lindsay Lohan
The guys on the stunt team are really fantastic. It's really funny, because for all the aggression they have to display on screen, they're actually really happy, good- natured people.
— Miranda Otto
It's funny when you're a kid how you can acclimate to almost anything.
— Adam Carolla
When I was a little kid, I wrote this play about all these characters living in a haunted house. There was a witch who lived there, and a mummy. When they were all hassling him, this guy who bought the house - I can't believe I remember this - he said to them, 'Who's paying the mortgage on this haunted house?' I thought that was really funny.
— Mindy Kaling
I grew up in a funny way.
— Gordon Ramsay
It's painful for me to watch someone who isn't funny. It's horrifying to sit in the back and watch some guy who just totally sucks.
— Joe Rogan
I have this weird obsession with kids and old people falling. Like, funny falls. It is awful, but it's the thing that makes me laugh the most.
— Malin Akerman
I get called 'the girl off the dancing horse.' I just laugh; I think it's really funny. It's true, isn't it? It's great we're getting that recognition.
— Charlotte Dujardin
I can speak Esperanto like a native.
— Spike Milligan
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
— James Thurber
I don't hate humanity and I'm not interested in people who do. Although, it's funny, actually, some of my favorite writers really do. Like Martin Amis. My dirty secret. 'London Fields' is one of my favorite books ever. And it's indefensible! But he's so funny... I forgive him everything.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.
— Garry Shandling
But I think you can make fun of anything as long as it's funny enough.
— Sarah Silverman
I saw 28 Days. I don't remember rehab being like a day camp or being that funny. Rehab is a dumping ground. It's a big landfill.
— Charlie Sheen
I've started looking at my own father a bit funny. He assures me, though, that I really am the son of a Scottish postman.
— Craig Ferguson
I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.
— Elayne Boosler
I don't mean to sound - I don't want it to come out funny, but I don't like show business. I love - I love acting in films. I love it.
— Gene Wilder
I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
— Samuel Goldwyn
I read part of it all the way through.
— Samuel Goldwyn
One man's folly is another man's wife.
— Helen Rowland
Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.
— Harold Ramis
One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.
— Bill Murray
It's funny because I'm a sucker for glitz and glitter when it comes to clothes and nail polish, but with my makeup, I'm more comfortable with a natural look. It feels more like me.
— Alison Sweeney
As soon as I realized you could be funny as a job, that was the job I wanted.
— Seth Rogen
I'm like the master of ceremonies being funny, and then sometimes people you're with, girlfriends and stuff, are like, 'God I wish I had the person on stage to be with all the time.'
— Artie Lange
Sometimes when you write something on the page, it can seem very funny, but when you act it out - and this happens to me a lot, actually - the melancholy of the situation becomes more front and center.
— Mike White
Often, joking for me is a way of diffusing the awkwardness of a situation, so it's kind of exhilarating to be a part of projects where there's nothing funny or lighthearted.
— Emma Stone
I will say this about the truth - that it's one of those crisis rules, whether you are a client or someone who's living their life just every day - is that the truth has a funny way of not going away, and telling the truth is extremely important in dealing with any problem or crisis.
— Judy Smith
I joke around a lot about the manic times because they're funny. We manics do outrageous things and it is part of our colorful nature.
— Patty Duke
If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
— Lily Tomlin
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.
— Tippi Hedren
In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read magazines, and a poem takes less time than an article.
— Caroline Kennedy
I'm sure that my parents' behavior has entered my work, I'm sorry to say. I don't think you need to have a difficult childhood to be funny, but it helps.
— Roz Chast
I do find comedy difficult. I don't know why. Maybe I think about it too much. There's a tremendous amount of pressure to be funny.
— Michelle Pfeiffer
As I get older, I just prefer to knit.
— Tracey Ullman
I think serial monogamy says it all.
— Tracey Ullman
The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.
— Fred Allen
How many people here have telekenetic powers? Raise my hand.
