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I'm happy to say that at 62, I think I've reached that point where stuff doesn't bother me as much, and my gratitude level has gone way up, especially having gone through the loss that I've had, and losing so many of the great artists that I was close to. They taught me how to see it with a grain of salt and a lot of humor and perspective.
— Bonnie Raitt
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 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
Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.
— Adam Mansbach
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
I realized women and humor were linked very closely.
— Craig Ferguson
It's hard to force creativity and humor.
— Al Yankovic
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
Texas humor and Southern humor are pretty similar.
— Daniel Woodrell
People are wired for lots of things. We're wired for novelty. We're wired for humor. We're wired for new pieces of information that surprise us in some way or add value to our lives. We're wired for fear.
— Ramez Naam
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
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
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
Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, Stephen Colbert. Those are the guys I look at who are telling me pretty much the truth. And they throw humor into it which makes it much more interesting to listen to.
— Grace Slick
Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.
— Lynda Barry
I've always thought my strengths were I'm smart, and I have a good sense of humor. I definitely struggle with feeling confident.
— Lauren Graham
I'm a humor writer, so I don't always present myself in the best light.
— Jen Lancaster
Humor's an excellent way to make a point more palatable and/or relatable.
— Jen Lancaster
'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.
— Victor LaValle
I quite like dark humor.
— Marina and the Diamonds
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
I don't feel that I'm strictly Danish I don't feel that my sense of humor is strictly Danish or my human sensibility is strictly Danish. 
— Susanne Bier
For me, humor is everything!
— Judy Gold
Mother humor is such a universal theme. I wrote a show called '25 Questions for a Jewish Mother.' I had people coming up to me after the show saying, 'I'm Baptist, and my mother is just like yours.'
— Judy Gold
I love the vulgar. I kind of have the humor of a 17-year-old boy.
— Judy Gold
If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry out of your race.
— Laura Schlessinger
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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
My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
— Manuel Puig
I don't think humor is forced upon my universe it's a part of it. 
— Manuel Puig
I got my sense of humor from my grandmother. You know, my grandmother was very funny.
— Paul Mooney
From an early age onward, it was said that 'Ingmar has no sense of humor.'
— Ingmar Bergman
Most of the people in my family were pretty funny. Everyone had a good sense of humor. I came to California right after college, wanting to be a musician.
— Andy Kindler
I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.
— Alexander Payne
I don't really have a type. I don't want to be a cliche. But personality is a big thing for me. You can find cute guys all over. But he's got to have some sort of sense of humor, which is so hard to find in a guy. He's got to be a bit smart.
— Zara Larsson
Religious humor is not really my area, so I probably wouldn't do anything about that, or politics or something.
— Chris Lilley
I think God has a tremendous sense of humor.
— Rainn Wilson
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
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
Certainly my personality, my sense of humor, my outlook on life was informed by the experiences of my parents and the stories they shared with me.
— Geddy Lee
Without a sense of humor, I would have been gone a long time ago.
— Patty Duke
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
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
I tend to deal with most issues with humor... always have and always will.
— Gordon Gee
The biggest void that people can have in their lives is a sense of humor. Spending your life with someone who doesn't have that wouldn't be palatable.
— Howie Mandel
I think the thrust of any child is to try to fit in and be part of it. And I can't tell you how many times my humor, you know, what I thought was humor ended up making me the outsider. Like I'd be, I go, 'It's a joke.' And they'd go, 'Well, what was funny?' And they just thought I was insane.
— Howie Mandel
Part of my humor is the fact that I love coming out of left field. I don't want people to expect what is going to happen next.
— Howie Mandel
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
— George Herbert
I like doing comedy, I like doing drama. Naturally I like to do, I like doing dramas, I like conflict, and when I do a comedy, you know, I've found that, like, romantic comedy is the trickiest one, because often it's neither: it's not romantic and it's not funny. So, like, I like a comedy that's biting. It's biting humor or really quirky humor.
