Owen Wilson Quotes

If you can neither accept it or change it, try to laugh at it.

I guess as I get older, I'm kind of getting drawn to the things that I really love the most, which is trying to figure out ways of blending politics with humor, and making it interesting. So I don't know if anybody's interested in this stuff, but I like it, so I get involved with it.

If you're having fun being yourself and filming something that you would watch yourself, it becomes contagious for other people to watch, too.

I just do what I think is funny and what's exciting to me.

I personally have dealt with any adversity in my life with humor. That's why I told America to 'Read my hips!' on 'Dancing With the Stars' or was happy to play along with Jason Alexander and Jerry Seinfeld in the great restaurant scene on 'Seinfeld.'

I'm just interested in things that move me and make me think, make me laugh.

When you come into a pre-existing situation, you gotta have your own thing going. You gotta be really strong about it, and you gotta look at the older material in an aggressive way - 'I'm gonna make this mine somehow.' You need to put your imprint on the situation that you're in.

When we started doing YouTube, the goal was, hey, let's make stuff that we want to see, that entertains us.

I grew up between Detroit and Ghana, and I had to make friends in an instant. It sharpened my wit, and also, just for my own sanity's sake, I felt like I wanted to entertain myself. So I'm going through all these experiences, and I ask myself, 'Is this crazy? Is it? Wait, what's so funny about this?'

I like to find comedy or something interesting to look at with whatever I'm working on.

The point is, this is a way to help inoculate me about what has come and is coming.

My coping mechanism with my dyslexia is to use wit and humor.

It's not enough just to be real; you have to try to make it interesting or entertaining.

People need the court jester, so I keep that smile on and keep going out there to do what I do.

You could say that my life's a mess. But, I'm still looking pretty in this dress.

I just always try to find an interesting story and tell it well. That's a hard enough thing to do, whether it's a piece of fiction or it's a small piece of reality. I just look for good story.

I feel like we have so many different ways to express ourselves now, and I relish, I feel very lucky to be doing comedy.

I just try to be true to myself and look the way that I'm comfortable looking. Because if I'm comfortable with me, then you're going to be comfortable with me as well.

I try to laugh at whatever life brings.

Your humor is your compass and your shield. You can hone it into a weapon or you can pull its strands out to make your very own cotton-candy blanket. You can’t exist on a diet of humor alone, but you can’t exist on a diet without it, either.

Marvel always make it fresh so you can give it your personal twist.

When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.

Every cripple has his own way of walking.

You've got to try and do your best, and the failure is what's funny. But you can't be aware of the failure, you've just got to keep trying to do your best.

It is in the thousands of days of trying, failing, sitting, thinking, resisting, dreaming, raveling, unraveling that we are at our most engaged, alert, and alive.