Top 70 Hysterical Quotes

Proof of the ‘hysterical strength‘ phenomenon is still hearsay, mostly because it’s impossible to recreate those conditions in a lab. That said, try turning a doorknob when the bass drops on ‘Skyfall’ without ripping that door clean off of its hinges.

I think Ellen DeGeneres is just hysterical.

I think I’m hysterical. I watch myself on tape and just roar – isn’t that weird?

Erinn Hayes is hysterical in person, and I love that.

I think there is no reason for us to bring to Islamism or political Islam the fear and ignorance of Western commentators and their hysterical vocabulary.

I’ve had people tell me that I should just be sad and not joke around on Twitter, but they don’t understand that joking and being deeply sad are very close to each other. I’ll have a horrible memory that I find hysterical one day, and the next day I’ll cry about it.

There’s this thing in TV that I find hysterical where the writers and creators will ask us if you want to know what happens to your character or if you want to experience it episode by episode. In the theatre, we always know the ending; we always know where the character is going.

I would say I live half in New York and half in Claridge’s. How decadent! How hysterical!

Naming me ‘Twinkle‘ was a foolproof way of making sure that I would get teased throughout my life, have immigration officers at various airports stare at my passport and shake with hysterical laughter, and strangers stalk me with WhatsApp messages like, ‘Twinkle, Twinkle, little star, I hope you get hit by a car!’

I had to learn to jog because I run like a fish. All my friends found the thought of me running on screen hysterical because I do absolutely no exercise.

These days it seems that every big, new, heavily promoted children‘s book is rather like the ghost of poor old Jacob Marley. Each one comes trailing a long, clanking chain of references – in the form of overexcited press releases and slightly hysterical jacket blurbs – to bestsellers of a supposedly similar nature.

When Princess Diana died, I couldn’t understand why people were mourning her death in such an enormous, hysterical way when they didn’t actually know her for real.

I’m really comfortable doing voice-overs, but it’s really fun to do animation. Those animation talents are hysterical. They’re so good, and they’re so amazingly quick on their feet.

I just lost my best friend, I have been crying hysterical for a full day.

‘USA Today‘ once did a big article called, ‘Who said it? Was it Norm or George Bush?’ They had quotes of mine and quotes of his, and they went to some congressmen and senators and said, ‘Who said it?’ It was hysterical.

I recognize a lot of the things I’m going through. Like, I lose my temper a lot and I become unhinged and kind of hysterical.

I think that ‘Family Guy’ is hysterical. It’s edgy and hip – and they can do whatever they want to do because it’s animated and they’re not limited by budget.

It’s hysterical that I’m going to marry a garbage man.

In later life, we don’t easily talk of fears, but instead we discuss our ‘concerns.’ Fear seems too primal and hysterical, but concern is polite and intellectual and nicely under control.

When a woman is anything but pleasant, she is labeled as whiny, hysterical, etc.

It was hysterical going to work. I would just walk in and think, ‘What in hell? Am I here? What’s going on? I’m going to wake up in a minute. I’m in a dream.’

I think the gender norms of emotion are horrendous. Being masculine means showing zero emotions, but having the choice to be angry or depressed. Being female means you are one dimensional – if you show more than that, you are a psycho, hysterical, or historically, a witch.

I really wanted to be on Six Feet Under as a corpse. That would be hysterical.

In 1993, I premiered my solo piece ‘Hysterical Blindness and Other Southern Tragedies That Have Plagued My Life So Far‘ at the Hudson Mainstage Theatre. It then went to New York and ran for several months Off-Broadway.

In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, ‘Well, you have to die some way or another.’ If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.

I had a Jackson 5 wig that I would wear around, and I would do, like, the dances from the Jackson 5, and, you know, my mother thought that was hysterical. So of course, that seed got planted very early, the physicality of comedy.

The media that’s having this hysterical reaction to James Mattis retiring is the same media in many cases, the same politicians in many cases, who cheered our nation into a war in Iraq that turned out to be a catastrophe.

In the sequence where I am burned at the stake, everything was so casual and hazardous that the bottom of my dress caught fire, and the grips became hysterical as they tried to pull me off the stake.

There are certain types of slightly hysterical human characters who, rather than creating, walk around with a sense of their own potential – it’s as if they themselves were art objects. They feel as if their lives are written narratives, or pieces of music.

There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don’t want to name names-but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don’t even know.

When I heard Donald Trump make that sweeping hysterical statement that all Muslims have to be banned because they are terrorists, I was chilled by that.

I love comedy, but it has to be hysterical and really amusing; I’m not really a big fan of romantic comedies, in fact I can’t stand them. I’m really more of a fan of ‘Team America’ and ‘Dodgeball.’

‘Red Dawn‘ was very resonant with a lot of people – they love that movie. I always thought it was a little hysterical.