— Matt Dillon
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
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
I wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed, and I wasn't the biggest, so I got real good at running my mouth and making people laugh and using humor as a way to not get into fights.
— Rob Riggle
Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.
— Robert Morgan
You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.
— Steve Irwin
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
If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.
— Alan King
And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody? You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.
— Alan King
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
What we're doing is fun - if you have any sense of humor at all!
— Calvin Klein
I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others.
— Dean Koontz
I need a man with a good sense of humor and a kind heart.
— Joanna Krupa
I like Strahan a lot. I've known him for years. He was a Giant here - in many ways. Had a big following with the New York Giants. He's very funny. He's got a great sense of humor.
— Regis Philbin
I'm a pretty tenacious person; I get that from my mom. So sometimes, I use dark humor. I can't take myself too seriously.
— Art Alexakis
Life is just so much fun and so filled with humor.
— Foster Friess
I would say just start writing. You've got to write every day. Copy someone that you like if you think that perhaps could become your sound, too. I did that with Hemingway, and I thought I was writing just like Hemingway. Then all of a sudden it occurred to me - he didn't have a sense of humor. I don't know anything he's written that's funny.
— Elmore Leonard
Humor reminds you, when you're flattened by sorrow, that you're still human.
— Elizabeth McCracken
You write the way you think about the world. My motto in times of trouble - and I'm speaking of life, not writing - is 'no humor too black.'
— Elizabeth McCracken
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
Short fiction is like low relief. And if your story has no humor in it, then you're trying to look at something in the pitch dark. With the light of humor, it throws what you're writing into relief so that you can actually see it.
— Elizabeth McCracken
There are two MFA programs here at the University of Texas, and I read on the jury of both of them. And it's amazing to me how many really talented young writers seem to fear humor.
— Elizabeth McCracken
A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor.
— Maynard James Keenan
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
The comics that are just conversing with you up there and drawing on their own life, yeah, I guess so. I guess some do political humor, some do topical humor, but the ones that I like, the ones that are appealing to me, were guys who were just talking to you about their life.
— Ray Romano
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
Quite often, intent on conveying how things can go wrong for a culture (science fiction) or an individual (horror) or all of magical creation (fantasy), works of fantastika often preclude comedy, because humor gets in the way of messages of doom or struggle.
— Paul Di Filippo
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
My own life is wonderful, but if I had to live the life of someone else, I'd gladly choose that of Julia Child or Dr. Seuss: two outrageously original people, each of whom fashioned an idiosyncratic wisdom, passion for life, and sense of humor into an art form that anyone and everyone could savor.
— Julia Glass
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 it's hilarious at 40 years old to bring out my roller skates from 'Starlight Express.' I find the humor and even the sadness in it hilarious and something to celebrate.
— Jane Krakowski
With Ricky Gervais, it's all shades of wrong, it's my kind of humor.
— Emily Blunt
It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.
— T. C. Boyle
If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor.
— Kate Beckinsale
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
I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage.
— Kyle Chandler
Sometimes a scene may be about one thing, and it may end up still being about that, but the emotionality of it comes from somewhere else, or the humor of it comes from somewhere else, and it gives it that real-life quality.
— Kyle Chandler
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 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
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
Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh.
— Tom Lehrer
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
Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.
— Carl Hiaasen
Daddy was hilarious. He could take the most mundane event and tell it so that we all on the floor laughing. He trained me in the joys of humor.
— Karen DeCrow
I like dark humor. My favorite movie of all time is 'Harold and Maude.'
— Leslie Mann
Humor is the only way to tell a story. Especially the dark ones.
— Lisa Lutz
I've always adored the filmmaker Sam Fuller. The first time I watched 'Shock Corridor' was such a magnificent discovery. I love his lack of subtlety, the way he tackles serious topics with bold and inappropriate humor.
