Quotes About Amusement

Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern,--the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another.

I've always been attracted to humor and funny people in general. It's a joy to make people laugh, but it's not as fun as laughing yourself.

Humor is based on surprise, and surprise is a milder way of saying shock. It's surprise that makes the joke.

If you want to talk to me after the show, I'd be surprised.

I had a chicken finger that was so big, it was a chicken hand.

If I had a sense of humor, I'd be laughing right now.

You know, you're rather amusingly wrong.

Humor does depend on surprise, and the things that people remember as the funniest things in the world, you look at later and you go, "What? What was that all about?"

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

American humor ... is not subtle. It is something that makes you laugh the moment you hear it, you have not to think a scrap.

Comedy is the kindly contemplation of the incongruous.

Humor is not far from my vocabulary.

Humor needs to come in under cover of darkness, in disguise, and surprise people.

We don't appreciate the value of humor sometimes.

The people you like when you meet them and while you know them, and the people you remember fondly, are invariably people who have a sense of comedy, not just a sense of humor.

I don't think every joke has to be so dadgum cerebral. I mix it up really good, because that's the kind of humor I like. I like the goofy one-liner type stuff.

The joy of joys is the person of light but unmalicious humor.

Humor wades across a brook, wit jumps over it.

Humor is necessary - it allows the reader to come up for air before dunking them under again. I need humor and I need it on the page to keep the reader going.

For doing comedy, a sense of humor is a must!

The ability for anyone in our generation to self-amuse has sadly been bred out of our species.

A good sense of humor will get you everywhere.

I can't live without a sense of humor. I need to be laughing and entertained at all times.

Horror shares an edge with hilarity.