Humor Quotes

Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor.

Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

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.

Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.

The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.

Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.

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

Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.

It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.

Sure, the comedians who swear or use scatological humor can get laughs, but they're uncomfortable laughs.

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

As a person, he was wonderful. He really was a great person. He was full of life. He had a great sense of humor. Very talented, of course, but very caring to his parents. There was a very endearing quality about Elvis.

If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time.

Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.

Every time I do a movie like 'Finding Neverland' or 'Chocolat' or 'Shakespeare' in Love,' we deal with the creative process, but there's humor and fun along the way. I always love that kind of movie.

I find intelligence sexy. I find a sense of humor sexy. I find sensitivity sexy.

A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.

I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.

Humor results when society says you can't scratch certain things in public, but they itch in public.

I like a man who can be a real friend, has a good sense of humor, a good pair of shoes and a healthy gold card.

I think I've learned that if you want to be successful, you have to tell your story honestly and from your heart - and I think a healthy sense of humor doesn't hurt either.

I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.

I really wouldn't want to live in America. I found New York claustrophobic and dirty. I missed England when I was there, simple things like smells and the British sense of humor.

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

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.

People with no humor, they're outta my life.

When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?

Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.