You can't be funny for funny's sake. You try to get as outrageous situation as you can but it always has to be believable and based in real character motivations and what people would really do.

I have funny bones. If there's ever any kind of tension I'll always be the one to try and be funny to loosen things up.

The token gay character is always so funny and so fantastic. That's happened a lot. Or they're often purely victims.

I always just wanted to be funny. I never really planned to be scary.

Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor but I always knew who was funny who to hang out with.

And the funny thing is I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.

I've always found it easier to be funny than to be serious.

It's a funny relationship that makeup artists have. I always feel kind of like a dentist. People look at me and think of pain.

It's interesting - I always thought when I was doing more melodramatic stuff like 'Everwood' that the directors were constantly reeling me in and stopping me from being funny.

Sometimes comics will make the observation that it's not jokes that are funny it's characters that are funny. And isn't that true! That's why I always kill jokes. I'm terrible at them because I get the joke right but I can't get the character right and it just goes down like a lead balloon.

There's always something funny about men chasing women.

For some reason and I don't know why but I don't think that I'm funny in California. So I always want to do my movies east somewhere.

Working with Chaplin was very amusing and strange. His films are so funny but working with him I found him to be a very serious man. Whereas the films of Hitchcock are macabre he could be a very funny man to work with always telling jokes and holding court. Of course when I worked with Charlie he was getting older.

One lion thinks it's just hilarious to tackle us. He's very funny about it... and we always know when it will happen.

I think it's always funny when you see kids do Shakespeare.

The misconception is that standup comics are always on. I don't know any really funny comics that are annoying and constantly trying to be funny all the time.

I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny I have to get ticked off about something.

It's interesting that whenever I meet some of the other Bond girls I always have something in common and it is an interesting sorority. We all share about our Bonds. 'Did your Bond do that?' 'Yes mine did!' So it is quite funny conversations. We may as well be in high school.

For years it's driven me crazy that women don't have better roles especially in comedies. I know so many funny women but I always felt... misogynist streak is too strong a term - but a dismissiveness.

I can always get better. A lot of my ex-girlfriends don't think I'm funny.

The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water but that's about it.

It's funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.

The surprising thing is that I was not funny in high school. I was always jealous of the funny kids because they always got the girls. I couldn't tell a joke to save my life.

It's funny. People often compare me to other humor essayists. They're usually quite nice comparisons I will accept those gladly. But I am always sort of appalled at the idea of being lumped with other more chick-y female writers. And the truth is probably that neither comparison is accurate.