Humor Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.

What we're doing is fun - if you have any sense of humor at all!

I met Elton John at an Interview dinner, and we just sort of became friends. He's got such a wicked sense of humor.

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.

A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.

And it really pisses Peter and Micky off when I get onto one of those tangents where I start to do humor.

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

Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.

Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest,' humor is the only thing that is dead.

In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.

But it was this tough little character part that I was playing, a very funny little guy that I invented over a weekend, because I realized I was not contributing to the humor of this thing. And I had to do something.

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.

When I look at a lot of older stuff that I've written, I think one sign of amateur humor writing is when you see people trying too hard.

It's great to be able to connect parents with children both emotionally and through humor. I look forward to exploring family entertainment once again and examining the specifics of our day-to-day lives against the backdrop of an extraordinary adventure.

Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me - just in the sense that it has allowed me to keep my sanity.