Famous Quotes
- Back in 2004, Kellie Overbey handed me her play 'Girl Talk' to read. I fell in love with her brutally delicious humor and the fearlessly deft way in which she drew her characters. They jumped off the page and begged me to give them a space in which to stomp around.
- Carrie Preston on Humor
- Bad humor is an evasion of reality good humor is an acceptance of it.
- Malcolm Muggeridge on Humor
- Bands from Akron have a sense of humor and don't tend to take themselves too seriously.
- Dan Auerbach on Humor
- 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 on Humor
- Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.
- Madonna Ciccone on Humor
- Being a Hot Mom means being respected as a mom and a woman. And, the key to being a Hot Mom is having a sense of humor about yourself and all the crazy situations that arise.
- Jami Gertz on Humor
- 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 on Humor
- 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 on Humor
- But because it was able to balance that kind of humor with a sweet story and characters you really rooted for and also got across the girls' point of view, I've heard nothing but great things from younger and older females as well.
- Jason Biggs on Humor
- But if you don't watch me, I will try and sneak in some humor. I see humor everywhere in life around me.
- Marion Ross on Humor
- But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early writing was very dark and had a gothic tone to it.
- Seth Grahame-Smith on Humor
- But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives.
- Norman Lear on Humor
- But it was this tough little character part that I was playing, a very funny little guy that I invented over a weekend, because I realized I was not contributing to the humor of this thing. And I had to do something.
- Dabney Coleman on Humor
- 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 on Humor
- Certainly, anyone whom I've witnessed, who has gone through something horrible and life-changing, has a sense of ironic humor, or an ability to look at the peculiarities of the world and find humor in it.
- Christopher Heyerdahl on Humor
- Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.
- Barbet Schroeder on Humor
- Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
- Sid Caesar on Humor
- Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
- Peter Ustinov on Humor
- Comedy is so hard to do, so it was very cool to do dead pan humor.
- Brittany Daniel on Humor
- Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
- J. B. Priestley on Humor
- Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
- William James on Humor
- Confidence and a good sense of humor can usually win a chick over.
- Danny McBride on Humor
- Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities, a sense of humor, a sense of style, a willingness to be who you are no matter what anyone else might think or say and it's true, I do have a certain fondness for women that have dark hair.
- Wentworth Miller on Humor
- Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.
- Jesse Ventura on Humor
- 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.
- Cynicism is humor in ill health.
- H. G. Wells on Humor
- Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.
- Dali had a good sense of humor - obviously you could tell just looking at him he was funny.
- Democratic politicians have disliked things I've written, Republican politicians... if they all love you, you might as well be driving a Good Humor truck.
- Adam Clymer on Humor
- Do feminists have a sense of humor? Yes.
- Gloria Allred on Humor
- 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 on Humor
- 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 on Humor
- 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 on Humor
- 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 on Humor
- Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor.
- Jonathan Shapiro on Humor
- 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 on Humor
- 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 on Humor
- Everybody's got a different sense of humor. It's just different styles.
- Colin Quinn on Humor
- Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
- Mark Twain on Humor
- Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.
- Steven Wright on Humor
- 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 on Humor
- 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 on Humor
- From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
- Samuel Richardson on Humor
- G.I. humor is similar to cop humor.
- Nelson DeMille on Humor
- Gags die, humor doesn't.
- Jack Benny on Humor
- Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.
- Flip Wilson on Humor
- God has a most wicked sense of humor.
- Maureen O'Hara on Humor
- Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.
- Grenville Kleiser on Humor
- Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
- William Makepeace Thackeray on Humor
- Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.
- Lord Chesterfield on Humor
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