Quotes About Expression

It's funny how making odd noises can get you into strange situations sometimes.

It was funny, she thought, but her smile turned wistful because she had nobody to tell.

What's the trick to writing a genuinely funny comedy? The trick is therapy. Take notes.

It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do.

Just because you're a belter doesn't make you funny; it just means that's how your pipes are set up.

Writing a memoir isn't particularly interesting to me. I'm not like Ellen [DeGeneres], where I can write, 'Water bottles--they're crazy!' and it's funny.

You know it's them books what make you talk funny.

I had funny memories, too, but the music was more important to me than anything else.

All my best girlfriends play guitar now, which is kind of a funny world to live in.

You'll never call him Fifi again.

I always thought I was funny, but I was very sensitive, and very provocative just to get a rise out of people.

People who laugh so heartily at what they themselves have said, when it is not funny, dispense us accordingly, by taking upon themselves the responsibility for the mirth, from joining in it.

I mean every character you totally, you know, the full fiber of the personality is kept in the film, and all of those little moments, all those funny little tidbits are all in there.

I don't do it often, but I do cry. I also laugh a lot; people tell me I'm funny and I do like to laugh.

The midget, Bush, and that Rumsfeld deserve only to be beaten with shoes by freedom loving people everywhere.

I wish his music came out of the closet and admit that it sucks.

The young woman was crying, in the way that grownups cry, keeping it inside as much as they can, and hating it when it still pushes out at the edges, making them ugly and funny-looking on the way.

There's this art form in songwriting that's incredibly difficult - to be really funny in a song and also really touching. I can't do that.

I'm not very interesting. Birds are interesting. I could stand there lip-synching all day long, but it would feel funny, and people would be able to tell. I'm not a good actress.

It's funny, growing up there was never anybody around me with any kind of artistic bent.

I try to write 'and it's all very funny' after each scene description so that the reader can imagine the movie in their head.

It felt really good to kind of find my voice and say stuff, and to be funny, hopefully.

So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.

I know jazz is completely un-American. But the reason why America doesn't like it is because it's not funny. We [americans] have made jazz funny.