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When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.
— Ted Danson
There is nothing like the way people feel after they've seen 'The Intouchables.' They feel amazing. The word of mouth on this film is incredible. It's intelligent-feeling good. You're not insulted by the low-browness or stupidity of some of the humor. It's so smart and terrific.
— Harvey Weinstein
Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.
— Eminem
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
A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?
— Bob Hope
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
— Edward Albee
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
— Peter De Vries
Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks they are the summits of ranges. 
— Thomas W. Higginson
Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.
— Washington Irving
If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.
— Jennifer Jones
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
— Clifton Fadiman
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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
Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
— Carl Hiaasen
Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.
— Frank Muir
In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.
— Alanis Morissette
Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.
— Allen Klein
Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.
— Allen Klein
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
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
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
Everybody's got a different sense of humor. It's just different styles.
— Colin Quinn
I think Canadian humor is a little less broad than American humor.
— Scott Thompson
I don't need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It's very much about style and substance and humor, interest, curiosity and really being smart.
— Kate Walsh
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
The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks. If my daughter has a mediocre sense of humor, I'm just gonna tell her, 'Be a staff writer for a sitcom. Because they'll have to hire you, they can't really fire you, and you don't have to produce that much. It'll be awesome.'
— Adam Carolla
I was a product of a divorced family and I used humor as a weapon to combat sadness. I used comedy to make my mother laugh in light of the darkness that she faced, and to me it became a very powerful tool at a very young age, at six. I saw how therapeutic it could be.
— Josh Gad
Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness.
— Maira Kalman
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
I think it's important to find humor anywhere you can. In real life, with the darkest, scariest, most intense moments, if you can find something funny, that's good.
— Katie Lowes
My humor is channeling everything through my brain. For example, when I talk about something, it's how Richard Lewis feels about it. I'm a storyteller. I do a lot of free association.
— Richard Lewis
I like art with a sense of humor. I don't have a huge art education to understand everything. I don't think that means that art has to be watered down to the lowest common denominator, though. I don't think you have to go to college to be able appreciate great art, but I like art that doesn't take itself too seriously.
— Kathleen Hanna
I used to be neurotic. I didn't like myself very much. But somewhere in my mid-40s, my neuroses stopped seeming so important. I developed a sense of humor.
— Joanne Woodward
If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.
— Al Franken
Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.
— Edward de Bono
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
There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people. I'm talking about a writer's critics, who don't address what you've written, but want to probe into your existence and magnify the trivia of your life without any sense of humor, without any sense of context.
— Wole Soyinka
Racial humor was about 35% of my act when I first started. But I realized that it was a crutch. What brought it home was when another comedian said to me, 'If you changed color tomorrow, you wouldn't have any material.' He meant it as a put-down, but I took it as a challenge.
— Bill Cosby
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'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
I have a really dry sense of humor. I don't think it's funny when people wink at the camera. That's more of an actor thing, just committing to whatever the thing is.
— Topher Grace
Reading 'Youth in Revolt' might have ruined my career because suddenly I wanted to abandon all the emotional truth of something and just go out far on a literary limb with completely implausible things that relied completely on voice and humor. And what saved me is realizing that I couldn't do that very well.
— Rob Thomas
The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.
— James Gray
I do find things funny. When you see life through the eyes of someone with a good sense of humor, which my grandmother did, life is a human comedy.
— George Takei
If you are a small company taking on a big company, you need to have a sense of humor.
— Richard Branson
I come from a family of teasers myself. My grandfather was from Liverpool, and he had a dry sense of humor, and he would tease us terribly. My brother Beau was so skilled in his teasing that he could get a rise out of me by simply pointing at me.
— Jeff Bridges
Justice Scalia was a lion of the law. Agree or disagree with him, all of his colleagues on the bench shared his wisdom and his humor. And like them, I miss him.
— Neil Gorsuch
My mother was very funny. My dad had a great sense of humor. My grandmother, too.
— Carol Burnett
My humor is my creativity, and my skepticism is a gift.
— J. Tillman
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 Truffaut
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
As fandom grew more variegated, genzines reflected a broadening of interests, carrying personal columns of humor and reflection, science articles, amateur fiction, stylish gossip, and inevitably, thoughtful pieces on the future of fandom.
— Gregory Benford
I've learned to start from a really sound argument, boil down the essence of what you're trying to say, then build your humor around that, rather than starting with, 'This sounds funny,' and going from there.
