Funny Tough Sayings

#1. I don't go after him. He's a funny sort of boy. I've known that from the start. Not just because he seems angry and contemptuous or the way he walks like a tough guy. Because of his smile - it's a child's smile.

Delphine De Vigan

#2. Workaholicism is such a tough addiction to get over. I had to divorce my wife because she was an enabler.

Dave Mordal

#3. The musical stuff I'd go up for was always funny, sexy, tough-as-nails, heart-of-gold characters.

Bebe Neuwirth

#4. Bricks are independent but can work well with other, tough to crack, fiercely loyal and put in the right spot will hold anything and everything that you've ever held dear with the greatest of ease.

Nicole McKay

#5. Tough Olympic news for the Romneys. Ann Romney's horse Rafalka did not advance to the Olympic finals. Apparently it was beat by a smooth-talking socialist horse from Kenya.

Conan O'Brien

#6. Life is tough enough without having someone kick you from the inside.

Rita Rudner

#7. Crazy chicks are usually pretty tough.

Darynda Jones

#8. One of the lambs fixed its attention on Jared. "Baa," it flirted.
"Boo," said Jared.
"Oh my God, Jared. Don't tough-talk the lambs."
"It was giving me a funny look.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#9. The way I survived growing up in Jersey City was by being funny. It wasn't by being tough. Nobody thought of me as a tough kid, except for the kids I beat up.

Michelle Rodriguez

#10. By 1961, when I got my first copywriting job, 'my kind' were suddenly in demand. The creative revolution had begun. Advertising had turned into a business dominated by young, funny, Jewish copywriters and tough, sometimes violent, Greek and Italian art directors.

Jerry Della Femina

#11. It's great to be able to pretend you're tough but funny at the same time.

Adam Baldwin

#12. In Milwaukee last month a man died laughing over one of his own jokes. That's what makes it so tough for us outsiders. We have to fight home competition.

Robert Benchley

#13. Sukhvinder wished that she could be more like Krystal: funny and tough; impossible to intimidate; always coming out fighting.

J.K. Rowling

#14. The only time I get sick of making people laugh is when I'm in a non-writing-joke mode, and I just can't seem to come up with anything new that's funny. That's a tough place to be as a comedian.

Bill Burr

#15. Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be.

Mignon McLaughlin

#16. You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it's kind of a lifestyle and it's easy to get caught up in it - you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone's doing a certain thing ... It's tough.

Eminem

#17. If you want to see something funny, it's a tough hood sticking his tongue out at his big brother.

S.E. Hinton

#18. I know an actor who would play one type of part but could never get cast as tough. Once he got cast as tough, as a cop, he only got offered cop roles. It's a funny business in that regard. It's all about perception.

Paul Dano

#19. But it was this tough little character part that I was playing, a very funny little guy that I invented over a weekend, because I realized I was not contributing to the humor of this thing. And I had to do something.

Dabney Coleman

#20. I came from a real tough neighborhood. Once a guy pulled a knife on me. I knew he wasn't a professional, the knife had butter on it.

Rodney Dangerfield

#21. Going before an audience of people who expect you to be funny is tough. Going before an audience that expect you to be boring, and then being a little funny, is much easier. I prefer easier.

Barney Frank

#22. Trying to be funny is one of the hardest things on the planet. I think that's tough for everyone. If you're just naturally funny it's a hell of a lot easier.

Doc Brown

#23. Man, my girl is one tough chick when she wants to be. I wonder if it has something to do with those
big, comfy granny panties she's got on.

Simone Elkeles

#24. I think God has a sense of humor, and the way my lessons come from God is very funny. I have to laugh at myself even if it's a tough lesson.

Yvette Nicole Brown

#25. 'Indiana Jones' wasn't physically tough, but they are the only two films I've ever been ill on. On 'The Last Crusade,' I got sciatica. That's when the sciatic nerve, which goes through the funny hole in your pelvis down your leg, swells and rubs against the nerves.

John Rhys-Davies

#26. Part of my act is meant to shake you up. It looks like I'm being funny, but I'm reminding you of other things. Life is tough, darling. Life is hard. And we better laugh at everything; otherwise, we're going down the tube.

Joan Rivers

#27. I know, I know - you're a woman who's had a lot of tough breaks. Well, we can clean and tighten those brakes, but you'll have to stay in the garage all night.

Groucho Marx

#28. It was a great Olympics - Team USA finished the games with 17 more medals than China. China said it was tough to swallow - especially when they had to make all of our "We're #1" T-shirts.

Jimmy Fallon

#29. Sure. I'd like to live regular. Go home to a good looking wife, a hot dinner, and a husky kid. But I guess I got film in my blood. I love this racket. It's exciting. It's dangerous. It's funny. It's tough. It's heartbreaking.

Weegee

#30. I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.

Lalu Prasad Yadav

#31. I was tough. I was fierce. I was already seating my ass off and hadn't even started to run yet.

Diana Rowland

#32. Being sexy is kind of funny to me. You know, I can get kind of spunky or I can get tough, you know, that kind of tough, sexy look. But sexy? No, I don't think so.

Reba McEntire

#33. I care about politics, but I have a tough time making comedy out of it. I was so happy to have a chance to be on The Daily Show, and I think Jon Stewart's so funny ... but mostly in my own comedy, I care about less relevant things.

Demetri Martin

#34. If you're a guy over 30 by yourself in the hotel pool, you automatically look like a murderer who's just relaxing after he strangled a family. "Yeah-that dad was a tough one to kill."

Jim Gaffigan

#35. I wanted to write something tough, hard, sad, but funny.

Jennifer Niven

#36. It's funny, our beauty standard has become harder and tougher because we live in a tough age. I don't think anyone wants to walk down the street and feel vulnerable. You want to walk down the street and feel like you're in control.

Tom Ford

#37. I love playing smart and tough and having funny lines.

Jane Elliot

#38. A tough guy told me, "I'll bet you $10 you're dead." I was afraid to bet him.

Henny Youngman

#39. You can never look that tough in glasses ... You never see somebody push up their glasses and say, "I'm gonna kick your ass."

Jim Gaffigan