The misconception is that standup comics are always on. I don’t know any really funny comics that are annoying and constantly trying to be funny all the time.
Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.
So I started to learn Russian and I was one of those probably way too eager, annoying young actor kids who was trying to change all my lines to Russian, much to the dismay of the director and Nic Cage.
I am very sensitive about characters being annoying in movies.
We grew up watching Woody Allen and Albert Brooks movies, and we see this neurotic, annoying, unlikeable male at the center of a story, and people root for him anyway. I think that’s really what we have been craving as women is the hero who doesn’t look perfect and doesn’t act perfectly.
The pride of the hipster food movement is sort of annoying, but it fascinates me.
I’m a pretty low key person when it comes to style, I love to be comfortable all the time. I love getting dressed up when I’m going out. But most of the time, I just like to be comfortable. It’s really annoying to everyone in my life, but I love it.
On the first season of ‘The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,’ I was constantly uncomfortable with my eyes. It became annoying filming the show and having to turn away every few seconds and put drops in my eye.
Medically speaking, there is no such thing as a nervous breakdown. Which is very annoying to discover when you’re right in the middle of one.
There are many ways to deal with annoying coworkers, but obviously the most effective way is to picture them as rappers. Picturing your coworkers as rappers makes you laugh and provides a helpful nickname that can be used when talking about them behind their backs.
I remember bringing some of my other friends to our table, and everyone at our table would look at them and ask me, ‘What are you doing? Why’d you bring him?’ It was annoying high school stuff that still goes on now. My high school was really bad.
All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They thought it the minute we were born, and no matter how hard we’ve tried to prove them wrong, they all think it about us now. And the really annoying thing is, they’re probably right.
The more I get to do this character, the more I realize that she’s not just annoying. It’s that her strength is not interacting with people socially. She just doesn’t have time because she has so much going on in her brain.
It is annoying that some people only see black women as role models to other black women, rather than as role models to lots of different people.
I have my life, my world. I do what I want, without annoying anyone.
I think people are purists about what sketch comedy should be, and I think sometimes having too much fun can be a little annoying to some people.
I was always very silly and never took myself seriously. When my father had the camera out, I’d be up close and annoying. My father would keep saying, ‘Move back! Move back!’
I was a rebellious student, called up in assembly almost every week for some misdemeanour, lots of time on the Headmistress’s office for what must have been, in retrospect, annoying behaviour.
The idea is not enough. And the most annoying thing for me as a writer is that people will come up to me and say, ‘Hey, I’ve got a great idea for a book. I’m not a writer, but I’ve got a great story.’
I actually find prank CDs pretty annoying.
Fame can be just so annoying because people are so critical of you. You can’t just say, ‘hi’. You say hi and people whisper’ man did you see the way she said hi? What an attitude.
‘The Daily Show’ took a topic – politics – which many people considered to be boring, confusing, or even annoying to learn about, and found a way to make it interesting, digestible, and fun. I believe ‘Bill Nye Saves the World’ can do the same for science.
If I start something, I have to finish it. I know that’s annoying – it drives my husband mad – but even if something’s not going my way, I have to see it through.
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
It’s really annoying when you’re trying to get to know someone and she doesn’t pay attention to you because she’s obsessed with her phone.
I grew up in a conservative small town, and the gay characters I saw on TV and in movies when I was growing up were all flamboyant and obnoxious and sometimes kind of annoying.
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
I’ve separated my shoulder and my collarbone; I’ve messed up my knee a million times. I’ve broken my foot in several places. I’ve broken my toe a bunch, broken my nose a couple of times, and had a bunch of other annoying little injuries, like turf toe and arthritis and tendonitis. It’s part of the game.
To me, ideas are like annoying salespeople that only go away once I’ve built them.
I was hopeless with the Internet, I didn’t even like it either. As I said before, I thought ‘what an annoying thing’ you know, it’s doing all these terrible things.
No religious position is loyally served by refusing to consider annoying theories which may well turn out to be facts.
Sometimes you have to laugh about what gets published; sometimes it’s annoying, but in general I don’t care.
I find it incredibly annoying to just go out and sing the old stuff and write songs that sound like the old stuff.
We’re not interested in bombarding our users with, ‘Hey, play this game, play this game, play this game.’ It gets annoying, it gets in the way of messaging, and it gets in the way of staying in touch with people who are important to you.
Because of social media, a lot of people think they can be, like, a rapper or a singer or a musician because they can put something on YouTube and it might become a thing because there’s – like – YouTube phenomenons and whatnot, you know? It’s not like they dedicated years to it or anything. It’s annoying.
I’m kind of feeling ashamed now that I never get bullied. Everyone keeps asking me, but I don’t, and it’s kind of annoying. I wish I could say I did get bullied, because then everyone would feel sorry for me.
It’s great to see that celebrities can be just like us – that they too have their highs and lows, that they don’t always wake up looking their best, that they have bad habits and annoying traits.
When I first moved to London, there was talk of a folk revival, with annoying names like nu-folk that made me feel slightly ill.
It is always annoying when you cannot play and cannot help the team.
In my experience, not just in shooting films but in the commercials I’ve done, initially, it’s very exciting for the community, and its a real novelty. Very quickly, though, they realize there’s a buck to be had, and it becomes annoying, and they lose their patience pretty quick.
My biggest goal in life is to not be annoying about being a bride.
I was one of those annoying kids that was always like, ‘But why?’
I wasn’t expelled for anything vicious, just being cheeky, not doing what I was told, answering back, and always rising to the bait if someone said something annoying about my dad.
If a boy pings a girl’s bra it may be unpleasant and annoying, but is it really assault?
All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They thought it the minute we were born, and no matter how hard we’ve tried to prove them wrong, they all think it about us now. And the really annoying thing is, they’re probably right.
The me you see on stage is largely a construct, based on me at my worst, my most annoying, my most petty, and my most patronizing.
My characters are always unlucky in love. It’s annoying, but perhaps there is something in me that is suited to characters that have a darkness. Maybe it’s why I play such damaged people when I’m not particularly damaged myself, I would say.
I’m very flattered because Margot Robbie is insanely beautiful, but it’s always annoying to have people focusing on your looks as opposed to what you’re actually doing on the job. But also, I’ll take it. There are worse people to be compared to.
As a kid it’s adorable to have a gap in your teeth. But then, because of the shifting in my mouth, I started whistling through it, and as a 32-year-old woman, whistling while you speak in sort of annoying.
In 1998, it was possible to make a big-screen romantic comedy about email. Yep, email – the same medium we often think of now as boring and even annoying.
I still think of things for ‘Jill’ all the time. It’s annoying, because I want to be able to find another character who I could write for indefinitely.
Jeffrey Deitch is the Jeff Koons of art dealers. Not because he’s the biggest, best, or the richest of his kind. But because in some ways he’s the weirdest (which is saying a lot when you’re talking about the wonderful, wicked, lovable, and annoying creatures known as art dealers).
An agent saw one of the plays I did at ACT, but my mom was like, No, she’s too young. I became so annoying that a year and a half later she just couldn’t stand hearing me any more!
It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
I’m the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.
