Quotes about Humor

“If we do not know what humor is, that may be because we do not know what humankind is.”

“I'll let you in on a secret: I can't stand Jay Ward. I hate being compared to Rocky and Bullwinkle. It's just a different style of humor.”

“If you like dry humor, Henrik Stenson thinks he's very funny, but I think I'm very funny in a dry sense as well.”

“No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.”

“Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.”

“Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, Stephen Colbert. Those are the guys I look at who are telling me pretty much the truth. And they throw humor into it which makes it much more interesting to listen to.”

“I'm just very amused by five-year-old humor.”

“One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships between the main characters and their reactions to the situations they would face; there was a lot of comedy in that show without ever breaking its reality.”

“Humor comes from self-confidence.”

“Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.”

“You can't do anything to be funny. That's cringeworthy. If your humor comes out of a place of love every time, you don't make the joke bigger than you. The funniest comedians are in touch with their emotional level.”

“So, I'm thinking of a name for a villain that has a sense of humor. I thought of 'The Joker' as a name, and as soon as I thought that, I associate it with the playing card, as my family had a tradition of champion playing; my brother was a contract champion bridge player. There were always cards around the house.”

“Nobody enjoys the 'little show about nothing' humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it.”

“My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.”

“Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor, but I always knew who was funny, who to hang out with.”

“Rather than writing about my experiences with other people, 'Ugly Cherries' is the first song I've ever written about myself. It's a confrontation: an attempt to unpack my own queerness with humor and self care.”

“Funnily enough, I did a play called 'Jumpy' on the West End before I did 'Divergent,' and there was an essence of that character I played, called Cam, in Will. In the sense of his vulnerability, and... he had a sense of humor that comes out of adversity, similar to Will.”

“I thought my family was really funny. Everybody in my family was funny. My mom and dad both have great senses of humor and really saw the funny in stuff, so I think that's probably where it came from. I always try to see the funny in things.”

“I have a very dark sense of humor.”

“Denzel Washington has a great sense of humor. He did all those 'Nutty Professor' movies.”

“If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.”