Ned Beatty Quotes

Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.

The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.

Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted.

I'm very good at daydreaming. Ask any of my schoolteachers.

In actual life I am a grumpy old bag.

Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.

I'm just not very funny.

I don't think I'm funny.

I'm not a particularly shiny, happy person. I'm fairly cynical, and that's what draws me to comedy.

Some people have told me that I'm grumpy; it's not something that I'm aware of. It's not like I walk around poking children in the eye... not very small ones, anyway.

February is for curmudgeons, whinge-bags, and misanthropes. You can't begrudge us one month of the year or blame us for being even crabbier, it's so short. There is nothing good about it, which is why it's so great.

If I ever saw myself saying I'm excited going to Cleveland, I'd punch myself in the face because I'm lying.

I think I'm funnier in my writing than in person.

I'm totally cool being self-deprecating.

I never thought I was funny.

Whoever said blondes have more fun hasn't met me.

I've got this brilliant thing where I go, 'I'm Robbie Williams', and people are interested in what I want to say - which is amazing because I'm just an idiot from Stoke-on-Trent.

I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.

I'm a regular Joe...I just have the unique ability to accessorize.

I've only got one wrinkle, and I'm sitting on it.

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.

Some are blessed with musical ability, others with good looks. Myself, I was blessed with modesty.

I'm a reasonably good actor, and I'm an average naval officer. Ha, ha!

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

My problem is people seem to laugh at me, but the one that laughs harder than anybody is me.