— Hasan Minhaj
I love people who have a good sense of humor, tell a good story, tell a good joke.
— Jason Statham
Poop humor is fun. If you do the toilet scenes well and commit to them, they can be really, really powerful.
— Sandra Bullock
I grew up on EC comic books and 'Tales From the Crypt,' which were all loaded with humor, bad jokes, and puns. I can have that kind of fun and make these comic book movies but, at the same time, talk about things I want to talk about - whether it's consumerism or the Bush administration or war.
— George A. Romero
Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.
— Anne Lamott
Humor works, and it's the best way to get attention without spending a lot of money.
— Jerry Della Femina
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
Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.
— J. G. Ballard
Every time I do a movie like 'Finding Neverland' or 'Chocolat' or 'Shakespeare' in Love,' we deal with the creative process, but there's humor and fun along the way. I always love that kind of movie.
— Harvey Weinstein
We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator... Some would say certain of these refer to the stereotypical, or 'stage' Jew. But objectively speaking, the only crime in humor is an unfunny joke.
— Alan King
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
I consider myself to have a decent sense of humor. What's life without a sense of humor?
— Mayer Hawthorne
Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so much the better.
— Garry Trudeau
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
Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.
— Sergio Aragones
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
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 think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.
— P. J. O'Rourke
I love practical jokes and humor. That there's frankly no joke that I don't think is funny. I love practical jokes, but I don't like being scared.
— Mitt Romney
I have five boys in the family, and it's constant competition, sport, humor, and practical jokes.
— Mitt Romney
I think I have always had a little humor.
— Marilyn Monroe
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
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
In a way, a lot of my humor comes from presenting things that are dramatic or shocking and then people not having socially appropriate responses, having people denying the drama by failing to react to it, and that's a really classic form of humor.
— Chuck Palahniuk
I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool, but if that's all you've got, it's just boring. Everything I write, whether it's happy or sad, has a sense of humor to it.
— Katy Perry
Sad music, I always thought, is more beautiful than other music. But at the same time, I am in my personal life a very happy guy. I have a sense of humor. I am not the kind of depressed guy all the time brooding. No. I am very enthusiastic about things.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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
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
Humor is my default mode.
— John Updike
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
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
People often think that you have a sense of humor because you think that life is funny. Life isn't funny at all. It's appalling and tragic.
— Howard Jacobson
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
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
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
There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.
— Bill Cosby
Sometimes I find I'm wearing a divided, split brain in terms of drama and humor.
— Ridley Scott
My sense of humor is a turkey, and I pull it out of the oven and baste it in reality.
— Tracy Morgan
I want to show the world my humor.
— Tracy Morgan
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 met Elton John at an Interview dinner, and we just sort of became friends. He's got such a wicked sense of humor.
— Moby
Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.
— Don Rickles
Half the battle is that people have to like you before you say one joke, one bit of humor.
— Don Rickles
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
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
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
Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.
— Al Franken
There is - I mean - I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.
— Al Franken
There's plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it's a serious business.
— Al Franken
You're not going to see my sense of humor on the football field. That's not a place for me to joke around.
— Tom Brady
I'm a huge Muppets fan. Gigantic. I think they're genius. I think they're some of the best work out there and completely underrated, just because of how genius they are. I love that kind of humor. It's so innocent but brilliant.
— Andie MacDowell
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
Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
— Ambrose Bierce
Sites like Funny or Die and College Humor are great, but I'd say it's appealing to 80% men and 20% women.
— Zooey Deschanel
Humor is a part of spirituality.
— Zooey Deschanel
I'm very confident that Nick Hornby always gets it right as a writer. He has the vernacular and passion. He is adroit and dry, and balances humor with the humanity of life.
— Pierce Brosnan
I defuse everything I can with it. Humor is such a great shield.
— Brad Paisley
Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
— Thomas Carlyle
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
One seldom expects the country's president to adequately note the passing of a rocker, but Jimmy Carter's assessment of Elvis Presley's appeal - 'energy, rebelliousness and good humor' - is remarkably close to the mark.
— Molly Ivins
OK, in all seriousness, I would say I couldn't be in a relationship without equality, generosity, integrity, spirit, kindness and humor. And awesomeness.
— Jennifer Aniston
You know, Freud accepted his lot very stoically and very well and with a sense of humor. He aged and died gracefully, and there's a lot to be said for that.
— Viggo Mortensen
My dad was very much a John Wayne kind of guy, but he was also a great guy, great sense of humor, a real dedicated dad. I don't think he ever missed a hockey game I was in.
