Quotes on Funny

The Creator made Italy from designs by Michelangelo.

When I first envisioned 'Funny Games' in the mid-1990s, it was my intention to have an American audience watch the movie. It is a reaction to a certain American cinema, its violence, its naivety, the way American cinema toys with human beings. In many American films, violence is made consumable.

In music, you ain't really got to be able to sing. In comedy, you may be cute, you may be able to add a little extra to your routine, but if you're not funny, no one's really rocking with you - and if you're a black woman, you better be hilarious. As usual, we always have to do the most.

Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

At the end of the day it's got to be a good movie, it's got to be a funny movie, and it's got to make people think, 'Hey, I couldn't have spent my time any better.'

Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?

If I had known what it would be like to have it all - I might have been willing to settle for less.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't afford losing one.

Comedy is learning to be funny, and you learn to be funny in small rooms with young audiences.

Life goes by fast. Enjoy it. Calm down. It's all funny. Next. Everyone gets so upset about the wrong things.

To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

If I paid ten dollars for a cigar, first I'd make love to it, then I'd smoke it.