Quotes about Humor

“Once we got over the origin story, we could really delve deeper into their lives and characters and angst. So this movie actually has more heart, more humor.”

“Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.”

“While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory.”

“Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.”

“I think having a sense of humor is just as important a coping mechanism as it is a gift for everyday life.”

“The thing about For Better or Worse is the only thing that made me an okay director for that is that I have a sense of humor, and it was supposed to be funny.”

“There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.”

“People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it.”

“I think I'm too cynical for L.A. My sense of humor doesn't go down well here, which probably affects my love life. I need to have a laugh track following me around so people know I'm trying to be funny.”

“I wasn't shy, but I was really hyper. Nobody got my sense of humor. I was a black skater kid.”

“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.”

“Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.”

“I think films about men are often about characters who don't want to express their feelings. You're supposed to kind of admire them for not expressing their feelings. And I feel that's a bit dull. Women's stories often have stronger emotional content, which I enjoy doing. What I really love doing is mixing that with humor.”

“I manage through a sense of humor. We all work hard, and work has to be a really interesting, fun place. And that has to start at the top.”

“But it was this tough little character part that I was playing, a very funny little guy that I invented over a weekend, because I realized I was not contributing to the humor of this thing. And I had to do something.”

“I grew up a skinny kid with a funny last name and coke bottle glasses, so I experienced my fair share of bullies. But I learned, with the help of humor and resilience, to never give up.”

“Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.”

“I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.”

“There's a certain type of character that you can't help but come in contact with growing up and living in Brooklyn and Long Island. A certain mixture of moxie, heart, and a wise guy sense of humor.”

“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.”

“A lot about Congress is about forming good working relationships with people, and humor can really help you do that.”