I told Warren if he mentions Prop. 13 one more time, he has to do 500 push-ups.

I’m so old, I don’t buy green bananas any more.

All those who believe in psychokinesis – raise my hand.

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn’t always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.

The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus, every boy is a challenge to his elders.

The ‚Billionaire‘ song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It’s funny.

Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.

My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It’s in the apartment somewhere.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

If you want to thrive in today’s economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed.

Funny is the world I live in. You’re funny, I’m interested. You’re not funny, I’m not interested.

Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

It’s a funny old world.

I think being funny is not anyone’s first choice.

The only way I’d be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue.

You can’t trample infidels when you’re a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

It’s true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It’s embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.

Drink is the only opponent I have been unable to beat.

From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.

I was scared many times on Everest, but this is all part of the challenge. When I fell down a crevasse, it was pretty scary.

It’s funny; recently I’ve started to notice people’s impersonations of me, and it’s basically like a hyperactive child.

I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

I’ve got the brain of a four year old. I’ll bet he was glad to be rid of it.

When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business; I have to humiliate myself.

I’ve had a lot of ridiculous haircuts.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

I’m screamingly funny, you know, I really am in the books. And that helps because I’m funnier than a lot of people, I think, and that’s appreciated by young people.

Since childhood, I’ve been a clown. I’ve always liked being very funny or trying to make people laugh. It’s my original self.

Don’t be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.

What I like about the jokes, to me it’s a lot of logic, no matter how crazy they are. It has to make absolute sense, or it won’t be funny.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

I look just like the girls next door… if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

I’m odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet.

I’m a pretty funny guy, and I would love to do a comedy with a bunch of funny guys – movie-star guys, where they could help me through it.

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

Sometimes I wish my first word was ‚quote,‘ so that on my death bed, my last words could be ‚end quote.‘

At some point in time, you definitely have to go drama. Not to say that you’re going drama just because everybody else does it. You do it to challenge yourself. You do it because, naturally, in the profession of acting, you want to show growth. You want to say that you take the craft seriously.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

When I’m ready to fight, my opponent has a better chance of surviving a forest fire wearing gasoline drawers.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

It’s getting harder to make decisions to just want to do something to work… I’m trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.

One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.

If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that’s a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.

Bring them on.

With all singers, insecurity is your best security. That’s why we’re such loud people and why we walk all funny. You think, ‚Are people interested?‘ But I think our band has something and they know we don’t just put albums out. We do think about it.

Every season is a new challenge to me, and I always set out to improve in terms of games, goals, assists.

I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don’t know anything about.

The challenge for me as an actor is if you become a celebrity, you don’t meet strangers anymore. And strangers are where we have our anonymity. And I believe it’s essential for the soul to be anonymous, especially if you’re going to be an actor.

I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don’t have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me.

Everything is funny, as long as it’s happening to somebody else.

I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you’ve got people just streaming up the mountain – well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.

I swam underwater for 50 meters at a time and walked the length of the pool underwater, with a brick in each hand, all on a single breath.

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

If I wished to do something, even if I couldn’t find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers.