109 Joking Around Quotes

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Famous Joking Around Quotes

A joke is a very serious thing. - Winston Churchill

A joke is a very serious thing. — Winston Churchill

He that jokes confesses. — Italian Proverbs

When there's no girls around, there's humor. — Joe Gatto

A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I'm joking and when I'm serious. — Eminem

There has to be irony, both in design and in the objects. I see around me a professional disease of taking everything too seriously. One of my secrets is to joke all the time — Achille Castiglioni

Many a true word is spoken in jest. — English Proverbs

That's the Irish all over -- they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke. — Sean O'Casey

People were making jokes before the attempt began. — Nirmal Purja

Jesting and levity lead a man to lewdness. — Rabbi Akiva

Nothing like a little judicious levity. — Robert Louis Stevenson

I provide a little comic relief. - Anthony Anderson

I provide a little comic relief. — Anthony Anderson

Being funny is one of my greatest strengths. I can make girls smile when they're down, and when they're having a good time, I can carry on the joke. — John Krasinski

A sense of humor is just common sense dancing. — William James

Make jokes. No stress. Love. Live Life. Proceed. Progress. — Lil Wayne

I enjoy jokes, smiling, and making people smile. I may be a little different, but that's OK, who wants to be normal anyway? — Tim Duncan

Short Joking Around Quotes

  • I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor. — Man Ray
  • I be goofy, kinda funny. Acting stupid but they love me. — Mac Miller
  • Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. — Max Eastman
  • We love to make people laugh - it's just something we do. — James Murray
  • Kids are at my level. I like goofing around with them. — John Goodman
  • Don’t take yourself too seriously. — Trina
  • Humor was a good way to hide the pain. — Rick Riordan
  • Laughter is inner jogging. — Norman Cousins
  • Never take yourself too seriously. — Ariana Grande

Joking Around Image Quotes

Joking around quote The lion doesn't turn around when the small dog barks.
The lion doesn't turn around when the small dog barks.

Goofing Around Quotes

I'm not Mr. Debonair Suave. I'm just a regular boy who goofs around, pulls pranks, and makes jokes. That doesn't sound very hot to me. — Jensen Ackles

I never worry about looking cool in front of a guy. I have never been a self-conscious girl. Goofing around is part of being comfortable with yourself. I've always been good at meeting new people. I just say, 'Hi, how you doing?' and soon we'll end up laughing about something. — Ashlee Simpson

A new biography came out that says that in high school Obama was a huge pothead … Mitt Romney had to respond to this and said, ‘It is appalling that Obama spent his teenage years goofing around and smoking pot when he should have been pinning down gay kids and cutting their hair. — Bill Maher

Joking around quote When you start seeing your worth, you'll find it harder to stay around people who don't.
When you start seeing your worth, you'll find it harder to stay around people who don't.

When I was in primary school, my best friend was a boy and we always goofed around, climbed trees, got holes in my trousers and muddied all my tops and things like that; a complete nightmare for the washing, but great fun. — Sayings

There's a guy out there who will want to tell everyone that he is your boyfriend. Quit goofing around and go find him. — Greg Behrendt

It's real time intensive so there's not much time for goofing around, but we are really close and we have a good time with each other. It's a great group. — Will Estes

Joking around quote Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.
Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.

I just want people to understand that life is very short. Never judge someone. I was judged in the court of public opinion. And I'm really just on earth to make things better. I goof around, but I always try pay it forward. — Kato Kaelin

Everybody's a multifaceted, emotional, living being, I think. Sometimes it's fun to goof around, sometimes you've got to think about things, sometimes you've got to be strange, and then you've got to be jiggly. That's just what being a human's all about. — Mac DeMarco

I wanted to be a clown when I was a kid, so I love interacting and goofing around with kids. — Eric Stonestreet

We goofed around a lot and acted silly. It was great working with Mark Wahlberg too. Some off scenes I had with him I was terrified to do, but he was great. — Laura Vandervoort

Fooling Around Quotes

Niggas frown when you up and smile when you down. And when you change for the better, shife fools stop comin' around. — Pimp C

When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway. — Paul Stanley

I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends. — Dominic Monaghan

Joking around quote Don't feel sorry for yourself if you have chosen the wrong road. Turn around.
Don't feel sorry for yourself if you have chosen the wrong road. Turn around.

