Top 616 Humor Quotes

We have collected the best Humor Quotes by famous authors including Charles Bukowski, Carmen Electra, Allen Klein, Jen Kirkman, Laurel Lea and many others, we hope that among them you will find the right thought.

The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.

Charles Bukowski

I want someone who can keep me on my toes, has a good sense of humor and a good heart.

Carmen Electra

Humor can help you cope with the unbearable so that you can stay on the bright side of things until the bright side actually comes along.

Allen Klein

I have this idyllic love life, but my mind just won’t accept that. I would like to bring a new guy home every night. I try to make humor out of that situation.

Jen Kirkman

Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating.

Laurel Lea

If you’re feeling blue, lock yourself in a room, stand in front of a mirror, and dance – and laugh at yourself and be sexy. Dance the silliest and ugliest you’ve ever danced. Make fun of yourself and try to recover your sense of humor.

Salma Hayek

In everyday life, I use positive thoughts, sense of humor, Taekwondo, running, and yoga to make me stronger.

Pom Klementieff

I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.

Shelley Berman

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Charlie Chaplin

Christina Hoff Sommers is a self-identified feminist and registered Democrat with a Ph.D. in philosophy and a wicked sense of humor.

Bari Weiss

I’m not 17 anymore. I still have some of the same sort of anger, but I have a sense of humor about it… a sense of being constructive with that anger.

Dave Pirner

But if you don’t watch me, I will try and sneak in some humor. I see humor everywhere in life around me.

Marion Ross

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

Simon Pegg

I think American guys tend to be a bit more forward, a bit more chatty and open than the Brits. The Brits seem to have a darker sense of humor, though I have met some Americans who have adopted bits of the British dry sense of humor as well.

Hayley Atwell

If you look at ‘The Best Man,’ there’s a lot of humor in that, but I never consider that movie a comedy. I felt that it was a drama with comedic elements and comedic parts to it.

Malcolm D. Lee

Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself – with a smile.

J. B. Priestley

I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny – partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and it’s a way of laughing at it and getting a release.

Joaquin Phoenix

Humor has become so cliche and boring that nothing’s funny anymore unless it involves something totally disgusting that offends somebody or makes them feel really uncomfortable.

Tom DeLonge

SpongeBob is a complete innocent – not an idiot. SpongeBob never fully realizes how stupid Patrick is. They’re whipping themselves up into situations – that’s always where the humor comes from.

Stephen Hillenburg

I want to have fun. Life ain’t no dress rehearsal. I want to have fun. I’m a comedian; I ain’t no politician. So everything I do is with humor, with love.

Bernie Mac

I certainly didn’t say while writing ‘Gossip Girl,’ ‘Oh this is going to be big!’ It was really like, ‘Oh god, everyone’s gong to hate these people! They’re so bratty!’ But I actually think what is so appealing about them is the humor in them.

Cecily von Ziegesar

Sometimes, I use humor because I believe in revealing truth in a way that other forms cannot.

Ted Lieu

When I was doing research on the M.C.s and spending time with these cats, one of the things that struck me and made me realize that I could deliver this world to an audience was their really dark and acute sense of humor.

Kurt Sutter

Blacks had survived every form of human debasement with ingenuity, self-reliance, a deep and ironic humor, a capacity for self-reinvention and a heroic fortitude. But we had no experience of wide-open freedom.

Shelby Steele

I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader’s defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more.

William Collins

Expand the definition of ‘reading’ to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It’s the pleasure of reading that counts; the focus will naturally broaden. A boy won’t read shark books forever.

Jon Scieszka

’24’ is a pretty serious show – there isn’t a lot of improv that is happening. Having said that, I do play around with the delivery. A lot of the humor comes from playing a character who is very furious and really up in her own brain and in a serious situation. That is humorous to me.

Mary Lynn Rajskub

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

Robertson Davies

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.

William Howard Taft

You can’t do anything to be funny. That’s cringeworthy. If your humor comes out of a place of love every time, you don’t make the joke bigger than you. The funniest comedians are in touch with their emotional level.

John Krasinski

Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don’t get sick you’re missing half the fun.

Flip Wilson

Humor can inform and break down stigma, which is a huge issue in the military.

Garry Trudeau

I hate to say it but I hate black humor. I feel like a Klan member saying it, but it’s just not funny.

Issa Rae

Comedy used to be a vehicle for change. Now, comedy has gotten to this quirky, nonsensical place, which I enjoy. But I do think there is room for discussion-based humor. We can tell those stories in a way that feels edifying.

Kenya Barris

I’m not funny. What I am is brave.

Lucille Ball

I like humor.

David Yates

Puns are a form of humor with words.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

It’s funny. People often compare me to other humor essayists. They’re usually quite nice comparisons; I will accept those gladly. But I am always sort of appalled at the idea of being lumped with other, more chick-y female writers. And the truth is probably that neither comparison is accurate.

Sloane Crosley

I have been a big fan of the ‘Fast and the Furious’ franchise. The films are fast-paced, fun and keep the audience involved. There is a great mix of humor and action, something I really appreciate.

Tony Jaa

To me, Ann Romney sounds like a better candidate than her husband. She put her MS into remission through horseback riding, alternative therapies, and a healthy diet. She knows how to pace herself. She has a sense of humor and an innate honesty, and her hair moves in the wind. Maybe she should run.

Patti Davis

I don’t feel any need to play the role of the clown. In my private life I take a break from humor.

Gad Elmaleh

Gallows humor is part of our coping mechanism. It’s part of our grief process. If we don’t know what else to do, we laugh. That’s a very real thing.

James Roday

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

Dick Clark

Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I’ll be right there with you as a citizen – inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

Barack Obama

Certainly, anyone whom I’ve witnessed, who has gone through something horrible and life-changing, has a sense of ironic humor, or an ability to look at the peculiarities of the world and find humor in it.

Christopher Heyerdahl

So my humor, I’d say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It’s an interesting mix.

Jasper Fforde

I like Thomas Jefferson, though he intimidated me. I thought he would have been very tough to be around. I don’t know if he had such a sense of humor.

Maira Kalman

The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.

James Thurber

We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.

Bobby Clarke

I liked the humor of it, I’ve always enjoyed a sense of humor in God and in religion and in spirituality.

Amber Tamblyn

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you’ve created a special little thing, and that’s what I’m looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.

Paul Simon

Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times.

John Gerzema

What you see on stage is pretty much the way I am… a dry sense of humor.

Bob Newhart

I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down.

Zac Efron

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.

Mignon McLaughlin

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.

Audrey Hepburn

A sense of humor… is needed armor. Joy in one’s heart and some laughter on one’s lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.

Hugh Sidey

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

Manuel Puig

I am a great believer that what makes our show different is the humor.

Treat Williams

I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.

William Gilmore Simms

Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor.

Margaret Cho

I’d probably describe my sense of humor as ‘twisted,’ I guess. It’s not hard to make me laugh, especially when I’m surrounded by my close friends, especially my bandmates.

Mac DeMarco

I make fun of situations and try and find the humor in things, but it’s never at the expense of the other guy.

Bob Uecker

I’m really happy I went to a Catholic school because a lot of the repressive tactics they use make for great senses of humor.

Denis Leary

I have a dark sense of humor.

Olivia Munn

I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor.

Dana Carvey

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

Robert Frost

I think it’s critical, a sense of humor. It did help me – it does help me, continuously.

Teri Garr

If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.

Jennifer Jones

There are just certain things that turn my head. It may be a girl’s sense of humor, it may be her wit, or her belief system; it could be a lot of different things.

Jensen Ackles

I wish I could be as thin as Jessica Simpson. I think she looks gorgeous! I have had Jessica on my show several times, and I can tell you that girl is genuine and funny with a great self-deprecating sense of humor.

Rachael Ray

I’m a big fan of gallows humor. When my aunt passed away, she was in a coma for a day before my cousins pulled the plug. And the amount of joking and base humor that went on that day around her bed was so insane. It’s crazy how people talk when something horrible is happening.

Amanda Peet

I think my sense of humor is Jewish. I’m smarter than most white people, which is kind of a Jewish thing, too.

Jim Goad

I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.

Rod Stewart

I’m not a particularly dark individual. I have my moments, it’s true, but I do have a sense of humor.

