Citas sobre Humor

“A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I find any sort of acting that doesn't have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring.”

“All my humor is based on destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing in the bread line - right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.”

“When a chick has a sense of humor, there's nothing more attractive.”

“I've dropped a lot of race humor from my routines, not because I think it is in bad taste, but because I don't want to be guilty of telling old jokes.”

“I wish I could be as thin as Jessica Simpson. I think she looks gorgeous! I have had Jessica on my show several times, and I can tell you that girl is genuine and funny with a great self-deprecating sense of humor.”

“Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very healing.”

“G.I. humor is similar to cop humor.”

“Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective.”

“I love puns. I've been known to turn the car around just to take advantage of a good pun situation. It really is the highest form of humor.”

“Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.”

“My mother was Irish; she had this great sense of humor, and both my parents loved films. There was a very vibrant discourse about politics and everything that was going on in the world where I grew up. So I was genetically predisposed to go into the performing arts.”

“Now, Richard Pryor was unique. Many misunderstood his humor. He lit up the hallway, but they didn't understand his use of profanity. He didn't use it just to be using it; he used it in the context of his satire.”

“Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.”

“Art Modell was a visionary, a deal-maker and a friend. And he possessed a marvelous sense of humor.”

“I do not have a sense of humor of any recognizable sort.”

“What's great about the geek spirit is that life never seems to stop us, and they never seem to kill our enthusiasm, our optimism and our hunger to experience the world. We keep our sense of humor, we protect our dignity, we talk to our friends about the experience and then we start again fresh the very next day.”

“Half the battle is that people have to like you before you say one joke, one bit of humor.”

“If you're playing a good guy, you show some darkness. If you're playing a dark guy, you show something different, like humor, that will mix it up and hopefully surpass the audience's expectations. What I'm battling all the time is complacency in the audience. I try to bring a little mystery to what might happen because that engages people more.”