'Funny People' is my favorite performance of myself to date. Even though it's a comedy and there are serious moments I really felt like Leo felt like a real person. It didn't feel like I was playing myself. Whether it's a comedy or drama I just try to make it as realistic as possible.

The fact that the Kardashians could be more popular than a show like 'Mad Men' is disgusting. It's a super disgusting part of our culture but I still find it funny to make a joke about it.

The things that make me angry still make me angry. George Carlin is 67 and he's still as funny as he's ever been and he's still angry. And that makes me feel good because I feel like if I stick around long enough I'll still be able to work.

You can't teach somebody how to be funny. You're either funny or you ain't.

We live in a funny time. If you don't go corporate you can't compete. You're relegated as irrelevant. People used to admire that.

Straight men just can't imagine the bliss of being in a relationship with someone who finds farting as funny as they do.

Leno Conan. They are both really funny. They really know how to land one.

As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965 I didn't know that funny women existed. It wasn't until I got back to England that I realised women could be funny.

I can't watch other people doing comedy. As soon as somebody starts being funny I have to turn off because it upsets me. I get comedy indigestion. I just hate anybody else being funny. That's my job.

To me what separates a funny movie from a good movie is something personal.

I think when you do comedy you play by a different set of rules. No one really wants you to be in that good shape. Being in good shape implies a level of vanity that isn't necessarily funny.

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.

People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny.

Also in a funny way if you have been happily married there are no unresolved areas nothing to prove to yourself after the other dies.

I can't not find humor in elements of most parts of life but at the same time nothing ever seems perpetually funny to me.