— Denis Leary
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
Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll likely not see another like him.
— Dick Van Dyke
I don't think that because you die and move on to somewhere else that you lose your sense of humor.
— Peter Jackson
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
Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
— George Eliot
A lot of people can find something to laugh at in my humor, I guess.
— Ron White
The wealthy don't have any sense of humor. It's not like the English, where the theater is perhaps the one place where they have a sense of humor about themselves.
— Alec Baldwin
I love puns. I've been known to turn the car around just to take advantage of a good pun situation. It really is the highest form of humor.
— Karin Slaughter
I think a sense of humor will help get a girl out of a dark place.
— Twyla Tharp
The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
For me, I really love 'Tim and Eric' and 'Dr. Steve Brule' and a lot of the Adult Swim shows, so I like strange, weird, sometimes slightly upsetting humor.
— Gillian Jacobs
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
My sense of humor lies a little closer to the middle.
— Jason Bateman
My family is pretty funny. My mother is British, so she's got a very dry sense of humor. That's where I got that from.
— Jason Bateman
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'm still trying to figure out how to write about cancer and my family's experience with it. If I had been able to write 'The Pura Principle' back in those days, I'm positive it would have had no humor in it. Which means the story would have been false.
— Junot Diaz
Since the very beginning, Emeril's had a sense of humor about me calling him names and poking fun at him.
— Anthony Bourdain
Sometimes I used to think to myself, 'Have I lost a sense of humor?' but I don't think that I have. I think one can be as snarky and sarcastic as lots of people, but I have never found that it makes me particularly happy.
— Kenneth Branagh
I have a very dark sense of humor. I swear. I have a very playful relationship with Jesus.
— Anne Lamott
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
— Alexander Pope
Going to AA helped me to see that there were other people who had problems that had found a way to talk about them and find relief and humor through that.
— Carrie Fisher
I don't understand how somebody wouldn't have a sense of humor about themselves.
— John Malkovich
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
The comic is the perception of the opposite humor is the feeling of it. 
— Umberto Eco
There are certain things I learned when I first started learning about acting, to try and place the character physically and emotionally. And the way you place them emotionally is often with humor.
— David Duchovny
I've met a lot of people who've lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor.
— Louis C. K.
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
'Guardians of the Galaxy' is tongue-in-cheek and has a sense of humor about itself. But it's nothing like 'Deadpool.' 'Deadpool' is this super-bizarre thing. The best thing about it is that it's R-rated.
— T. J. Miller
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
Humor's a weapon if you want to make it one.
— Bob Newhart
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
I think there's a little confusion between humor and 'gross' passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable, because they aren't the same thing.
— Bob Newhart
The schizophrenic has no sense of humor. His world is a constantly daunting, unfriendly place.
— Bob Newhart
Humor is so important to the American scene throughout history.
— Bob Newhart
What you see on stage is pretty much the way I am... a dry sense of humor.
— Bob Newhart
I think there's something about the Irish experience - that we had to have a sense of humor or die.
— Frank McCourt
That's what kept us going - a sense of absurdity, rather than humor.
— Frank McCourt
For some reason, I had a responsibility to my family and the people who lived around me. I felt that I had to convey their dignity - the way they dealt with adversity and poverty - and their good humor.
— Frank McCourt
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
— Virginia Woolf
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
I have the humor of a 9-year-old boy, and sometimes I've had laughing fits on-air.
— Megyn Kelly
My wife, my daughters, even my grandchildren are funny. You've got to keep a sense of humor because anger destroys you.
— Michael Caine
I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.
— Rod Stewart
Jeffrey Zeldman had an astonishing ability to craft a seductive coolness using educated references, dry humor, and retro/organic imagery.
— Matt Mullenweg
I'm able to see humor in a lot of things.
— Juliana Hatfield
If you don't have humor, you're not going to make it. You're going to be one of those people who walks around with your head about to explode.
— James McBride
I can't not put humor in a book.
— Albert Brooks
My humor is traced with dark - I've got dark patches all over the place.
— Albert Brooks
Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor.
— Margaret Cho
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 think it's critical, a sense of humor. It did help me - it does help me, continuously.
— Teri Garr
When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.
— John Ortberg
I think humor is such a personal thing, and you put a microphone in somebody's face, they're going to say something that offends somebody.
— Jane Lynch
Anyone who knows me, and most of my fans, know that I have a sense of humor.
