Emily Deschanel Quotes

I've always liked being funny and making people laugh. I was a cut-up when I was a kid, and was always doing bits for my friends and family.

A joke isn't a joke until someone laughs.

I think I became funny because I grew up in the Bronx. I was small and weak and Jewish instead of large and fierce and Puerto Rican. You need something.

I don't feel any pressure to be funny at all. I'm funny because I want to be funny. I could sit here and be serious for an hour and you would go away and make me much funnier than I am.

If you can make just one person laugh, then you are already doing better than Tony Danza.

The kind of über-objective is to make people laugh. You always have to have that in the back of your mind, "Eh, I've got to figure out a way to make this funny."

If I had a sense of humor, I'd be laughing right now.

Let's focus on the funny. ... That's what I'm focused on... This is the gift God gave me. That's what I want to touch in people.

I'd rather be funny than wise.

I've always been attracted to humor and funny people in general. It's a joy to make people laugh, but it's not as fun as laughing yourself.

Personally I don't spend much time thinking about being funny. For me it's always been just a way to get by, a way to be likable yet to remain removed. When I speak up, it's not because I have any particular answers; rather, I have a desire to puncture the pretentiousness of those who seem so certain they do.

People are always surprised that I have a funny side because I'm usually so intense, strong and dramatic. But, I'd love to do something really, really silly and funny.

Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.

The first obligation I have is to be funny; it's my first impulse and an instinct. I like being funny and finding the jokes.

But I really believe that if you have the ability, there is an obligation to make people laugh

If life a joke then I’m waiting for the punch. You all about the beef but me, I’m bout the bun.

I'm just the least funny person in a room full of funny people, which is basically every single day of work for me.

I have always noticed that people will never laugh at anything that is not based on truth.

Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, its unplanned, it's full of suprises.

Even when I'm being funny, I'm deadly serious.

To make people laugh was almost a sickness with me.

I like to make people laugh. I like that kind of silly stuff. For me, it's a natural thing to want to do something like this.

A joke is a very serious thing.

I love comedy. I don't approach it any different. I'm not a comedian. I'm not a stand-up. I just do it like a part and personally, I love to watch comedies. If you don't get to do what you like to watch you get frustrated.

I think I'm the funniest guy in a room full of unfunny people.