Joke Quotes

You learn to kid around and joke and not take things too seriously because somehow its all gonna work out for the best - or you're gonna make it work out.

If you keep up with pop culture, everybody knows the joke.

Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.

Slavery is nothing to joke about. The history of this nation's involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke.

Tool of Communist agitators... it's really a joke, isn't it? Because, quite clearly, we are a party of real moderates. It just shows how little they understand.

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.

It devastates me now that I have been reduced to a Hollywood statistic - another joke marriage.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

U.S. soldiers, with whom I now have more than a passing acquaintance, joke that they track my movements in order to know where they will be deployed next.

It's a cosmic joke that I'm a lesbian, because I understand men so well but women are a complete mystery to me.

Nothing is a better icebreaker than a great joke.

What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

If something stinks, I say it stinks. But I try to massage it a little and not be as cutting, come behind it with a joke: Hey, I cut you deep, but now let me put a couple of stitches in you.

I like to joke that if I had a dollar for everybody who slapped me on the back and said, 'Hey Jeb, you're all set,' I'd be retired now.

The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet.

If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?

I don't really know what is shocking. When you tell the story of a man who is beheaded, you have to show how they cut off his head. If you don't, it's like telling a dirty joke and leaving out the punch line.

When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all the other things a mom is), and I was always grateful for that because I knew she was someone I could talk to and joke with, and argue with and that nothing would ever harm that friendship.

Completely committed to adapting 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters.

I like writing a joke, and I like when a joke works, and I like other comics who tell jokes.

Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.

I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not.

To go from Girl, Interrupted, where I had to cry every day, to a TV show like West Wing where I get to laugh and joke around every day, has been a welcome relief.

It's so easy to judge everybody and for some reason extra weight is the one thing everything feels OK to joke about.

I'm still no good at ball-and-stick games. If I go play golf with the guys, it's intended to be a joke.

Even when I lecture per se, I am a joke comedian, I can do the voices.

We all have, in my family, what we call the 'Vorderman bottom' - a sticky out, bigger-than-normal, signature, of the rear variety. It's been a family joke all our lives - even my lovely brother has one. I know the lines to all the good singalong big bum songs.

I always make this joke that I know you were expecting to see the big skirts and the hoops. But that was a long time ago. Artists aren't always seen as real people. If you start out as a teenager, sometimes people want to keep you locked as that. But I'm a woman now.