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Quotes About Humor

Hey, when I said work fast, I didn't mean your friend, I meant the maid.
~ Groucho Marx
The main reason I did 'Captain America' was because I wanted to get out of my own head and stop taking my work so seriously.
~ Hayley Atwell
My wife and I got remarried. Our divorce didn't work out.
~ Henny Youngman
Work your fingers to the bone and what do you get? Boney fingers.
~ Hoyt Axton
You might be a redneck if you work with a shirt off... and so does your husband.
~ Jeff Foxworthy
There's so much joy in doing comedy work, and that's one of the reasons I like to do it - because it's just a hilarious day at work.
~ John C. Reilly
It's continuously humbling to work hard, you know? As long as you've got a good work ethic and a sense of humor, I don't think anybody can become too much of an egoist under those circumstances.
~ Rachael Ray
The President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work for him.
~ Karen Hughes
All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.
~ Martin McDonagh
Saying, have a great work-out is like saying, I hope you pull something.
~ Dov Davidoff
I'll joke all day, but once I get in the gym, I'm going to work hard.
~ Dwight Howard
I never took the work less than serious, my work ethic is ingrained in me. But I've always had a sense of humor about myself.
~ George Hamilton
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
~ Jack Youngblood
Well, I like to have fun at work.
~ John Malkovich
When you're a woman, you have to work harder to get a laugh... I follow so many hilarious women on Twitter. It's a daily reminder that women get to be funny.
~ Rainbow Rowell
I have a work-out regime; I am not a maniac. It sounds cliche, but stand-up comedy, doing a one-man show, helps keep me young, and yes, it is exhausting, but I don't collapse.
~ Robert Klein
Were you already here?" he asked. "Yeah." "Didn't you just bring her home from work two hours ago?" "Yeah." Tripp chuckled and shook his head. "Did you even leave?" "No.
~ Abbi Glines
So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.
~ Al Yankovic
Twitter, to me, works if you're funny. Twitter doesn't work as a promotional tool unless you do it very, very, very occasionally.
~ Albert Brooks
Few authors are so interesting as their work - they generally reserve their wit or trenchant sarcasm for their books.
~ Alec-Tweedie
Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers.
~ Alexei Sayle
I think what's difficult is proving to people that a script actually does work and sometimes the laughter might not be on the page, it might be between the lines.
~ Alice Lowe
I wasn't always a comic, I used to do honest work.
~ Alonzo Bodden
Anyone who has the kind of inventive and inspired comic sensibility to be able to do that kind of work must be pretty talented.
~ Amy Poehler