Funniness Quotes

• I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.

  Maurice Sendak

  Children, Mickey, Emblems

  "Bonus Material From Our Exclusive 'Where The Wild Things Are' Roundtable". Interview With Ramin Setoodeh, www.newsweek.com. October 9, 2009.

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• Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Strength, Happiness

  The Mysterious Stranger ch. 10 (1916)

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• If you can be funny, it means you're intelligent. Your brain is working fast.

  Amber Valletta

  Mean, Intelligent, Brain

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• You can maybe be artistic and really original and creative, but as long as it's got that funniness at the root of it, then certain people are going to love it just because they need a laugh.

  Jason Gann

  Roots, Long, People

  "Elijah Wood and Jason Gann Talk WILFRED Season 1 Finale Cliffhanger and Ideas for Season 2". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 7, 2011.

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• You know if they said kindness or funniness was really most important to them then they will be more likely to say yes to the person that they thought was kind and funny.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Kindness, Important, Said

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Funniness is the wild card in the pack.

  Penelope Gilliatt

  Humor, Cards, Packs

  Penelope Gilliatt (1990). “To wit: skin and bones of comedy”, Scribner

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• I think funniness is a sign of intelligence.

  Chelsea Martin

  Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them—and by laughing at them destroy them? For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, Money, Persuasion, Supplication, Persecution--these can lift at a colossal humbug,—push it a little— crowd it a little—weaken it a little, century by century: but only Laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of Laughter nothing can stand. - "The Chronicle of Young Satan," Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts

  Mark Twain

  Laughter, Blow, Race

  The Mysterious Stranger ch. 10 (1916)

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• Shark Tale feels borrowed, sampled and dittoed from the collective funniness of the past 10 years in studio-made animation.

  Desson Thomson

  Past, Sharks, Years

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• Funniness is genetic.

  Angela Kinsey

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• Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk.

  Maurice Sendak

  Movie, Children, Two

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• When you start explaining why something's funny or finding a formula for it I think it loses some of its funniness.

  Betty White

  Thinking, Explaining, Formulas

  "Q&A: Betty White Talks ‘Off Their Rockers’, ‘Hot in Cleveland’ and Her Long, Wonderful Career". Interview, www.dailyactor.com. April 24, 2012.

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