John McEnroe Quotes

ESPN takes itself very seriously, but for some reason, I'm allowed to be the court jester.

I like funny things, but I don't find myself particularly funny.

I like witty people, people who can be witty on the spot.

I think your tendency when you play yourself is to accentuate something about you that you think is the funny thing about you.

I just want to be known as funny.

When it comes down to it, I'm kind of a nerdy actor.

No one will ever accuse James Carville of taking himself seriously.

For me, if I were to be at home in any kind of style, it is more comedy than anything else.

When I think of myself, I'm definitely... I'm not like a comedian.

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

I have the humor of a 9-year-old boy, and sometimes I've had laughing fits on-air.

I'm shameless, and I love a pun. There's a lot of Beth puns.

Comedy as a genre is the one that has given me maximum success, and I do broadly get associated with this genre. I thoroughly enjoy comedy, especially because it is inherent to my personality.

I can really stir up a conversation. Every time I go to a meeting or a casting, I try to make it as light and funny as I can. I'm always making really awkward jokes. You have to make life fun and not take it too seriously. I may look like I'm very serious and into my work, but if you knew me, I'm just a jokester.

Over the years I attempted to make my style a bit more relaxed 'cause the initial style you couldn't watch for more than ten minutes without wanting to kill me.

I was born to be funny.

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

I'm not a person who can spontaneously say funny things.

I think that's my personality, to have a good laugh and not to take myself too seriously. And of course I have my things on the court but when I'm off the court I just like to have fun.

I've been delivering these little homilies since 1980 - that's 37 years - and altogether, NPR statisticians tell me, my bloviation total is 1,656 commentaries - and I trust you've hung onto every word.

I like Ben Stein. I think he's funny, creative, and an insightful commentator on a host of issues.

I'm screamingly funny, you know, I really am in the books. And that helps because I'm funnier than a lot of people, I think, and that's appreciated by young people.

I never considered game show host as a career, but it's fun because I get to inject some of my comedy into it.

I have never been a stats person.

I've often thought I'm a short music hall comedian stuck in a leading man's body.