Quotes About Humor

I've seen so many excellent actors - excellent actors - who, the minute they're told they're in a comedy, turn into God knows what - creatures from another planet! I mean they just... the voice changes, they don't look the same, it's like - it has no similarity to any living human being, do you know what I mean?

I told Simon, 'I don't want to play Oscar. I want to play Felix because Oscar is too easy. He gets all the laughs. Felix is a hard part; that's the part I want to play.'

I was in a tsunami with Simon Amstell.

Goodness, that Simon Cowell is a sensitive soul.

I'm a huge fan of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.

The 'My Mother the Car' script read like Neil Simon compared to the 'Gilligan's Island' script.

There's nothing simple when you're in this 'Good Place.'

I'm so bad at dancing that I've actually been in two movies where the director of the film saw me dancing and thought it was so funny that in one movie they had me do it as the mental dancing of a real simple person. The other one was, like, to-be-laughed-at dancing. That's how bad my dancing is.

I'm somebody who can laugh even at myself. That happens now and again, when I've made a mess of really simple things.

To be perfectly honest, drama is a lot simpler than comedy.

Making someone laugh is the simplest, most basic positive human connection.

Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.

We're all pros already. 1) We show up every day 2) We show up no matter what 3) We stay on the job all day 4) We are committed over the long haul 5) The stakes for us are high and real 6) We accept remuneration for our labor 7) We do not overidentify with our jobs 8 ) We master the technique of our jobs 9) We have a sense of humor about our jobs 10) We receive praise or blame in the real world

Let us be, then, warriors of the heart, and enlist in our inner cause the virtues we have acquired through blood and sweat in the sphere of conflict—courage, patience, selflessness, loyalty, fidelity, self-command, respect for elders, love of our comrades (and of the enemy), perseverance, cheerfulness in adversity and a sense of humor, however terse or dark.

It is that peculiar soldiers' humor which springs from the experience of shared misery and often translates poorly to those not on the spot and enduring the same hardship.

The virtues of resourcefulness, self-composure, patience, hardiness, not to mention a sense of humour, were prized as highly as those of bravery, aggressiveness, and raw martial rigour.

We are faced with the need to communicate, compromise, submit to one another, and be unselfish. A tall order, to be sure. Either God has a tremendous sense of humor, or a desire to keep us continually growing. Probably both. God

I worked in the Bush campaign, and some of us would darkly joke, "Anybody can become president when you get more votes. To lose by half a million and become president takes professionals." It seemed funny at the time. Less so now.

If I'd been listening closely, I'd have caught the sound of the gods having a great big old tee-hee at my expense.

While I'm not a big fan of nature, its intractability amuses me to no end. (Kinsey Millhone)

I showered and shampooed. I even shaved the requisite legs and armpits just in case I fell in a swoon and one or the other was exposed to view. (Kinsey Millhone)

As long as you have sufficient toilet paper, how far wrong can life go?

I didn't take the death-and-dismemberment talk very seriously. Where could you rent a chainsaw at this time of night?

I stood when she reached the table and we did that fake kissing thing, looking like a pair of budgies about to peck each other to death.