Humour Quotes

I don't want to sound facetious, but humour is the key to the soul. You know what I mean?

I enjoy humour more than anything, I don't really sit around banging my head and crying all the time.

While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour.

My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.

It seems to me that humour is everybody's way of keeping sane and standing off from the situations so that they can see it intellectually, as well as emotionally, and I don't know whether you've noticed, but if somebody tells a joke, it's nearly always a mini fantasy.

I think that London is very much like that. I find there's humour in the air and people are interesting. And I think that it's a place which is constantly surprising. The worst thing about it? I think it can be smug and aggressive.

The people I grew up around who I really liked were quick on the draw. It always just wowed me. And my mum would make weird funny comments. I can see in myself her self-deprecating, hippie humour. I can't take myself too seriously.

For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important.

I identify with this guy's frustration and inability to control his fury at moments. I even identify with the way that this guy covers up a lot with humour. So yeah, it's interesting.

At home I've got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour.

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.

My comedy is for children from three to 93. You do need a slightly childish sense of humour and if you haven't got that, it's very sad.

My father and I had a good relationship, it was very relaxed. He had a lot of humour. He looked a little bit like me, although he had no beard. He had the appearance of a very elegant British-looking man.

I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.

I like men with quick wit, good conversation and a great sense of humour. I love banter. I want a man to like me for me - I want him to be authentic.

If any man, out of an humour, should turn all his Estate into Money, and keep it dead, he would soon be sensible of Poverty growing upon him, whilst he is eating out of the quick stock.

From the stage I've seen people of all ages absolutely roaring at really good toilet humour.

No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.

I think it's like music for the sake of music, and a lot of the words stem from liking music a lot, wanting to be a good band and having a good sense of humour, and living in a situation where we're free to pretty much do what we want.

Inevitably you're going to be delayed somewhere. Always have a book. Always have a movie. Always have a notebook. And then always have a sense of humour.

Why can't people credit that he and all of us had a sense of humour?

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

Mixing humour and harsh reality is a very human behaviour, it's the way people stay sane in their daily lives.

According as the man is, so must you humour him.

Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.

You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance.

I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.

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

Since I was 12 or 13, I have been taking movie meetings finding a project right for me because I wanted to try it. Craig gave us the script - it was set in Wales, it is really British humour. I just loved it.