Kelly Macdonald Quotes

I've never really told jokes. I'm not good at it.

I'm no good at the one-liner thing. It's just not me.

I'm really bad at writing jokes.

I'm not a good joke teller.

I don't know how to tell a joke. I never tell jokes. I can tell stories that happened to me... anecdotes. But never a joke.

I don't think I'm funny.

I don't know any jokes, which is embarrassing. I wish I did.

I'm not funny. Never have been and, as far as I can tell, I never will be.

Maybe I'm delusional but I'm usually funny. It's not 100% but I have a pretty good batting average.

Personally - and I don't mean to brag - my jokes have been falling flat for most of my life.

The only thing I know how to do is be funny - that's it.

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

I'm a sarcastic, observational storyteller.

But I was always comedic and would tell stories and use a lot of expressions.

I never thought I was funny.

I'm not mean. I can't do a roast.

Because I was a television writer for many years, I write very conversationally. I put things straight, and with a lot of humor.

I don't think I would describe my sense of humor. Doesn't sound like the kind of thing I'd do.

The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.

My parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles were all funny, and I felt that energy, that delivery, that timing, that sarcasm. All that stuff seeped into my brain.

I seem to get into situations that make people laugh, but I don't consider myself that funny of a person. I'm not witty. I'm kind of slow in conversations. I'm not that articulate with jokes. The first time I made stuff and screened it for an audience, I was surprised what people were laughing at.

I'm not very funny!

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 don't mind being the brunt of a joke, so long as it's a good one.

My best jokes are so cheap. All I do is say things sarcastically.