Quotes about Humor

“Humor expands our limited picture frame and gets us to see more than just our problem.”

“What you see on stage is pretty much the way I am... a dry sense of humor.”

“A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.”

“My type of humor is me not caring whether people know what I'm talking about or not.”

“In rough times, pathfinders rely on work, friends, humor and prayer. They develop a support network.”

“I'm not just a big-haired redhead country singer who dresses flamboyantly, has this wicked sense of humor and wears rhinestones.”

“There's plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it's a serious business.”

“I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny - partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and it's a way of laughing at it and getting a release.”

“I'm sure I've all but lost friends by maintaining that, despite their love for it, I always saw Stanley Kramer's 'It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World' as more of an exercise in anti-comedy than humor.”

“Much of the best humor is found in the frequently tragic reality of human experience.”

“Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.”

“When I was young, my favorite picture book was 'Fletcher and Zenobia,' written by Edward Gorey and illustrated by Victoria Chess. It's long out of print now, but its mix of macabre humor and 1960s psychedelia made it a perfect children's book for the times.”

“Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else's expense. And I find that that's just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else's feelings.”

“Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.”

“We have a certain warped sense of humor in Scandinavia, and that is what comes across in the choices in a lot of our movies.”

“My wife, my daughters, even my grandchildren are funny. You've got to keep a sense of humor because anger destroys you.”

“I want someone who can keep me on my toes, has a good sense of humor and a good heart.”

“Everybody's got a different sense of humor. It's just different styles.”

“Women's humor seems to be a little more supportive. It's just kind of trying to make the other one laugh through funny voices and kind of talking about other people. I respond to that. I feel less like I'm going to get beat up in a room full of women than I do in a room full of guys.”

“Sometimes an actor will stumble on the joke, and I'm right on them. Back it up before the audience hears the bad version of the joke, because humor is 90% surprise. If they know what's coming, they won't laugh as hard.”

“Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor.”