— Emo Philips
I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
— Carl Hiaasen
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.
— Tom Hiddleston
I would call it a comedy variety show. We have some people just doing straight standup. We usually try to have one musical act of sort. So its just people being funny in different ways, not just sketch, not just standup, not just characters, all of those things.
— Todd Barry
I'm not one to sit here and judge here. But I think it's funny that the people that condemn the adult industry the most are the ones consuming the product the most.
— Sasha Grey
I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition.
— Natasha Lyonne
You can't make everybody laugh. You gotta just do what you think is funny. Just be obstreperous to everybody.
— Colin Quinn
Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieved something. And 'Funny Games' does that.
— Naomi Watts
I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips.
— R. L. Stine
The magic in performing as an entertaining ventriloquist happens when the characters come to life and the interaction between the separate personalities on stage becomes 'real.' Then don't forget that the act has to be funny, and to me, being funny and entertaining any given audience is more important than anything.
— Jeff Dunham
I've always said that instead of watching a guy juggle seven things amazingly I would rather see a really bad juggler who's really funny.
— Jeff Dunham
I'm one of those hovering mothers and I know it's really important to have an independent child, so I'm trying to back off, but it's hard. I love him so much, and he's so funny and cute to me.
— Selma Blair
It's funny, but to me, when you go to a concert hall and hear electronic pieces from the '60s, I think they sound really dated. But when an orchestra plays a piece from that period, and it's going to sound different every time, it feels more modern to me.
— Jonny Greenwood
I'm good at coming up with wacky characters and funny dialogue.
— Marlon Wayans
How can you analyse what is funny? What's funny to one isn't funny to another... What's funny to you is a personal thing.
— Les Dawson
I'm doing a pilot for Comedy Central with the band Steel Panther. They're faux heavy metal. They started as kind of a tribute band out here, or a cover band, and they're funny guys, and they just sort of morphed into their own thing.
— Brian Posehn
What you do with it and things like that, but I basically chose this after I read it because I thought it was different and funny and unique and dark - things that I like to do.
— Danny DeVito
I sang in the choir for years, even though my family belonged to another church.
— Paul Lynde
I wish I had the nerve not to tip.
— Paul Lynde
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.
— Paul Lynde
I realized I was gay in the shower one day with Barbra Streisand. It happened while I was lathering, rinsing, and repeating with Pert Plus. As I was belting out the chorus to my favorite song from 'Funny Girl,' 'Oh my man, I love him so, he'll never know...' it hit me.
— Ross Mathews
It's funny, because I did all of these interviews as soon as I had the baby, and they were asking questions, and I really didn't have an idea of anything, because I was so blurry.
— Emily Procter
I've never gotten to do romantic comedy like most of the girls. Maybe because I'm fit, people assume that I'm not funny?
— Jessica Biel
Yes, I believe blue material is funny, but if that's all you've got, you're dead in the water. It's not good.
— Howard Stern
I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.
— Eddie Izzard
I mean, sometimes... a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don't deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of acting is to be truthful, and they get that mixed up sometimes, or don't even notice that that's the thing.
— Eddie Izzard
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.
— Rick Baker
Sometimes I am so dry that people don't know I'm kidding and think I'm being serious. I enjoy this because their reactions are often funny.
— Robert Crais
I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.
— Paula Poundstone
I'm kidding about having only a few dollars. I might have a few dollars more.
— James Brown
There's something that's really fun about the challenge of making the mundane funny, too, I think.
— Jim Gaffigan
It all started when my dog began getting free roll over minutes.
— Jay London
I recorded my hair this morning, tonight I'm watching the highlights.
— Jay London
I realised that if you get yourself labeled as the funny one, people don't look any further. I've used that as I've got older. It's controlling: I decide what part of my personality you're seeing. I don't want you to look at me, I really don't. I don't want you to comment on my clothes, my hair or the way I look.
— Catherine Tate
You know, I'm just a very boring, not very funny person in person. I don't feel pressured to be otherwise.
