Humor Quotes

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.

People who know me , they know I have a sense of humor, I'm a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown really, and I would love someone to exploit that side of me and send me a romantic comedy.

I'm going to do a lot of weird stuff that's not going to be like me prancing around like an insane 12-year-old. I showed everybody that side of me and I think it's time to do different stuff, even when it comes down to the type of humor. I want to do some drier, weirder stuff.

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

I don't think I would describe my sense of humor. Doesn't sound like the kind of thing I'd do.

Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.

The thing about For Better or Worse is the only thing that made me an okay director for that is that I have a sense of humor, and it was supposed to be funny.

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.

The President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work for him.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

There's always a source for humor.

You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side, they don't like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot's mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain.

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.

There are just certain things that turn my head. It may be a girl's sense of humor, it may be her wit, or her belief system; it could be a lot of different things.

The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays, to the humor that Monty Pythons made popular.

Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.

Cathy was the first widely syndicated humor strip created by a woman. The strip was pretty revolutionary at the time not only because it starred a female, but also because it was so emotionally honest about all the conflicting feelings many women had in 1976.

Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

You can find heroism everyday, like guys working terrible jobs because they've got to support their families. Or as far as humor, the things I see on the job, on the street, are far funnier than anything you'll ever see on TV.

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

We have always had gross humor. But we try for funny, not gross.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, of humor or anything organic, and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely different - I love L.A.!

What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.

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.

Any attempts at humor immediately after September 11th were deemed tasteless.