Anne Murray Quotes

Actually, I think I'm funnier off-camera.

I was the class clown at school, but at home, my family wasn't very funny.

Making people laugh was the only thing I ever truly excelled at. But at home, I was so quiet with my family, which taught me to be really observant.

As a kid I was always a bit of a clown, a performer.

The funny thing about children is that, whichever room we're in, that's where they'll be. If I'm in the bath, they'll want to be in there too, playing with the toothbrush pot or brushing my hair.

Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.

I was the kid who always hung back and then dropped the jokes when you least expected it. Timing was everything. My mouth sort of developed over time.

I use humour a lot. My foundation is tragic, but my appearance is humorous.

Half of me is this wacked-out comedienne who will do anything for a buck and a laugh. Well, at least for a laugh. But the other half is a lot darker, sadder and more pensive. It's the dark side that feeds the outrageousness and allows it to surface. I think that's true for anyone with comic flair.

I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'

I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.

Sometimes, comedy and entertainment is not all about telling jokes; sometimes you just have to be you for a few moments.

'Saturday Night Live' is a very particular beast. What it celebrates are individuals who can stand out. I did good work there, but going onstage and saying, 'Hey! Hey! Look at me! Aren't I funny?' - that just wasn't my instinct.

I remember, as a child, loving it when my mom laughed, but I was definitely not a class clown.

I often do very serious roles, but really I am a big clown.

I had a very funny family.

I want to show the world my humor.

What you see on stage is pretty much the way I am... a dry sense of humor.

I think the Mama people remember is from 'Mama's Family.' She really turned into a pretty cool character. The sketches from the 'Burnett' show, if people are old enough to remember, were written by writers who all hated their mothers.

I hope wit comes through in all the characters I portray.

When you're in a band, you spend most of your time in a van. Like, there were four of us, we toured all the time, and you're stuck looking at three other people for a month straight. And all of those times, we all just liked making fun of people, doing impressions of people, coming up with songs.

Me myself, Brian, I'm a Midwesterner at heart, and I have this deep, bone-dry sense of humor, and I've found it worked to combine this Barbie with a dry, sarcastic man.

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

The public knows me through my life, which is not comical. But I feel very at home in comedy.

I have a teenage daughter and a 10-year-old daughter. Things are pink and fluffy at my house, with two little dogs. It's pretty funny to be me now. And I'm in on the joke that is my life.