- Humor is an antidote to all ills.
Patch Adams
- That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
A. Whitney Brown
- Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.
Stephen Hawking
- Humor and family emotions are integral to Telugu cinema.
Akhil Akkineni
- 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
- If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor.
Kate Beckinsale
- 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 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
- Well, darkness with humor… I’m not an extremely suicidal or sad person.
Peter Steele
- In sitcoms, the women are so beautiful, understanding and well-bred. They have humor, but sort of display it with a twinkle of the eye and not a guffaw. But there’s no juice in that for me.
Bea Arthur
- 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’m not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.
Ben Stiller
- SpongeBob is a complete innocent – not an idiot. SpongeBob never fully realizes how stupid Patrick is. They’re whipping themselves up into situations – that’s always where the humor comes from.
Stephen Hillenburg
- 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
- Bringing humor and bringing happiness and joy to an audience is a wonderful opportunity in life, believe me.
Angela Lansbury
- All my humor is based on destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I’d be standing in the bread line – right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.
Lenny Bruce
- ‘War on Everyone,’ I think… the script was hilarious to me, but it’s very dark, dark humor. It’s super dark.
Michael Pena
- To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person’s humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be.
Thomas Ligotti
- Professional comedians, surprisingly, have a lack of humor. They’re insensitive to the insanity of our times.
Mort Sahl
- It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
Al Yankovic
- Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
Carl Hiaasen
- You can find heroism everyday, like guys working terrible jobs because they’ve got to support their families. Or as far as humor, the things I see on the job, on the street, are far funnier than anything you’ll ever see on TV.
Harvey Pekar
- 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
- You have to have a sense of humor about life to get through it.
Kesha
- Most humor comes from truth. In the end, if I can laugh about it, who cares?
Bianca Del Rio
- A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor.
Maynard James Keenan
- The most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning – it’s a man or a woman without a sense of humor.
Jonathan Winters
- Cynicism is humor in ill health.
H. G. Wells
- I think everyone is born with humor, but your life can beat it out of you, sadly, or you can be lucky enough to grow up in it.
Catherine O’Hara
- Humor can inform and break down stigma, which is a huge issue in the military.
Garry Trudeau
- The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
William Temple
- The similarity between my music and The Beatles’ music is it has within it a very positive quality. It’s woven with humor.
Donovan
- A lot of people can find something to laugh at in my humor, I guess.
Ron White
- Comedy is difficult for an actor. But I think I have a good sense of humor and manage to make people laugh and make them happy.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
- Solutions-oriented campaigning with a little passion and a little humor; I think that will go a long way. I think people are desperate for it.
Laura Ingraham
- I look for kindness, honestly, integrity, intelligence, humor and good values, and of course, a fun, loving guy! And yes, I believe he exists!
Shamita Shetty
- I think having a sense of humor is just as important a coping mechanism as it is a gift for everyday life.
Camille Grammer
- There are just certain things that turn my head. It may be a girl’s sense of humor, it may be her wit, or her belief system; it could be a lot of different things.
Jensen Ackles
- My father was a very strong male figure to me as a child. He was very dashing, had a wonderful sense of humor and was romantically handsome in the Scott Fitzgerald genre.
Mariette Hartley
- You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense.
John Cassavetes
- Humor is very healing.
Bonnie Hunt
- There’s always a source for humor.
Calvin Trillin
- When a chick has a sense of humor, there’s nothing more attractive.
Dylan O’Brien
- I like George Carlin’s jokes. I like his humor. He’s one of my heroes, and I like what he did with talking about everyday things.
Steven Wright
- I’ve got a sense of humor. I’m a funny guy.
Daryl Hall
- 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
- Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.
Al Franken
- I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don’t think I’m capable of that.
Chris Cooper
- 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
- Nobody enjoys the ‘little show about nothing’ humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it.
Jerry Seinfeld
- My dad instilled in me a great sense of humor. I wasn’t bullied at school because my outward attitude was confident, and that helps.
Warwick Davis
- Women respond to comfort and a sense of humor. I was always able to make them laugh, so that helps a lot.
Peter Dinklage
- 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
- A book without potty humor is like a banana split without hot fudge. It can still be good, I suppose, but you kinda get the feeling that something is missing.
Dav Pilkey
- It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.
Freeman Dyson