Quotation by

Evan Davis

Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you are fine.

Evan Davis

Funny

Understanding this quote AI Analysis

Making people laugh depends on their trust that you will be entertaining, much like how a bank relies on customers' faith in its stability. If that belief holds, your humor works smoothly, but if it falters, the effect quickly falls apart.

More by this author

All quotes by Evan Davis →

More quotes about Funny

See all →

The last person they expected to connect with a screenplay was the comedic, blonde actress with the funny voice.

But I think funny and talent will always win out I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're funny you will get over all of that.

It is funny because the guy who is my boss now, Howard Stern, has a similarity there. He got big being a regular guy. He wasn't the greatest looking guy in the world.

I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.

When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp. The funny thing is that human rights activists and Mr. Bush …

So it was just funny to read a script that was just similar to what had been going on in my life.