— Lorrie Moore
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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.
— Nigella Lawson
I remember watching Gilda Radner when I was a kid and everyone thought she was so funny and no one ever said that she was a funny woman, she was just funny.
— Rachel Dratch
Jon Stewart hires people that he thinks are funny. That's it. That's the only requirement.
— Olivia Munn
They're great girls. They're very funny, they're very smart, they're fun to be with. They're very lively, as I think people can tell. And you know, they're very confident girls.
— Laura Bush
What's funny about the slacker thing, people project an image of what they think a musician is: young, slack, unemployed - like a really romantic idea of a poet, writer or musician - which isn't really true a lot of the time. I don't reckon you would know anything about me if I wasn't moderately hard-working.
— Courtney Barnett
It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.
— Stephen Leacock
It's so funny, because when I was growing up in a small town in New Hampshire, I was obsessed with Leonardo DiCaprio - from the 'Growing Pains'/'What's Eating Gilbert Grape' era, because he was superhot - and I carried a laminated photo of him in my wallet and said he was my boyfriend. But no one believed me.
— Eliza Coupe
'Thunderbolts' I was mostly attracted to because I really wanted to write Punisher and Elektra and Deadpool, who are characters I have always really enjoyed. But the funny thing is that over time, I came to really like Red Leader; he became one of my favorite guys in the book. Sometimes characters surprise you.
— Charles Soule
And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.
— Fran Drescher
If you have a secret, people will sit a little bit closer.
— Rob Corddry
Communism is like one big phone company.
— Lenny Bruce
I remember nearly having a fit of the giggles during the reading because dear Daniel was SO respectful and serious and I was finding the whole situation funny because I was speaking to his profile.
— Madeleine Stowe
It's funny, after a while, you get tired of having to fight someone because they don't like the way you look.
— Chris Robinson
I like to make jokes I consider myself a funny person. I just think making jokes about people who are in a situation beyond their control is not funny to them or their families.
— Maria Shriver
And at the time, it is funny how you can look at something and say, for example with my shoulder injury, when it first happened I said this is the worst thing that could happen to me. Why me, why now? Now I look back and say it was probably the best thing that happened to me.
— Drew Brees
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.
— Scott Hamilton
Usually, if I think something is really funny, I'm not gonna test it. I'll just test it when I'm onstage.
— Donald Glover
It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything about at the time. Later on I'm starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later.
— Tanya Tucker
Everybody's funny if you love them.
— Anna Torv
I like the hot-cold, the sugar-salt, being able to play over-the-top and dramatic things - in the same film. Just as in my life, I can be very funny and at other times almost extinguished.
— Jean Dujardin
Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not.
— James Lipton
Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.
— Zedd
It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.
— Rami Malek
Snoop Dogg is hilarious. T.I. is really funny. Who else? 50 Cent is hilarious. Jay-Z is funny. I've met him, but he's funny in interviews. He was funny when I saw him, too. Ludacris is funny. Everybody is. Rappers are funny, a lot of them.
— Jay Pharoah
I like to tell kids that I started thinking about stories when I first started reading stuff like Dr. Seuss and 'Go, Dog. Go!,' thinking, 'Oh yeah, that's funny. I'd like to do that.' And then writing throughout school, but at the same time I was studying pre-med stuff, because my mom told me I should be a doctor.
— Jon Scieszka
The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love.
— Joe E. Lewis
I really love showing up at work at 10 A.M., trying to make it funny until 3 P.M., and then going home. It's like comedy bankers' hours.
— Chris Eigeman
I live in a wonderful world of make-believe. A world of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. A world of Winnie the Pooh and Edward Bear. Things like that. Wonderful things. Funny things.
— Eileen Ford
What does being a woman today mean? Is there a right way of doing it? Is there a wrong way of doing it? Different kinds of women, female friendships: It's all pretty funny, and worth making fun of.
— Elizabeth Meriwether
Whoever is my relative, I will not be nice to them.
