Jack Lemmon Quotes

We were a very funny family. Humour was the tool with which my brother and I tried to get attention. We were always trying to be the funniest.

I had a very funny family.

I guess, for me, I've always thought that there was humor everywhere. And as a kid, I just, you know, I grew up an only child, and I - sort of nothing made me happier than to make my parents laugh. I remember I had costumes and things laying around the house that I was, you know, anything that I could do to make my parents laugh.

I've always had a crazy sense of humor. So the ballet probably wouldn't have been enough for me. I had to clown around a little bit more.

I don't think anyone in my family was funny.

Mum and Dad have both got very well-tuned senses of humour.

My father was always clowning around. It was a huge influence on me. In my family, everything is turned into a joke.

My dad was the funniest guy I ever knew.

You can't make everybody laugh. You gotta just do what you think is funny. Just be obstreperous to everybody.

You need to be silly to be funny.

I was funny around my family. My family, they're pretty funny, too.

I was a class clown. My father was a class clown. My son has been a class clown, and it sort of ran in the family.

Jason Lee made me laugh all the time because he's so big, and I love how goofy bodies can be.

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.

My dad has a dry, deadpan sense of humor, and my mom has an unexpected, wacky take on things. They really encouraged laughing at ourselves and the weirdness of situations that come up growing up in politics.

I was always a bit of a class clown.

Both of my parents have great senses of humor.

There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

I kid around a lot, but pranks are not my best strength!

I wasn't funny. My brother was the funny one in the family.

I love comedy; I'm very goofy and spontaneous.

It's a wonderful thing to be able to make fun of yourself and to do it in a way that sort of preserves your dignity but, at the same time, lets you play the theater of the absurd.

My family is pretty funny. My mother is British, so she's got a very dry sense of humor. That's where I got that from.

When I want to make someone laugh in real life (as opposed to when I'm on stage where I tell one-liners), I tend to do prop comedy. For example, if I'm at the supermarket with my husband, I might put 16 bags of marshmallows in our cart when he's not looking, or if I'm trying to make a kid smile, I'll put my glasses on crooked.

My mother was funnier than anybody I ever worked for. My father was as funny as this coat. Not a laugh a minute, my father.