„I've always been misrepresented. You know, I could dress in a clown costume and laugh with the happy people but they'd still say I'm a dark personality.“

„I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person — as the people in this room will attest.“

—  Janeane Garofalo comedian, actress, political activist, writer 1964

standup performance, date unknown[citation needed]
Standup routines

„I'm a very outgoing person. I'm always happy, I'm one of those people who are always smiling. If somebody described me to somebody else, they'd say the kid with the curly hair with the big smile on his face. I get along with everybody.“

—  Corbin Bleu American actor, model, dancer, producer, and singer-songwriter 1989

Tigerbeat interview (2006)

„If you can say something that's funny or do something that's ridiculous, it'll make people laugh. So many people struggle with dark thoughts, depression, and internal pain. I'm not an expert on it, but I know that if I'm ever feeling down, if someone can make me laugh, it really is a cure to those thoughts.“

—  Джош Дан American musician 1988

„I know what they'd like, they'd like a blank they could fill in. A person already filled in disturbs them terribly.“

—  Patricia Highsmith, buch The Price of Salt

Quelle: The Price of Salt

„At parties, sometimes, for a laugh, I introduce myself - people say 'What do you do?' and I say 'I'm Aled Jones, its all gone wrong for me. No, look, I've still got it! (drunken bawl) I'M WALKING THROUGH THE AIIIIIIR, HAAAAAAHAHAHA.'
Ch. 19, 32:55“

—  Bill Bailey English comedian, musician, actor, TV and radio presenter and author 1965

Bewilderness (DVD, 2001)

„I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.“

—  John Lennon English singer and songwriter 1940 - 1980

„People would be tunneling under the street to avoid you. They'd go "Oh, man — is that happy guy still out there?“

—  Jim Carrey Canadian-American actor, comedian, and producer 1962

Kontext: Imagine if you could actually be that happy? That would be powerful, man. People would be tunneling under the street to avoid you. They'd go "Oh, man — is that happy guy still out there?

„I've been called a termagent, but people BELIEVE in me. I'm a BIG personality.“

—  Taubie Kushlick South African actor and director 1910 - 1991

Sunday Times interview (1980s)

„He's always been the person who's made me laugh most. He uses humour in a very disarming way. I've seen how people enjoy his company and have always envied that, and have wanted to aspire to that.“

—  Jack Whitehall British comedian, television presenter and actor 1988

Whitehall, about his father Michael
Hattenstone, Simon (14 December 2013), "Comedians and their parents: Jack Whitehall and father Michael" https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2013/dec/14/jack-whitehall-michael-whitehall-backchat, The Guardian. Retrieved September 25, 2017.

„You are the best person I've met in years, and if I'd met you in a year's time, or maybe even a few months, I know we could be happy together, but I can't give you what you need.“

—  Jane Green British writer 1968

Quelle: Mr. Maybe

„I don't feel I'm old. I just feel I'm me. And I've always been a happy person. I love the human race. I love my work. I love the world—I've been around it four times, you know. And I'm a believing person. I believe in God, even though I can't see him. You can't see the air in this room, right? But take it away and you're dead. And I believe there's something for us after we die. The world isn't wasteful. It keeps going on and I think we do too.“

—  Lillian Gish American actress 1893 - 1993

As quoted in Lillian Gish : Her Legend, Her Life (2002) by Charles Affron, p. 353

„Lionel: I've been getting a lot of calls about you, Marge. People just love your no-pressure approach.
Marge: Well, you know what we say: the right house for the right person.
Lionel: I'm going to let you in on a little secret. The right house is the house that's for sale. And the right person is anyone.“

—  Phil Hartman Canadian American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and graphic artist 1948 - 1998

On the Simpsons, Lionel Hutz

„I'm the most important person in the lives of almost everyone I know and a good number of the people I've never even met.“

—  David Sedaris American author 1956

„The only way I've been practicing my whole life, to live my life is to be responsible for what I do. I don't know how to be responsible for what every black male did, I don't know. And yes, I am gonna say that I'm a thug, that's because I came from the gutter and I'm still here! I'm not saying I'm a thug because I wanna rob you or rape people and things. I'm a business man, I mean, you know I'm a business man because you find me at my places of business.“

—  Tupac Shakur rapper and actor 1971 - 1996

1990s, Interview outside courthouse (1994)

„Hey, you know something people?
I'm not black,
But there's a whole lots a times
I wish I could say I'm not white.“

—  Frank Zappa American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer 1940 - 1993

"Trouble Every Day".
Freak Out! (1966)
Variante: Hey, you know something people? I'm not black, but there's a whole lots a times I wish I could say I'm not white.

„People say money is not the key to happiness, but I've always figured if you have enough money you can get a key made.“

—  Joan Rivers American comedian, actress, and television host 1933 - 2014

As quoted in Seriously Funny (2009), by G. Nachman, p. 606

„I'm a vegetarian now, but I'm willing to make an exception in the event I'm presented with people. Because I've always been fairly standoffish; I have this tendency not to get to know people very well. And I don't think there is any better way to get to know humanity than to ingest it.“

—  John S. Hall Poet, author, singer, lawyer 1960

"Eating People"
Lyrics, The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (2003)

„I've always been skeptical of people who say they lose themselves in a part.“

—  Jimmy Stewart American film and stage actor 1908 - 1997

As quoted in "Innocent Revisited" in TIME magazine (29 June 1970)
Kontext: I've always been skeptical of people who say they lose themselves in a part. Someone once came up to Spencer Tracy and asked, "Aren't you tired of always playing Tracy?" Tracy replied, "What am I supposed to do, play Bogart?" You have to develop a style that suits you and pursue it, not just develop a bag of tricks.

„Some people might say my life is in a rut, but I'm quite happy with what I've got.“

—  Paul Weller (singer) English singer-songwriter, Guitarist 1958

Going Underground (1980)