Quotes About Humor

I am like Hugh Hefner minus anything good about his life.

A sense of humor is an escape valve for the pressures of life.

I jogged for three miles once. It was the worst three hours of my life.

Optimist: someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play.

I am attracted to intelligence, a witty sense of humor, an adventurous outlook on life and spiritual awareness about one's self and the world.

Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.

When you cannot joke about the darkness of life, that's when the darkness takes over.

I've been doing pranks my whole life, so I guess I'm pretty good at it.

I think if actors don't think of themselves as funny in real life they think they can't do comedy.

The worst thing to do is to die while reading LIFE magazine.

Timing is the essence of life, and definitely of comedy.

Now, I had been frightened on several different occasions in my life. The most frightening of these involved an elevator and a mime.

Comedy is about flaws anyway... There's a lot of humor in the dark areas of life.

Emily and I have now reached the time in life when not only do we lie about our ages, we forget what we've said they are.

I have never had a point in my life to make. I'm just trying to entertain the reader.

I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

Laughter is one of the great beacons in life because we don't refract it by gunning it through our intellectual prism. What makes us laugh is a mystery - an involuntary response.

Some people in this life really enjoy being sent up and Nicholas Parsons is one of them because he's a sadomasochist.

Humor is imperative, more important than food. You have a choice when someone dies. You can lie down or get back into life. Do something for someone else.

I never wrote a joke in my life. I just get on stage and let it flow.

Within any drama in anyone's life, there's always a way to find the humor in it. Without humor no one cares about whatever drama is going on.

Michael Winter's fiction is a lot like hearing him talk about his life… harrowing in an after-the-fact hilarious way. Full of wonder and mystery. A hangover you wouldn't miss for the world.

I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.

Life isn't, and has never been, a 2-0 home victory after a fish and chip lunch.