I have no idea what I'm going to say when I stand up to give a toast. But I do know that anything I say I find funny.

It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.

I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.

It's so funny because right now I'm very tired and my brains a little dead I tend to get very focused and serious. So I'm probably coming off a lot more like Scully right now.

Strange questions are the more interesting ones. Children by and large don't try to trip you up... they want to find out how you do this funny thing that you do... if they've loved a story they love to know how it started.

Animals are sentient intelligent perceptive funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.

I would call it a comedy variety show. We have some people just doing straight standup. We usually try to have one musical act of sort. So its just people being funny in different ways not just sketch not just standup not just characters all of those things.

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.

It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun and people call it entertainment!

If it's inappropriate to write about if there's nothing funny about it then it's not funny.

We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.

For some reason people find me funny. It's quite hard to define why a thought is funny. It's even harder to define why a person would be funny. It's a word that I can't define at all. But whether I know quite what it is or not I seem to be it.

I was making my living from a joke about my appearance that I didn't understand and in a way still don't because when I look in a mirror it doesn't seem funny to me.

I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally so I don't know what's funny about a character... This happens to be a feature of my life generally.

You can go to a play that is enjoyable because it's funny and then on the next night you can go to a play that's enjoyable because it's 'disturbing.'

I really don't know what makes a comedian. I think it's a family background and environment. Yet if you put the same ingredients in another person he may never utter a funny line.

Funny is funny is funny.

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

So what I do now is to pre-empt that by making the up into a virtue and telling funny stories about how crap I am before people have a chance to notice it for themselves and think maybe I haven't realised.

It's funny how most activists are pacifists.

I think a lot of times on TV we see caricatures - that's what's funny.

I've been to many funerals of funny people and they're some of the funniest days you'll ever have because the emotions run high.

Twitter to me works if you're funny. Twitter doesn't work as a promotional tool unless you do it very very very occasionally.

I don't want to be the one to break it to you but the future ain't that funny.