— Glenn Danzig
It's weird doing red carpets it's uncomfortable. But you can have a sense of humor about it. 
— Kirsten Dunst
Anyone who's married to Mariah Carey - I'm pretty sure - doesn't have a great sense of humor. I mean, let's be honest: she's ridiculous. What is her game plan?
— Chelsea Handler
Paul Rudd has a very specific brand of humor.
— Michael Pena
'War on Everyone,' I think... the script was hilarious to me, but it's very dark, dark humor. It's super dark.
— Michael Pena
When you finish a drama, you go, 'I can't wait to do a comedy.' When you finish a comedy, you go, 'I want to do a dramedy, dark humor.'
— Michael Pena
People think I'm a very serious actor, which I am. But you know, if you don't have a sense of humor doing what I do, you perish.
— Martin Landau
Nobody enjoys the 'little show about nothing' humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it.
— Jerry Seinfeld
I have a need to always make people laugh. I have a desperate need. I love a great sense of humor. The people I sort of surround myself with have that.
— Peter Dinklage
Women respond to comfort and a sense of humor. I was always able to make them laugh, so that helps a lot.
— Peter Dinklage
My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.
— Maurice Sendak
I make jokes because humor is the greatest healing factor that there is.
— Dick Dale
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
People who have any kind of illness use humor as a type of coping.
— Edward Zwick
I'm a huge fan of Steve Martin. He's hilarious, but he has this depth to him and this way of dealing with the difficult things in life with a sense of humor that I think has helped me as an actress.
— Alexandra Daddario
I'm not a particularly dark individual. I have my moments, it's true, but I do have a sense of humor.
— Alan Moore
I was a timid little guy when I was a kid. I used humor as a defense; I became the class clown. But deep inside, I felt real vulnerable.
— Mike Huckabee
And, you know, I liked writing humor. Well, I should say, I wanted to write seriously, but it kept turning funny.
— Roseanne Barr
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
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
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've got a great sense of humor.
— Anthony Hopkins
Twitter is the place where I try to be more funny. And then I use Instagram just as my diary. I pull some jokes on there, but I think people have a better sense of humor on Twitter.
— Gigi Hadid
I guess, for me, I've always thought that there was humor everywhere. And as a kid, I just, you know, I grew up an only child, and I - sort of nothing made me happier than to make my parents laugh. I remember I had costumes and things laying around the house that I was, you know, anything that I could do to make my parents laugh.
— Justin Timberlake
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
It's always the girl comedy and the guy comedy. It bums me out. You'd think there'd be a progression, from James L. Brooks and Nora Ephron into more subtle humor and behavior and psychology. All these interesting things people can learn about themselves by watching talented writers comment intelligently on someone else's emotional life.
— Parker Posey
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
In high drama or high tragedy or anything, it's not really human unless there's some humor at the same time. And vice versa. So I guess I tend to gravitate towards projects which tread a dodgy tightrope between two things, which aren't really one or another.
— Rebecca Hall
You don't necessarily equate me with humor!
— Sean Bean
I came from a dysfunctional family - very dysfunctional. And my father used to find great humor in throwing me down the stairs.
— Bob Beckel
My sense of humor often gets me in trouble.
— Duncan Jones
I have a sense of humor, and sometimes it gets me into trouble.
— Duncan Jones
I like telling stories with a sense of humor. But humor can also distance you from the subject you're writing about. I'm interested in using humor as a portal to something a bit more serious.
— Jens Lekman
Any band that doesn't have a sense of humor has a little bit of a problem.
— Jens Lekman
It doesn't take many people to have a bad sense of humor to get in trouble at a corporation.
— Scott Adams
Humor without sadness underneath it feels cheap and aggressive.
— John Cameron Mitchell
A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.
— Chevy Chase
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
I come from a much freer kind of performance thing, where I rely on my own improv and my own sense of humor.
— Chevy Chase
I'm just very amused by five-year-old humor.
— Kesha
'Take Shelter' is a tough movie because there's no humor in it, so there's really no way to judge how you're doing - whether people are still with you or not.
— Jeff Nichols
Impropriety is the soul of wit.
— W. Somerset Maugham
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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
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 think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you're not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture.
— Sloane Crosley
It's easier to sit there and say you don't like feminists because they don't have a sense of humor.
— Joan Jett
And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.
— Paul McCartney
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
It's an amusing idea to some, this feminism thing - this audacious notion that women should be able to move through the world as freely, and enjoy the same inalienable rights and bodily autonomy, as men. At least, that's the impression given when feminism and feminists are all too often the targets of lazy humor.