— George Lopez
It's a funny business. I kind of compare it to baseball. I'm always looking for a home run.
— Billy Mays
For sheer sexiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no.
— Jilly Cooper
I'd so much rather people think I was funny than pretty.
— Kristen Johnston
The heroines in 'That's What She Said' are flawed, messy, damaged, hilarious and culpable and not really concerned about being acceptable to the audience in any traditional sense, which for me is what makes them all the more gorgeous. And the fearless truth of that is what makes it funny.
— Carrie Preston
It's really irritating. Even people who like my work sometimes come up to me and say, 'I usually don't like female comedians, but your material is great!' It makes the job prospect more daunting. Funny is funny, you know?
— Chelsea Peretti
Someone told me that when they go to Vermont, they feel like they're home. I'm that way at Saks.
— Caroline Rhea
It's funny because I remember when I came to the U.S. with 'Swimming Pool,' the movie did well, and it was great box office for a French movie, but I remember I was a bit upset because all people talked to me about was the nudity.
— Ludivine Sagnier
But I believe that there are marriages where you can have your pool table and she can have her scrapbooking room or garden or whatever it is. But when everyone has what they want, it's not funny. There's no conflict.
— Brad Garrett
I own and operate a ferocious ego.
— Bill Moyers
I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600's. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican.
— Marion Barry
Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.
— Robert Byrne
The drawings in 'Portal' were actually me scribbling that stuff... I had a funny moment when I realized that someone gotten 'The cake is a lie' tattooed on themselves. It was really interesting to see my handwriting tattooed on another human being. That... that's odd.
— Kim Swift
My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.
— Ian Hislop
I'm too busy thinking what I'm going to say next to remember what I've said, but my staff tells me I'm sometimes funny. Not always on purpose, though.
— Jared Polis
I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.
— Richard Lewis
When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life.
— Richard Lewis
Dad was the first man I fell in love with. He was a very funny man. He grew up in the East End of London and was very dynamic, and I understood why my mother fell in love with him.
— Patsy Kensit
I can play a cat lady. I can't put my foot down and refuse to play anything but playing the perfect, well-adjusted woman, because those people aren't as fun or funny.
— Sarah Baker
My dad was in the army so we moved around a lot and I changed schools every year and had to make new friends, and I found that if I was the funny guy I could do that easier.
— Jason Gann
If the worst that happens is that I wake up and see a picture of myself and a headline saying, 'He wasn't very funny last night', then I've got nothing to complain about.
— Matt Lucas
I'm a misplaced American, but don't know where I was misplaced.
— Ruby Wax
When somebody listens and laughs, you're always in better shape than when you're with those folks who just kind of look at you when you say something funny. You wonder if they're looking at you because they're mad that they didn't say it or something. It's hard to handle that.
— Jason Sudeikis
I think it's great when dramatic actors do lighter, funny roles.
— Noureen DeWulf
When I have had a long day at work, I want something to watch that is funny, lighthearted and easy to get into, and reality is that. I'm not really into serious programmes or documentaries.
— Amy Childs
There's one thing about baldness, it's neat.
— Don Herold
It's funny, because I've never thought of myself as a Hispanic actor, like in 'American Gangster,' I'm playing an Italian. I've always been fortunate enough to have been allowed to play all these diverse roles.
— Yul Vazquez
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.
— Jackie Mason
If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents.
— Marcelene Cox
Possibly I've become less funny as I've been happier.
— Wendy Cope
Working with Julie Andrews is like getting hit over the head with a valentine.
— Christopher Plummer
My parents are both really, really funny, and my little sister is a really good painter, and my other sister is a really good writer.
— Michael Cera
Fencing is a funny sport. Competitive fencing is not really very applicable to the stage world unless you're fighting with a rapier during the Renaissance, you know?
— Kris Holden-Ried
Girls don't poop, so don't claim you do. You can fart - because farting is funny - but we don't want to know that you poop.
