Fun quotes
8.7K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Browse quotes that often appear alongside fun — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not."
"Make fun of death. We are as dead as it gets, and we are fully aware of this joyous experience. We are with you every time you allow it. We are in every singing bird and in every joyful child. We are part of every delicious pulsing in your environment. We are not dead, and neither will you ever be! You will just get up, one day, and get out of the movie."
"All of this is for fun anyway."
"It's so much fun to interact together."
"Oh, yeah, I like a high neck. And I like naked backs. It seems very sexy. Red carpets are about being a bit theatrical - having fun rather than being too safe. You have to be brave. Fashion is fun."
"Of course you don't want your kids swearing. But remember how fun it was to cuss when you were in the first grade?"
"The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war."
"So I write mainly for the fun of it, the hell of it, the duty of it. I enjoy writing and will probably be a scribbler on my dying day, sprawled on some stony trail halfway between two dry waterholes."
"If pop music reflects the culture, this will surely go down as the era in which people rose up and realized it was fun to dance at parties."
"When I was in high school, girls made fun of me for liking vampire movies. Now, I'd be their king. Time machine, where are you?"
"Without playing with fantasy, no creative work has yet come into being."
"Alike and ever alike, we are on all continents in the need of love, food, clothing, work, speech, worship, sleep, games, dancing, fun. From tropics to arctics humanity live with these needs so alike, so inexorably alike."
"The fun for me is knowing what the other person is saying and what my character would be thinking at that time. On the stage you get the chance to do all that, to analyze and build a part, to react, to contribute something no one else can-not the author, not even the director."
"Humour is a big part of our lives as well as our music. Making it fun is the most important thing."
"It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know."
"Why isn’t it fun to watch a videotape of last night’s football game even when we don’t know who won? Because the fact that the game has already been played precludes the possibility that our cheering will somehow penetrate the television, travel through the cable system, find its way to the stadium, and influence the trajectory of the ball as it hurtles toward the goalposts!"
"When you guest-star, you're usually at the center of the dramatic arc, so that's fun."
"It's a lot of fun to just say to people, proudly, 'I get to play the First Lady.' It's just fun to say."
"I get enough of that on the news, so I didn't want to deal with fundamentalists or any sort of thing like that. I just wanted to keep it as lighthearted as the Cold War was, which obviously it was a fun time for everybody."
"I thought it might be fun to set my books in Nevada, which is in the West and still pretty Wild. You can still gamble, carry a loaded pistol and go into a silver-mine and they still have saloons with swinging doors, boardwalks, and horses."
