Jokes Quotes - Page 31

• The shouting and opinion and jokes don't exist if there isn't first a story.

  Jim Lehrer

  Stories, Firsts, Opinion

  "Jim Lehrer is stepping aside for a dual-anchor format on PBS's 'NewsHour'" by Howard Kurtz, www.washingtonpost.com. November 30, 2009.

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• A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Character, Resent, Personality Flaws

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 46, 1799.

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• I always joke about letting the haters motivate you. Everybody has that in their life, people who doubt them or make them feel less than they are. It just takes faith and belief in yourself, and you've got to dig deep into that. That has to come from you - nobody's going to give you that.

  Jennifer Lopez

  People, Giving, Doubt

  "Jennifer Lopez: Still Wild at Heart". Interview with Veronica Chambers, www.glamour.com. August 2, 2010.

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• When we're on set, we kind of joke around, and when we're rehearsing, we change up the scenes and make each other laugh. We lighten up the mood. The blooper reel is going to be amazing on 'New Moon.'

  Kellan Lutz

  Moon, Laughing, Kind

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• I'm looking for laughs, you know? If it take me to flip over a table, if I have to go physical comedy, I will do it. But whatever the joke needs at that particular time, is where I'm dedicated to. I'm not into beating somebody down and beating myself up. I don't do insults and things like that. I don't do it - I'm a storyteller.

  Bernie Mac

  Laughing, Flip, Needs

  Interview, www.ign.com. March 27, 2003.

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• I became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphone. I'd go around the house interviewing everybody, telling stupid jokes, doing voices. I mimicked Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., people on 'Laugh-In,' Flip Wilson.

  Bernie Mac

  Stupid, Shoes, Voice

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• It got very tedious saying the same jokes in the same way with the same attitude.

  Norm MacDonald

  Attitude, Way, Tedious

  "Norm Macdonald hits the road for sake of laughs". Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. July 24, 2011.

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• Some of those more out-there jokes were written in the wee hours of the morning. Somehow, they remained funny the next day.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Good Morning, Next Day, Hours

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• When you are in a room and your job is to write jokes 10 hours a day, your mind starts going to strange places.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Jobs, Writing, Strange Places

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Anything where we're the butt of the joke, no one tells us about it.

  Chris Martin

  "Coldplay talk 'Viva La Vida'". Interview with Shirley Halperin, ew.com. June 13, 2008.

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• Specifically in stand-up, I love jokes. I love short, structured ideas and a punchline.

  Demetri Martin

  Short Love, Ideas, Punchlines

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. February 25, 2009.

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• Stand up is really fun because if I think of a joke or a funny idea, then I can just go and tell some people and if they laugh, they laugh right away.

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Thinking, Ideas

  "The Art of Being Demetri Martin". Interview with Claire Brooks and Jacob Brooks, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2012.

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• 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.

  Steve Martin

  Laughter, Real, Laughing

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• I actually credit Twitter with fine-tuning some joke-writing skills. I still feel like I'm working at it.

  Steve Martin

  Writing, Skills, Credit

  "Actor-musician Steve Martin". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. February 22, 2012.

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• 'St. Elmo's Fire' is one of my favorite films. I like the storytelling of those teenage American films. You don't get that now. Teenage American movies are all about sick jokes, puking a lot, arse jokes.

  James McAvoy

  Teenage, Fire, Sick

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• Jokes are grievances.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Grievance

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• There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Strange, Affair

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.216

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• When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.

  Paul Merton

  Creating, Remember, Realised

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• Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.

  W. S. Merwin

  Poetry, Lost, Ends

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• I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke.

  Spike Milligan

  Years, Laughing, Singing

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• Sometimes, comics will make the observation that it's not jokes that are funny, it's characters that are funny. And isn't that true! That's why I always kill jokes. I'm terrible at them, because I get the joke right, but I can't get the character right, and it just goes down like a lead balloon.

  David Mitchell

  Character, Balloons, Sometimes

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• You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.

  Dylan Moran

  Achieve, Realism, Surreal

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's a joke to think that anyone is one thing. We're all such complex creatures. But if I'm going to be a poster child for anything, anger's a gorgeous emotion. It gets a bad rap, but it can make great changes happen.

  Alanis Morissette

  Children, Rap, Thinking

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• It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Laughter, Laughing, Trying

  Malcolm Muggeridge, Ian Hunter (2003). “The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge”, p.133, Regent College Publishing

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• If you think something's funny, go with that. Most comedians pull jokes from a place of honesty.

  Olivia Munn

  Honesty, Thinking, Comedian

  "Olivia Munn's DOs and DON'Ts". Glamour Interview, www.glamour.com.

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