— Ryan Hansen
I've played a ghost, cat, snake. I've been funny, sad. I've been filmed flying on screen. So why not spend time on something else? I don't need to accept everything I'm offered.
— Maggie Cheung
It's funny how getting older - or being overlooked and underrated for more than two decades - can make you change your ambitions.
— Reg E. Cathey
I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working.
— Peter Sellers
We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
— Louis Aragon
When I was born I owed twelve dollars.
— George S. Kaufman
It's a funny thing, but today the Titanic is probably much more - that is people are much more aware of it than they were in 1954, when I was doing my research.
— Walter Lord
Porsche is a driver's car - a performance car. That was funny - here's this awesome car, but it's got no cup holders.
— Jason McCoy
I don't think I was funny until college. I lived with some Harvard MD/PhD students - they were so smart, and what I contributed to the house was, I was the funny one.
— Wendy Liebman
Violence is not funny.
— William Friedkin
I'm not a person who can spontaneously say funny things.
— Ashley Williams
It's kind of a funny way to put it, but if you want to study a dynamic economic system, what you'd like to be able to do is focus on the linkages, say, between asset markets and the macro economy without having to model everything at the same time.
— Lars Peter Hansen
It was Nick Willing's intention to make 'Hatter' as sarcastically British funny as he could.
— Andrew-Lee Potts
I really think that sex always looks kind of funny in a movie.
— William Friedkin
I don't get offered many dramatic roles. As soon as my face pops up in a movie, everyone knows I'm the funny guy.
— Chris Elliott
After all is said and done, sit down.
— Bill Copeland
When I go to a bar, I don't go looking for a girl who knows the capital of Maine.
— David Brenner
I don't know, I feel like any role that I play is a little piece of me, whether it's their perspective, maybe how they dress, what they think is funny, their loyalty to their friends. It all stems from Kiersey.
— Kiersey Clemons
Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning you got off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you're in a slump. If you lose at the end, you're choking.
— Gene Mauch
I've played villains on stage - you know, the Iagos and so on - but I think of myself as a funny person. I mostly did comedies before I did TV work.
— Michael Emerson
Being funny has always mattered a lot to me. It's why I started acting - to make my friends laugh.
— Nick Wechsler
I've been lucky enough to play some funny, nasty ladies in my day, and if you can make them foolish, they're even funnier.
— Kelly Bishop
I just write what I think is funny. I don't care who watches it.
— Ian Hecox
If I could play any role in any musical, it would be Desiree in 'A Little Night Music' - Oh my, it is perfection. The character gets to be funny, beautiful, sexy and smart all at the same time and have two men fighting over her. The show is Stephen Sondheim at his absolute best... need I say more?
— Nancy Allen
The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.
— Nancy Allen
It's funny, the moment you dread the most, seeing yourself bald, is actually not such a bad moment at all.
— Sylvie Meis
It's a grim business, this being funny. Every time you come up with a strong, satiric idea, the world tops it.
— Del Close
It just so happens that people aren't doing comedy about abortion or cannibalism or waterboarding. And that to me doesn't necessarily mean that there aren't aspects of those subjects that are funny, it just means that people are too uptight.
— Rob McElhenney
You know my girls are so funny. You're out in the country and there are critters everywhere and they get a little like, 'Oh my God! Oh no, bugs!' and I had to say, 'Honey this is fine. This is their world and it's all part of being in the country.' I realized, 'Oh my God, my girls are really city girls.'
— Anna Gunn
Unfortunately, sometimes the fans forget who puts the money and passion into the club. It's funny, but when you win, it's the coach and the players who are responsible, but when you lose, it's the owner's fault; but that's football.
— Andrea Della Valle
One of the funny things of being a producer, you have these fleeting, intense relationships with people, and they go off to global megastardom, and you don't see them.
— Paul Epworth
Let's make some funny pictures.
— Tex Avery
In all my years as an actor, I had never been me - I had always hidden behind my glasses, mustaches and funny voices.
