Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.

When I was doing ensemble theater and comedy work I felt I had some talents. But when I started doing my shows in Berkeley and found that I could be funny on my own I was shocked.

I write about wounds the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.

I think 'Saturday Night Live' starting in the 1970s really gave women an outlet to be funny. A lot of those women went on to have film careers from Kristen Wiig now to Tina Fey and Gilda Radner.

I took 'P.S. I Love You' thinking it was going to be a little funny and I ended up crying every day on that film.

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.

If you work at comedy too laboriously you can kill what's funny in the joke.

People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny.

Also in a funny way if you have been happily married there are no unresolved areas nothing to prove to yourself after the other dies.

I can't not find humor in elements of most parts of life but at the same time nothing ever seems perpetually funny to me.

What was really funny is that as I got older all those guys who called me a sissy in junior high school wanted me to be their best friend because they wanted to meet all the girls that I knew in figure skating.

Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not.

It's funny though with films because you can incorporate a variety of elements and sometimes that can work for you and sometimes I think it can work against you.

I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive.

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.

Hitchcock had a charm about him. He was very funny at times. He was incredibly brilliant in his field of suspense.