— Lisa Lutz
Every time I've done comedy in, like, traditional comedy clubs, there's always these comedians that do really well with audiences but that the other comedians hate because they're just, you know, doing kind of cheap stuff like dancing around or doing, like, very kind of base sex humor a lot, and stuff like that.
— Aziz Ansari
Over the years, I've learned that a sense of humor is the only skill that allows you to turn sucking at life into a career.
— Zach Anner
My childhood was great because my family has an amazing sense of humor, and it was just all making videos and jokes and doing skits and things.
— Zach Anner
My parents and my brother instilled in me my sense of humor. That's kind of the way we communicate with each other, and it's always been a way for me to get to know people.
— Zach Anner
Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.
— Zach Anner
Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
— Zach Anner
Even when something sad or tragic happens, I find a way to look at it in a positive light. People who don't have a sense of humor must be so sad all the time.
— Zach Anner
It's amazing how many companies aren't really in tune to the needs of different travelers. There's just so many embarrassing situations that you go through when you travel. You have to have a sense of humor about it and take it in stride. My whole approach is to embrace spontaneity.
— Zach Anner
People who know me know I have a sense of humor that can really push the envelope.
— Carmen Electra
I was always silly in high school. I used to always get in trouble because I was laughing. I've always thought I was funny but never thought I could use it to make money. In 1996, I decided I was going to use my humor to get on TV to make money.
— Retta
My humor is a lot like Kristen Wiig's from 'Saturday Night Live' or 'Bridesmaids.' Quirky, off the beaten path.
— Nicole Ari Parker
Every black film feels like it's Tyler Perry, and that just needs to stop. But people seem to slowly be looking for what else is out there - 'Is there something else besides this type of humor?' 'I'm tired of seeing men in dresses.'
— Issa Rae
Puns are a form of humor with words.
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I don't know if my sense of humor goes over Americans' heads.
— Ryan Kwanten
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've always been a fan of a Johnny Carson because he was so great with an audience and not afraid of self-deprecating humor.
— Vince Vaughn
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
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 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
If you're playing a good guy, you show some darkness. If you're playing a dark guy, you show something different, like humor, that will mix it up and hopefully surpass the audience's expectations. What I'm battling all the time is complacency in the audience. I try to bring a little mystery to what might happen because that engages people more.
— Campbell Scott
Well, darkness with humor... I'm not an extremely suicidal or sad person.
— Peter Steele
As far as humor goes, I've always been a very insecure person and I've always wanted to be liked.
— Peter Steele
The woman who runs the Pennsylvania Innocence Project told me that there's a man she's been trying to get out of prison for 26 years. Every night before she goes to bed, she thinks, 'What is he doing?' She says you don't sleep. And yet, she has the greatest sense of humor and this light that comes out of her.
— Richard LaGravenese
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
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
You've got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity.
— Lance Bass
I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.
— John Zorn
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
The rejection that we all take and the sadness and the aggravation and the loss of jobs and all of the things that we live through in our lives, without a sense of humor, I don't know how people make it.
— Marlo Thomas
I'm a comedian, and I have my share of anxiety and depression; so do most of my friends. My humor tends to lie in the juxtaposition of extreme lightness - I'm a huge musical-theater fan - and extreme darkness. And so I really like playing with those because that's how I feel.
— Rachel Bloom
I'm not sure. But that bless-his/her-heart kind of melancholic humor is among my favorite things in the world. I guess it exposes a kind of humanity - or that's the hope, at least - a kind of grudging respect for human frailty. Unless it's actually kicking human frailty while it's down - I'm not sure.
— David Rakoff
I'm looking at some comedic horror films because I have often been accused of being too dark. I'm not dark, not compared with 'Saw' or anything like that. So I'm looking at live-action horror films, but not slasher ones - ones that have humor and maybe some social satire.
— Henry Selick
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
I've worked a lot in comedy. As much as I love playing dramatic roles, it's always nice to be able to have some humor around when working.
