Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Friedle

When we did Batman: Return of the Joker, the Joker is played by Mark Hamill, so I got to sit next to Mark Hamill for two straight weeks.

When we got there we were given the TV treatment. They put the shine-proof makeup on us, and during the breaks we would joke around and pretend we were news anchors.

Christiane Amanpour

U.S. soldiers, with whom I now have more than a passing acquaintance, joke that they track my movements in order to know where they will be deployed next.

Jose Reyes

We're just good friends. We joke around here in the clubhouse, but if we see each other outside, we're friends. We joke, try to have fun.

Bob Saget

A lot of the comedians don't even tell the joke. Like only three tell the joke, the rest of them dissect it.

Connie Stevens

We are a generation of women that has listened to the much louder voices of parents, teachers, employers, husbands and children while our own voices were small or muffled or totally ignored. Aging Out Loud gives us permission to not only listen to that voice but heed its warnings, laugh at its jokes and follow its directions, without guilt and without looking back.

We are a very united group. We like to have fun, we like to joke around.

Lauren Worsham

I was one of those kids who liked a lot of attention. I was always the kid in class who'd be telling jokes and getting in trouble. Theater was a natural way for me to channel that and also become a productive member of society.

Louis C. K.

I could never sit down and write jokes.

Kurt Vonnegut

A joke is like building a mousetrap from scratch. You have to work pretty hard to make the thing snap when it is supposed to snap.

Kurt Vonnegut

Everything about life is a joke. Don't you know that?

Chace Crawford

Really, I'm pretty laid-back, always cracking jokes.

Cesar Romero

A joke a day keeps the gloom away!

Catherine Tate

Writing comedy is an exposing thing because you're putting yourself on the line with every joke you write, and although you can't second-guess an audience, if you want to be successful, you have to write stuff people like.

Benjamin Walker

You never know when you'll have a bad idea for a worse joke.

Cass McCombs

You can't just explain a joke. Either it isn't funny, or the person just totally missed the punchline.

Brenda Song

I joke around all the time, 'I'm Asian; I'm really good at math.'

Brad Garrett

My whole life, I've been telling jokes.

Jane Fonda

When you're an older woman [in a movie], you are the brunt of the joke.

Libba Bray

My joke is that my father was a minister and my mother was an English teacher, so I'm trained to see the world in terms of symbols, which is hard when you just want to make toast.

Jeff Greenfield

When I listen to the complaints that follow just about every presidential debate, I'm reminded of the well-worn joke about the Jewish mother who buys her son two shirts. When he shows up at dinner wearing one, she says: 'What's the matter? You didn't like the other one?'

Bill Maher

The public is gullible. ... If [many satirists are] making the same joke, that's the danger. Then there's a solidifying effect and it becomes a truth.

Bob Hope

I don't do a lot of political jokes. Too many are getting elected.

Bob Hope

I like a President who tells jokes instead of appointing them.

Bill Griffith

I always thought of Levittown as a joke.

We are all one team. We are always picking each other up during the games, and when we aren't playing we all laugh and joke around together.

Chelsea Handler

I love a stupid joke, something that doesn't make any sense.

We know we'll hear a good joke from you when we meet again someday.

Mike Birbiglia

Ultimately, jokes are this really special thing that we can all share. It's exciting to have basically a thousand people in a room together that can laugh at the same time, but I think of it almost as, like, a religious experience.

David Mitchell

These jokes the world plays, they're not funny at all.

David Cross

I still think that, hopefully, you're not ahead of the jokes, and I think that has value. There is a punchline and it's pointed - and, again, whether you think it's funny or not, that's subjective.

David Cross

You can't just yell jokes at people.

David Cross

I just often find myself getting shrill, angry and the jokes get more incredulous.