Jokes Quotes - page 17

Zac Efron is like a brother who's just goofy and crazy. He plays a lot of practical jokes. (Ashley Tisdale)
. . . but she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that men would be so, and viewing the stronger sex in the light of animals whom it had pleased Heaven to make naturally troublesome, like bulls and turkey-cocks. View quote
George Eliot
I'm just not the outgoing bubble of energy. But if I know you, it's different. Practical jokes. Have fun. I'm not looking for any new friends. I got my friends. View quote
Eric Dickerson
I sort of try to write everything for me. I'm a huge sports fan but have no interest in minutiae. I don't remember who won Super Bowls five years ago or listen to sports talk radio. I'm trying to make sure the jokes are self-contained so they're accessible to everyone. View quote
Norm Macdonald
It got very tedious saying the same jokes in the same way with the same attitude. View quote
Norm Macdonald
I try to write three jokes every day. I don't sit down and write them, it's just things that pop into my head. Then I'll go watch it fail onstage that night. View quote
Zach Galifianakis
Fat jokes to me are always, always hilarious, as long as they're done towards yourself. View quote
Zach Galifianakis
My dad doesn't get any of my jokes. He laughs at them, but he doesn't understand them. He's just laughing because people around him are laughing. View quote
Zach Galifianakis
Despite the bare butts and crude sex jokes -- or because of them -- this Adam Sandler vehicle addresses some of the biggest political problems of our time. ... At the very least, it's got to be the first picture to use smelly-feet jokes as a means of parsing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But more than that, it's a mainstream movie that dares to make jokes about the kinds of complex political realities that most of us don't dare bring up at dinner parties. View quote
Stephanie Zacharek
I could never sit down and write jokes. View quote
Louis C.K.
A deep sense of humor and an unusual ability for telling stories and jokes endeared Johnny even to casual acquaintances. (E. P. Wigner)
People make a lot of jokes about the empty nest. Let me tell you, it is no laughing matter. It is really hard. View quote
Michelle Pfeiffer
I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny Thomas, and George Burns and Bob Hope and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and all those guys were at our house all the time and telling jokes and making each other laugh. View quote
Marlo Thomas
I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don't laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that's not real laughter. View quote
Steve Martin
Caught me making eyes at the other boatman's wives, And heard me laughing louder at the jokes told by their daughters, I'd set my course for land, but you well understand It takes a steady hand to navigate adulterous waters. View quote
Aaron Weiss
We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it. View quote
Emma Thompson
People are always going to say stupid things, and you're always going to be able to make jokes about that, but it should be the last thing you add in, because it's the easiest thing. View quote
John Oliver (comedian)
In improv, the whole thing is that it is a relationship between the two people, as a back and forth. In standup, you don't really want to be listening to what somebody is saying; you want to project your jokes into their face. View quote
John Oliver (comedian)
I realize how desperate it sounds for me, as a comedian, to ask you to laugh at my jokes. View quote
John Oliver (comedian)
You can write jokes at any point of the day. Jokes are not that hard to write, or they shouldn't be when it is literally your job. View quote
John Oliver (comedian)
Even as a child, I had that sort of defense mechanism. If something was awkward, I would try to lighten it up by making people laugh. But like Chandler, I've grown up a little bit in the last eight years and become a lot more comfortable with my serious side. I feel the need to fill the silences a lot less with jokes. (Matthew Perry (actor))
I need a woman to have a quirky sense of humor. There's a bunch of jokes I use, and if she doesn't get them, she's probably not for me. View quote
Matthew Perry (actor)
There's not enough Mason Adams jokes. View quote
Gina Barberi
You think you can get away, but you can't. I'll follow you home and I'll shout jokes through your letterbox. View quote
Ken Dodd
The lives of other people seemed even more farcical than his own. It astonished him that as farcical as most people's live were, they generally gave no sign of it. Why was it that it was he not they who had decided to shoot himself? How did they manage to deceive themselves and even appear to live normally, work as usual, play golf, tell jokes, argue politics? Was he crazy or was it rather the case that other people went to any length to disguise from themselves the fact that their lives were farcical? He couldn't decide. View quote
Walker Percy