Wallace Shawn

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I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a character... This happens to be a feature of my life generally.

But because we've all been readers, we know what the experience is like, and we hope that what certain writers have given to us, we will give to someone.

I was making my living from a joke about my appearance that I didn't understand, and in a way still don't, because when I look in a mirror it doesn't seem funny to me.

In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long.

Funny People' is my favorite performance of myself to date. Even though it's a comedy and there are serious moments, I really felt like Leo felt like a real person. It didn't feel like I was playing myself. Whether it's a comedy or drama, I just try to make it as realistic as possible.;Jonah Hill;funny 26360;I don't want to be the one to break it to you, but the future ain't that funny.;Albert Brooks;funny 26361;Twitter, to me, works if you're funny. Twitter doesn't work as a promotional tool unless you do it very, very, very occasionally.;Albert Brooks;funny 26362;I've been to many funerals of funny people, and they're some of the funniest days you'll ever have, because the emotions run high.;Albert Brooks;funny 26363;I think a lot of times on TV we see caricatures - that's what's funny.;Mayim Bialik;funny 26364;I love being a dad, it keeps me fit and inspired and children are so funny. They always supply you with acting material!;Wesley Snipes;funny 26365;It's funny how most activists are pacifists.;Craig Bruce;funny 26366;I've always been part of comedy. One of the things about our family was that if we were reasonably funny with each other, particularly my two brothers and myself, when my father was upset with something you'd want to make sure in some way you made him laugh. Because when he didn't laugh, you were in trouble!;Leslie Nielsen;funny 26367;So what I do now is to pre-empt that by making the up into a virtue, and telling funny stories about how crap I am before people have a chance to notice it for themselves and think maybe I haven't realised.;Emily Mortimer;funny 26368;If you think something's funny, go with that. Most comedians pull jokes from a place of honesty.;Olivia Munn;funny 26369;Funny is funny is funny.;Bob Newhart;funny 26370;I really don't know what makes a comedian. I think it's a family background and environment. Yet if you put the same ingredients in another person, he may never utter a funny line.;Bob Newhart;funny 26371;You can go to a play that is enjoyable because it's funny, and then on the next night you can go to a play that's enjoyable because it's 'disturbing.

I led the life of an intellectual up until a certain age. I remember Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams' was a big favorite when I was 11. It sounded so interesting. And it really was!

In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.

We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way in stopping the horror and the brutality.

For some reason, people find me funny. It's quite hard to define why a thought is funny. It's even harder to define why a person would be funny. It's a word that I can't define at all. But whether I know quite what it is or not, I seem to be it.

I think the whole system of education would change if I were in charge and had the ability to make changes. I don't think I would keep Princeton exactly being Princeton.