— Tom Ellis
Lucifer has a sense of fun about life he just likes to play with people. But the sense of humor of the show is what makes the show entertaining as opposed to dark. 
— Tom Ellis
There's some sort of unspoken license... when outlandish things come out of an inanimate object, somehow it equals humor.
— Jeff Dunham
It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.
— Freeman Dyson
Reilly Brown is a master of balancing action, humor, and extreme violence, and his character designs for some of the alien races and technology that we encounter is just amazing.
— Cullen Bunn
I can't be as open on national television as I can when I'm having dinner with friends. But that doesn't mean the type of person I am is different. My values, my dislikes, my sense of humor are the same.
— Matt Lauer
Be fun! I don't like homes or rooms that don't have a sense of humor or have some sense of whimsy or a personality. Your home should reflect who you are, and what you love. I would never have something in my home because it's the thing to have. I have to love it and it needs some connection to me.
— Bryan Batt
My parents and my sister died... very close together, and after that, I lost quite a bit of my sense of humor. Most of it I think has kind of come back, but I know there was a time when I didn't think things were funny anymore. I kind of think they're funny again.
— Thomas McGuane
God has a most wicked sense of humor.
— Maureen O'Hara
Bathroom humor, fart, and poo poo humor in movies gets a laugh. It's a pretty easy audience, and that's been around for ages.
— Selma Blair
I learned early in my career to not let myself get in the way of humor but, instead, find what is great in a talented person.
— Tamra Davis
I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
— Tamra Davis
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
Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The way humor's usually used in horror, it's as a pressure-release valve; without it, the drama would escalate out of all control almost immediately.
— Stephen Graham Jones
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
— E. B. White
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
You can't be funny if you don't have good material.
— Matt LeBlanc
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
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
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
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
It felt as if things were literally slipping through my fingers. Things were just streaming away from me. I lost my sense of humor. I'm still looking for that.
— Michelle Williams
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 try to cope with everything through humor.
— Gail Porter
I came into the 'Comedy Bang! Bang!' TV show with a level of confidence that I don't think I would've had if I hadn't been doing the podcast for three years already. I certainly had to figure out in those three years the sense of humor I wanted to do and the way to talk to celebrities without being incredibly intimidated by them.
— Scott Aukerman
If I can't see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny?
— Casey Affleck
The guys in my band are great-we watch movies, we eat pizza, take walks, read books. Everybody has a really great sense of humor. And my boyfriend comes and visits me on the road.
— Lisa Loeb
Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.
— Carter Burwell
If somebody is not on the same page with me humor wise, I can't give them that.
— Stephan Pastis
Brits have a better sense of humor in most ways. It's darker, more cutting.
— Stephan Pastis
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
Thomas, my 15-year-old, is effectively my editor, I've always trusted his voice, more than anybody, on the strip for years. He has one of those ears that's just tuned to the rhythm of humor, so if he says something's not funny, my stomach just hurts because I know he's right, and it's already been drawn.
— Stephan Pastis
I think there's always room for humor, especially when you're talking about really serious issues.
— Jay Asher
I thought I was going to be known for my humor. But then I had an idea for a story, which was absolutely not humorous. But, of course, that's the one that sells and becomes big.
— Jay Asher
It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.
— Edward de Bono
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 think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow.
— Ian MacKaye
Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.
— Allen Klein
When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way - you suddenly have a new perspective on them.
— Allen Klein
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
Whether planned or not, humor takes our mind off of our troubles.
— Allen Klein
Any attempts at humor immediately after September 11th were deemed tasteless.
— Allen Klein
Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial.
— Allen Klein
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
When we can find some humor in our upsets, they no longer seem as large or as important as they once did.
— Allen Klein
Humor expands our limited picture frame and gets us to see more than just our problem.
— Allen Klein
Humor can inform and break down stigma, which is a huge issue in the military.
— Garry Trudeau
I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it.
— Jasper Johns
The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
— Oliver Goldsmith
People with no humor, they're outta my life.
