Quotes About Humor

When I meet a girl, I just sort of do really over-exaggerated terrible dance moves... a lot of hip movements. I get them laughing, and get them to feel pity for me, and then they like me!

I've never pitched a joke that I wouldn't be comfortable seeing in a Pixar film.

Pixar make kids' movies, but there are jokes in there for adults, and it never gets too sentimental.

Whether you agree with Trump or not, you can't deny he looks like a piece of pizza with the cheese off. It's just what it is.

In my case, I don't eat a lot before a show. I eat after. But I do two shows and it becomes part of my reward system. 'I made people laugh. I deserve a pizza.'

I think jokes can actually go to places that drama can't.

If you're just making people laugh, that can be one-dimensional. You have to bring something artistic into it, so it's working on another plane or is more complex.

If you were the only person left on the planet, I would have to attack you. That's my job.

I always just wanted to be funny. I never really planned to be scary.

I like - there's a better word for it, but I like the danger that a comic brings to a role. It has a feeling, even though everything's scripted and everything's planned what you're going to do. When I see Will Ferrell or Sacha Baron Cohen, there's a feeling that anything could happen.

I never planned to be a comedian. I don't consider myself one now.

The novels I planned to write were never going to be funny books about Jews. They were going to be country house books. Only later on could I write what I knew I was best at writing about.

I tell a lot of jokes. Most of the jokes just happen to come; they're not planned jokes. I like when people laugh with me and have fun at the shows.

I wasn't planning on being a comedian; I just liked to laugh. Somebody said I should do it and that's how I started.

It says on the back of the Nyquil box, 'May cause drowsiness.' It should say, 'Don't make any plans, OK? Kiss your family and friends good-bye.'

My favorite saying is, 'If you want to make god laugh, tell him about your plans.'

When I think about Plastic Man, he was genuinely the first funny super hero.

I find it amusing when you look at plastic surgeons because they don't seem to have had anything done.

If someone offers me a hot plate of Penne Arrabiata, fageddaboutit.

I don't take myself seriously any more. Sometimes I just garden in my knickers and platform shoes.

I try not to see myself as anything, as that would be embarrassing. But if I had to label myself, I'd probably say I was an artist due to the fact that I enjoy working within the arts on different platforms, of which comedy is just one.

Nowadays if you talk of comedy as a film genre, you cannot create a simple comedy film, because there are so many other platforms where you can watch comedy free of cost.

Only a genius can play a fool.

As a brunette, I had previously been this serious actress. Then I became a blonde and got to play a completely different, comic role.