Alan Moore

Gallows humor is part of our coping mechanism. It’s part of our grief process. If we don’t know what else to do, we laugh. That’s a very real thing.

James Roday

I don’t think I could ever do a network sitcom because the humor is often based on some trite circumstance. I don’t want to be a part of a show where it’s mostly about coming up with the jokes.

Sherilyn Fenn

I connect to humor really deeply, so I feel really comfortable just being in funny projects.

Guillermo Diaz

I don’t think of myself as funny – I don’t fill up a room with my humor… I would fail miserably as a stand-up comedian.

Steve Carell

There is a collective as well as an individual humor inclining peoples to sadness or cheerfulness, making them see things in bright or somber lights. In fact, only society can pass a collective opinion on the value of human life; for this the individual is incompetent.

Emile Durkheim

It’s good to be able to laugh at yourself and the problems you face in life. Sense of humor can save you.

Margaret Cho

I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things; it makes a character much more three-dimensional if there’s some kind of humor. Not necessarily laugh-out-loud type of stuff, just a sense that there is a humorous edge to things. I do like that.

Colm Meaney

Gags die, humor doesn’t.

Jack Benny

Poop humor is fun. If you do the toilet scenes well and commit to them, they can be really, really powerful.

Sandra Bullock

Laughter is involuntary. If it’s funny you laugh.

Tom Lehrer

Humor is not a sign of weakness. In fact, humor can be your greatest asset in the face of tragedy.

Lee Corso

The humor section is the last place an author wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons.

David Sedaris

People with no humor, they’re outta my life.

Patti LaBelle

Humor and family emotions are integral to Telugu cinema.

Akhil Akkineni

I look at things logically. The humor I do is to go from A to B to C to D, and F is the funny.

Ron Shock

Those who knew Lincoln described him as an extraordinarily funny man. Humor was an essential aspect of his temperament. He laughed, he explained, so he did not weep.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

I look for kindness, honestly, integrity, intelligence, humor and good values, and of course, a fun, loving guy! And yes, I believe he exists!

Shamita Shetty

Somebody says, ‘Do a Tom Bodett, a folksy kind of thing,’ and it sounds like something out of ‘Hee Haw,’ very insulting. They turn wry humor into disparaging sarcasm, and you get what amounts to insulting advertising.

Tom Bodett

My sense of humor is a turkey, and I pull it out of the oven and baste it in reality.

Tracy Morgan

Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time.

Suzanne Fields

With Ricky Gervais, it’s all shades of wrong, it’s my kind of humor.

Emily Blunt

They say you don’t want to meet your heroes, but those two guys, you do want to meet them, because they do not disappoint. Walken has this amazing sense of humor, and Pacino is like just a sweetheart of a guy.

Bill Burr

I have the humor of a 9-year-old boy, and sometimes I’ve had laughing fits on-air.

Megyn Kelly

Religious humor is not really my area, so I probably wouldn’t do anything about that, or politics or something.

Chris Lilley

They don’t make you pay for the humor. It’s up and down, but they’re trying to give you as many laughs as possible in 2 minutes. They are the most honest comedians ever.

Mike Judge

Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we’re ‘dead earnest,’ humor is the only thing that is dead.

Flip Wilson

There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.

Bill Cosby

It’s a funny old world.

Margaret Thatcher

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man’s superiority to all that befalls him.

Romain Gary

Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.

Don Rickles

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

A. Whitney Brown

I’m a bug on acting, which distinguishes Second City from a lot of other revues. It comes from the character, the behavior, and not from the jokes. I don’t think jokes are funny. Humor comes out of character and out of situations the character is in.

Bernard Sahlins

I think people are sexy when they have a sense of humor, when they are smart, when they have some sense of style, when they are kind, when they express their own opinions, when they are creative, when they have character.

Suzanne Vega

Although Kurt Vonnegut may not be considered a humor writer, ‘Breakfast of Champions’ is one of the funniest books I’ve ever read.

Justin Halpern

My parents have always had a great sense of humor. And I really appreciate good humor in songs, witty lyrics that sneak up on you and then you listen again, and say: ‘That’s so funny.’ John Prine’s songs have always had this really witty tone.

Kacey Musgraves

That’s what kept us going – a sense of absurdity, rather than humor.

Frank McCourt

So, I’m thinking of a name for a villain that has a sense of humor. I thought of ‘The Joker’ as a name, and as soon as I thought that, I associate it with the playing card, as my family had a tradition of champion playing; my brother was a contract champion bridge player. There were always cards around the house.

Jerry Robinson

I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.

Herman Wouk

You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it.

Allen Klein

If I can’t see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny?

Casey Affleck

Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn’t funny. It’s a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it’s not a surprise anymore.

Garrison Keillor

You know those things that you throw the twigs into and it spits them out? That’s what I do. The branches are like life, and I throw them into my head and some of it comes out as humor.

Steven Wright

If you watch most of the stuff on TV and in movies, it’s usually put-down humor. It’s like somebody being mean or cynical or thoughtless to another person. I never wanted to be that type of comedian.

Paul Rust

Well, darkness with humor… I’m not an extremely suicidal or sad person.

Peter Steele

A woman who knows that she doesn’t have to get all decked out to look good is sexy. A woman who can make you feel smart with her conversation skills is also sexy. I believe the sense of humor is important.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Lesbian humor isn’t trying to sell anything, it doesn’t have to sell out. Coming out as a lesbian onstage is still a very political act; if it weren’t, more women would do it.

Kate Clinton

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

Jonathan Swift

My father, Leo Henry Brown, really was talented – he could write. He had a gift, and he had a great, sly humor.

Angie Dickinson

I like very dry humor. I don’t like things that are over the top. I like subtlety. I like things that are nonchalant. I like characters that are sort of monotone and based in dark comedy.

Emily Rios

I find any sort of acting that doesn’t have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring. ‘Serious acting’ is the kind of acting that I don’t ever respond to.

Andrew Scott

Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.

Bill Forsyth

When I was young, my favorite picture book was ‘Fletcher and Zenobia,’ written by Edward Gorey and illustrated by Victoria Chess. It’s long out of print now, but its mix of macabre humor and 1960s psychedelia made it a perfect children’s book for the times.

Rick Riordan

And you know, whether it’s drama or comedy, the best work is based on truth. It’s just that, with comedy, the circumstances are just crazy-heightened, and you have these crazy things thrown at you. But you still have to do it truthfully, because that’s where the humor comes from. So it’s not that difficult to cross over.

Tony Hale

I manage through a sense of humor. We all work hard, and work has to be a really interesting, fun place. And that has to start at the top.

Carol Bartz

I don’t know if my sense of humor goes over Americans’ heads.

Ryan Kwanten

The humor and emotion of the ‘Do You Want to Build a Snowman’ theme makes me cry every time I watch it, and that deep emotion is something we’d love to do on the show. If we can make you cry, we always try to. And ‘Once,’ when it’s at its best, is emotional and fun.

Edward Kitsis

Surprise is not humor. I think that there can be a fine line there.

Keegan-Michael Key

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

Bill Cosby

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.

Frank A. Clark

I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early ’70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire.

David Zucker

I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes.

Gordon Gee

For the most part, comedians are pretty friendly with each other. They always say they badmouth each other, but most of the time, they’re friends. We’re the only ones that can really stand our type of humor.

Colin Quinn

Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you’re different in a society, you’re funny.

Will Eisner

My wife is Swedish, so I’m familiar with the Scandinavian kind of odd humor. It’s very dark and very deadpan.

Cory Barlog

There are different kinds of humor, some is sarcastic, some introspective. Introspective fit my personality better.

Rita Rudner

My parents armed me with an amazing sense of humor, and it’s what you need when, well, it’s what anyone needs in this world.

Warwick Davis

Candidates should be extremely cautious in displaying a sense of humor. If he or she tells a joke with a point, there is almost certain to be some minority group offended.

Jack Germond

As I write, I control my anxiety and anguish thanks to the invaluable aid of irony and humor. But every night I am subdued by an anxiety that knows no irony, and I must wait until the next day to rediscover the blend of anguish and humor that characterizes my writing and that generates my style.

Enrique Vila-Matas

If you approach Cannes with a sense of humor, nothing is that bad. You have to take it for what it is; otherwise, it’s silly.

Mathieu Amalric

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

Erma Bombeck

I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage.

