Quotes About Expression

I always had a running commentary in my head that was extremely funny and off-center, but I never said it to anyone.

As an actor myself, the opportunity to sing and dance and be dramatic and be funny - it's really irresistible to actors. You get to show all sides of your talent.

You know me. Any excuse to put on a dress.

As a woman, you're not limited to being one thing or the other. You can be feminine and sexy and beautiful and hot and funny.

It's funny because my main awkwardness around writing the song had little to do with the method.

Crocodiles have a smile I've seen on the face of every lawyer I've ever met.

It's funny, but I think my stories - the good ones - they're much smarter than I am.

I never say what I mean, but I always manage to say something similar.

I can conduct better than I count.

Being funny is a symptom of what's underneath. You're pumping out all that energy because something else is going on inside you, some opposing force, something uncomfortable.

By putting myself out there the way I've been doing people see me as a real person. Even though I do character voices and funny noises the stories are still real and I put them all out there.

When I was a kid I did impressions and funny voices a lot. When I was telling a story I would use the voices to make it more entertaining.

When I see something, I know why something's funny or seems to be funny. But in the end it's just another picture as far as I'm concerned.

The English have no soul; they have the understatement instead.

A lot of people who claim they're political comedians are just comedians who have opinions. But they stop being funny the minute they give their opinions.

A lot of my early pictures are, I think, quite funny. And these days I tend to look for comedy more and more.

I'm an Asian with a Southern accent. To a lot of people, that right there is funny.

There are many different ways of being funny. I'm not sure that there's so many different ways of being dramatic.

It's a funny semantic turn - when someone paints a landscape, no one says they "borrowed" it, only that they painted it.

To be creative and spontaneous, you have to live with imperfection.

I swear and it comes off a little angry, no matter how funny I'm trying to do it. If I use certain words with a certain intensity, it's like 'Whoa whoa whoa, buddy buddy!'

It's funny when people debate about music, because they get so passionate about what they enjoy.

I don't know when I'm writing dark. I don't know when I'm writing funny or even heartbreaking. I'm always just trying to write it true.

I'm a big fan of comedians not having to apologize for anything. Nowadays it seems comedians are always apologizing for being funny.