— Patti LaBelle
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
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 think all good drama is funny. All the best drama is ultimately very funny. Life is funny. You can't have any honest treatise on life without bumping into some humor.
— Thomas Jane
Because I was a television writer for many years, I write very conversationally. I put things straight, and with a lot of humor.
— Tracy McMillan
Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth.
— Barry Eisler
There is humor in the darkest of moments - People who I have loved and passed away, and very high stake situations where you can't help but laugh. I think that's very human.
— Rose McIver
Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.
— Mallory Ortberg
One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots.
— Mallory Ortberg
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 starts like a wildfire, but then continues on, smoldering, smoldering for years.
— Robert Orben
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
President Ford used humor a great deal.
— Robert Orben
I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair.
— John Perry Barlow
My dad was a very funny man - he's the one who taught me life would be awfully hard without humor! I'm sure his Irish wit in some way influenced my decision to become an actress.
— Joan Cusack
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
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
I don't really like using ridicule as a form of humor.
— Alison Jackson
A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.
— Doug Larson
There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.
— Robert Benchley
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
I will say that as I get older and calmer and quieter in my own self, the one quality in a woman that I find more and more attractive is kindness. A sense of adventure and humor is important too, but I truly find kindness and consideration for others to be the most attractive thing in anyone.
— Colin Farrell
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
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 think the Canadian sense of humor is dryer than America's and juicier than Britain's. I think it's a cross between the two of them, really.
— Scott Thompson
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
There's a lot of movies, and I've made some of them that could be categorized this way, but there's definitely been a trend in animated features of all types to be a little bit cynical, if you will, to have a little bit of 'knowing' humor to them, kind of a wink to the audience.
— Kelly Asbury
I talk about race and culture, and that's what my fans respond to. If you grew up in an environment where race and culture were never an issue for you, or where you don't see the humor in our so-called differences, then you might not respond to what I'm doing.
— Russell Peters
Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don't get it.
— Lara Flynn Boyle
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
— J. B. Priestley
Even celebrities, most people have a sense of humor. Most of the people we meet who we've done on the show, like it.
— Matt Stone
I love the idea of things being strict and things being uniform. That's the reason why I surround each collection with humor or irony. I want to make sure that it's not too serious and that there is some element that throws it off because otherwise that would make it really boring. There's always a story that's somewhat fantastical.
— Thom Browne
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
What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.
— Bernard Williams
Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.
— Ian Frazier
People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.
— Ian Frazier
I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.
— Ian Frazier
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
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
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
My fans have great senses of humor and eat too much chocolate.
— Christopher Moore
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
I think in life, the sense of humor and comedy always exists.
— Mike Epps
Sometimes Americans don't quite get my sense of humor. My good ol' British sarcasm seems to go over their heads.
— Lee Westwood
I appreciate humor so much, but I'm actually not a funny girl.
— Emmanuelle Chriqui
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
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
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
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
— Robertson Davies
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
The whole ability to look at the complexity of race and any sort of associated -ism and still find humor, that's a very interesting space.
— Rashid Johnson
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
I lean toward anything with a dark sense of humor. And since I've been out of school, the majority of my books have been contemporary; basically, I like my characters to have electricity - even better, a TV.
— Andrea Seigel
The more women sit down and write something in a woman's voice for a woman, they more you'll see women in comedy because gender doesn't define sense of humor. Imagination and intelligence and perspective do.
— Kristen Schaal
Rather than writing about my experiences with other people, 'Ugly Cherries' is the first song I've ever written about myself. It's a confrontation: an attempt to unpack my own queerness with humor and self care.
— Ben Hopkins
You are not just a funny person or just a journalist. Most people are hybrids of having a smart opinion and a great sense of humor.
— Katie Nolan
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
Food is sort of like the Jewish sense of humor, a defense mechanism. It is one of the things that helped the Jews survive through 2,000 years of an often very harsh Diaspora.
— Gil Marks
Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time.