Kyle Chandler

Today’s business and health care climate may not be pleasant. Cutbacks, pay cuts and layoffs do not make anyone’s job easy. But that does not mean that the humor need stop.

Allen Klein

Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.

Carl Hiaasen

I loved Peter Sellers. I thought he was the perfect mix of physical comedy with out-of-the-box humor. I loved his tone; I loved his physicality; I loved everything about what he was doing as a comedic actor.

J. B. Smoove

It’s great to be able to connect parents with children both emotionally and through humor. I look forward to exploring family entertainment once again and examining the specifics of our day-to-day lives against the backdrop of an extraordinary adventure.

Jon Favreau

Any good humor is sophomoric. ‘Sophomoric’ is the liberal word for funny.

Michael O’Donoghue

A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It’s the same qualities I require from a man.

Catherine Deneuve

Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.

Sam Walton

The people I mixed with in Monaco didn’t relate to my South African mentality or humor… Although I have met some wonderful people since I’ve been living in Monaco, I regard them all as acquaintances. I only have two people I consider friends here.

Charlene, Princess of Monaco

Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

My dad is just like everybody else’s dad. I see him as kind of a goofy guy with a great sense of humor. I try to get in a battle of wits with him, but he always gets me. I emulate him because I’ve never seen anyone work as hard as he does.

Peter Uihlein

From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.

Samuel Richardson

I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don’t think I’m capable of that.

Chris Cooper

Humor that is edgy is never squeaky clean.

Jeff Ross

If you’re that hypersensitive about color and don’t have a sense of humor, don’t marry out of your race.

Laura Schlessinger

Cameron Crowe can write dialogue and shoot it with warmth and humor like nobody else.

Emma McLaughlin

I’m just very amused by five-year-old humor.

Kesha

Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.

George Jean Nathan

What’s great about the geek spirit is that life never seems to stop us, and they never seem to kill our enthusiasm, our optimism and our hunger to experience the world. We keep our sense of humor, we protect our dignity, we talk to our friends about the experience and then we start again fresh the very next day.

Paul Feig

In Buddhism, they say attachment to anything only leads to suffering. So when we laugh, it’s our way of saying, ‘I’m unattached to that.’ You’re tickled by it, it makes your lobes do something on their own. So humor is very important to me. I always take that to the stage first.

Jason Mraz

Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.

Tom Robbins

I love Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart because they’re bringing irony back into American humor, which is a delicious treat. The entire Colbert persona of being extreme right-wing when he’s not at all is highly amusing. He does it so well, but sometimes a little too well. My wife is convinced he’s completely that way.

John Lydon

Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.

W. C. Fields

It’s easier to sit there and say you don’t like feminists because they don’t have a sense of humor.

Joan Jett

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

George Herbert

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

I have a very dark sense of humor.

Andy Dick

I like being a Baha’i who has an out-there sense of humor. God gives us talents and faculties, and making people laugh is one of mine.

Rainn Wilson

He has such a patronizing tone and manner, and such a sarcastic sense of humor. I found him rather brutal, a kind of elegant brutality which appealed. No, I think he came pretty much off the page.

Jeremy Northam

When you’re in Hollywood, you get sort of jaded about what you think the sense of humor of Hollywood is supposed to be, so you can’t think outside the box.

Diedrich Bader

I think I have always had a little humor.

Marilyn Monroe

Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.

John Lithgow

With humor, it’s so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.

Calvin Trillin

I really love middle-grade. Middle-grade books have a little more of a magical, light-hearted feel. You can be a little bit more quirky, you can have a little more humor. It doesn’t get so dark and deep.

James Dashner

George Carlin is brilliant with words, and Johnny Winters is very creative. It’s taking something common and drawing out the humor, being clever with words.

Bill Cosby

As I get older, my sense of humor is my biggest asset.

David Alan Grier

I think a sense of humor will help get a girl out of a dark place.

Twyla Tharp

Sure, I am funny and have a good sense of humor. Mostly, though, I just tell the truth. The internal dialogue people have in their heads – I just write it.

Kara Swisher

People, I guess, generally come to see me do stand-up with a working knowledge of my broad sense of humor on ‘The Daily Show’… I don’t think anyone would mistake me as an actual anchor.

John Oliver

You hear people say, ‘We take our Tennessee Williams very seriously. There is no laughter here.’ It’s full of humor! Not to laugh is a big, bad mistake!

Ruby Dee

Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.

Lorrie Moore

You learn timing on the road. You learn structure and how to read an audience. You learn so much about the business of laughter that you can’t learn on a set, because it’s all on you. Sometimes you bomb, and you know not to tell that joke again… You just hope people find the humor in the awkwardness.

Marlon Wayans

Maybe there’s a chance to get back to grown-up films. Anything that uses humor and dramatic values to deal with human emotions and gets down to what people are to people.

Robert Altman

I have no idea what a British sensibility or a British sense of humor is. I have no concept of what that is. I have no concept of what American sensibility is. I was born in Great Britain, but I was only there for six months, and we moved to Belgium, where I grew up.

Frank Oz

All I do is have fun. When I’m not working, it’s about making people laugh. I love making jokes about things. Even when someone’s mad at me, I’ll deflect anger with humor. My days are filled with laughter. If I’m not laughing, I’m not happy.

Drew Fuller

If somebody is not on the same page with me humor wise, I can’t give them that.

Stephan Pastis

Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor.

Jonathan Shapiro

If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It’s easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well.

Alan Thicke

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

Maya Angelou

I like the brooding man – a brooding man with a sense of humor.

Maira Kalman

To me, sadness and humor aren’t disrelated and humor is the best tool I’ve had against the sadness in my life.

Mike Mills

Down the road, I’ll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on, and humor.

Alanis Morissette

Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom – it doesn’t have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations – but that doesn’t explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective.

James Wolcott

You don’t necessarily equate me with humor!

Sean Bean

Once we got over the origin story, we could really delve deeper into their lives and characters and angst. So this movie actually has more heart, more humor.

Avi Arad

I like people with a good sense of humor, like Jennifer Aniston. She is amazing and is a great actress.

Helio Castroneves

I really hate sitcoms on television with canned laughter and stuff. What really makes me laugh is the real-life stuff. I’ve got a dry sense of humor.

Katie Price

I’m a comedian, and I definitely see the humor in a lot of things. I am also sad a lot. I cry often and easily. I think you’re supposed to feel all kinds of things.

Ellen DeGeneres

I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

Brendan Coyle

We do not take humor seriously enough.

Konrad Lorenz

I’ll speak for myself, but there’s a lot of humor to be found in sarcasm and darkness. You talk to any paramedic, they survive by developing a pretty off-kilter sense of humor.

Nicolas Cage

You probably found ‘How to Survive a Robot Uprising’ in the humor section. Let’s just hope that is where it belongs.

Daniel H. Wilson

I’ve had a very laughable career and what has seen me through is my sense of humor.

Linda Gray

I choose my actors well and get to know the quirks of their personalities – and, most of all, I share humor with them. Then I keep my eyes open when they rehearse and perform, because you never know where the next stimulation comes from.

George Cukor

Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.

Mark Twain

I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny Thomas, and George Burns and Bob Hope and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and all those guys were at our house all the time and telling jokes and making each other laugh.

Marlo Thomas

I hang out with the ‘nerdy’ people – they have a different sense of humor than most kids.

Liam Aiken

My childhood, adolescence and high school days are unusually important. If there has ever been a time that I developed a uniqueness and sense of humor and the ability to organize, it was then. In those early days, I developed the skills that gave me a certain degree of success in American politics.

Lee Atwater

It’s hard to force creativity and humor.

Al Yankovic

Why anybody gets my sense of humor I never know, but I do know that when they do, I keep them as close as I possibly can.

Joss Whedon

Advertisers also know that humor can help bond us to their product.

Allen Klein

I’ve used my sense of humor as a coping tool. It’s gotten me through a lot of challenging times.

Adam Rippon

Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.

Claire Scovell LaZebnik

I’m a big fan of independent girls who are strong-willed, vocal in their opinions, and have a sense of humor.

David Lambert

I think the sexiest thing about a woman is confidence, but confidence in a humble way, not in an arrogant way. Sense of humor is definitely important. And sunglasses always hide a multitude of sins. Sunglasses and a great pair of heels can turn most outfits around.

