Funny Quotes

Hitchcock had a charm about him. He was very funny at times. He was incredibly brilliant in his field of suspense.

I just developed my act way back in the late ’80s. I went to college in Georgia, so I picked up the Southern accent. I talked like that with my friends all the time, because it was fun. It was funny… All my friends were real Southern. We’re buddies, so I’d say stuff to make them laugh. So that was pretty much it.

I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can’t get rid of.

I am odd-looking. I sometimes think I look like a funny Muppet.

I went to the University of San Francisco on an athletic scholarship. I didn’t study in high school. I was just there to get by and to play basketball. But a funny thing happened to me when I got to college. I got challenged by the work and the professors.

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

I buy so much fake jewelry, it’s funny. It’s not real. I don’t wear real diamonds or anything.

Every time I do something silly, it comes off really funny because it’s natural.

I think if they put a laugh track on ‘Intervention,’ it would be funny.

‘Funny Games’ was conceived as a provocation. My other films are different. If people feel my other films are, or respond to them as provocation, then that’s quite different. ‘Funny Games’ is the only one of mine where my intention was to provoke the audience.

It’s funny: I’m a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it’s been a solitary thing.

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.