Quotes about Humor

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

“The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibility, sense of humor, behavior. He is me.”

“'Vietnam Veedu' is nothing if you compare Nagesh's other works. He is the definition of humor in India.”

“When I started, I wanted to be thought of as tortured and seductive, not funny, but humor tends to be a reflexive part of a person's sensibility. It's an almost impossible thing to teach anyone, which leads me to believe that it's intuitive.”

“You see, that's another thing that my parents gave me: an enormously great sense of humor.”

“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.”

“We're starting to push the envelope in terms of the expectations, and you can also have your own style, personality and sense of humor, because now we're allowed to.”

“A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.”

“Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.”

“I'm able to see humor in a lot of things.”

“The darker the film, the more vital everyone's sense of humor is on set.”

“You can't study comedy; it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude.”

“Blacks had survived every form of human debasement with ingenuity, self-reliance, a deep and ironic humor, a capacity for self-reinvention and a heroic fortitude. But we had no experience of wide-open freedom.”

“I'll speak for myself, but there's a lot of humor to be found in sarcasm and darkness. You talk to any paramedic, they survive by developing a pretty off-kilter sense of humor.”

“If it gets laughs, it's funny.”

“I've got a great sense of humor.”

“Humor, humility, and, of course, honesty, all are qualities that work in public and cultural diplomacy.”

“Try to find someone with a sense of humor. That's an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny. You don't want to hide away from a point, because some points are serious, but you'd rather have a discussion that was a discussion, rather than an argument.”

“My childhood was great because my family has an amazing sense of humor, and it was just all making videos and jokes and doing skits and things.”

“I've inherited a Jewish sensibility and sense of humor from my parents and all those who came before me. All the Jewish comedians, character actors and writers I was exposed to also reminded me of my family in their sense of humor.”

“I have great respect for my parents. I got such beautiful things from both of them. It doesn't mean that we didn't have our rough times, but they were remarkable people who were open-minded, creative and hard-working, and had great senses of humor.”