Best Amusing Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“The 'HIGNFY' line-up often consists of four male comedians and one lone female TV presenter who barely says a word. Lo and behold, everyone wonders why the men are funnier than the woman! If your actual job is to make people laugh, then you'll probably be more amusing than someone who reads a teleprompter for a living.”

“But floating for an extended period is truly amazing. My brain is constantly trying to figure out which way is up. It's an interesting challenge, one I find slightly amusing.”

“I like some of my stuff not to be particularly funny. It's supposed to be amusing, entertaining or thought-provoking, like a curiosity. If you put it on in front of 500 people in the Odeon they wouldn't laugh. They shouldn't laugh.”

“Listen to really old blues guys and how they weren't allowed to sing about what they meant; they alluded to things. I find that style amusing, and I think it's a little harder to write.”

“What people don't understand is that when I hear what somebody has said about me, I wonder, 'Don't you know what they are saying about you, too?' It's quite amusing.”

“The logical quandaries thrown up by well-meaning systems are clearly something that I find darkly amusing.”

“The idea of Seth Rogen as the Green Hornet so inflaming the fanboy community is amusing, since that group's 20/50 vision also had it tsking its disapproval about Michael Keaton as Batman and Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man.”

“I think when I start out writing, I always try to write the version of the movie that I want to go see. I don't mean it in a way that ignores the audience, but I really set out to make a movie that I want to see and that, hopefully, other people will want to go see it. So whatever's amusing to me, I guess, I throw it all in there.”

“I never wanted to be famous. It was amusing at first, but now I hate it. I just wanted to be respected by people I respect. And I wanted to be rich. It's best to get rich, then you can do what you want.”

“I love comedy, but it has to be hysterical and really amusing; I'm not really a big fan of romantic comedies, in fact I can't stand them. I'm really more of a fan of 'Team America' and 'Dodgeball.'”

“I was the youngest of my entire family so you are tap-dancing to try to get the attention of your older cousins. I really hit my social stride in 6th grade, but before that I was a pretty big dork. You learn how to be amusing and how to work for it.”

“There are things you do when you're writing that are so fun to do it's almost like they're private jokes that are amusing to you but no one else is going to enjoy them nearly as much and you worry you're going to have to take them out in the end.”

“However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.”

“Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.”

“I always say what I think to be amusing.”

“There is something quite amusing about someone who is relentlessly positive and wants to be everyone's friend in a cynical world.”

“I was always interested in being funny and amusing and creating art and comedy.”

“There's nothing less funny than somebody trying to be funny. I loved Jack Dee, then I met him and I became the least funny human to exist because of my desperation to say something amusing.”

“There is nothing more amusing than when two people known for being non-objective argue over objectivity. This is the summation of Keith Olbermann vs. Ted Koppell.”

“I find it amusing when you look at plastic surgeons because they don't seem to have had anything done.”

“Because work takes up a lot of time, you have to choose your moments for really letting rip. I hang out with my friends and my family and I spend time with my kids when I'm not working. They don't see my being an actor as exotic. For them, it's just an everyday thing. Sometimes it's amusing to them and other times, embarrassing.”

“Do people really think that about my nose? I spent my whole life hating it, so it's amusing that people like it!”

“I usually balance out autobiography with goofy, amusing stuff to help keep the humour in my more serious work.”

“I'm useless scrabbling around at home. I get on everyone's nerves, including my own. I'm not very good at amusing myself.”

“I love funny people, and when I'm with funny people, or people who are amusing in their weirdness, I love it. Because that to me is funny, as opposed to someone who stops and says, 'Hey let me tell you a joke.'”

“Working with Chaplin was very amusing and strange. His films are so funny, but working with him, I found him to be a very serious man. Whereas the films of Hitchcock are macabre, he could be a very funny man to work with, always telling jokes and holding court. Of course, when I worked with Charlie he was getting older.”

“I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.”

“I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.”

“Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.”

