Nora Dunn Quotes

I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.

When I think of myself, I'm definitely... I'm not like a comedian.

I'm screamingly funny, you know, I really am in the books. And that helps because I'm funnier than a lot of people, I think, and that's appreciated by young people.

Humor comes from self-confidence.

I think comedy comes more from a low sense of self-esteem, and I certainly have that.

I like funny things, but I don't find myself particularly funny.

I'm good at being funny.

I would say I'm a goof ball, but not a comedian.

Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.

It's funny, because I never think of myself as Little Miss All-Together.

I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.

I was born to be funny.

I'm really not that funny in real life! But I am the best audience one could find. I love to laugh.

Sometimes I think I'm funny. But then sometimes I see myself, and I think, 'There's somebody trying to be funny.'

I could always take a joke. I could always be the butt of the joke. I could always hand it out. That was just who I was.

People love self-deprecating humor.

I have no shame when it comes to making people laugh. I don't care what I look like.

I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know.

I never thought of myself as like, a funny person.

I just wanted laughs - that's really what I was after.

I'm not too modest of a person. I've got a pretty blue sense of humor.

I'm very comfortable discussing my personal life, because it's so boring.

I think I always was a bit of a class clown, but I don't know how successful I was at that. I always think, when I read about people being class clowns, I imagine them being actually very funny, and I don't know that I was. But I tried to be, I think.

I think your tendency when you play yourself is to accentuate something about you that you think is the funny thing about you.

If you're serious, you really understand that it's important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you're the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you're funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.