Silly Stuff Quotes

• I like to make people laugh. I like that kind of silly stuff. For me, it's a natural thing to want to do something like this.

  Carmen Electra

  Silly, People, Laughing

  "Scary Movie 4 - Carmen Electra interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I've never been into just really silly stuff.

  Jonah Hill

  Silly, Stuff

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. September 21, 2011.

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• I can't work out and *not* be watching or listening to music or something. I also journal a lot. I think writing is super therapeutic. And then, hanging with my nieces and nephews. Just like baking or doing silly stuff like jumping on a trampoline, doing fun things with them, pretending I'm five with them, that makes my day.

  Khloe Kardashian

  Fun, Niece, Silly

  "From Porn to Working Out, Khloé Kardashian Thinks You Should Be 'Doing Things That Make You Happy'". Interview with Samantha Leal, www.marieclaire.com. March 4, 2016.

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• The Founding Fathers were more deists. If you had to categorize them as anything. There was some sort of moving prime force. But it's an impersonal force. Some people call it Nature. Certainly not this personal god who you have a personal relationship with, who listens to your prayers and answers them, or doesn't. You know, not the silly stuff that most Americans believe because we're such a dumb nation.

  Bill Maher

  Prayer, Father, Believe

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

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• The sin of capitalism, perhaps, is to make wants feel like needs, to give to simple silly stuff the urgency of near-physical necessity: I must have it. The grace of capitalism is to make wants feel like hopes, so that material objects and stuff can feel like the possibility of something heroic and civic.

  Adam Gopnik

  Silly, Simple, Giving

  "Under one roof" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. September 22, 2003.

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• I think there's a lack of quality roles for women in comedies. Most actresses get cast as the "eye-roller" or "the serious one," while men in comedies get to do all the fun, silly stuff and muck around. Sometimes you just have to search hard for a role or create one for yourself.

  Isla Fisher

  Fun, Silly, Eye

  "Definitely Maybe - Isla Fisher interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I had been self-publishing for a number of years at that stage and selling my books at markets around Melbourne - little pocket books. I'd make them for 10 cents and sell them for a dollar. But I knew there was an audience who loved silly stuff so I just kept plugging away.

  Andy Griffiths

  Silly, Book, Self

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• I like mixing things up, doing some silly stuff, along with serious stuff, up tempo, and some quiet things ... it keeps me interested.

  Tom Rush

  Silly, Mixing, Stuff

  "Tom Rush Interview: Celebrating 50 Years of Storytelling and Music". Interview with Ray Shasho, www.classicrockhereandnow.com. November 26, 2012.

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• A lot of the girls my age were impressed by silly stuff like money and fame. I wanted to be able to have intellectual and spiritual conversations with someone who was on the same page as me.

  Nick Cannon

  Girl, Spiritual, Silly

  "Nick Cannon" by Corrie Pikul, www.elle.com. September 9, 2009.

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• I like silly stuff, too. I like the 'Twilight' series. That was fun.

  Mitt Romney

  Fun, Silly, Twilight

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• A cop told me, a long time ago, that there’s no substitute for knowing what you’re doing. Most of us scribblers do not. The ones that’re any good are aware of this. The rest write silly stuff. The trouble is this: The readers know it.

  George V. Higgins

  Silly, Writing, Knowing

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• With silly stuff, it's seventy-five percent confidence. I always tell people that it's because I'm nervous about getting that next laugh and I need to hear it. I always want to condense a joke

  Tim Vine

  Confidence, Silly, Laughing

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• People ask 'do you make a conscious effort not to swear?' - if you're doing silly stuff you're not tempted to put swearing in. All the comics from my childhood, who were funny without swearing, were the people that influenced me. What I do is quite traditional anyway.

  Tim Vine

  Silly, People, Childhood

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• This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.

  A. A. Milne

  Silly, Writing, Stuff

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.118, Egmont UK

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• Miss Edmunds was one of his secrets. He was in love with her. Not the kind of silly stuff Ellie and Brenda giggled about on the telephone. This was too real and too deep to talk about, even to think about very much.

  Katherine Paterson

  Real, Silly, Thinking

  Katherine Paterson (2009). “Bridge to Terabithia”, p.27, Harper Collins

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