“I don't do emoticons unless I'm making a big deal out of them. I'll type out, 'This is so amusing it makes me want to grin in pixels.' And then do it.”

“My tongue is what I used instead of my fists because I was a small and cowardly young man. Amusing people with stories and being bizarre with words was my way of getting out of fixes.”

“There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.”

“Mistakes can be funny. I drove a car into a bollard and it was pretty amusing because it was while I was showing off that I was a really good driver.”

“Critics always get the lyrics wrong in reviews, which is amusing - especially when they use them against you.”

“I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I'll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points, and then I'll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.”

“The first PA I sacked had taken a shine to my then boyfriend, another helped herself to my purse, another decided it would be amusing to put a box on my head, like a hat. As it slipped slowly down over my eyes, her fate was sealed.”

“It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an enormous shift in how it's done, but yet you can't put your finger on someone who actually did it.”

“What would I put in a museum? Probably a museum! That's an amusing relic of our past.”

“As an actor you get categorized by other people, but it's not like I arrange myself into comedy mode or serious mode. If it's good writing you just have to play it true - if it's funny, it's funny. But obviously you don't want it to be amusing if you're playing Hedda Gabler!”

“What is most amusing and can happen only in India is that the most posh and big households that I've seen in Mumbai, the 'big city', will have their balconies and windows festooned with rows of baniyans and tauliyas hanging on them.”

“It was very amusing to do 'GI Joe: Retaliation' scenes with Bruce Willis, who spends months rewriting his dialogue and then turns up and doesn't say it. Part of the time, he doesn't say anything, but mumbles and mutters.”

“Government is not a game show, though at times it is amusing and entertaining to watch.”

“I only went to one Star Trek convention and that was in the late '80s. I hadn't gone to a convention before that. It was quite amusing, with the people dressed up and all of that.”

“I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway.”

“William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.”

“I hope I'm always appropriate on 'JR' if it's a serious case. But if you have a case of a man who has a wardrobe malfunction with a lime green mankini, even I on the odd occasion find it mildly amusing.”

“When we first came out with our music, the gay question was always there and it was super important for everyone. But for me it was amusing.”

“'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' - I had a lot of friends who told me to watch it. And I was like, 'I'm not buying seven seasons of a frickin' show.' It got to the point where, 'Seriously, you have to watch it.' Buffy is not my favorite, but it's amusing.”

“To be honest, I don't mind Jason Gardiner, I've always found him amusing.”

“I'm interested in the things that might seem slight or amusing but which I feel have a kind of profundity.”

“It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.”

“A really good comedy, I think, is played as if it was real, and it's the circumstances that make it amusing. And I think that the - the inverse or the reverse is true for drama.”

“We live in a world in which there are many live things other than human beings, and many of these things can seem beautiful and amusing and interesting to us if they can catch our attention and if we can step back from our crabbed and limiting and lonely anthropocentricity to consider them.”

“Cavorting around fantasy-style environments with a rampaging horde of sycophantic psychos is inherently amusing.”

“Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.”

“I think it's amusing to watch a naive, well-meaning character kind of undo more cynical characters - kind of like watching Laurel and Hardy or Charlie Chaplin.”

“Bob Hope said: 'You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.' And while this quote is generally amusing, it is even more amusing when you know he said that when he was old.”

“I know that, as a comedian, I've made great strides because I've worked as hard as a person can work at being at least wildly amusing.”

“I was reading Neil Postman's 'Amusing Ourselves to Death'. It's one of my favourites.”

“You re-watch 'Napoleon Dynamite', and there's a lot of thrift shopping that goes on in that movie; there's a lot of funny stuff. It's definitely amusing, and paying 99 cents for a samurai sword is amazing.”

“I find that quite amusing - I used to get Deborah Kerr her sausage rolls.”

“When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.”

“I'm really into the irony of writing vaguely radical plays that instantly win huge establishment awards. It's really amusing.”

“I mean I can do it when I'm very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.”

