Rachael MacFarlane Quotes

The first thing that I learned - and I understood it at a really young age - was that I could get a laugh. Really early. Because my mother and father are funny.

I'm sure all parents think their kids are funny, and I'm sure a lot of kids are, whether their parents are comics or not.

I'm the youngest in my family, and everyone is very funny, and I was always trying to keep up with them. I just loved making people laugh.

To me, families are fascinating. I choose to explore it through comedy and through comic situations.

I thought my family was really funny. Everybody in my family was funny. My mom and dad both have great senses of humor and really saw the funny in stuff, so I think that's probably where it came from. I always try to see the funny in things.

Both of my parents have great senses of humor.

I grew up in Manchester in a big Irish family - there are seven of us in all - so my life has always been about role-playing, about doing anything for a laugh. I'm always joking about; that's the way I am.

I do find things funny. When you see life through the eyes of someone with a good sense of humor, which my grandmother did, life is a human comedy.

I haven't laughed so much over anything since the hogs ate my kid brother.

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.

being funny is a way of being liked and a way of dealing with sadness.

Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.

I'm not the comic of the generation, I'm not even the funniest guy in my family.

We don't appreciate the value of humor sometimes.

I've always been part of comedy. One of the things about our family was that if we were reasonably funny with each other, particularly my two brothers and myself, when my father was upset with something you'd want to make sure in some way you made him laugh. Because when he didn't laugh, you were in trouble!

My parents are really funny. Laughter was a big part of my childhood. Of course, they tell a lot of bad jokes - but so do I. I tell a lot of bad jokes.

My little boy Sonny makes me laugh all the time. He has good comedic timing.

I'm one of three brothers.

One thing my family has shown me is that having a sense of humor is everything.

I had always loved comedy, and acted out Steve Martin and Bill Cosby albums with my sister for my parents on road trips and stuff, and I loved to laugh and make people laugh.

I think I'm funny because my family, my siblings were funny.

My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.

I should prefer to die laughing, and, on more than one occasion, thought I might.

I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.

I'll do almost anything for a laugh.