Personal Amusement Quotes

I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.

Fun is what you do for yourself. If somebody else does it, it's entertainment.

If it [dabbling in art] didn't amuse me, I beg you to believe that I wouldn't do it.

Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.

I have never taken a photograph without one thought in my head to amuse myself.

I believe reality is a marvelous joke staged for my edification and amusement and everybody is working very hard to make me happy.

I'll go and see anything so long as it amuses me, or moves me. If it doesn't do either I want to go home.

Me, as myself, I don't think I'm particularly funny. But I've noticed that people in my life always have found me amusing. Which, when I was little, really bothered me.

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.

I have always done my sketches, as people would say, for the fun of it... I have worked to amuse myself, and if it has amused the public as well, so much the better for me.

I really like being able to laugh at my own jokes.

To a great extent, I still write for myself, write what amuses me. Fortunately, I have a quirky sort of strange sense of humor that appeals to other people and that's good. I still sort of write for myself though there are some areas of the book I feel I have to put in and I feel I have to deliver.

I realized, "Gee, you're making the same film over and over here." I just kept making them for my own amusement, but also with this thought in my head that I could collect enough songs to make an album out of it. I am attracted to non-dramatic moments in life. The idea of a coffee break is not something you'd think of as being an important part of your day, so these shorts were like little free zones in which we could just play around.