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.

Nick Jonas

I'm pretty crazy about the Yankees. When I can't actually watch a game, I TiVo it. I am also a die-hard Dallas Cowboys fan. I don't tell many people that because I will get made fun on because I'm from New Jersey!

Rosecrans Baldwin

I actually don't think there is machismo in America, unless it's the cowboy type - the silent, smoking brooder.

Paula Garces

I'm South American, and growing up in New York, I had the total stereotypical way of thinking of what Texas was about. I'm like, Texas. Big. Cows. Cowboys. Cowboy hats and cowboy boots. And barbeque.

Hank Williams

You can do anything that you wanna do, but uh-uh, don't step on my cowboy boots.

S. Walker

Those of us who portrayed cowboys I would imagine had heroes of our own as kids.

John Neal

I'm a huge (Dallas) Cowboys fan, I'm so excited, I can't wait.

John Prine

Have you ever noticed / When you're feeling really good / There's always a pigeon / That'll come shit on your hood / Or you're feeling your freedom / And the world's off your back / Some cowboy from Texas / Starts his own war in Iraq.

He was a cowboy, mister, and he loved the land. He loved it so much he made a woman out of dirt and married her. But when he kissed her, she disintegrated. Later, at the funeral, when the preacher said, ""Dust to dust,"" some people laughed, and the cowboy shot them. At his hanging, he told the others, ""I'll be waiting for you in heaven--with a gun.

Marvin Demoff

He wants to play football, period. Right now, the Cowboys drafted him, they have paid him money and they have not gotten much in return. He'd like to do his share.