Victoria Beckham

Anyone in the humor business isn’t thinking clearly if he doesn’t surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity – or you burn yourself out.

Hank Ketcham

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

Thomas Jefferson

I’ve heard too many times where people say that I’m this ultra-serious guy. In truth, I’ve got an extremely absurd sense of humor. I thrive on the absurd – I love it.

Phil Anselmo

Any man who has had the job I’ve had and didn’t have a sense of humor wouldn’t still be here.

Harry S Truman

I think God has a sense of humor, and the way my lessons come from God is very funny. I have to laugh at myself even if it’s a tough lesson.

Yvette Nicole Brown

I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor.

Michael J. Fox

Humor is very healing.

Bonnie Hunt

And, you know, I liked writing humor. Well, I should say, I wanted to write seriously, but it kept turning funny.

Roseanne Barr

I think everyone is born with humor, but your life can beat it out of you, sadly, or you can be lucky enough to grow up in it.

Catherine O’Hara

Athletes tend to have less of a sense of humor than most people. They are heroes to so many. That might be part of it.

Jeff Ross

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.

Mark Twain

Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?

Frank Moore Colby

If you can understand the humor in the drawing part you’ll probably get the humor in the audio part.

Eric San

While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory.

Dweezil Zappa

I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres.

Carrie Brownstein

Rowling is a luminous storyteller. I love her sense of humor and the intricate wizarding world she built around Hogwarts. I think all writers aspire to be like her, to capture readers like she does. But I didn’t think about ‘Harry Potter’ when I wrote ‘The Bone Season.’

Samantha Shannon

Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.

Allen Klein

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.

Samuel Butler

Maybe the bar is low, but most of the strips that are 50, 60, 70 years old that are on their second or third generation of artists, the humor is pretty bland. There are others by people that were raised on ‘Family Guy’ or ‘South Park’ that are edgier. Mine’s not as edgy as those, but it’s edgier than ‘Beetle Bailey.’

Stephan Pastis

However, frat-boy humor is funny and it always will be.

Craig Kilborn

Humor has been the balm of my life, but it’s been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.

Lana Turner

People ask me what the most important thing to take on the race is, and I always say it’s a sense of humor. If you’ve got nothing but a sense of humor, you will survive.

Phil Keoghan

With Portlandia, I don’t think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously. We’re okay with making somebody feel uncomfortable or uneasy.

Carrie Brownstein

Well, the most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning – it’s a man or a woman without a sense of humor.

Jonathan Winters

I need to end up with someone who is strong, intelligent, independent, someone I really admire – sensitive, sensuous, warm, a sense of humor.

Pam Dawber

By employing a certain sense of humor, you essentially get more serious about things and show conflict more effectively than if you were overly dramatic or only violent because that’s a one-way approach that just forces audiences to watch something appalling.

Yorgos Lanthimos

Democratic politicians have disliked things I’ve written, Republican politicians… if they all love you, you might as well be driving a Good Humor truck.

Adam Clymer

Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it’s very ambiguous. You have it, or you don’t. You can’t attain it.

Heinrich Boll

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.

Ned Rorem

I’m sure I’ve all but lost friends by maintaining that, despite their love for it, I always saw Stanley Kramer’s ‘It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World’ as more of an exercise in anti-comedy than humor.

Dick Cavett

I didn’t think that anything is beyond humor – not profane humor, but a good, honest approach to humor.

Mort Sahl

A boy is naturally full of humor.

Robert Powell

We don’t appreciate the value of humor sometimes.

Janet Evanovich

Whether it’s viewers of the show or readers of my columns and books, I’m consistently impressed with their wit, humor and insight. That goes for about 95 percent of the audience. The other five percent are why the ‘Delete’ option and restraining orders were invented.

Richard Roeper

I like bawdy humor. I love bawdy humor, but not dirty humor.

Betty White

‘The Sopranos’ is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, bad jokes – infantile, adolescent stuff, but it makes me laugh.

David Chase

My dad’s sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal – his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.

Tony Visconti

The thing about For Better or Worse is the only thing that made me an okay director for that is that I have a sense of humor, and it was supposed to be funny.

Jason Alexander

My dad instilled in me a great sense of humor. I wasn’t bullied at school because my outward attitude was confident, and that helps.

Warwick Davis

Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.

Mason Cooley

There are psychological repercussions to illness and we need a little more help to get through the effects not only on the afflicted but on the family. And I think there’s even a place for humor in that.

Alan Thicke

Humor helps people open up.

Roger von Oech

If golf wasn’t enjoyable and there wasn’t a lot of humor and enjoyment, even though the game is so frustrating, you would wonder why you put yourself through it.

Ray Romano

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes.

Ted Rall

Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

At NBC I wasn’t really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.

Tabitha Soren

Working on newspapers, you’re writing to a certain length, often very brief pieces; you tend to look for easy forms of humor – women can’t drive, things like that. That’s about the level of a lot of newspaper humor. It becomes a form of laziness.

Tom Wolfe

One question about a joke is, how well is the strangeness of the situation resolved? At ‘The New Yorker’, we retain a lot of incongruity, tapping the playful part of the mind – Monty Python-type stuff. We also try to use humor as a vehicle for communicating ideas. Not editorial comment, but observation.

Robert Mankoff

Humor is reason gone mad.

Groucho Marx

Yes, I have a good sense of humor to sort of last a long time in show business, and I think to be able to find comedic value in who you are and the people that you work is always a good thing.

Jane Krakowski

I think ‘Country Girl’ is one song that can veer into country or hip-hop or rap. You can listen to it and enjoy the humor and the fun in it.

Luke Bryan

My favorite kind of humor is basically, if it was happening to you, it wouldn’t be funny, but to observe it, it’s hilarious.

Bill Burr

Humor levels the playing field. I understood that early on – that was something I had.

Robert Mankoff

The real important things are kindness and a sense of humor. I’ve been fortunate to have dated and could have easily married women who have those qualities, and time and circumstances didn’t work out. Timing plays a big part.

Hill Harper

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

A. Whitney Brown

I knew racial discrimination at its worst in the 1930s. I lived with the humility of it but I never lost my sense of humor. Humor is the escape valve from the deadly reality of adversity.

Nipsey Russell

I realized women and humor were linked very closely.

Craig Ferguson

I’ve got a great sense of humor, and if I’m able to say or do something in a movie that people feel like they want to repeat, that’s hugely flattering.

Matthew McConaughey

There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.

Sinclair Lewis

God has a most wicked sense of humor.

Maureen O’Hara

Jerry Seinfeld is amazing in many ways, not the least of them his ability to find humor, and convincing us to find it, too, in the million-and-two details about modern life that under different circumstances might send us into paroxysms of rage.

Tom Shales

My wife has a good sense of humor, and instead of calling me psychic with my novels, she simply refers to me as being ‘psycho.’ That’s because multiple things in my books have come true.

Brad Thor

I’ve learned to have a sense of humor about myself. Lord knows everyone else does!

Debbie Gibson

The one thing I didn’t expect was to learn how much of a sense of humor Jerry Reinsdorf has. He’s really funny. I never got a chance to see his sense of humor when I was working for him or playing for him.

B. J. Armstrong

The only way I could get comfortable around people was to make them laugh. I was an obedient girl, and humor was my one form of rebellion. I used comedy to deflect. Like, ‘Hey, check out my zit!’ – you know, making fun of yourself before someone else has a chance to.

Tina Fey

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Leo Rosten

I don’t have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.

Vera Farmiga

I’ll let you in on a secret: I can’t stand Jay Ward. I hate being compared to Rocky and Bullwinkle. It’s just a different style of humor.

John Kricfalusi

I grew up as a very sarcastic person. I was always the class clown, and to date girls, I had to be really funny. I was really skinny growing up. I was so thin, I had to run around in the shower to get wet. That kind of thin. So I always had to rely on humor and sarcasm.

Kurt Fuller

We are not actually in charge of life, yet behave as if we are the masters of our own destiny. The realization of this fact is quite a hard one. The ridiculousness of our pomposity and presumption can only result in anger or humor.

Billy Childish

I love British humor. It’s just so – surreal.

Beck

The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibility, sense of humor, behavior. He is me.

Marilyn Manson

I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions… the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.

