Humor Quotes

• I'm just very amused by five-year-old humor. Kesha

• As far as humor goes, I've always been a very insecure person and I've always wanted to be liked. Peter Steele

• With Ricky Gervais, it's all shades of wrong, it's my kind of humor. Emily Blunt

• Humor helps ease the tension of race and the differences in society. If there wasn't comedy I don't know if Obama could have ever become president. Marlon Wayans

• When a chick has a sense of humor, there's nothing more attractive. Dylan O'Brien

• A lot of stars don't have a sense of humor. Kathy Griffin

• Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. Thomas Carlyle

• At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious. Richard Russo

• It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver. Betty White

• Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival. Aung San Suu Kyi

• I want to be taken seriously as the type of musician that plays stuff like an electric rake. I mean, how seriously do you take someone like Spike Jones? They take him pretty seriously - a really good musician who made a great contribution in terms of humor, which is part of what I try to do too. Eugene Chadbourne

• You can't study comedy it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude. Don Rickles

• Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements. J. G. Ballard

• People with no humor, they're outta my life. Patti LaBelle

• I've always been really dark, and drawn to darker humor. Nothing has been forced, and I don't say anything for shock value. Amy Schumer

• I don't think I could ever do a network sitcom because the humor is often based on some trite circumstance. I don't want to be a part of a show where it's mostly about coming up with the jokes. Sherilyn Fenn

• In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose. J. Robert Oppenheimer

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

• Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society. William Makepeace Thackeray

• I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic. Shelley Berman

• In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge. George Herbert

• Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you. Herbert Beerbohm Tree

• As a person, he was wonderful. He really was a great person. He was full of life. He had a great sense of humor. Very talented, of course, but very caring to his parents. There was a very endearing quality about Elvis. Priscilla Presley

• With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor. Patrick Wilson

• You probably found 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' in the humor section. Let's just hope that is where it belongs. Daniel H. Wilson

• I've met a lot of people who've lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor. Louis C. K.

• I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others. Dean Koontz

• I was a product of a divorced family and I used humor as a weapon to combat sadness. I used comedy to make my mother laugh in light of the darkness that she faced, and to me it became a very powerful tool at a very young age, at six. I saw how therapeutic it could be. Josh Gad

• 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. David Sedaris

• Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic. Barbet Schroeder

• I think I've learned that if you want to be successful, you have to tell your story honestly and from your heart - and I think a healthy sense of humor doesn't hurt either. Dorothea Benton Frank

• I don't need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It's very much about style and substance and humor, interest, curiosity and really being smart. Kate Walsh

• Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon. Carl Hiaasen

• I'll do humor about myself, I'll poke fun and everything, but that's me and I can do it to me. I think it's cruel to do it to somebody else. Delta Burke

• I think Damien Hirst is hilarious. And I think he's a true artist. He's not hilarious first I think he is a real artist, and I also think he's got an amazing sense of humor. Jemima Kirke

• Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books. Berkeley Breathed

• A good sense of humor will get you everywhere. Josh Bowman

• My dad instilled in me a great sense of humor. I wasn't bullied at school because my outward attitude was confident, and that helps. Warwick Davis

• Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities, a sense of humor, a sense of style, a willingness to be who you are no matter what anyone else might think or say and it's true, I do have a certain fondness for women that have dark hair. Wentworth Miller

• Start every day off with a smile and get it over with. W. C. Fields

• I think the Canadian sense of humor is dryer than America's and juicier than Britain's. I think it's a cross between the two of them, really. Scott Thompson

• Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste. Carter Burwell

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

• Lesbian humor isn't trying to sell anything, it doesn't have to sell out. Coming out as a lesbian onstage is still a very political act if it weren't, more women would do it. Kate Clinton

• People ask me what the most important thing to take on the race is, and I always say it's a sense of humor. If you've got nothing but a sense of humor, you will survive. Phil Keoghan

• I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor. Anjelica Huston

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

• I really hate sitcoms on television with canned laughter and stuff. What really makes me laugh is the real-life stuff. I've got a dry sense of humor. Katie Price

• The polls indicated that I was feisty, that I was tough, that I had a sense of humor, but they weren't quite sure if they liked me and they didn't know whether or not that I was sensitive. Geraldine Ferraro

• I don't have a very quick sense of humor. Florenz Ziegfeld

• You learn timing on the road. You learn structure and how to read an audience. You learn so much about the business of laughter that you can't learn on a set, because it's all on you. Sometimes you bomb, and you know not to tell that joke again... You just hope people find the humor in the awkwardness. Marlon Wayans

• The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit. William Temple

• I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor. Edward Albee

• Humor can be one of our best survival tools. Allen Klein

• I want someone who can keep me on my toes, has a good sense of humor and a good heart. Carmen Electra

• 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. H. L. Mencken

• Humor comes from self-confidence. Rita Mae Brown

• There are certain things I learned when I first started learning about acting, to try and place the character physically and emotionally. And the way you place them emotionally is often with humor. David Duchovny

• Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. William James

• I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool, but if that's all you've got, it's just boring. Everything I write, whether it's happy or sad, has a sense of humor to it. Katy Perry

• What's great about the geek spirit is that life never seems to stop us, and they never seem to kill our enthusiasm, our optimism and our hunger to experience the world. We keep our sense of humor, we protect our dignity, we talk to our friends about the experience and then we start again fresh the very next day. Paul Feig

• Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger. Allen Klein

• My family has been amazing, and they understand how blessed I am. They've been able to keep my sense of humor. Karen Duffy

• Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. Edward de Bono

• I have a very silly sense of humor. I've never laughed harder in my entire life than seeing someone with toilet paper stuck on the bottom of their shoe. Paula Poundstone

• Puns are a form of humor with words. Guillermo Cabrera Infante

• Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know. Milos Forman

• I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny - partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and it's a way of laughing at it and getting a release. Joaquin Phoenix

• Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors. Bill Forsyth

• I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them. Vera Farmiga

• I make fun of situations and try and find the humor in things, but it's never at the expense of the other guy. Bob Uecker

• I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage. Kyle Chandler

• We're starting to push the envelope in terms of the expectations, and you can also have your own style, personality and sense of humor, because now we're allowed to. Lisa Guerrero

• It's funny. People often compare me to other humor essayists. They're usually quite nice comparisons I will accept those gladly. But I am always sort of appalled at the idea of being lumped with other, more chick-y female writers. And the truth is probably that neither comparison is accurate. Sloane Crosley

• No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn? Bob Hope

• It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance. David Herbert Lawrence

• Whether it's viewers of the show or readers of my columns and books, I'm consistently impressed with their wit, humor and insight. That goes for about 95 percent of the audience. The other five percent are why the 'Delete' option and restraining orders were invented. Richard Roeper

• To me, sadness and humor aren't disrelated and humor is the best tool I've had against the sadness in my life. Mike Mills

• Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost. James Thurber

• People of humor are always in some degree people of genius. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well. Alan Thicke

• Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory. Joshua Foer

• Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that. Ice Cube

• I realized women and humor were linked very closely. Craig Ferguson

• Once we got over the origin story, we could really delve deeper into their lives and characters and angst. So this movie actually has more heart, more humor. Avi Arad

• Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out. Hank Ketcham

• I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that. Chris Cooper