— Jon Pertwee
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
— Albert Einstein
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
— Henry David Thoreau
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
— Michelangelo
When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.
— Walt Disney
The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.
— Tony Robbins
Passion is what gives meaning to our lives. It's what allows us to achieve success beyond our wildest imagination. Try to find a career path that you have a passion for.
— Henry Samueli
The world of reality has its limits the world of imagination is boundless.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
— Derek Walcott
Girls are capable of doing everything men are capable of doing. Sometimes they have more imagination than men.
— Katherine Johnson
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
— Robin Williams
We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
— George Orwell
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
— Michelangelo
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
— Carl Sagan
I like nonsense it wakes up the brain cells.
— Dr. Seuss
Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build.
— Robert Collier
The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
— Aesop
The ability to recognize opportunities and move in new - and sometimes unexpected - directions will benefit you no matter your interests or aspirations. A liberal arts education is designed to equip students for just such flexibility and imagination.
— Drew Gilpin Faust
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
— Simone Weil
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
— George Orwell
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
— William Arthur Ward
The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.
— Malcolm Gladwell
I do not stick to rules when cooking. I rely on my imagination.
— Akshay Kumar
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
— Lauren Bacall
My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
— John Keats
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
— Albert Einstein
I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.
— Daniel Boulud
I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.
— Alice Walker
To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.
— Richard Bach
Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.
— Ida Tarbell
There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.
— Leigh Hunt
Be bored and see where it takes you, because the imagination's dusty wilderness is worth crossing if you want to sculpt your soul.
— Nancy Gibbs
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
— Pablo Picasso
The imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
— Terence McKenna
With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.
— Theodore Gericault
Imagination rules the world.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Lyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a little of the lessons I've learned in my own life.
— Ronnie James Dio
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Those who have learned to walk on the threshold of the unknown worlds, by means of what are commonly termed par excellence the exact sciences, may then, with the fair white wings of imagination, hope to soar further into the unexplored amidst which we live.
— Ada Lovelace
What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.
— Julius Caesar
Where there is no imagination there is no horror.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.
— Samuel Dash
I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be.
— Chris Brown
You have to really use your imagination to refresh your daily life.
— Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.
— Al Gore
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
— William Blake
Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination.
— Tycho Brahe
All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
— Napoleon Hill
I did spend a lot of time as a child very confused about whether I had a devil in me, or whether I was in a state of grace. I mean, these ideas are so potent to anybody with half an imagination.
— Antony Gormley
Man lives by imagination.
— Havelock Ellis
You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
— Milan Kundera
Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
— Daniel Bell
We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
— Wallace Stevens
Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.
— Wayne Dyer
The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
— Charlie Chaplin
I've got quite a vivid imagination and I'm easily overwhelmed by sensations and things that are beautiful or scary. I don't think I've ever seen a ghost - I think I'm probably haunted by my own ghosts than real ones.
— Florence Welch
Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.
— Joyce Cary
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
— Henry David Thoreau
Illustrations can be a big window: a looking glass into the author's imagination.
— Tony DiTerlizzi
Fantasy has a dark side to it. It also has a light hemisphere - the power of the human imagination to keep going, to imagine a better tomorrow.
— Tim O'Brien
Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.
— Barbara Januszkiewicz
My imagination is a twisted place.
— Taylor Swift
Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination.
— Stephen King
True change takes place in the imagination.
— Unknown
From the boys' point of view, scouting puts them into fraternity-gangs, which is their natural organisation, whether for games, mischief, or loafing; it gives them a smart dress and equipments; it appeals to their imagination and romance; and it engages them in an active, open-air life.
— Robert Baden-Powell
Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.
— B. R. Ambedkar
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary. 
— David Bailey
Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.
— Stephen Sondheim
Make sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else wants for you.
— Jerry Gillies
It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
— Edgar Degas
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
— Edith Wharton
I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine.
— Richard Dawkins
Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.