Colin Firth

With reporting, if you work hard, you can usually pull something out. But writing humor doesn’t respond to working hard, necessarily. I mean, you could just sit there and look at the page all day and maybe something will come.

Ian Frazier

I grew up with Forrest J. Ackerman’s ‘Famous Monsters of Filmland’ along with a plethora of movie tomes and wanted to write about film with a sense of personality, passion, and humor.

Harry Knowles

Hateful words stand no chance against self-worth and a little of humor.

Iskra Lawrence

Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.

Patricia Highsmith

Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they’re fun, they do things together, they’re best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they’re going to respect Mom.

Tim Allen

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.

William Arthur Ward

I don’t think arrested-adolescent humor will fade. Maybe the form will change, but I guarantee its replacement will still be based in immature behavior from mature figures.

Adam McKay

Picking my topics is sort of a process of elimination for me. Most things don’t work for me. I like to cover science and unexpected things happening in labs. Also, theoretical research doesn’t work for my style. I need scenes and interactions. Then, humor. I’m having the most fun when I can have fun with my work.

Mary Roach

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

Steven Wright

There’s always a source for humor.

Calvin Trillin

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

I think that what comes through in Chicago humor is the affection. Even though you’re poking fun at someone or something, there’s still an affection for it.

Bob Newhart

As a kid, I loved ‘Godot’ because of the poetry and the humor and the strangeness, but then as you get older, it’s much more resonant.

Nathan Lane

When you meet someone new who instantly gets you, your sense of humor and your attitudes and your worldview, even if theirs are different – and you get them in return. You both talk and talk and agree and laugh and nod and yes, yes, of course you should get another round of drinks.

Erin Morgenstern

Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

Malcolm Muggeridge

It’s self-effacing, it’s hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor.

Jerry Leiber

If I didn’t try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time.

Lynda Barry

I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend’s garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computers and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.

Steve Jobs

I like dark humor. My favorite movie of all time is ‘Harold and Maude.’

Leslie Mann

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

E. B. White

In the ‘Hurt Locker’ there’s a lot of me in there, a sense of humor, a man of few words and a lot of action.

Jeremy Renner

The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.

William Temple

Humor can bring people under the tent. And a good joke can deflect some of the intensity surrounding a serious subject.

Ted Danson

Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.

Adam Smith

Solutions-oriented campaigning with a little passion and a little humor; I think that will go a long way. I think people are desperate for it.

Laura Ingraham

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke – and that the joke is oneself.

Clifton Fadiman

Tony and I had a good on and off screen relationship, we are two very different people, but we did share a sense of humor, we now live in different parts of the world but when we find ourselves in the same place it is more or less as if there had been no years in between.

Roger Moore

A good actor is someone who knows how to take the part and make it real and make it honest and be effective in it. If it’s in a funny movie and, as long as they are cast in an appropriate way, humor will come from it.

Ivan Reitman

Cervantes is the most important Spanish writer. But he is not the most representative of the Spanish. His irony, his sense of humor – they are too subtle to seem Spanish.

Antonio Munoz Molina

I liked the premise of this material. I love the marriage relationship. They kind of keep each other honest, and they enjoy each other’s sense of humor. Kind of a sexy but boring relationship.

Patricia Arquette

Laughter is an instant vacation.

Milton Berle

Using no control and using humor will build a relationship and make a dent to where the client puts the counselor in their quality world and then begins to relate and seek out the counselor. Effective therapy begins with the acceptance of the therapist into the client’s quality world.

William Glasser

Bands from Akron have a sense of humor and don’t tend to take themselves too seriously.

Dan Auerbach

Impropriety is the soul of wit.

W. Somerset Maugham

I think, in our darkest moments, you have to find the humor, and you have to find the lightness.

Corey Hawkins

My daughter doesn’t even get my humor. She’s like, ‘Um, no. I don’t get it, Dad. Mmm, no, not that one, Dad.’

Kevin Hart

If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.

Al Franken

One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.

Ralph Fiennes

The script was just the best I’d read in a long time and I love the humor, which I wasn’t expecting, and I like the fact that my six year old daughter can see the show without being, you know, protected from it.

Stephen Collins

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

Thomas Carlyle

I think Canadian humor is a little less broad than American humor.

Scott Thompson

The New Zealand sense of humor is tough and realistic. Jokes are not surreal; they are about life and death and tough decisions.

Anthony McCarten

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

Jessamyn West

I think in life, the sense of humor and comedy always exists.

Mike Epps

Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor, but I always knew who was funny, who to hang out with.

Andrew Stanton

I can’t not put humor in a book.

Albert Brooks

I mean, yeah, I’m sure that Python and the other things have paved the way for a greater understanding of the British sense of humor, but I don’t think it’s all that different than the American sense of humor.

Simon Pegg

My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.

Bret Michaels

A lot about Congress is about forming good working relationships with people, and humor can really help you do that.

Linda Sanchez

Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

Grenville Kleiser

I don’t have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.

Ian Frazier

The line between humor and bad taste is your audience, in which some people will find everything offensive, and some people will find nothing offensive, but the truth is that most humor originates in what would be called bad taste.

Robert Mankoff

I compare Stephen Sondheim with humor, because humor is unanalyzable. You can’t analyze humor. You just have to get through it.

Elaine Stritch

One of my favorite things about ‘Star Trek’ wasn’t just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships between the main characters and their reactions to the situations they would face; there was a lot of comedy in that show without ever breaking its reality.

J. J. Abrams

I love doing comedy. You don’t get many good comedy scripts. They’re rare. But, I do love playing comedy. Even in drama, I like to try to find the humor because I think it’s very human.

Colm Meaney

When I look at a lot of older stuff that I’ve written, I think one sign of amateur humor writing is when you see people trying too hard.

David Sedaris

The similarity between my music and The Beatles’ music is it has within it a very positive quality. It’s woven with humor.

Donovan

I still haven’t found the humor in getting hit by a cement truck. My knees still hurt when I think about it, so no jokes about that yet.

Adam DeVine

I tend to like dry humor.

Dan Scanlon

Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.

Eric Sevareid

Love, as wonderful and horrible as it is, has at its center a kind of pitiful humor.

Tim O’Brien

Everybody in my family had a real sick, twisted sense of humor. Most of the jokes we make in our house, we would just never even dream of making anywhere else. Just sick, horrible stuff. That wasn’t anything new to college.

Seth MacFarlane

Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

When I play a game, I want to play, not necessarily laugh. If you try to make me laugh at the expense of interactivity, then you’ve just created another funny game that isn’t very fun. The videogame medium itself is a terrible place for complicated humor, drama, and character development.

Doug TenNapel

But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early writing was very dark and had a gothic tone to it.

Seth Grahame-Smith

A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way.

Allen Klein

A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.

Don Herold

Funny songs aren’t usually that good. Like Weird Al and maybe a couple of Beatles songs, but it’s kind of hard to bring humor into rock music in an interesting way.

Win Butler

Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.

Al Franken

Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.

Josh Tillman

I’ve never met a person who has more integrity than my husband. I respect that. There’s his humor and intelligence, too, and he’s really cute, all those things – but if you don’t respect your partner, you’ll get sick of him.

Michelle Pfeiffer

The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.

Moliere

There’s not a lot of other stuff I admire about his content, but there’s something about Howard Stern and his perseverance in a very difficult industry. He does tickle me in certain ways with humor.

Ashleigh Banfield

Good acting is thinking in front of the camera. I just do that and apply a sense of humor to it. You have to trust the audience to get it.

Charles Grodin

I just like playing interesting, complex, complicated characters. I like films that also have an element of humor.

Steve Buscemi

You can’t study comedy; it’s within you. It’s a personality. My humor is an attitude.

Don Rickles

I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don’t think I’m capable of that.

Chris Cooper

There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation’s history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of shock to find it.

Will Durst

Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.

Steve Allen

Things are more complex today, and I think humor has changed a a great deal. People are more sensitive today.

Lewis Grizzard

There’s plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it’s a serious business.

Al Franken

So once I thought of the villain with a sense of humor, I began to think of a name and the name “the Joker” immediately came to mind. There was the association with the Joker in the deck of cards, and I probably yelled literally, ‘Eureka!’ because I knew I had the name and the image at the same time.