As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging a blow than in striking one. — Gene Tunney

It's not about how loud you turn the amp up. That's not what makes it sound big. What makes it sound big is fooling around with different delays and reverb settings. — Brian Setzer

I can't keep from fooling around with our irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure knowingly to mix up two and three dimensionalities, flat and spatial, and to make fun of gravity. — M. C. Escher

Joking around quote Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the
Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seen important to you.

Satoshi started a fire in cyberspace. While the fearful run from it and fools dance around it, the faithful feed the flame, and dream of a world bathed in the warm glow of cyberlight. — Michael Saylor

Oh, welcome to this world of fools, of pink champagne and swimming pools, where all you have to lose is your virginity. Perhaps you'll have some fun tonight, just stick around and take a bite, of life. We don't need feebleness in this proximity. — Les Claypool

Don't you long to shout to those youths who are bustling around you: Fools! Leave those worldly things that shackle the heart - and very often degrade it - leave all that and come with us in search of Love! — Josemaria Escriva

I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine. — Barry Goldwater

Playing Around Quotes

Teenagers all think their life is a movie. If you break up with someone or you have a fight, you walk around with movie scores playing in your head. You sort of see yourself suffering as you're suffering. There's a lot of melodrama attached to the real events of your life. — Kenneth Lonergan

My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require. — Edward Elgar

Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man. — Pele

Joking around quote No matter how long you have traveled in the wrong direction, you always have the choice to turn arou
No matter how long you have traveled in the wrong direction, you always have the choice to turn around.

People play games seriously. People host tournaments. People watch other people play and listen to broadcasters talking about it. The kind of entire ecosystem we see around other sports and forms of entertainment has formed around games as well. — Jensen Huang

I like to play in the deep register. I was never a high-note specialist. My range goes from the bottom of the horn up to around C or D. High D is about it for me ... about two-and-a-half octaves, I think. But in these two-and-a-half octaves, I can say everything I have to say. — Chet Baker

Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments. — Alan Jackson

Joking around quote Look back and be grateful, look ahead and be hopeful, look around and be helpful.
Look back and be grateful, look ahead and be hopeful, look around and be helpful.

Soccer is a game for 22 people that run around, play the ball, and one referee who makes a slew of mistakes, and in the end Germany always wins. — Gary Lineker

I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins. — Quincy Jones

If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you. — Paul Newman

My homies that are around me never give me that 'star pass'. I've hung out with some stars who are playing basketball and everyone let's them score all the baskets. Shooting pool, they let them make all the shots. My homies don't let me get away with that. — Jamie Foxx

Goofing Off Quotes

Any business or industry that pays equal rewards to its goof-off and its eager beavers sooner or later will find itself with more goof-offs than eager beavers. — Mick Delaney

Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship. — Sarah Vowell

Somewhere in the crowd was at least one potential friend who'd understand the fundamental value of goofing off. Because if not, how boring would that be? — Alyson Noel

Joking around quote Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doi
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.

Grunts on the line, where the enemy wants them dead, still goof off - even knowing that by letting their guard down they might die. — David Hackworth

Bryan Cranston is generous, he's funny. When we did a wedding scene [in The Infiltrator ], at the end of the movie with a big set piece, he put the veil off the bride, he put it on, he pretended like we were getting married, he's just a goof. — John Leguizamo

And one of the funnest things was watching what they did before the director called action and after the director called cut. And they'd keep their hands in the puppets, they'd stay in character, and then they'd start goofing around with each other and be off of script, and it would get quite blue. — Brian Henson

Joking around quote Worrying is stupid. It is like walking around with an umbrella waiting for it to rain.
Worrying is stupid. It is like walking around with an umbrella waiting for it to rain.

