Humor Quotes

375. I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions… the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.

^{Colin Firth}

376. Confidence and a good sense of humor can usually win a chick over.

^{Danny McBride}

377. 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}

378. The thing that makes ‘Dirty Jobs’ different is that it’s one of the few shows that portrays work in a way that doesn’t highlight the drudgery. Instead, it highlights the humor.

^{Mike Rowe}

379. Humor’s a weapon if you want to make it one.

^{Bob Newhart}

380. We have a certain warped sense of humor in Scandinavia, and that is what comes across in the choices in a lot of our movies.

^{Connie Nielsen}

381. 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}

382. 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}

383. Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.

^{Ian Frazier}

384. 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}

385. I like bawdy humor. I love bawdy humor, but not dirty humor.

^{Betty White}

386. I would say that Emma Stone and Emma Watson are two very talented young actresses who are very intelligent and have a great sense of humor and have learned to balance what theylove with their acting career, and I think that’s really a great thing.

^{Kara Hayward}

387. Expand the definition of ‘reading’ to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It’s the pleasure of reading that counts; the focus will naturally broaden. A boy won’t read shark books forever.

^{Jon Scieszka}

388. I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.

^{Herman Wouk}

389. Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.

^{John Lithgow}

390. Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.

^{Chad Smith}

391. My senior year of high school, I was voted ‘Wittiest.’ So, several years later, I decided to try my hand at writing humor to see if I could be witty enough to make some money.

^{Barbara Park}

392. 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}

393. There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, of humor or anything organic, and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely different – I love L.A.!

^{Naomi Watts}

394. Poop humor is fun. If you do the toilet scenes well and commit to them, they can be really, really powerful.

^{Sandra Bullock}

395. I got my sense of humor from my grandmother. You know, my grandmother was very funny.

^{Paul Mooney}

396. Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.

^{Carl Hiaasen}

397. My dad is just like everybody else’s dad. I see him as kind of a goofy guy with a great sense of humor. I try to get in a battle of wits with him, but he always gets me. I emulate him because I’ve never seen anyone work as hard as he does.

^{Peter Uihlein}

398. I think my sense of humor is Jewish. I’m smarter than most white people, which is kind of a Jewish thing, too.

^{Jim Goad}

399. It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.

^{Edward de Bono}

400. What you see on stage is pretty much the way I am… a dry sense of humor.

^{Bob Newhart}

401. 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}

402. My dad’s sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal – his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.

^{Tony Visconti}

403. I’m strange! I have a weird sense of humor! I look crazy!

^{Trixie Mattel}

404. 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}

405. I think I have always had a little humor.

^{Marilyn Monroe}

406. My legacy would be that you don’t have to give up anything. You can be chic but have a sense of humor, you can be sexy but comfortable, you can be timeless but fresh.

^{Michael Kors}

407. Well, I mean, if a joke or humor is bawdy, it’s got to be funny enough to warrant it. You can’t just have it bawdy or dirty just for the sake of being that – it’s got to be funny.

^{Betty White}

408. 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}

409. My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in the Humor department, and occasionally even in the Literature aisle, which is somewhat astounding.

^{Carl Hiaasen}

410. Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner’s manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.

^{Anne Lamott}

411. The humor section is the last place an author wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons.

^{David Sedaris}

412. In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

^{J. Robert Oppenheimer}

413. With humor, it’s so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.

^{Calvin Trillin}

414. Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It’s the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children’s books.

^{Berkeley Breathed}

415. There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

^{H. L. Mencken}

416. Good humor isn’t a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.

^{David Seabury}

417. It’s always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.

^{Edward de Bono}

418. Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it’s very ambiguous. You have it, or you don’t. You can’t attain it.

^{Heinrich Boll}

419. 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}

420. People in real life don’t get ballplayers’ humor, the way we talk in the clubhouse.

^{Justin Verlander}

421. And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.

^{Paul McCartney}

422. 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}

423. A sense of humor is great – it goes a long, long way in a marriage.

^{Chris Rock}

424. I don’t happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don’t know what’s funny about a character… This happens to be a feature of my life generally.

^{Wallace Shawn}

425. I realized women and humor were linked very closely.

^{Craig Ferguson}

426. 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}

427. If you watch most of the stuff on TV and in movies, it’s usually put-down humor. It’s like somebody being mean or cynical or thoughtless to another person. I never wanted to be that type of comedian.

^{Paul Rust}

428. Uncle Fester always intrigued me. I certainly always enjoyed his kind of humor. He’s just full of mischief in a kind of macabre way. I don’t see anything twisted about it. It’s sort of ridiculous and wacky. It’s sort of fun.

^{Christopher Lloyd}

429. 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}

430. There’s something very authentic about humor, when you think about it. Anybody can pretend to be serious. But you can’t pretend to be funny.

^{Billy Collins}