Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yakov Smirnoff

I was this non-threatening funny guy who contrasted the image of the Brezhnevs and the Reagans of the world.

Imelda May

I'm not filthy rich! I'm not as rich as people think. It's funny, isn't it?

Idina Menzel

I would love to play 'Funny Girl' or 'Evita,' but I idolize the women who have played those parts. I don't know if there needs to be another version of those shows.

Ian Frazier

Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.

Gaines Adams

It's funny, as a little kid, you look up to those guys who you play as in 'Madden,' and now to see myself in the game, it's an honor.

Whoopi Goldberg

I don't have to be bam, bam, bam, funny when I'm working. I can tell stories, and there's some funny in them.

Constance Wu

I do think there are some actors that can get away with trying to be funny, and they're still funny because they're just likeable, and you want to see them. Me, though, when you see me trying to be funny, it's like the worst thing in the world. It's needy, it's cloying, it's manipulative - it's bad.

Chris Bohjalian

Why a ghost story? Well, I love them. They're fun to read - and, yes, fun to write.

Don Rickles

If something strikes me as funny, I'll put it in my performance.

Gad Elmaleh

Morocco is completely alive for me because I spent about a third of my life there. The first few times I went back to Casablanca, I walked through the streets and remembered how years earlier I had walked those same streets and prayed that a miracle would happen and I would leave and become famous.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

The men have piled up in my past, have fallen trenchantly through my life, like an avalanche that doesn't mean to kill but is going to bury me alive just the same.

Don Miguel Ruiz

Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.

Ernie Allen

The people at the shelter had no idea whether the parents were alive or dead,

Stephanie Graham

The past two games we've been a team funk. We just came alive in that first inning (Tuesday).

Victoria Osteen

God's Word is alive and powerful! When you declare these words over your life, the truth of God's Word draws forth the seeds of love that God deposits into us when we invite Jesus to be our Lord and Savior.

Neneh Cherry

A lot of young musicians in Stockholm are about keeping tradition alive and moving it forward at the same time.

Nicolas Roeg

Our memory and the movies keep movie stars alive for us, and Tony Curtis is still a star.

Frank Pierson

A 'live' show is either alive or not. Free speech is free or it is not. Viewers are free to use their remote or TiVo. Parents are responsible or they are not.

J. D. Salinger

Why the hell don'tcha, instead of keep saying it?

Carry Nation

You have put me in here a cub, but I will come out roaring like a lion, and I will make all hell howl!

Eric Stoltz

I have a love/hate relationship with just about all technology in my life. My first typewriter in particular. I had a helluva time putting new ribbon on it.

O. Henry

If I owned Hell and Texas I would rent out Texas and live in Hell

Lawrence Fisher

Just so I don't feel left out, ... I like to sing one (one verse of the hello song) to Rachael.

Peter Forsberg

I take hundreds of photographs. I know the date, I know the time, I say 'Where the hell was I when I took this?

Nick Holt

He has one hell of an arm, man.

Chad Johnson

Hello Jacksonville. I love you guys. Let's talk some trash.

Josh Holloway

Hello darling. How are you? Haven't seen you all night.