Jerry Robinson

Ontologically, chocolate raises profoundly disturbing questions: Does not chocolate offer natural revelation of the goodness of the Creator just as chilies disclose a divine sense of humor? Is the human born with an innate longing for chocolate? Does the notion of chocolate preclude the concept of free will?

David Augsburger

I think it’s because it’s so different and it takes risks. Plus, it’s really smart humor. It gives the audience credit in terms of not needing to tell them when to laugh. I love that about the show. There’s no laugh track.

Sarah Chalke

I was a little shocked at how adult some of the humor was, because I was never that into animation before and when I watched ‘Shrek’ I really laughed out loud.

Cheryl Hines

My senior year of high school, I was voted ‘Wittiest.’ So, several years later, I decided to try my hand at writing humor to see if I could be witty enough to make some money.

Barbara Park

It’s continuously humbling to work hard, you know? As long as you’ve got a good work ethic and a sense of humor, I don’t think anybody can become too much of an egoist under those circumstances.

Rachael Ray

The waltz is a very important part of my life. It’s a very important way for me to express my positiveness, bringing humor to the world.

Andre Rieu

Humor’s a weapon if you want to make it one.

Bob Newhart

Humor can be one of our best survival tools.

Allen Klein

I’m able to see humor in a lot of things.

Juliana Hatfield

In the ‘Hurt Locker’ there’s a lot of me in there, a sense of humor, a man of few words and a lot of action.

Jeremy Renner

Brains and a sense of humor trump everything else.

Ryan Paevey

Confidence and a good sense of humor can usually win a chick over.

Danny McBride

I think I’m too cynical for L.A. My sense of humor doesn’t go down well here, which probably affects my love life. I need to have a laugh track following me around so people know I’m trying to be funny.

Teddy Thompson

In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.

Alanis Morissette

Let’s not call physical comedy falling down and pratfalls. All humor is physical, no matter how you dish it out. It’s timing, like a dancer or an athlete would have.

Chevy Chase

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

Erma Bombeck

Some people say my humor focuses too much on stereotypes. It doesn’t. It focuses on facts.

Sarah Silverman

My humor is a lot like Kristen Wiig’s from ‘Saturday Night Live’ or ‘Bridesmaids.’ Quirky, off the beaten path.

Nicole Ari Parker

Sometimes I make myself laugh, but that’s because I appreciate my sense of humor.

Regina Hall

There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.

Sinclair Lewis

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I think it’s a brilliant tool to have, not only to have a sense of humor, but to be able to use humor to help one navigate life, and I tend not to be that type of person. I wish I were.

Delroy Lindo

Sure, the comedians who swear or use scatological humor can get laughs, but they’re uncomfortable laughs.

John Ratzenberger

I don’t know how many sacred cows there are today. I think there’s a little confusion between humor and gross passing for humor. That’s kind of regrettable.

Bob Newhart

Edward Norton and I have known each other awhile. I just think he’s the real deal, supremely talented and smart. He’s got a great sense of humor.

Kevin Spacey

Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.

Samuel Richardson

There’s something very authentic about humor, when you think about it. Anybody can pretend to be serious. But you can’t pretend to be funny.

Billy Collins

After spending 460 days as a hostage, I did emerge a fundamentally changed person. But I think, like everyone does as they grow older and probably wiser, I can look back at my earlier life – my history, my mistakes, the joy I felt as a young woman traveling the world – with some objectivity and even some humor.

Amanda Lindhout

Since the very beginning, Emeril’s had a sense of humor about me calling him names and poking fun at him.

Anthony Bourdain

Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.

Herbert Beerbohm Tree

Ingmar Bergman had a great sense of humor, and he had a very special, characteristic laugh that you always recognized – if he went to watch a theater show, ‘Ah! He is here tonight.’

Max von Sydow

Everybody’s got a different sense of humor. It’s just different styles.

Colin Quinn

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

Max Eastman

I was born in England – though both of my parents are American – and there’s something about the ‘Muppets’ where they have this combination of English and American humor.

Nicholas Stoller

Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me – just in the sense that it has allowed me to keep my sanity.

Dee Dee Myers

I would say that Emma Stone and Emma Watson are two very talented young actresses who are very intelligent and have a great sense of humor and have learned to balance what they love with their acting career, and I think that’s really a great thing.

Kara Hayward

Humor, humility, and, of course, honesty, all are qualities that work in public and cultural diplomacy.

Cynthia P. Schneider

I’m sure there are people who survive tragedy without humor, but I’ve never met any of them. Nor would I be particularly interested in writing about them if I did meet them.

Ayelet Waldman

Sometimes Americans don’t quite get my sense of humor. My good ol’ British sarcasm seems to go over their heads.

Lee Westwood

Sometimes I’ll be sitting with my friends; I’ll say something Koothrappali-esque and make a face. There is a lot of Koothrappali in me as a human being. A lot of mannerism, humor, mischievousness, my innocence. So I don’t know if I bring him home so much as I bring myself to him at work.

Kunal Nayyar

Everyone needs an escape, whether that is through music or humor. My personal escape is through both of those things so I thought why not combine them? But not in a cringe way, I don’t want to make parody songs. I just want my music to have a humorous edge to it.

Ashnikko

As an actor, I’m attracted to drama; as a director, it’s humor – because it’s the story of my life, and I can’t be that serious about it. Being alone is a big theme in all my movies, both as a director and as an actress.

Jodie Foster

My humor tends to be a little more edgy than is appropriate for ‘Twilight,’ although I got some in there. That was fun! There’s just a tonal difference. For me, storytelling is storytelling. But, I do like writing for grown ups.

Melissa Rosenberg

I like to think my sense of humor is sort of smart and dumb at the same time. I like to work on multiple levels – smart and dumb, funny and sad, profound and mundane, cynical and hopeful.

Robert Lopez

One doesn’t have a sense of humor. It has you.

Larry Gelbart

Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there’s comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.

David Lynch

I’m a Larry David fan, right? And it seems to me that Jewish history from the Talmud on has been a self-deprecating, self-critical kind of humor.

Peter Eisenman

I can’t not find humor in elements of most parts of life, but at the same time nothing ever seems perpetually funny to me.

Greg Kinnear

People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail.

Bob Newhart

Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It’s like medicine – very healing.

Max Irons

If I had to describe my sense of humor, I would say it’s contemporary wit, you know what I’m saying?

Tracy Morgan

I think the humor, when applied in the right amount, only serves to intensify the other emotions in a given song; it highlights them, makes them stand out.

John Grant

My experience growing up in London and growing up in a working class background is that when people are down and out, that’s when they’re probably the funniest. They have to be. That’s what they do to cope, to find joy, ’cause they don’t feel the joy inside. Or they use humor to keep people out.

Daniel Kaluuya

Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

Malcolm Muggeridge

There’s a charm, there’s a rhythm, there’s a soul to Jewish humor. When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, ‘You’re doing a Jewish act.’

Alan King

You can find heroism everyday, like guys working terrible jobs because they’ve got to support their families. Or as far as humor, the things I see on the job, on the street, are far funnier than anything you’ll ever see on TV.

Harvey Pekar

We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.

Bil Keane

I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end, the comic’s best trick is the illusion that comedy is effortless. That people imagine what he’s doing is easy is an occupational hazard.

Richard Russo

I really wouldn’t want to live in America. I found New York claustrophobic and dirty. I missed England when I was there, simple things like smells and the British sense of humor.

Jonny Lee Miller

Back in 2004, Kellie Overbey handed me her play ‘Girl Talk’ to read. I fell in love with her brutally delicious humor and the fearlessly deft way in which she drew her characters. They jumped off the page and begged me to give them a space in which to stomp around.

Carrie Preston

I’ve been encouraging documentary filmmakers to use more and more humor, and they’re loath to do that because they think if it’s a documentary it has to be deadly serious – it has to be like medicine that you’re supposed to take. And I think it’s what keeps the mass audience from going to documentaries.

Michael Moore

I wasn’t close to my father, but I wanted to be all my life. He had a funny sense of humor, and he laughed all the time – good and loud, like I do. He was a gay Irish gentleman and very good-looking. And he wanted to be close to me, too, but we never had much time together.

Judy Garland

Both conservatives and liberals watch ‘Parks and Recreation,’ and they each think the show is for them, which is really cool. ‘SNL’ was totally different. It was exciting because everyone was paying attention. Political humor works when people know what you’re talking about.

