Quotes about Humor

“There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation's history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of shock to find it.”

“If you're feeling blue, lock yourself in a room, stand in front of a mirror, and dance - and laugh at yourself and be sexy. Dance the silliest and ugliest you've ever danced. Make fun of yourself and try to recover your sense of humor.”

“Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.”

“The more women sit down and write something in a woman's voice for a woman, they more you'll see women in comedy because gender doesn't define sense of humor. Imagination and intelligence and perspective do.”

“You have to have a sense of humor about life to get through it.”

“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.”

“That's how to make a stand-up comedian: You take a person who is uncomfortable and try to squirrel their way out of it through humor.”

“Humor levels the playing field. I understood that early on - that was something I had.”

“I'm not sure. But that bless-his/her-heart kind of melancholic humor is among my favorite things in the world. I guess it exposes a kind of humanity - or that's the hope, at least - a kind of grudging respect for human frailty. Unless it's actually kicking human frailty while it's down - I'm not sure.”

“I don't think of myself as funny - I don't fill up a room with my humor... I would fail miserably as a stand-up comedian.”

“Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.”

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

“I defuse everything I can with it. Humor is such a great shield.”

“When we can find some humor in our upsets, they no longer seem as large or as important as they once did.”

“Twitter is the place where I try to be more funny. And then I use Instagram just as my diary. I pull some jokes on there, but I think people have a better sense of humor on Twitter.”

“I've used my sense of humor as a coping tool. It's gotten me through a lot of challenging times.”

“Certainly my personality, my sense of humor, my outlook on life was informed by the experiences of my parents and the stories they shared with me.”

“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”

“I love a girl with a sense of humor. Someone who can make me laugh and that I can get along with and talk with and who is just sweet overall, inside and out.”

“I appreciate humor so much, but I'm actually not a funny girl.”

“In the 'Hurt Locker' there's a lot of me in there, a sense of humor, a man of few words and a lot of action.”