Quotes about Humor

“Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.”

“People who know me, they know I have a sense of humor, I'm a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown really, and I would love someone to exploit that side of me and send me a romantic comedy.”

“I was pretty much a child of 'Monty Python.' I grew up loving that type of humor and even structured a lot of humor in the same fashion.”

“Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.”

“A joke's a very serious thing.”

“Those years on the golf course as a caddie, boy, those people were something. They were vulgar, some were alcoholics, racist, they were very difficult people to deal with. A lot of them didn't have a sense of humor.”

“My dad was a very funny man - he's the one who taught me life would be awfully hard without humor! I'm sure his Irish wit in some way influenced my decision to become an actress.”

“Humor's a weapon if you want to make it one.”

“I like bawdy humor. I love bawdy humor, but not dirty humor.”

“My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.”

“Since the very beginning, Emeril's had a sense of humor about me calling him names and poking fun at him.”

“I choose my actors well and get to know the quirks of their personalities - and, most of all, I share humor with them. Then I keep my eyes open when they rehearse and perform, because you never know where the next stimulation comes from.”

“I really wouldn't want to live in America. I found New York claustrophobic and dirty. I missed England when I was there, simple things like smells and the British sense of humor.”

“True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.”

“For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.”

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

“People with no humor, they're outta my life.”

“Cameron Crowe can write dialogue and shoot it with warmth and humor like nobody else.”

“I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor.”

“They say you don't want to meet your heroes, but those two guys, you do want to meet them, because they do not disappoint. Walken has this amazing sense of humor, and Pacino is like just a sweetheart of a guy.”

“I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.”