As we approach the millennium with sort of the idea that society is going to start spiraling into chaos, I'd love to be making jokes about that. Who wants to miss out on that? If the world is going to end, I want to be there the night before, goofing off. — Jon Stewart

There's no better way to mess up a good cowdog than to let him discover that goofing off beats the heck out of hard work. — John R. Erickson

Kate Winslet also happens to be one of my close friends who I goof off with like crazy. It was a reunion of two people who, I guess, are a little bit older, a tiny bit wiser but ultimately were the same as they were when they were 21. — Leonardo DiCaprio

I love goofing around, and I love breaking people's balls. I do it off camera, as well as on camera. — Vinnie Jones

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More Joking Around Quotes

Americans like to talk about (or be told about) Democracy but, when put to the test, usually find it to be an 'inconvenience.' We have opted instead for an authoritarian system disguised as a Democracy. We pay through the nose for an enormous joke-of-a-government, let it push us around, and then wonder how all those assholes got in there. — Frank Zappa

I had my electricity turned off three times because I never had time to pay my bills. It was a joke. I'm making a ton of money, and I'm walking around my apartment with flashlights. — Sayings

There is an old joke that went around- it goes, in the beginning God made man in His own image, and since the fall, man has been seeking to return the compliment. — Alistair Begg

I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me. — Lou Reed

How much truth is contained in something can be best determined by making it thoroughly laughable and then watching to see how much joking around it can take. For truth is a matter that can withstand mockery, that is freshened by any ironic gesture directed at it. Whatever cannot withstand satire is false. — Peter Sloterdijk

I had a healthy curiosity and would try things on - play lots of practical jokes. But it was more in my head - fantasies of "What would happen if...? Like what would happen in class if you took all your clothes off and you ran around the room? — Andy Griffiths

I was a terrible employee. I've been fired from almost every job I've ever had, luckily, in a good way, or else I'd be stuck. I would always joke around with everybody, and no one enjoyed my humor. — Anthony Jeselnik

Joking around is part of my personality, just who I am. — Novak Djokovic

I never trained in any acting, other than just joking around and doing my own dinky little videos. — Dylan O'Brien

To go from Girl, Interrupted, where I had to cry every day, to a TV show like West Wing where I get to laugh and joke around every day, has been a welcome relief. — Elizabeth Moss

To go from Girl, Interrupted, where I had to cry every day, to a TV show like West Wing where I get to laugh and joke around every day, has been a welcome relief. — Elisabeth Moss

Every single member is so precious to me and like family to me.. I may joke around with them a lot but I can't talk seriously with them..because it's awkward for me. But on the inside, I really do think of each one of you so much and I want you all to know that. — Kim Hyo-yeon

Sometimes I can't think of a better way to end my day than coming home and just strumming my ukulele for a few minutes. I mean, I joke around and tell people that it's an entire yoga session in one strum, you know? — Jake Shimabukuro

I'm not sure I'd classify any topics as off-limits, but I don't look for new territories to offend. There's my joke about when my roommate beat cancer. People talk about cancer survivors like they're warriors, but from where I was sitting, she was just watching television and eating soup. Like, did she go to war? No. She kind of just sat around. — Amy Schumer

He was the class clown, the court jester, because he'd learn early that if you cracked jokes and pretended you weren't scared, you usually didn't get beat up. Even the baddest gangster kids would tolerate you, keep you around for laughs. Plus, humor was a good way to hide the pain — Rick Riordan

People always ask me about my makeout scenes with him [Tyler Posey]. We joke around a lot and are like, ‘Oh, that was a sloppy one!’ But seriously, I don’t have to make an effort to have chemistry with him. He’s such a sweet guy and really loyal. — Crystal Reed

When I was in high school, I was dating this girl and wanted to make her birthday really special. I showed up early to school and went around to every single one of her classes and left a rose with her teachers. Each rose had a note with a little inside joke. — Dave Franco

You can't build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a lot of frightened people are running around with edged weaponry, there are deaths. Stupid deaths, usually. I'm not writing 'The A-Team' - if there's a fight going on, people will get hurt. Not letting this happen would be a betrayal. — Terry Pratchett