Dogs who live in each other’s company are calm and pragmatic, never showing the desperate need to make known their needs and feelings or to communicate their observations, as some hysterical dogs who know only the company of our species are likely to do.

I think great artists have no time to waste with having disproportionate egos and irrational requests. They’re too focused on their work to actually lose themselves in hysterical spirals where they become monsters or tyrants.

People are hysterical about the death of newspapers, and I would say, ‘They’re not dying; they’re just kind of reinventing themselves.’

The hysterical competitiveness in the media bazaar has subverted the traditional hierarchy of news.

Comedy was why I got into acting the first place. Peter Sellers was a huge influence on my wanting to act. I grew up with him and found him hysterical. The Pink Panther films were an inspiration, from my earliest childhood days, when I was watching them with my brother and my dad.

I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It’s pathetic.

There’s a hysterical, tired sense of humor that comes after working 14 hours a day, six days a week. I like those things because they take the pressure off the constant stress.

My celeb crush is Julia Louis-Dreyfus. She’s hysterical, she’s beautiful, and she seems like a normal person. I’m in love with her.

It’s been a joke my entire life, because I’m quite limby, I’m very uncoordinated. Everyone finds it hysterical that I’ve started dancing.

In countries like the U.S., the courts have upheld the right to burn the national flag as a mark of protest or expression. In India, by contrast, we routinely get hysterical if the flag is ever taken out of the boundaries of officialdom.

I never thought of myself as a singer, like ever, ever, ever. It’s hysterical that I sing.

Sometimes people damage paintings or sculpture because they love it. They throw their arms around a statue in a fit of hysterical passion and it falls over.

It’s hysterical how kids have their own personalities, even at like 3 or 4. And, it’s funny what they tend to like.

We have home videos that are really great tape on my parents being hysterical. So I think I always knew that my parents were funny, so I think that I always felt comfortable using comedy in my real life.

No one who has experienced facing a screaming, boiling, hysterical audience can avoid feeling shivers in the spine. It’s a thin line between celebration and menace.

Women’s emotions are constantly labeled. Any slight deviation from ‘pleasantness,’ and we are labeled as hysterical. When we are angry, sad, depressed, or manic, we are immediately seen as unfeminine or ugly or weak.

I love Sian Brooke so much; she’s hysterical.

Anyways, trying to express yourself to the press is often like arguing with a hysterical person.

There are really two types of laughter on the part of the spectator. There is the laughter of recognition – which means seeing things you’re familiar with and laughing at yourself. But there’s also hysterical laughter – a way of dealing with the things we see that upset us.

Mother had an affair with the milkman, who later became my stepdad and my father left. My stepdad was an angry guy and Mother was a hysterical narcissist. It was a toxic mixture and there was a lot of disruption and violent arguments in the house.

Dick Clark and I had such a hysterical relationship with each other.

Sometimes directors come to me when I have to play some horrible thing, scary or hysterical or crying; they ask, ‘Did you study somewhere to be an actress?’ No, this is life. That’s why I think I don’t want to say you need a really bad experience to be a good artist, but bad experiences in your life say something.

Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.

Sometimes I hear, particularly from Russia, that we simply hate Russia and don’t like to co-operate, that we are hysterical about the risks. But this is totally untrue. We would greatly benefit economically if our neighbour was a democratic, developing country.

We immigrants can sometimes sound a little hysterical about this because we come from places that have tried this and we know where it leads. Anybody who’s lived in countries with socialized health care knows that it becomes the dominant political issue.

Immigration enthusiasts are so hysterical.

If the writing is good, then the writing is already funny. All you have to do is make this funny writing true to the very deepest of your heart, and the fact that you are capable of making this true will be hysterical.

Chris Jericho is a great guy. He’s beyond hysterical. He’s good people. They’re really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.

I have got friends that I have got to know and found out that, the first few times I was with them, they were just thinking that everything I was doing was some kind of weird mind game, which is hysterical, really, because I couldn’t be any less like that.

Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I’m probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people.

I’m not going to be the one who screams and yells at people, but the one who makes things hysterical.

The original Dean Martin Comedy Hour handed me some hysterical sketches. I’ve got highlights on tons of these variety shows, given to me by their great writers. I’d love to be doing all that again.

One of my favourites on Instagram is @dublin_zoetrope. He does these musical theatre/Meryl Streep/Glenn Close memes that are truly hysterical. He’ll take a regular photo of them and create an entire storyline, and it makes me cackle out loud.

We make our public servants jump through quite a few hoops, you know. We get hysterical if they accept a $50 lunch from a lobbyist. We get hysterical if they accept a ride on some corporate jet.

I’m a great audience myself. I tried to keep in the background while others were on, but sometimes I’d just get hysterical.

When I get a new script my mom will read them and just be aghast. I think it’s hysterical.

My family was always wondering why I ended up playing people who were mentally ill, insane, downtrodden, and a little crazy. I think what they don’t understand is that most female parts are written basically as hysterical women.