Humor Quotes

319. 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}

320. It doesn’t take many people to have a bad sense of humor to get in trouble at a corporation.

^{Scott Adams}

321. Humor is a part of spirituality.

^{Zooey Deschanel}

322. Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.

^{Barbet Schroeder}

323. If I can’t see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny?

^{Casey Affleck}

324. 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}

325. The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.

^{James Thurber}

326. Funnily enough, I did a play called ‘Jumpy’ on the West End before I did ‘Divergent,’ and there was an essence of that character I played, called Cam, in Will. In the sense of his vulnerability, and… he had a sense of humor that comes out of adversity, similar to Will.

^{Ben Lloyd-Hughes}

327. I’m a bug on acting, which distinguishes Second City from a lot of other revues. It comes from the character, the behavior, and not from the jokes. I don’t think jokes are funny. Humor comes out of character and out of situations the character is in.

^{Bernard Sahlins}

328. Candidates should be extremely cautious in displaying a sense of humor. If he or she tells a joke with a point, there is almost certain to be some minority group offended.

^{Jack Germond}

329. I think in life, the sense of humor and comedy always exists.

^{Mike Epps}

330. 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}

331. I’m not a particularly dark individual. I have my moments, it’s true, but I do have a sense of humor.

^{Alan Moore}

332. Always have a sense of humor about life – you’ll need it – but always be courteous to boot.

^{Peter Jennings}

333. 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}

334. Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

^{Mark Twain}

335. I don’t think I would describe my sense of humor. Doesn’t sound like the kind of thing I’d do.

^{Tommy Lee Jones}

336. Two young actresses I admire are Emma Stone and Emma Watson, because they are intelligent, talented actresses and have a great sense of humor. They have learned to balance what they love in life – acting, school and everything else.

^{Kara Hayward}

337. Everybody’s got a different sense of humor. It’s just different styles.

^{Colin Quinn}

338. As far as humor goes, I’ve always been a very insecure person and I’ve always wanted to be liked.

^{Peter Steele}

339. The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

^{Umberto Eco}

340. I don’t indulge in double meaning humor.

^{Sajid Khan}

341. 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}

342. Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.

^{Don Rickles}

343. My humor isn’t meant to be mean or hurt anyone. But it’s to make them uncomfortable and laugh. I like making people feel a different range of emotions. I like to make people a bit confused.

^{Charlyne Yi}

344. I didn’t think that anything is beyond humor – not profane humor, but a good, honest approach to humor.

^{Mort Sahl}

345. Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.

^{E. B. White}

346. 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}

347. I should say, one of the things about being a widow or a widower, you really, really need a sense of humor, because everything’s going to fall apart.

^{Joyce Carol Oates}

348. I grew up as a very sarcastic person. I was always the class clown, and to date girls, I had to be really funny. I was really skinny growing up. I was so thin, I had to run around in the shower to get wet. That kind of thin. So I always had to rely on humor and sarcasm.

^{Kurt Fuller}

349. My type of humor is me not caring whether people know what I’m talking about or not.

^{John Hodgman}

350. My favorite kind of humor is basically, if it was happening to you, it wouldn’t be funny, but to observe it, it’s hilarious.

^{Bill Burr}

351. In building a management team, I look for integrity, loyalty, vision, and a willingness to think outside of the box, and challenge the status quo. I also look for people who have a good sense of humor and who value and empower their team.

^{Shari Redstone}

352. 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}

353. Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we’re ‘dead earnest,’ humor is the only thing that is dead.

^{Flip Wilson}

354. The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.

^{William Temple}

355. I don’t really like using ridicule as a form of humor.

^{Alison Jackson}

356. The Good Humor man can only be pushed so far.

^{Nancy Cartwright}

357. I’ve always been really dark, and drawn to darker humor. Nothing has been forced, and I don’t say anything for shock value.

^{Amy Schumer}

358. My sense of humor is a turkey, and I pull it out of the oven and baste it in reality.

^{Tracy Morgan}

359. Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.

^{Allen Klein}

360. 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}

361. To this day, I’ve found that it doesn’t matter what a guy looks like if he’s really funny. His sense of humor makes him attractive. On the other hand, you don’t hear men saying, ‘No she’s not pretty, but is she ever funny!’

^{Catherine O’Hara}

362. 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}

363. 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}

364. The one thing I didn’t expect was to learn how much of a sense of humor Jerry Reinsdorf has. He’s really funny. I never got a chance to see his sense of humor when I was working for him or playing for him.

^{B. J. Armstrong}

365. I have a very dark sense of humor. I swear. I have a very playful relationship with Jesus.

^{Anne Lamott}

366. People who know me know I have a sense of humor that can really push the envelope.

^{Carmen Electra}

367. 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}

368. I have a dark sense of humor.

^{Olivia Munn}

369. I liked the humor of it, I’ve always enjoyed a sense of humor in God and in religion and in spirituality.

^{Amber Tamblyn}

370. 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}

371. Humor is this great equalizer. It gets people’s defenses down, and once they’re down, you can discuss some really difficult topics.

^{Luvvie Ajayi}

372. 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}

373. This is a feminist bookstore. There is no humor section.

^{John Callahan}

374. Sense of humor. A girl who doesn’t take themselves too seriously. And someone who is spontaneous. They’re the three things for me that really attract me to a girl.

^{Christopher Egan}