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

Larry Peterson

I think she had to get a ticket to get back in the ballpark.

Dave Cobb

We have to think of ways to redistribute tickets that are not going to be used.

Erik Paulsen

Minnesotans are ticket splitters. They look to the candidate, not the party, which is the way it should be, and that's only going to help me.

Ben Affleck

I'm in the worst place you can be. I sell magazines and not movie tickets.

Edwin Louis Cole

Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast.

Melissa Gregory

We still have the ticket he never used.

Hugo Burge

Those are important in making ticket decisions. The better you do them, the more tickets you will sell.

Donald Barthelme

The center will not hold if it has been spot-welded by an operator whose deepest concern is not with the weld but with his lottery ticket.

Douglas Coupland

Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.

Thomas Wolfe

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Peter Thiel

I worked at a law firm in New York very briefly.

Antonio Sabato, Jr.

I'm a Laker fan, always have been. And the New York Yankees, for sure.

Josh Pais

I live mostly in New York, but I teach in both New York and L.A.

Cathy Elkies

For us, it was really about the story of the Plaza. It is such a New York institution.

Jim Sims

He wanted it to feel romantic, seductive-elegant like a place you'd see in New York magazine.

Gina Rodriguez

I can live in L.A. as a struggling artist. I cannot live in New York as a struggling artist.

Michael Musto

My passion is New York and the vitality that makes it special.

Erik Estrada

I wanted to be a New York City cop before I became an actor.