— Suzanne Fields
I'm not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.
— Ben Stiller
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
I think probably the qualities that I look for in a man are somewhat different than they were before I became a public person, but not that much different. I think that, sort of, the element of trust is certainly much bigger for me, but the other things that - the other qualities, intelligence and kindness and sense of humor, those things.
— Monica Lewinsky
Along with a sense of humor, my songs have to be sincere, and they have to be sung from a position of inner conviction.
— Arlo Guthrie
Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor.
— Terrence Howard
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
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
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
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
Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.
— Lorrie Moore
There's a hysterical, tired sense of humor that comes after working 14 hours a day, six days a week. I like those things because they take the pressure off the constant stress.
— Tom Berenger
Both of my kids have my sense of humor - they're definitely entertaining.
— Jodie Sweetin
Someone asked me what the key to being a good frontman was, and I think having a sense of humor about it is pretty near the top of that list. It's a very strange place to be in, and I don't take that role too seriously.
— Alex Turner
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
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
If you don't infuse humor into a subject matter, no matter how dark, the audience can't accept the message of a film. It closes them down. Humor can open them up.
— Theodore Melfi
Confidence and a good sense of humor can usually win a chick over.
— Danny McBride
If it gets laughs, it's funny.
— Rachel Dratch
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
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
Bands from Akron have a sense of humor and don't tend to take themselves too seriously.
— Dan Auerbach
I'm not for gratuitous nudity, but if there's humor, I don't have a problem.
— Rebecca Romijn
I have a dark sense of humor.
— Olivia Munn
However, frat-boy humor is funny and it always will be.
— Craig Kilborn
People always ask me how I manage to find humor in so much bleakness. I think this is almost a necessary skill to have.
— Petina Gappah
I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.
— Patricia Clarkson
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
A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.
— John Ratzenberger
Sure, the comedians who swear or use scatological humor can get laughs, but they're uncomfortable laughs.
— John Ratzenberger
Do feminists have a sense of humor? Yes.
— Gloria Allred
There's such an odd, eclectic group of people that make up the town of Plymouth, New Hampshire. I don't think I could avoid not coming out of there with a pretty good sense of humor.
— Eliza Coupe
I never particularly thought of myself as great with girls. I can be awkward, and I have a strange sense of humor at times. But I've also been learning to try and embrace that.
— Matt McGorry
My dad has a dry, deadpan sense of humor, and my mom has an unexpected, wacky take on things. They really encouraged laughing at ourselves and the weirdness of situations that come up growing up in politics.
— Kristin Gore
Both of my parents have great senses of humor.
— Kristin Gore
I like good humor.
— John McLaughlin
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
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
Humor that is edgy is never squeaky clean.
— Jeff Ross
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 always felt different as a kid, and the Kinks were like, 'Yeah, we're the Kinks.' Celebrate your difference; don't be afraid of your sense of humor, or your personality, or who you are. It emboldened me.
— Michael Weatherly
I liked the humor of it, I've always enjoyed a sense of humor in God and in religion and in spirituality.
— Amber Tamblyn
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
The polls indicated that I was feisty, that I was tough, that I had a sense of humor, but they weren't quite sure if they liked me and they didn't know whether or not that I was sensitive.
— Geraldine Ferraro
I try to bring it across on my record, in my dress, in what I do and what I say because to me humor is important. You should have a dose of that and I guess giving it is what I'm here for.
— Bootsy Collins
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
With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.
— Calvin Trillin
There's always a source for humor.
— Calvin Trillin
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
Evangelicals always assume that humor and faith are contradictory. It's OK to smile, to be nice, but not frivolous.
— Mike Yaconelli
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'm not too modest of a person. I've got a pretty blue sense of humor.
— Michelle Monaghan
I have a very dark sense of humor.
— Andy Dick
We're starting to push the envelope in terms of the expectations, and you can also have your own style, personality and sense of humor, because now we're allowed to.
— Lisa Guerrero