I can't even really tell a joke. I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work but it ain't easy.
I always joke that I'm a British actress trying to break into Scandinavian TV.
An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought.
When we were trying to find the woman to play Maura Isles, it was a no-brainer when Sasha came in. We just knew it was her, and she did such a fantastic job. She got the job, right then and there, in the room, and it was great. We actually played a little joke on her. She's a great lady and we've had a really, really fantastic time.
When a drawing doesn't come out right it's because I haven't figured out where the joke is. Not that every drawing has a joke, but every drawing has a point. At least it should have. And you figure out where the point is.
My favorite show tune has got to be Stephen Sondheim's "I Remember Sky. " It's probably the saddest song of all time I sing it to myself in the mirror. No, I am kidding. That's the joke.
Desegregation is a joke.
In France everything is a matter for jest. People make quips about the scaffold, about Napoleon's defeat on the banks of The Beresina, and about the barricades of our revolutions. So, at the assizes of the Last Judgment, there will always be a Frenchmen to crack a joke.
When you making a piece of comedy entertainment, the audience is a big component there. You do have to end up getting rid of things that you love, but in the interest of making a movie that's not longer than two hours, and in the interest of when every joke hopefully is good enough, then everybody looks good. You cut things that you love, but ultimately it's for the greater good of making the whole movie better.
Percy wouldn't notice a joke if it danced naked in front of him wearing one of Dobby's hats.
Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life, and people do not wish to waste their lives once they've seen New York! This rural American thing - I'm telling you, it's a joke.
A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.
Over ten thousand people have signed a petition to recall Governor Schwarzenegger. I'm sorry, that is next year's joke.
Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.
I always make the joke that I go home, to one of my homes, to go and do laundry so I can go on the road again.
Joke I read somewhere: They say that God is the innermost dweller of all. Well I hope He likes enchiladas - cause that's what He's getting! Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving.
The hoary joke in the literary world, based on 'Dreams From My Father,' was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he could have made it as a writer.
I sometimes joke that when I die, my tombstone will say, 'Here lies the guy who hired Jonathan Ive,'
After a while, a joke, if you say it too much, just becomes contrived, or fake-sounding.
Why would you want to work for a living if you could just joke around? Being a celebrity expands your commercial possibilities.