As soon as I realized you could be funny as a job that was the job I wanted.

I don't know who the hell Paul Lynde is or why he's funny and I prefer it to be a mystery to me.

There's always something funny about men chasing women.

Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.

When I was doing ensemble theater and comedy work I felt I had some talents. But when I started doing my shows in Berkeley and found that I could be funny on my own I was shocked.

I write about wounds the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.

I think 'Saturday Night Live' starting in the 1970s really gave women an outlet to be funny. A lot of those women went on to have film careers from Kristen Wiig now to Tina Fey and Gilda Radner.

I took 'P.S. I Love You' thinking it was going to be a little funny and I ended up crying every day on that film.

For some reason and I don't know why but I don't think that I'm funny in California. So I always want to do my movies east somewhere.

If you work at comedy too laboriously you can kill what's funny in the joke.