Humour Quotes

I was worried people would laugh at me when I started to talk the language, but they were just pleasantly surprised that I could. The sense of humour here is great - once I could have a giggle, I settled down.

One way of watering down the effects of violence is to approach it in a more lighthearted way. I don't mean to say that you laugh when somebody has their arm sawn off, but you can diffuse fear with humour.

The hall-mark of American humour is its pose of illiteracy.

I think that my ideas of the world are that it's random and cruel but kind of quite comical really, and therefore the humour, in a sense, springs from that.

That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds.

If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!

For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.

Every culture loves scatological humour. That's always a favourite.

Men who are not given any voice in this because of the secret nature of the courts, what they're left with is dressing up ridiculously, but at least using humour to try and draw attention to their kids.

Rod has such a wicked sense of humour. I loved him very much.

So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I don't say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out.

And realising that humour is the most powerful way to make a political statement and say the things that you want to say. And it's not used enough, at least not in the U.S.

When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.

Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.

I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

Humour is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

I'm definitely responsible for the image that I put out there. But it does become frustrating, because I don't want 'sexy' to be my defining characteristic. I'd love for my ambition and will and intellect and sense of humour to define me as well.

You've got to have a sense of humour about sex. When you look at it, it's all pretty ridiculous, isn't it?

Apparently, I have a totally different sense of humour.

That's where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that's what I like. I've always felt that's what I would like to do.

It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.

Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.

It's the teenage and university crowd, so we give them lots of sex jokes and gross humour.

There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.

My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.

I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots of jokes in it - I wouldn't know how to do jokes without the story.

Well, he doesn't make me laugh. I think I've got a fair sense of humour but I can't really see it in him. I've listened to his show on the radio on a Saturday morning, and that's a load of mince as well.

The thing about a sense of humour is that it's not bestowed on the good. It's just randomly dished out.

The journalists have obviously failed to capture my innate magnetism, humour and charisma, and they all need to be fired from their newspapers right away.

We had to do the same thing here. To top that sequel was quite a task. Mike had a couple of good conceptual humour and character ideas, which got me back into it.