I always say, 'If you can't give a reason for the banana peel being in the alley, then don't have the comic slide over it.' Do you understand what I mean? First explain how the banana peel got there quickly. And then there's a reason for all the comedy.

- Elaine Stritch

My friend asked me if I wanted a frozen banana. I said 'No, but I want a regular banana later, so... yeah.'

- Mitch Hedberg

My favorite dessert is banana pudding.

- Lennon Parham

I think cheese smells funny, but I feel bananas 'are' funny. I'm assuming Swamp told the whole story of the executives seriously asking us to replace the banana with cheese because they thought it was funnier.

- Joe Murray

I used to go to Haagen-Dazs and order three banana splits at a time!

- Jennifer Jason Leigh

My biggest thing is banana pudding, but it's the devil! So no one is allowed to bring it into my house. Because I can't control myself. So why put it in my domain?

- Jennifer Hudson

Above Hilo, broad lands sweeping up cloudwards, with their sugar cane, kalo, melons, pine-apples, and banana groves suggest the boundless liberality of Nature.

- Isabella Bird

You have to have a certain persona to be a star, you know, and I don't have that. I'm a banana.

- Harvey Korman

In a banana republic, one might slip on a banana peel but things do work - now and then for the people, albeit inefficiently and unreliably.

- George Ayittey

As great as Ed is, the wisdom out here is that he can't carry a movie. They'll pay him $3 million to be the second banana in Julia Roberts things. But they won't put up $3 million for an Ed Harris movie.

- George A. Romero

I am truly at my happiest not when I am writing an aria for an actor or making a grand political or social point. I am at my happiest when I've figured out a fun way for somebody to slip on a banana peel.

- Aaron Sorkin

Honduras was the original 'banana republic,' and its poverty remains extreme.

- Elliott Abrams

I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.

- Diane Lane

Life is full of banana skins. You slip, you carry on.

- Daphne Guinness

You have to give people permission to laugh. That's why they would always cut to the banana peel in the Laurel and Hardy movies.

- Danny DeVito

His venture sounds like a banana peel awaiting its victim.

- Charlotte Curtis

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

- Clifton Fadiman

I blow up fireworks all the time, and I love making milkshakes and banana splits.

- Chris Isaak

I have the same thing every day. I find it comforting. I have a banana, but I can never eat the whole banana. And I'll drink a couple of Actimels. And some kind of cereal with almond milk. And then after that, I have a Coke.

- Brandon Flowers

You don't want your credibility banana to turn brown, but you do want to speak out about what you believe in.

- Bradley Whitford