Famous Quotes
- A boy is naturally full of humor.
- Robert Powell on Humor
- A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.
- John Ratzenberger on Humor
- A good actor is someone who knows how to take the part and make it real and make it honest and be effective in it. If it's in a funny movie and, as long as they are cast in an appropriate way, humor will come from it.
- Ivan Reitman on Humor
- A good sense of humor will get you everywhere.
- Josh Bowman on Humor
- A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.
- Don Herold on Humor
- A joke is a very serious thing.
- Winston Churchill on Humor
- A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.
- Chevy Chase on Humor
- A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way.
- Allen Klein on Humor
- A lot of my humor centers on the act of telling jokes and I think this can prevent certain audiences from suspending their feeling of disbelief. It might piss a few people off, but I can't help it.
- Michael Showalter on Humor
- 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 on Humor
- A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor.
- Maynard James Keenan on Humor
- A lot of stars don't have a sense of humor.
- Kathy Griffin on Humor
- A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
- Henry Ward Beecher on Humor
- A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.
- Doug Larson on Humor
- A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
- Mignon McLaughlin on Humor
- A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?
- A sense of humor is great - it goes a long, long way in a marriage.
- Chris Rock on Humor
- A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
- Clifton Fadiman on Humor
- 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 on Humor
- A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.
- Hugh Sidey on Humor
- 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 on Humor
- A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
- William Arthur Ward on Humor
- A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.
- Catherine Deneuve on Humor
- Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.
- David Lynch on Humor
- Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.
- John Lithgow on Humor
- Advertisers also know that humor can help bond us to their product.
- Allen Klein on Humor
- Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.
- Groucho Marx on Humor
- All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.
- Fred Allen on Humor
- All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to portray this character just honestly. If the humor is within the absurdity and the awfulness of situations, then let it be seen that way.
- Patrick Warburton on Humor
- All my jobs have been with food in one way or another since 1948. My parents were in the hotel business, and I just loved the warm hearted people who worked so hard with such good humor.
- Graham Kerr on Humor
- All the people who follow me on Twitter know my sense of humor. I sometimes forget the blogosphere will give it more weight than I intended.
- Kurt Sutter on Humor
- Although Kurt Vonnegut may not be considered a humor writer, 'Breakfast of Champions' is one of the funniest books I've ever read.
- Justin Halpern on Humor
- An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.
- Constance Rourke on Humor
- Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
- E. B. White on Humor
- And for my family, comedically, that was the key to a lot of the humor.
- Damon Wayans on Humor
- And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.
- Paul McCartney on Humor
- And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.
- Bobby Knight on Humor
- And you know, whether it's drama or comedy, the best work is based on truth. It's just that, with comedy, the circumstances are just crazy-heightened, and you have these crazy things thrown at you. But you still have to do it truthfully, because that's where the humor comes from. So it's not that difficult to cross over.
- Any attempts at humor immediately after September 11th were deemed tasteless.
- Allen Klein on Humor
- 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 on Humor
- Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.
- Harry S. Truman on Humor
- Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.
- Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.
- Hank Ketcham on Humor
- As a person, he was wonderful. He really was a great person. He was full of life. He had a great sense of humor. Very talented, of course, but very caring to his parents. There was a very endearing quality about Elvis.
- Priscilla Presley on Humor
- As far as humor goes, I've always been a very insecure person and I've always wanted to be liked.
- Peter Steele on Humor
- As I get older, my sense of humor is my biggest asset.
- David Alan Grier on Humor
- At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
- Tabitha Soren on Humor
- At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious.
- Richard Russo on Humor
- 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.
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