Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares?
I find it amusing on one level, poignant on another, when people try to get recognition from an outside source. It's sad.
I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience - experience of all kinds, vital and profound at its greatest, amusing or entertaining at another level.
No one knows Anne's better side, and that's why most people can't stand me. Oh, I can be an amusing clown for an afternoon, but after that, everyone's had enough of me to last a month.
For a lot of actors, there's a sort of code of honor around playing something other than yourself, which I just don't have. I love feeling like I'm - I won't even say acting out, but performing in some deep seam of my consciousness or my family's consciousness or my past. That's really amusing to me.
I'm amusing and crazy on Twitter. I talk about important things, stupid things.
I love Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart because they're bringing irony back into American humor, which is a delicious treat. The entire Colbert persona of being extreme right-wing when he's not at all is highly amusing. He does it so well, but sometimes a little too well. My wife is convinced he's completely that way.
Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.
I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.
Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
Now I can broadcast to an audience of several million people on the 'Today' programme. I can talk about the day's news. But on radio, believe it or not, we have notes and scripts. And while we might ad lib the odd wryly amusing asides, they come at the frequency of a suburban bus. About one every 90 minutes.
I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
I mean I can do it when I'm very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.
Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is another. It is amusing to know that each thinks the other is overrated.
I was the youngest of my entire family so you are tap-dancing to try to get the attention of your older cousins. I really hit my social stride in 6th grade, but before that I was a pretty big dork. You learn how to be amusing and how to work for it.
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
Do people really think that about my nose? I spent my whole life hating it, so it's amusing that people like it!
I find it amusing that I'm on the Internet now, because I've criticized it, but mainly I've criticized it on the basis of, 'What are you going to do with it?'
It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an enormous shift in how it's done, but yet you can't put your finger on someone who actually did it.
Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He got up and said he couldn't work with people who laughed at him!
I've been told to speed up my delivery when I perform. But if I lose the stammer, I'm just another slightly amusing accountant.
It's rather amusing at my advanced age to become a sex symbol.
I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I'll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points, and then I'll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
I know that, as a comedian, I've made great strides because I've worked as hard as a person can work at being at least wildly amusing.
Because work takes up a lot of time, you have to choose your moments for really letting rip. I hang out with my friends and my family and I spend time with my kids when I'm not working. They don't see my being an actor as exotic. For them, it's just an everyday thing. Sometimes it's amusing to them and other times, embarrassing.
I often find it maddening to live in America, in a way that is both amusing and horrifying to me. America clings to versions of itself that are absolutely hypocritical. I can't shake my outrage at it, so I write about it.
Things people say strike me as amusing, and I am prone to saying out loud what everybody's thinking.
I think I'm just like a lot of people who had nothing. We had to amuse ourselves, so we had to become amusing.
I hope I'm always appropriate on 'JR' if it's a serious case. But if you have a case of a man who has a wardrobe malfunction with a lime green mankini, even I on the odd occasion find it mildly amusing.
William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.
My bag is acting or getting into an amusing situation and then sharing my amusement.
I find it amusing when you look at plastic surgeons because they don't seem to have had anything done.
I do find it amusing when somebody cuts me off, makes an aggressive move on me in a car. I'm like, 'Do you have any idea what I do for a living? Why?'
As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children.
