Toni Basil Quotes

Davy Jones was the grooviest of the Monkees, which makes him one of the grooviest pop stars who ever existed. He was the best dancer in the Monkees, the Cute One, the one with the coy English accent, the bowl-cut boy-child who shook those cherry-red maracas and always got the girl. He was also the guy who stole David Bowie's original name.

My dad keeps joking about sneaking into my grandparents' house and switching out their HBO for PBS so they think I'm on 'Downton Abbey.'

I think a lot of people like hidden-camera shows where they think they're spying on somebody who doesn't know they're looking at them. And nobody takes it seriously - you either enjoy it and get a laugh out of the reactions or not.

I think life would be so much funnier if every day you saw someone walking down the street getting hit in the head by a monkey, don't you?

I never thought of myself in comedy at all... I loved going to the theatre and seeing people wearing beautiful clothes come down the staircase and start to dance.

Gates is a clown—–an absolute clown.

I did a musical episode of 'Scrubs.'

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.

Fart jokes still work for me.

Nothing makes me laugh more than farting.

I know it was all a bit of a sham. But I know that Mickey Dolenz sang. And Davy Jones sang. And Mike Nesmith sang. And Peter Tork did something.

I actually like jokes as well as things that are sort of fun.

I liked 'Last Train to Clarksville.'

I'm a prankster, so some of the - you know, I like a good joke. I think when it's funny, it's funny.

I still like farts. I still think farts are some of the funniest things.

I just find all that stuff incredibly funny. I love a fart. I'd do anything for a good poo story.

We were called 'Three Men Who, When Standing Side by Side, Have a Wingspan of Over Twelve Feet.' We had that name for a week or so. We were also called 'Are You My Mother?' for awhile. We went through a lot of really dumb band names - almost as dumb as Fountains of Wayne.

There's a scene in 'Singin' in the Rain' where this guy dances with a giant doll while singing 'Make 'Em Laugh.' I remember loving the pure physicality of it.

I would love to do a musical. Put that in the universe! A rom-com musical!

I am a ham, I like to joke around.

I just knew it would get a big laugh when people saw the 'Flying Nun' throwing the bird to a highway patrolman.

The English have a special sense of humour. This I immediately experienced in the dressing room. As I walked with two plates while eating, suddenly a team-mate asked me, 'Basti, what time is it?' hoping I would automatically turn my hand to look at my watch. That's quite entertaining.

When you are writing something that is false and presenting it as a fact without confirming... I feel it's extremely wrong.

I'm clown realness!

I was singing R&B songs, listening to Boyz II Men, and I wanted to take dance classes, but I waited until my senior year of high school to take my very first dance class.