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Quotes About Humor

I try to give all my characters a sense of humor, so I guess I feel like I have done comedy, but maybe I'm better known for drama.
~ Kathy Baker
musicians rarely have a sense of humour, at least, about themselves.
~ Carolyn Wells
So I was in Tesco's and I saw this man and woman wrapped in a barcode. I said "Are you two an item?"
~ Tommy Cooper
You can get through very serious and sometimes horrible and sometimes embarrassing and very awkward situations with humor. It gives us a way out.
~ Janet Evanovich
Whenever I'm on my computer, I don't type 'lol'. I type 'lqtm' - laugh quietly to myself. It's more honest.
~ Demetri Martin
humor bears the closest relation to emotion, either bubbling up as from a deep and happy wellspring, or in an opposite fashion rising like a re-birth of feeling from dead levels after turmoil.
~ Constance Rourke
I am a confectionery-based existentialist.
~ Bill Bailey
No new sect ever had humor; no disciples either, even the disciples of Christ.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
That dark humor has always been a part of what I've done. It's always been somewhat tongue-in-cheek.
~ El-P
This book is dedicated to all of my friends who helped me get to where I am today - you know who you are... and when I find you I am going to kill you.
~ Lewis Black
Yeah, yeah, it's all fun and games until someone loses an eye type of thing. There's that kind of irreverence to it the humor and in the reality of what's really going on that plays into this movie.
~ Jeremy Renner
And it really pisses Peter and Micky off when I get onto one of those tangents where I start to do humor.
~ Davy Jones
You have to realize that Mel [Gibson], he's a funny guy. He's got a wicked sense of humor.
~ Keith Carradine
All I know is just what I read in the Congressional Record. They have had some awful funny articles in there lately. As our government deteriorates, our humor increases.
~ Will Rogers
I don't want to have so much humor [in films] that it undermines the jeopardy, but enough to sometime relieve tension.
~ David Twohy
Humor is the balance of the tonal. Within the tonal you've got reason and humor. The two balance each other so that the tonal can accept and understand the journeys into the nagual.
~ Frederick Lenz
I understand from those who adore him, he [Julian Assange] has a great sense of humor which rarely gets an airing because he's dealing with such serious issues.
~ Benedict Cumberbatch
Laughing at ones own attempt at humor while saying things just come to me should be punishable by death.
~ Dov Davidoff
And then there was my mate who'd just been fitted with a brand new hearing aid. "It's the best in the world", he said. "What type is it?", I asked and he said "ten past twelve".
~ Billy Connolly
Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.
~ Barbara Mertz
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog: Nobody really enjoys it, and the frog generally dies as a result.
~ Mark Twain
Humor is one of the primary tools for liberation.
~ Frederick Lenz
So all my friends have kids now... which I think is rude.
~ David Cross
My parents and I always put great emphasis on telling stories that appeal to a child's sense of humor.
~ Mike Berenstain