Amy Poehler

Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.

Robert Morgan

I quite like dark humor.

Marina and the Diamonds

There are so many things to talk about between black people, Hispanic people, white people, gay people, men, women, it’s all based on fear. We all have fears, this thing that stops us from embracing as we are one. We are never going to be one. People are messed up, but humor lets us see how ignorant we can be.

Marlon Wayans

Half the battle is that people have to like you before you say one joke, one bit of humor.

Don Rickles

I don’t know if I realized that I was funny, but I realized how healing and important humor was in my childhood.

Bonnie Hunt

Me and Matt love to argue, but in general our sense of humor is pretty much alike.

Trey Parker

Americans are pragmatic, relatively uncomplicated, hearty and given to broad humor.

Herb Caen

I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it’s humor that’s often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.

Danny Boyle

I have a very silly sense of humor. I’ve never laughed harder in my entire life than seeing someone with toilet paper stuck on the bottom of their shoe.

Paula Poundstone

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

Langston Hughes

Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.

Allen Klein

Wit – the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

Ambrose Bierce

Sometimes when I try to make jokes or have a sense of humor in interviews, it doesn’t go over very well. But Twitter made my life easier in this way that I didn’t expect. It would have taken probably 10 times as long for people to accept my voice and my sense of humor if I didn’t have Twitter.

Anna Kendrick

I’m not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.

Anjelica Huston

If it gets laughs, it’s funny.

Rachel Dratch

Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.

Shel Silverstein

A lot of people say, ‘Hey, God doesn’t have a sense of humor.’ Yes, He does. God has a great sense of humor.

Si Robertson

If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor.

Teri Garr

He was just trying to tease me – I knew that later – but he said he’d have to leave because it wasn’t fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.

Fay Wray

I couldn’t really take a girl from Berlin to live in Leeds. I love it here. I miss the Yorkshire sense of humor and things like bitter and Yorkshire puddings, but I can still get my hands on salt ‘n’ vinegar crisps.

Sam Riley

Humor can prove to be the conversational lubricant you need to remove the tension from the most unpleasant management- and accountability-related conversations.

Clay Clark

I am often the brunt of my own humor.

Charles R. Swindoll

I think kids want the same thing from a book that adults want – a fast-paced story, characters worth caring about, humor, surprises, and mystery. A good book always keeps you asking questions, and makes you keep turning pages so you can find out the answers.

Rick Riordan

I remember when humor was gentle pokes. I used to call it ‘arm around the shoulder’ humor. Now they go for the jugular and they take no prisoners. It’s mean, mean stuff.

Robert Orben

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

Christopher Morley

Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don’t judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.

Madonna Ciccone

You can get through very serious and sometimes horrible and sometimes embarrassing and very awkward situations with humor. It gives us a way out.

Janet Evanovich

Whether planned or not, humor takes our mind off of our troubles.

Allen Klein

Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren’t about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.

Ice Cube

I don’t really dissect comedy. Nothing kills off humor more than overanalyzing it.

David Steinberg

Well, I mean, if a joke or humor is bawdy, it’s got to be funny enough to warrant it. You can’t just have it bawdy or dirty just for the sake of being that – it’s got to be funny.

Betty White

Humor is everywhere in that there’s irony in just about anything a human does.

Bill Nye

I don’t have hard numbers about this, but the impression I get is that the amount of eyeballs you get from being on the humor shelf at Barnes & Noble – it is almost insignificant.

Randall Munroe

A sense of humor saves your life, and being able to make friends wherever you go.

Jason O’Mara

When I started, I wanted to be thought of as tortured and seductive, not funny, but humor tends to be a reflexive part of a person’s sensibility. It’s an almost impossible thing to teach anyone, which leads me to believe that it’s intuitive.

Mark Leyner

I don’t really like using ridicule as a form of humor.

Alison Jackson

Everybody I know who is funny, it’s in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don’t like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.

Carol Burnett

I love Sell Out, I think it’s great. I love the jingles. The whole thing as an album is a wonderful piece of work. The cover. Everything about it. It’s got humor, great songs, irony.

Roger Daltrey

If you can appeal to another person’s sense of humor, you can introduce ideas, thoughts, things that they may disagree with or not believe in. At least they’ll listen.

Rocky Carroll

I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.

Ian Frazier

I don’t happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don’t know what’s funny about a character… This happens to be a feature of my life generally.

Wallace Shawn

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

George Eliot

I have a very dark sense of humor. I swear. I have a very playful relationship with Jesus.

Anne Lamott

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.

Bill Cosby

When I did stand-up at U.C.B., and I had a blog for a couple of years that started my writing career, ‘Totally Confident and Completely Insecure,’ it was the same kind of self-deprecating humor and stories about being out in L.A. and being treated like a loser at a hair salon because you are not famous.

Erin Foster

My view of life is colored by humor and looking at the best in any situation.

Michael J. Fox

Humor expands our limited picture frame and gets us to see more than just our problem.

Allen Klein

I try to cope with everything through humor.

Gail Porter

A lot of my humor does come from anger. It’s like, you’re not gonna pull one over on me – which is pretty much my motto anyways.

Courteney Cox

I’ll do humor about myself, I’ll poke fun and everything, but that’s me and I can do it to me. I think it’s cruel to do it to somebody else.

Delta Burke

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

H. G. Wells

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

Clive James

I’m lucky that my real-life Mom has both a great sense of humor about herself and an amazing ability to slip into complete denial if the subject matter gets a little too close to home.

Cathy Guisewite

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom because he was too weak to go up and down stairs. He was curled up in some pain, but his mind was still sharp and his humor vibrant.

Walter Isaacson

We are really living the American dream, to be a successful brand in the States and in Europe and to steep ourselves in our heritage. But we do it with a sense of humor. We don’t take ourselves too seriously in fashion.

Tommy Hilfiger

My humor is my creativity, and my skepticism is a gift.

Josh Tillman

The great thing about ‘Weeds’ is that everything we do is never quite serious enough to be taken seriously. It always has humor behind it, and it think it makes it definitely more fun for the audience.

Alexander Gould

When a chick has a sense of humor, there’s nothing more attractive.

Dylan O’Brien

When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it’s just wonderful.

Francois Truff

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I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives.

Rebecca Wells

Expressing my adoration for ‘Chitralaya’ Gopu, the living legend of unadulterated humor, has been in my mind for a while now. What better way to do it than bringing back his hit on stage.

Y. G. Mahendran

Nobody enjoys the ‘little show about nothing’ humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it.

Jerry Seinfeld

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

Mark Twain

It’s amazing how these little guys can say things that a mortal human could never get away with. There’s some sort of unspoken license… when outlandish things come out of an inanimate object, somehow it equals humor.

Jeff Dunham

People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it.

Lorna Luft

If you look at the game and everything, it’s not quite like looking at an animated film, because that’s total character. This, this is really movement, but it’s got funny little things if you look for the humor. They’re actually getting to the character.

Don Bluth

Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It’s the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children’s books.

Berkeley Breathed

Humor is so important to the American scene throughout history.

Bob Newhart

‘War on Everyone,’ I think… the script was hilarious to me, but it’s very dark, dark humor. It’s super dark.

Michael Pena

M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect.

Loretta Swit

I got my sense of humor from my grandmother. You know, my grandmother was very funny.

Paul Mooney

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Alexander Pope

Believe it or not, there’s a lot of humor in ‘Mad Men.’ Especially in the dark moments.

Matthew Weiner

Art Modell was a visionary, a deal-maker and a friend. And he possessed a marvelous sense of humor.

Steve Tisch

I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it.

Jasper Johns

It used to take me forever to read and comprehend stuff, so I decided not to make the ‘Captain Underpants’ books too challenging. Don’t get me wrong – the humor and ideas are often sophisticated – but the books aren’t hard to read. I wanted kids who hate reading to find these books irresistible.

Dav Pilkey

With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.

Patrick Wilson

I was pretty much a child of ‘Monty Python.’ I grew up loving that type of humor and even structured a lot of humor in the same fashion.

Michael Jai White

Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release.

Ray Stevenson

Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it’s more like you wait for the piece.

Ian Frazier

Writing is not for me. I completely lose my sense of humor when I write. I become extremely pathetic, very sensational. Images give me possibilities that I don’t have with words.