— Roxane Gay
My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.
— Bernie Mac
I go out and speak to women's groups all the time, and I say, 'Guys, you gotta laugh and find the humor in things. You gotta pass it on.'
— Vicki Lawrence
A sense of humor is great - it goes a long, long way in a marriage.
— Chris Rock
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
One thing I have that the majority of other designers don't is humor. That's distinctly my approach, and it was distinctly Franco Moschino's, too.
— Jeremy Scott
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
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 feel like I've always had a sordid sense of humor, and it's only gotten more twisted as I've gotten older.
— Tituss Burgess
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
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
I can't begin to tell you how fulfilling the perennial nature of 'Elf' on television has been for me. It's great to be able to connect parents with children both emotionally and through humor.
— Jon Favreau
Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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
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
I like bawdy humor. I love bawdy humor, but not dirty humor.
— Betty White
Sometimes you can take those dramatic roles and maybe interject a little humor into them, and I think the reverse also works.
— Dennis Farina
When I've had to edit my albums, I'll listen to it one time through, and I'll make edits. I want to remember to set up a camera to record myself listening to my set, because I don't even slightly crack a smile, I am just listening for technical details, and I look like somebody that has absolutely no sense of humor. I look insane.
— Tig Notaro
My paintings capture the humor, zaniness, and depth of the Batman villains as well as the Freudian motivations of Batman as an all-too-human, venerable, and funny vigilante superhero.
— Adam West
I get called 'Mayor West' a lot in airports. I've been very fortunate to have a fan base that keeps growing, and the work gets such a warm response and humor from people.
— Adam West
I've hung on for a long time in this business and had some success, and I think it's keeping an open mind and being curious and having a sense of humor about oneself that's important.
— Adam West
I do not have a sense of humor of any recognizable sort.
— Tommy Lee Jones
I admired Stephen Daldry very much; I think he's a brilliant director, and also, I feel close to him because he has a lot of theater behind him. He's also a man of great imagination and a lovely sense of humor.
— Max von Sydow
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
I am a political human being. I have - that's one of my interests. I studied political science in college. I was actually going to get my Ph.D. in poli-sci. And a lot of my material from early on in my career dealt with politics, so I've always considered myself as somebody who enjoys political humor. So I'm not going to stop.
— Maz Jobrani
Humor is always important. There are people who help us deal with difficulty or hardship; from the concentration camps to the court jester, there was a need for humor. As long as these kinds of things exist, with repressive regimes, you need it to deal with the weight of daily life.
— Maz Jobrani
You have to laugh at yourself. I do a lot of humor about all ethnicities that are at the show - Latinos, Asians, Indians... What I say is, 'We're laughing together. I'm laughing with you, not at you.' Never say, 'Oh, I'm better than you.'
— Maz Jobrani
I think the main thing about comedy and humor is that it's impossible and always was impossible to define.
— Mike Nichols
The people in New York - their humor is on a level that goes, uh, very deep, you know?
— Elaine Stritch
I compare Stephen Sondheim with humor, because humor is unanalyzable. You can't analyze humor. You just have to get through it.
— Elaine Stritch
Life is never all one thing. It bounces around. Certainly, my own life has. Look at Woody Allen's funny movies - all the humor comes out of sad stuff. Sometimes you have to laugh, no matter what life deals you.
— Tim O'Brien
Love, as wonderful and horrible as it is, has at its center a kind of pitiful humor.
— Tim O'Brien
I love the diversity of America. I love the plain, normal sense of humor Americans have. It is not wicked, like in some countries. And I also love how new America is.
— Antonio Banderas
From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
— Samuel Richardson
Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
— Samuel Richardson
I think humor can be an effective way of getting the point across, but there are definitely times where I just write very earnestly.
— Alex Pareene
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
There's humor in everything. There's gotta be humor in everything.
— Amy Sedaris
There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
— Miguel de Cervantes
Me and Matt love to argue, but in general our sense of humor is pretty much alike.
— Trey Parker
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
I have such a respect for comedy. It's a lot harder than doing drama, in my opinion; you have to have sort of an innate sense of humor. There are rules to comedy you can learn. But ultimately, it really does require a certain point of view on the world, and that really does appeal to me.
— Elizabeth Banks
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
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
There's a film I did years ago, 'Love Serenade,' that I still really love. It's such an oddball sense of humor. It was a really special film for me when I did it.
