Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It's embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally my body was changing my mind was changing and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.

Very often I don't make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is making these noises.

There's also a certain rhythm to the way Jews talk that might be funny.

You have to discover when you're inadequate to be funny and you don't know you're inadequate when you're a kid.

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

It's funny but you get to a time in your life when you think you have all the friends you will ever have.

I don't think I'm funny.

I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book and I wouldn't give my lyrics and it's all wrong in the book and I giggle. It's funny.

It's only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now I know that I'm skinny because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I'm big when I was big I never thought about it.

You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.

I'm a pretty funny guy and I would love to do a comedy with a bunch of funny guys - movie-star guys where they could help me through it.

I wanted to be that quirky girl who writes funny songs that still have meaning.

I was a hop-around. I hung out with the rockabilly crew the guys who were trying to be rappers the funny kids.

The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that at heart I'm really a jock.

The nightmare is you spend the rest of your life being funny at parties and then people say 'Why didn't you do that when you were on television?'

I like funny guys and those for some reason tend to be nerdy guys.

Chris Hemsworth is like Christopher Reeve in that he can do two things: he can wear a big red cape without a shred of self-consciousness. But he's also funny as hell and he's so sweet. So with all the fish-out-of-water stuff he's so funny. So he does almost two jobs in a way.

Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.

I mean I've seen 3D films so far and I think it's a long way to go before they replace actors. It's a funny thing with 3D I haven't quite got it yet. Yet.

What's funny is that the idea of popularity - even the use of the word 'popular' - is something that had been mostly absent from my life since junior high. In fact the hallmark of life after junior high seemed to be the shedding of popularity as a central concern.

As soon as you are trying to be funny or dramatic that's when things start feeling fake and boring.

It's funny what a few no-hitters do for a body.