Quotes About Humor

I don't know how to describe my sense of humor.

English humor resembles the Loch Ness Monster in that both are famous but there is a strong suspicion that neither exists.

Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.

If someone took the 'F' letter off me, I'd be ucked.

So, I sit at the hotel at night and I think of something that's funny. Or, If the pen is too far away, I have to convince myself that what I thought of wasn't funny.

I washed mud off of mud.

Four years ago... no, it was yesterday.

Comedy is the kindly contemplation of the incongruous.

My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.

I think New Yorkers - they're media savvy. People have a sense of humor.

It's weird doing red carpets; it's uncomfortable. But you can have a sense of humor about it.

You can get away with saying much more with humor than you can with a straight face.

I was interested in the mystical element of humor - was humor part of creation? Is God laughing at us, or with us?

There's a sense of humor within the Australian culture that prevails when one is in a rather difficult situation.

I've always wanted to have a suitcase handcuffed to my wrist. That's not a full joke there! It's filler.

A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness.

I don't like being preachy. I think using fun and humor is an excellent way to make people think.

The other day someone left a piece of plasticine in my dressing room. I didn't know what to make of it.

I went into a shop and I said, "Can someone sell me a kettle." The bloke said "Kenwood" I said, "Where is he?"

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

I try to have all my characters have a sense of humor. To me the most interesting thing is a desperate character. I think desperation is funny.

My dark comic edge is the end result of trying to use humor to maintain my sanity growing up in a dysfunctional family in Honolulu.

What humor allows you to do is to let the past go with less pain. It's a healing element. It releases some of the pain from the shotgun wound.

We have a certain warped sense of humor in Scandinavia, and that is what comes across in the choices in a lot of our movies.