I didn’t have to win, and winning wasn’t important to me. Being world champion wasn’t important to me. What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.
Dwayne JohnsonI’m looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody.
David BowieActing is the perfect idiot’s profession.
Katharine HepburnI want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects.
Jackie ChanTeach a parrot the terms ‚supply and demand‘ and you’ve got an economist.
Thomas CarlyleI love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.
Audrey HepburnI know that if I had a television in my flat I would convince myself that everything on it was really interesting. I would say, ‚I’m a Celebrity – Get Me Out of Here!‘ is so sociologically fascinating that I think I’d better watch.
Brian EnoI am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.
Oscar WildeI am not gay, but if I were, I would be the first one running out of the closet.
Dolly PartonI’ll tell you one thing, since I’m married, single people look absolutely ridiculous to me.
Jerry SeinfeldAs we all know, sequels can be tricky.
Dwayne JohnsonIn the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
Mark TwainThe two things in the world we all share in this world are laughter and pain. We’ve all got problems. The levels of those problems vary, but we’ve all got problems. When you can take things that are painful and make them funny, that’s a gift – to you and your audience.
Kevin HartI 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.
Lana Del ReyIf you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.
Maya AngelouThe movie business is a big gamble.
Jackie ChanA man’s got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
Ernest HemingwayDreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.
Marilyn MonroeI do all my own stunts. I’m kidding.
Dwayne JohnsonThere is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
Erma BombeckWhat 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.
Steven WrightDude, maybe not everyone loves ‚Glee.‘ Me included. I watched 10 minutes and it wasn’t my thing.
Dave GrohlComedy’s about opening up and being unique, but to a point where the audience can relate to what you’re saying.
Kevin HartOne of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous attraction for boys, and people are constantly cudgelling their brains how to stop it. But it is one of those things which would be very difficult to stop even if it were altogether desirable.
Robert Baden-PowellMusic is part of the life of fashion, too.
Karl LagerfeldI think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.
Billy GrahamI love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don’t like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around.
Ernest HemingwayI love Chris Brown. He’s a superstar. He’s one of the best singers out there.
DJ KhaledI performed in a bowling alley before while people were still bowling. Cut the check, and I will perform anywhere.
Kevin HartThere’s a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
Steven WrightInstead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
Will RogersThe more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you’ll live 10 times longer than if you have 10. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever. It’s truly ridiculous.
Charles BukowskiThe intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI like quips. I like whiffs of cynicism and I think they can be witty. But I don’t really know where wittiness is constructive.
Matthew McConaugheyMuch of everyday life is filled with opportunities to be distracted. Our possessions… entertainment… cares and anxieties… and even the passionate desire and pursuit of things, some good and not so good, can keep our minds and hearts caught up in a flurry of activity.
Joyce MeyerIf Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.
Bill ShanklyMy opinion can be completely different after a show.
Karl LagerfeldWell, Howard Stern has been doing his impression of me for years. It doesn’t really bother me.
Jerry SeinfeldWhen I was younger and did a stand-up gig, it would take me two weeks to recover. Sometimes I’d get so panicked that I would stutter.
Adam SandlerWhen I die, I’m leaving my body to science fiction.
Steven WrightI should be a postage stamp, because that’s the only way I’ll ever get licked. I’m beautiful. I’m fast. I’m so mean I make medicine sick. I can’t possibly be beat.
Muhammad AliIt is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
Gilbert K. ChestertonWhen people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it’s because he’s so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
Walt DisneyYou have a ready wit. Tell me when it’s ready.
Henny YoungmanThere’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
Will RogersIt just seems there’s better things to do in your life than be on television if it’s not interesting, if it’s not challenging, if it’s not fun. You know? When it stops being those things for me, I’ll stop making television.
Anthony BourdainI had some eyeglasses. I was walking down the street when suddenly the prescription ran out.
Steven WrightThe truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn’t have that kind of personality, and it’s a terrifying thing to say.
Jerry SeinfeldI make fun of situations and try and find the humor in things, but it’s never at the expense of the other guy.
Bob UeckerThe secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.
Mark TwainI did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career – anything for a laugh.
Bob UeckerSNL is a home. You’ve got all of your brothers and sisters there, and it’s a great time.
Adam SandlerWhat makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.
Samuel JohnsonI was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it’s absolutely true.
Edmund HillaryFootball games are on TV, and it doesn’t affect stadium attendance at all. It’s the same with movies. People who really love movies and like to go out on a Saturday night will go to the movie theater.
George LucasIf at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving definitely isn’t for you.
Steven WrightIf you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don’t get wet you can keep.
Will RogersPeople don’t want drama 365 days a year. I’m a sense of relief; it’s my job to take your mind off what’s bad for that brief second you’re in the room with me, regardless of shape, race, colour or anything. It brings people together, and it makes me feel good about what I’m doing.
Kevin HartI remember the first time I heard a teenager say ‚LOL.‘ Just what? But it means ‚laugh.‘ Why don’t you just laugh? What are you doing?
J. K. RowlingI talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don’t live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.
Lady Gaga