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.

Don Rickles

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

Mark Twain

The past may not repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme

Gad Elmaleh

I don't feel any need to play the role of the clown. In my private life I take a break from humor.

David Steinberg

I don't really dissect comedy. Nothing kills off humor more than overanalyzing it.

Richard Lewis

I never wanted to do observational humor because I never wanted to tell people what they were seeing.

Milos Forman

Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know.

Peter Segal

I think superheroes are heroes with flaws, and in their flaws, there is a sense of humor.

Matt Kennedy

Merrick had a sense of humor and could joke about his condition.

Ed Peterson

I think this is a legislative sense of humor the rest of us don't appreciate.

Mark Doren

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

Victor LaValle

'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.

Carl Sagan

Valid criticism does you a favor.

Michael Ballack

The 2-0 defeat by Slovakia saw the players come in for criticism and the young players need to learn how to handle it,

Raven-Symone

It's difficult to not be able to just be yourself without criticism in any position, whether you're in high school, college, or this industry.

Northrop Frye

A snowflake is probably quite unconscious of forming a crystal, but what it does may be worth study even if we are willing to leave its inner mental processes alone.

Howard Jacobs

We've talked to a lot more experts, people who are well-respected, top of the industry, on all facets, anything that could possibly be related to this test, and they all have serious criticisms of the test.

Gregg Laskoski

You always hear criticism that when wholesale prices come down there always seems to be a delay when the retailer follows suit.

William Shakespeare

Better a little chiding than a great deal of heartbreak.

Helen Suzman

For all my criticisms of the current system, it doesn't mean that I would like to return to the old one.