I believe that a perfect house is like a perfect person; no one really wants to be around them and everyone secretly hates them. Be the weird person. Be the interesting person, the person that sometimes says inappropriate things or laughs too loud at jokes, and have your home reflect who you are. — Sayings

There's an old joke that you know you're in heaven if the cooks are Italian and the engineering is German. If it's the other way around you're in hell. — David Byrne

Playing golf is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture. — Winston Churchill

I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face. — Hank Aaron

I joke around a lot about the manic times because they're funny. We manics do outrageous things and it is part of our colorful nature. — Patty Duke

I end up feeling like a spy in the house of ethnicity, you know? Because people will talk around me as they would talk around the people in their cultural group. So I get to hear all the secrets and jokes and you know, I'm a part of every community because of the way I look. — Sherman Alexie

You only get one chance at life, not two! Don't joke around with your own life. — Dohee

I like working solo and it was a lot of fun joking around with the audience, saying things. I'm only just learning how to do certain things. — Art Garfunkel

My way of joking is to tell the truth — George Bernard Shaw

Brad Pitt is great fun. He jokes around all the time and has a real quality about him. On set the director called me over and said, 'Jase, just watch him. Watch him move.' Instead of walking, Brad literally glides. It's incredible. — Jason Flemyng

The majority of the filmmaking process is in pre-production. The more you've planned out the more freedom there is on set to find new stuff, to play around, find new jokes and let the actors kind of breathe - but it needs to come from a place where it's completely structured. — Vin Diesel

Around year seven or eight, you'd kill yourself when you realized Norm had to enter and you had to come up with a new beer joke. — Ted Danson

Animated program was definitely a different process but it was fun though, it had elements of doing my podcast where we were all in a booth with microphones joking around and stuff. It was definitely a fun process. — Bill Burr

A sense of humor is rare. It isn't telling a joke about how there are three ways to get to heaven. It's being in a restaurant and hearing someone say, Everyone's got their tale of woe, and then turning around and saying, Unfortunately, in life, there's more woe than tail. — Rodney Dangerfield

My dad keeps joking about sneaking into my grandparents' house and switching out their HBO for PBS so they think I'm on 'Downton Abbey. — Allison Williams

I dislike boats," Ragnor observed, looking around. "I get vilely seasick." The turning green joke was too easy. Magnus was not going to stoop to make it. — Cassandra Clare

When someone new comes on and has their first nude scene - and even if it's not full nudity - it's always a weird, awkward setup. We have these famous merkins which are sort of toupees for your delicate areas to make it look like you're naked but cover you up a little bit. But we joke around a little bit with the newbies who are trying that stuff on for the first time. — Deborah Ann Woll

I could get you to smile like that, and without sales tax." I whirled around to find the real Patch standing in the fitting room behind me. He was wearing jeans and a snug white tee. His arms were folded loosely over his chest, and his black eyes smiled down at me. Heat that wasn't entirely uncomfortable flushed through my body. "I could make all kinds of pervert jokes right now," I quipped. — Becca Fitzpatrick

We would make songs, and the producers said we should play it for my dad. I was kind of scared, I didn't know what to think cuz we were just joking around. — Lil' Romeo

In New York there isn't that weird palpable competitive thing where it's friendly but everyone isn't trying to top one another with jokes when you're just hanging around. — David Cross

The nature of comedy is 'just do it.' But I think what's interesting about it is this joke has been around and why. And it's just saying what's wrong and how wrong can you be if you say it. — Bob Saget

I flew into New York for the Raising Arizona audition, and we just started joking around. — John Goodman

You learn to kid around and joke and not take things too seriously because somehow its all gonna work out for the best - or you're gonna make it work out. — Jack Youngblood

You're not going to see my sense of humor on the football field. That's not a place for me to joke around. — Tom Brady

I make the joke, all the time, that if you have the word "man" and a number in the title, like Batman 2, Spider-Man 2 or Iron Man 12, you'll get it made. The kind of movies I make, studios don't make them. I've made a lot of movies, and at Castle Rock, we've made 125 movies. None of them get made at a studio. I've got to scrounge around for money, every time. I just like to tell stories. I'm a storyteller, so I want the most people to see it. — Rob Reiner

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