The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks. If my daughter has a mediocre sense of humor, I'm just gonna tell her, 'Be a staff writer for a sitcom. Because they'll have to hire you, they can't really fire you, and you don't have to produce that much. It'll be awesome.'
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Related Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny ... WAVY GRAVY Dudes know I'm not a threat. Chicks know I'm not a threat. KEVIN SMITH Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH One of my biggest pet peeves is that I just don't like it when characters do things that are fun... GLENN HOWERTON It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building comp... STEVE JOBS It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humo... T. C. BOYLE I'm working on Leno. He's from my home state, Massachusetts. And my home country, Italy. I s... JOE ARPAIO About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo... PETER LERANGIS You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only... RICK RIORDAN It's a fun job, but it's stressful because you have to be funny. You have to have punch line... STEVE BREEN There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be te... JOHN CUSACK It's very dangerous to wave to people you don't know because what if they don't have han... MITCH HEDBERG If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you. BILLY WILDER A lot of guys and people in our society think that chicks just love dudes with money. Chicks love du... ADAM CAROLLA You can't be funny if you don't have good material. MATT LEBLANC If you watch kids looking at something on television, even something that's produced for them an... BILL COSBY I don't care what the haters and naysayers say. If they make jokes about me, I'll laugh beca... PAULA DEEN Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to te... CAROL BURNETT I don't think that there's necessarily a side to drama that has to be completely bleak. You ... AMY SEIMETZ Did you know you can't say 'Jesus' in a sitcom? They told me that, and I was like, You g... TYLER PERRY When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace ... B. B. KING A home should be an intimate autobiography of the things that you like. One of the things I'm so... ALEXANDRA STODDARD As a comedian, I don't know if they're laughing because it's funny or if they're lau... LARRY THE CABLE GUY I don't know if you know you're funny, but you enjoy being funny. I know I'm funny becau... GREG BEHRENDT I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ... RICK RIORDAN You can't do anything to be funny. That's cringeworthy. If your humor comes out of a place o... JOHN KRASINSKI If you ask men why they did a good job, they'll say, 'I'm awesome. Obviously. Why are yo... SHERYL SANDBERG A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a ... CARL REINER People don't realize it's not just about being funny, and they don't know how perceptive... ERIK GRIFFIN Every label thinks, when they sign someone, 'This is the perfect pedigree to sign. They're c... RANDY JACKSON You know it's funny that none of the regular late-night shows now use guest hosts the way Johnny... GARRY SHANDLING I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a... WALLACE SHAWN It's funny when people ask an actor what they want to play next, because you don't get to de... DYLAN WALSH You have to make the effort with children. You can't have them thinking that I reckon I'm sp... NOEL GALLAGHER I'm screamingly funny, you know, I really am in the books. And that helps because I'm funnie... KURT VONNEGUT The joys of my life are my granddaughters. They are beautiful. You don't have to believe me. You... DOM DELUISE Alas, I think I am becoming a god. TITUS Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. LUCAN I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate. LUCAN I had to do the full body shave for the first coupla weeks of 'White Chicks,' then I said, &... MARLON WAYANS Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. SENECA Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. SENECA We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. SENECA Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take... SENECA Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. SENECA Luck is where opportunity meets preparation. SENECA Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures. SENECA If 'Chicago Fire' goes for a long run, maybe I'll look for a place, but in my line of wo... TAYLOR KINNEY I don't want to write any more screenplays, I'll tell you that right now. It's a waste o... ELMORE LEONARD I think it would collapse my heart if I was super famous. I don't have the nerve for it, I'm... BO BURNHAM I don't think the show would be funny to you if you didn't already have a base of informatio... SAMANTHA BEE If you don't have a valentine, hang out with your girlfriends, don't go looking for someone.... CARMEN ELECTRA You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy thi... IRIS APFEL Who you are as a person is more special than trying to be someone you're not. Don't get me w... HAYLEY HASSELHOFF It's funny to be discovered by a lot of people who didn't know you before. People always use... TERRY O'QUINN Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'l... JOHNNY CARSON Any actor will tell you there's more of a schedule to doing a television show. That's why yo... JASON MARSDEN You ask any actor - they'll tell you they'd rather shoot on location because you don't h... ADRIAN GRENIER I don't know rap. I can't tell you a Tupac song. But you put on some go-go, and I'll kno... SHY GLIZZY I still don't have a publicist. If I'm in a film, you have an obligation to promote it, I... GARY OLDMAN To this day, I've found that it doesn't matter what a guy looks like if he's really funn... CATHERINE O'HARA Girls don't poop, so don't claim you do. You can fart - because farting is funny - but we do... RYAN HANSEN It never crossed my mind to be a director, and I'll tell you why: because I'm a woman. It ju... PATRICIA RIGGEN I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really ex... ADAM DRIVER I really just wanted to be a writer, but people tell you, 'You should have a backup career,'... PATTI DAVIS Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a la... JOSEPH P. KENNEDY I'm just working and having a good time and seeing what develops, which is so awesome, because y... KATHLEEN HANNA If you want to influence people, you want them to accept your suggestions, you don't say, 'Y... RUTH BADER GINSBURG My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you pro... MAGGIE Q My agent says that I'm a 'repeat business guy.' If you hire me to come do a movie, I'... DEAN CAIN I don't have too many bad days because I just don't let them happen. When I'm having one... MATT DALLAS I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You ... DAN MARINO When I'm not acting, I try to be normal, play golf, play hockey. It's funny because you'... TAYLOR KITSCH A song of mine called 'I'll Take Care of You' was on that 'Wide Open Spaces' Dix... J. D. SOUTHER I would love to host 'Saturday Night Live.' That's one of my goals in life - just puttin... ALESSIA CARA Siren voices tell me, 'You don't have to keep going on.' And then you think, 'I'... TERRY PRATCHETT Never say never, but I don't think I'll ever get Botox because we don't know the long-te... KRISTIN CAVALLARI Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious w... FANNY BRICE But I think Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang really got that thing where, if a movie reads really funny and then... ROBERT DOWNEY, JR. Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way." "Funny name for an aircraft... GORDON KORMAN I mean people just have a way of - y'know they'll review your record in two sentences and pu... ELLIOTT SMITH I've never been a really big fan of theatre. I don't know why. It's so much for effort. ... CALLAN MCAULIFFE I have a really dry sense of humor. I don't think it's funny when people wink at the camera.... TOPHER GRACE If you don't believe in something, you'll fall for anything. I believe everything happens fo... ERIC DAVIS You know what they say: 'Why sit at a table that doesn't have key lime pie on it if you don&... SLOANE CROSLEY I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor an... MICHAEL BUBLE I used to say, 'Man, I think I'd be a really good dad. I'll be a great provider. I'm... ELIZABETH GILBERT I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler p... VERA FARMIGA You can't delete racism. It's like a cigarette. You can't stop smoking if you don't ... MARIO BALOTELLI I don't know if I would've had the opportunity to be on 'Wizards of Waverly Place' i... SELENA GOMEZ Try to find someone with a sense of humor. That's an important thing to have because when you ge... ED SHEERAN I would love to have a conversation with you when we're working, and if I'm at a basketball ... EMILY RIOS If you're doing this because you feel like you have a burning desire to do it, then you'll f... TRISHA YEARWOOD I don't know what I am. I guess you can call me a character actor in the sense that I'll nev... JENNIFER COOLIDGE Not all journalists are really journalists. They ask such stupid questions sometimes, especially the... RAY LIOTTA
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