“But honestly, much of the work that I have done has had some impact on me. It's something that I have realised only later. I also find it amusing that the memories of actors are so consciously constructed around what happened to that piece of work, in terms of audience reception or box-office results.”

“Beautiful? It's all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest... beautiful, no. Amusing, yes.”

“When people take themselves really seriously, I find it silly and amusing.”

“I'd say I'm the opposite of someone that has the urge to stand in front of strangers and make them laugh, but the idea of getting up and telling a story and people finding it amusing always appealed to me.”

“I left the table where there were important people and had lunch with my husband and a few friends. The reception was organised in my honour, so it was rather amusing.”

“Things people say strike me as amusing, and I am prone to saying out loud what everybody's thinking.”

“For a lot of actors, there's a sort of code of honor around playing something other than yourself, which I just don't have. I love feeling like I'm - I won't even say acting out, but performing in some deep seam of my consciousness or my family's consciousness or my past. That's really amusing to me.”

“The rest-seeking procrastinators would generally rather not exert themselves at all, while the fun-task procrastinators enjoy being busy and active all the time but have a hard time starting things that are not so amusing.”

“Jane Austen is very amusing.”

“Never in my life did I think I would be walking down the street and people would shout 'Jesus!' at me in the street. It's quite amusing.”

“'Bloodlight and Bami' delivers. Ms. Jones shucks her own oysters - stressfully. She does her own make up and performs her own vexed yet amusing contract negotiations.”

“I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.”

“Where Americans might coo over a child's most inane remark to boost his confidence, middle-class French parents teach their kids to be concise and amusing, to keep everyone listening.”

“I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares?”

“This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I wanted to do a comedy, so this was just the right one.”

“Teaching, I find, is not the most amusing thing on earth; in fact, with a stupid lump for a Pupil, it is about the most irksome.”

“Sometimes if something is entertaining and amusing, people tend to think that it doesn't have the depth of something that's dramatic. I don't think that's true.”

“At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I've been in a generally good mood ever since.”

“The amusing thing about 'X-Force' is that it was highly rated - and hated - in about equal measure, Which suited me just fine. If no-one's feathers were a little ruffled, we probably wouldn't have been doing our jobs right.”

“I always try to keep in mind that while the characters in a farce may find themselves in outrageous dilemmas, and may behave in a way that the audience finds amusing, the characters themselves don't have the consolation of knowing they're in a comedy.”

“I have ideas that I think might be amusing, and I try them, and if they look right, I carry them out, and if they don't, I throw them out and try something else. I don't agonize about it.”

“I find it quite amusing that it's feasible that your opponents can have somebody watching you.”

“I find it amusing that every time I was asked when I will work with Zoya or Farhan, I was quoted as saying, 'It will be easier to convince Steven Spielberg to cast me rather than my own children.' That has come true.”

“I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.”

“Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot before I can be even remotely amusing.”

“Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.”

“A lot of opinions just really don't get to me. If anything, some of them were humorous and my favorite, you know - I'm Keith 'One Time' Thurman. I'm Keith 'Run Time' Thurman, Keith 'Sometime' Thurman, Keith 'Once Upon a Time' Thurman. That was pretty amusing.”

“I call America our emerging market. They find it very amusing when I said that.”

“Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.”

“Generally, we try not to write down to kids. We really just try to write a visual, character-driven cartoon that has a lot of slapstick and really appeals to us. I guess we are just lucky that other adults find that amusing, too.”

“Now, as a comic, if you're vaguely amusing you can go straight into TV, then you play the O2 and then everyone's sick of you.”

“Film sets are constantly amusing because you really are creating something that is so very surreal, and I kind of like that.”

“I die pretty much every year. I find it amusing.”

“Mindfulness is a quality that's always there. It's an illusion that there's a meditation and post-meditation period, which I always find amusing, because you're either mindful or you're not.”

“Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.”

“I'm amusing and crazy on Twitter. I talk about important things, stupid things.”