— James Dean
I'm an optimistic guy. I'm one of those big dreamers. I'm one of those kids with that annoying imagination.
— Tyler, The Creator
Justice is to be found only in imagination.
— Alfred Nobel
Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.
— Austin O'Malley
The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination.
— Ai Weiwei
I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
— Ranbir Kapoor
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn't shake but inside I was shaking.
— James L. Farmer, Jr.
Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.
— Mason Cooley
My life has been a gift up to this point, and I've been blessed beyond my wildest imagination. And wherever this ride takes me is where I'm going.
— Sean Hannity
The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies.
— Neil Gaiman
I think artists can influence only through making music that challenges people, excites them and flips them out. Music that repeats what you know in ever-decreasing derivation, that's unchallenging and unstimulating, deadens our minds, our imagination and our ability to see beyond the hell we find ourselves in.
— Thom Yorke
Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.
— H. P. Lovecraft
Proficiency in a craft is essential to every artist. Therein lies the prime source of creative imagination. Let us then create a new guild of craftsmen without the class distinctions that raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist!
— Walter Gropius
If you're not a daydreamer, you haven't got any imagination.
— David Cassidy
My experience of great storytelling, working with classics, is just finding a way to present it simply but let the story do its own work, or be an invite to the audience's imagination.
— Kenneth Branagh
I don't like this idea of Method. I come from that school, but what I was taught was that it's your imagination. You do your homework, and you use your imagination.
— Mark Ruffalo
One thing about 'Star Wars' that I'm really proud of is that it expands the imagination. That's why I like the 'Star Wars' toys.
— George Lucas
I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.
— Kazuo Ishiguro
To me, it's far more efficient to mobilize the imagination. It's far more efficient to hear a creaking step, for example, than to see the face of a monster, which usually looks ridiculous, and where you know that the blood is ketchup.
— Michael Haneke
My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
— Tom Waits
In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination.
— James Buchan
The difference between the Parthenon and the World Trade Center, between a French wine glass and a German beer mug, between Bach and John Philip Sousa, between Sophocles and Shakespeare, between a bicycle and a horse, though explicable by historical moment, necessity, and destiny, is before all a difference of imagination.
— Guy Davenport
Imagination creates reality.
— Richard Wagner
If you got a good imagination, a lot of confidence and you kind of know what you are saying, then you might be able to do it. I know a lot of colorful characters at home that would make great actors.
— Jason Statham
I've learned that borders are where the actual ends, but also where the imagination and the story begins.
— Amy Purdy
It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
— Baruch Spinoza
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination do not become the slave of your model.
— Vincent Van Gogh
An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.
— Maria Callas
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
— Epictetus
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
— Francis Bacon
To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
— Anatole France
I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
— e. e. cummings
An idea is salvation by imagination.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
— H. L. Mencken
He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.
— Lawrence Durrell
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object beware of this stumbling block.
— Paul Gauguin
The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
— Richard Wright
The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.
— Alexander Chase
You can't do it unless you can imagine it.
— George Lucas
Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.
— L. Frank Baum
Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
— Henry Miller
I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It's like having a mental workshop.
— Jack Youngblood
When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you're suffering in.
— Ben Okri
Imagination and invention go hand in hand. Remember how lack of resources was never a problem in childhood games? Shift a few pieces of furniture around the living room, and you have yourself a fort.
— Alexandra Adornetto
Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
— Carl Jung
There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.
— Edith Wharton
Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
— Marquis de Sade
That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.
— George Berkeley
However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.
— J. K. Rowling
I love costumes. I love getting dressed up because it really helps my imagination make the leap to believe that I am who I say I am.
— Alessandro Nivola
Perhaps our imagination needs crime stories to fulfill some craving we have, as a way to assuage a darkness in ourselves.
— James Nesbitt
I had a very happy childhood, but I still used my imagination as a leisure resort.
— Geraldine McCaughrean
I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
— H. G. Wells
This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.
— Adam Smith
Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'
— Bill Bradley