— Miranda Otto
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
Women's humor seems to be a little more supportive. It's just kind of trying to make the other one laugh through funny voices and kind of talking about other people. I respond to that. I feel less like I'm going to get beat up in a room full of women than I do in a room full of guys.
— Paul Feig
In Australia, even the darkest subject matter has a little pinch of humor. A little sweet to make the sour go down.
— Ben Mendelsohn
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
I do talk about celebrity relationships like Kim Kardashian's. I like to find the humor in love.
— Loni Love
I like to be able to feel as many parts of myself while watching a movie at one time. I think that's what 'Super' is - it's funny, but it's also sad. It's very touching in certain ways, and it's also got a very dark sense of humor. So it's allowed to go anywhere.
— James Gunn
There are different kinds of humor, some is sarcastic, some introspective. Introspective fit my personality better.
— Rita Rudner
Kindness is really important to me in finding my own prince - so are patience and a sense of humor. Without those qualities he's no Prince Charming!
— Anne Hathaway
I personally have dealt with any adversity in my life with humor. That's why I told America to 'Read my hips!' on 'Dancing With the Stars' or was happy to play along with Jason Alexander and Jerry Seinfeld in the great restaurant scene on 'Seinfeld.'
— Marlee Matlin
Humor comes in all forms, and everyone has their cup of tea about what makes them laugh. But the day we censor humor is a sad one for sure.
— Marlee Matlin
I need a woman to have a quirky sense of humor. There's a bunch of jokes I use, and if she doesn't get them, she's probably not for me.
— Matthew Perry
I was intentionally curbing the impulse to be funny and hiding the ability. I wrote any number of very serious attempts at poems, short stories, novels - horrible. At a certain point, I recognized that it was fun to write dialogue that had a degree of lightness and humor.
— Patrick deWitt
I use a lot of humor, and I follow the saying that if you want to tell people the truth, you better make them laugh first; otherwise, they will shoot you.
— Sayed Kashua
Mixing humor and politics is something that works.
— Bryan Cranston
I read the script and decide if a particular character looks fun to play. I look for complexity and a sense of humor. Those are crucial, real things to life.
— Steve Buscemi
I just like playing interesting, complex, complicated characters. I like films that also have an element of humor.
— Steve Buscemi
You either have chemistry or you don't, but a lot of what attracts me is a guy's mind and humor and talent. I need to get to know all those things before I fall for someone.
— Nina Dobrev
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
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
I love British humor. It's just so - surreal.
— Beck
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
I like guys with a sense of humor who smile a lot and are kind.
— Nikki Glaser
As far as how I approach the humor, I think the best comedy is going to happen when I'm myself and act organically to a news item or situation.
— Nikki Glaser
All my relatives and friends have been pretty aware of my brand of humor for a while, so none of them have been shocked.
— Nikki Glaser
Humor can bring people under the tent. And a good joke can deflect some of the intensity surrounding a serious subject.
— Ted Danson
I've always had a sick sense of humor, and I've always wanted that to permeate the music because I don't take myself seriously. I take the music seriously, but I know I'm not God's gift to anyone except my mom.
— Josh Homme
I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
— Vera Farmiga
I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
— Vera Farmiga
I'm drawn to the unconventional because I've been drawn unconventionally. I believe that I'm supposed to topple over these false images of what's idealistically beautiful. Because, of course, these intangible qualities are very attractive to women. Sincerity. Sense of humor. Success.
— CeeLo Green
I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it's humor, sometimes it's listening.
— Melissa Etheridge
You see, that's another thing that my parents gave me: an enormously great sense of humor.
— Liza Minnelli
I just am a snob when it comes to humor.
— Courteney Cox
Humor is a wonderful way to deal with our suffering because if we can laugh at our troubles, we can feel better. Thich Nhat Hanh is a special man who has helped millions with their suffering with incredible technique. But he doesn't know real suffering, because he has not dated as much as I have.
— Garry Shandling
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
Some people say my humor focuses too much on stereotypes. It doesn't. It focuses on facts.
— Sarah Silverman
The darker the film, the more vital everyone's sense of humor is on set.
— Eric Bana
I think, in our darkest moments, you have to find the humor, and you have to find the lightness.
— Corey Hawkins
Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
A lot of stars don't have a sense of humor.
— Kathy Griffin
My fam is just a regular family. But all of them have great senses of humor.
— Dane Cook
For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
— Zoe Kravitz