Marjane Satrapi

I grew up in a family that was very barbed and difficult, and there was a lot of humor. None of it was painless humor. All of it was at someone else’s expense. It was kind of always about power.

John Wells

I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation.

Brendan Coyle

I have five boys in the family, and it’s constant competition, sport, humor, and practical jokes.

Mitt Romney

You’ve got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity.

Lance Bass

Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know.

Milos Forman

Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.

P. J. O’Rourke

I met Elton John at an Interview dinner, and we just sort of became friends. He’s got such a wicked sense of humor.

Moby

The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that’s how self-loathing is made palatable.

James Gray

Joe Barbera’s s always complaining that he can’t get humor into cartoons anymore. Just do it. You’ve got your money. Why do they let the networks run their lives?

John Kricfalusi

If someone is genuine, compassionate and kind, that is a turn-on. A sense of humor is a huge turn on, and that goes hand in hand with intelligence.

Jennifer Nettles

I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it’s humor, sometimes it’s listening.

Melissa Etheridge

I have great respect for my parents. I got such beautiful things from both of them. It doesn’t mean that we didn’t have our rough times, but they were remarkable people who were open-minded, creative and hard-working, and had great senses of humor.

Patti Smith

Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.

Langston Hughes

Brits have a better sense of humor in most ways. It’s darker, more cutting.

Stephan Pastis

When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?

Max Frisch

I genuinely liked all of the cast members very much. Steve had a wicked sense of humor. I remember Russell coming to my rescue, once. I watched Eric evolve before everyone’s eyes. Maurice loved what he did, so. He treated his character with respect, down to the costuming.

Madeleine Stowe

It’s your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don’t take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver.

Betty White

Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

Robert Collier

Those years on the golf course as a caddie, boy, those people were something. They were vulgar, some were alcoholics, racist, they were very difficult people to deal with. A lot of them didn’t have a sense of humor.

Martin Sheen

I don’t think my sense of humor has changed at all; I was born with this, for better or for worse.

Ivan Reitman

When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits.

Allen Klein

Cathy was the first widely syndicated humor strip created by a woman. The strip was pretty revolutionary at the time not only because it starred a female, but also because it was so emotionally honest about all the conflicting feelings many women had in 1976.

Cathy Guisewite

It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.

Edward de Bono

It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

Umberto Eco

To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person’s humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be.

Thomas Ligotti

Sense of humor. A girl who doesn’t take themselves too seriously. And someone who is spontaneous. They’re the three things for me that really attract me to a girl.

Christopher Egan

Humor is this great equalizer. It gets people’s defenses down, and once they’re down, you can discuss some really difficult topics.

Luvvie Ajayi

My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in the Humor department, and occasionally even in the Literature aisle, which is somewhat astounding.

Carl Hiaasen

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

Sid Caesar

I never write anything without humor, just because I like humor, but at the same time, it is a way for anything fantastical to become relatable.

Joss Whedon

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.

John Zorn

In a girl I look for honesty above all, someone who I can carry on a conversation with, someone who has a good sense of humor, someone who’s true to herself, and to top it, someone who can get ready for a date in less than ten minutes.

Erik von Detten

A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?

Bob Hope

Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory.

Joshua Foer

A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.

John Ratzenberger

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

Peter De Vries

Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder.

Russell Baker

In looking for humor, keep in mind this guideline: Sometimes it takes a little time to see the humor in your upsets; you may not find something to laugh about immediately.

Allen Klein

Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it’s because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly don’t know.

Emmett Kelly

The thing that makes ‘Dirty Jobs’ different is that it’s one of the few shows that portrays work in a way that doesn’t highlight the drudgery. Instead, it highlights the humor.

Mike Rowe

There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, of humor or anything organic, and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely different – I love L.A.!

Naomi Watts

A sense of humor is great – it goes a long, long way in a marriage.

Chris Rock

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

Edward Albee

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

Agnes Repplier

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

Francoise Sagan

I believe God, too, has a sense of humor.

Keith Thurman

I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.

Vera Farmiga

Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else’s expense. And I find that that’s just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else’s feelings.

Ellen DeGeneres

Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn’t fiction at all.

Theodore Sturgeon

I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.

Horatio Nelson

I like a man who can be a real friend, has a good sense of humor, a good pair of shoes and a healthy gold card.

Victoria Beckham

Do feminists have a sense of humor? Yes.

Gloria Allred

But because it was able to balance that kind of humor with a sweet story and characters you really rooted for and also got across the girls’ point of view, I’ve heard nothing but great things from younger and older females as well.

Jason Biggs

I have a good sense of humor. I’m confident, passionate and honest. I’m a people person.

Maryse Mizanin

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

It’s always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it’s just hilarious.

Bill Hicks

Humor’s an excellent way to make a point more palatable and/or relatable.

Jen Lancaster

My mother was Irish; she had this great sense of humor, and both my parents loved films. There was a very vibrant discourse about politics and everything that was going on in the world where I grew up. So I was genetically predisposed to go into the performing arts.

Martin Donovan

I think the main thing about comedy and humor is that it’s impossible and always was impossible to define.

Mike Nichols

I’m interested in humor, and greeting cards just happen to be a perfect medium for my message. They’re accessible to everyone, and thanks to all the advances that have been made by environmentally conscientious printers, I can get my message across while keeping my carbon footprint relatively small.

Anne Taintor

I think Damien Hirst is hilarious. And I think he’s a true artist. He’s not hilarious first; I think he is a real artist, and I also think he’s got an amazing sense of humor.

Jemima Kirke

In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee – or laugh.

Robert Orben

Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.

Al Franken

All I know about humor is that I don’t know anything about it.

Fred Allen

I try to give all my characters a sense of humor, so I guess I feel like I have done comedy, but maybe I’m better known for drama.

Kathy Baker

It’s always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.

Edward de Bono

Humor is an antidote to all ills.

Patch Adams

Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor.

Terrence Howard

I think everyone is born with humor, but your life can beat it out of you, sadly, or you can be lucky enough to grow up in it.

Catherine O’Hara

A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.

Chevy Chase

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

James Thurber

I think I’ve learned that if you want to be successful, you have to tell your story honestly and from your heart – and I think a healthy sense of humor doesn’t hurt either.

Dorothea Benton Frank

I think it’s part of the responsibility of an artist to shock, to upset, to make people think differently, and to surprise people. And that’s where the good humor is, if there’s a surprise and there’s something unexpected. Something that’s not normal, not in the realm of general living expectations.

Bill Plympton

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren’t in a very good mood.

Lou Holtz

In building a management team, I look for integrity, loyalty, vision, and a willingness to think outside of the box, and challenge the status quo. I also look for people who have a good sense of humor and who value and empower their team.

Shari Redstone

You can’t be funny if you don’t have good material.

Matt LeBlanc

Basically, I think you need two things to get by in this world: a sense of humor and the ability to laugh when your ego is destroyed.

Arlo Guthrie

Now, Richard Pryor was unique. Many misunderstood his humor. He lit up the hallway, but they didn’t understand his use of profanity. He didn’t use it just to be using it; he used it in the context of his satire.

Bill Cosby

Set your compass to beauty, humor, and grief; stay the course no matter what, and I’ll support you with everything I’ve got.

Chris Jordan

Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.

Allen Klein

Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.

Tcheky Karyo

While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.

Randy Forbes

On April 3, 2014, Jane Goodall turned 80. The iconic blond ponytail has gone gray, but the sparkle of intelligence, sly humor, and fierce dedication still shines from her hazel eyes.

David Quammen

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Virginia Woolf

One of the great things about the Internet is that you can read what everybody has to say about everything. It is fascinating to me, the critiques about humor by people who have no sense of humor.

Matt Groening

And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.

Paul McCartney

I find intelligence sexy. I find a sense of humor sexy. I find sensitivity sexy.

Nicole Appleton

I seem to have a one-track mind. When I was having babies, I did nothing else. When I do pictures, I go all out. I really think it is easier to manage my seven. You can’t afford to humor each one of them. They have to learn to do things when they are told.

Maureen O’Sullivan

Good planning is important. I’ve also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you’re in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you’re depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.

Edmund Hillary

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

Edward de Bono

The Good Humor man can only be pushed so far.

Nancy Cartwright

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