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Quotes About Humor

If you're going through a divorce and you're in a comedy you have to find some way to find the funny side of things even though you might not want to.
~ Alan Ruck
Where in the world did you get that dress?" "Present from Zu." "You look like you want to throw it in a fire." "I can't promise there won't be an unfortunate accident later on.
~ Alexandra Bracken
I actually write some pretty tough jokes. I don't want to push the "soft" angle too much.
~ Allison Silverman
A lot of times girls think they're funny, but they want to pretty at the same time, and if you want to be funny, you have to be willing to get ugly.
~ Amy Sedaris
I like to play unattractive people who think they're pretty. You can do what you want, but I prefer to look interesting.
~ Amy Sedaris
I'm not a comedy writer, I'm a comedian, so I only write stuff that I would want to say.
~ Anthony Jeselnik
I'm the kind of person, if I see something, like a funny video, I want to share it. With Twitter and Tumblr you can do that on a mass scale, and people get to know your personality.
~ Aziz Ansari
When you're a young comedian the first thing you want to do is get a laugh.
~ Baron Vaughn
Sometimes you're not getting the laughs you want or at the place you want but that doesn't mean it's not funny. It means you haven't explored it enough.
~ Baron Vaughn
I've died so many times in so many movies. What is it about my face that people want to kill it? I'm sure they would've killed Kitty Farmer if they could've!
~ Beth Grant
I was heading to Nebraska. Now there's a sentence you don't want to say too often if you can possibly help it.
~ Bill Bryson
If the audience knows you can be funny when you want to be, they will be willing to wait for that payoff.
~ Bill Cosby
My wife and I have five children and the reason why we have five children is because we do not want six.
~ Bill Cosby
I like talking to a person who is crazy in a fun, eccentric way. I don't want to talk to a legitimate crazy person, because that's not nice.
~ Billy Eichner
I try to exist in a world where there is freedom of opinion, where you're allowed to make jokes. I don't want to live in some PC world where no-one's allowed to say anything.
~ Boy George
I was always the funny guy. Everyone wants to hang out with the funny guy.
~ Brad Williams
I don't know how to write jokes from the point of view of a six-foot-two guy. So, I'll always talk about it, but I just don't want it to be the absolute focus of all of my act.
~ Brad Williams
Everyone just wants to hear the exact jokes that apply to them and want to - everyone wants a perfectly crafted joke for them.
~ Brad Williams
At the end of the day, audiences just want to laugh and be entertained. They want to escape from their reality, and that's why we make movies, to get people to escape from the realities.
~ Brett Ratner
I like to make people laugh. I like that kind of silly stuff. For me, it's a natural thing to want to do something like this.
~ Carmen Electra
You might want to put some clothes on' suggested Jace 'I'm all for the bra and panties look, but you don't want the Silent Brothers to die of excitement
~ Cassandra Clare
Isabelle: Do you want some soup? Jace: No Isabelle: Do you think Hodge will want some soup? Jace: No one wants soup Simon: I want some soup! Jace: No, you don't. You just want to sleep with Isabelle
~ Cassandra Clare
Smart, truly hilarious, and entirely sympathetic. Like a hot bubble bath or a holiday at the beach, you won't want it to end.
~ Cecily von Ziegesar
Audiences and critics they don't like seeing what happens in real life. Why do you think comedies make all the money at the box office? People want to go and laugh. I can understand that.
~ Channing Tatum