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Quotes About Humor

When I was 21 I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor for The Simpsons who'd briefly joined a religious cult and then discovered Foucault. Such is life.
~ Zadie Smith
That was his mother. When she wasn't crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself.
~ Nick Hornby, About a Boy
I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it's all going to be disastrous. That it hasn't all been that way is simply down to some random quirk of fate.
~ Antony Sher
My view of life is colored by humor and looking at the best in any situation.
~ Michael J. Fox
I consider myself to have a decent sense of humor. What's life without a sense of humor?
~ Mayer Hawthorne
Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.
~ David Lynch
I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a character... This happens to be a feature of my life generally.
~ Wallace Shawn
To me, sadness and humor aren't disrelated and humor is the best tool I've had against the sadness in my life.
~ Mike Mills
I think all good drama is funny. All the best drama is ultimately very funny. Life is funny. You can't have any honest treatise on life without bumping into some humor.
~ Thomas Jane
I have a very silly sense of humor. I've never laughed harder in my entire life than seeing someone with toilet paper stuck on the bottom of their shoe.
~ Paula Poundstone
Sense of humor is important in life, not just in clothing. How boring to live a life in beige.
~ Jean Pigozzi
Life gets so ridiculous, you just have to brush it off like sand and laugh. I think the laughter is good medicine for crap-itis.
~ Ace Antonio Hall
Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it.
~ Philip Seymour Hoffman
People with no humor, they're outta my life.
~ Patti LaBelle
I like the hot-cold, the sugar-salt, being able to play over-the-top and dramatic things - in the same film. Just as in my life, I can be very funny and at other times almost extinguished.
~ Jean Dujardin
This is how sad my life is: I got a scar from scratching my chicken pox too much. That's my big scar story. I really have no major scars.
~ Lewis Black
I'd like to classify my life as a romantic comedy. Unfortunately I feel it's probably more like a TV reality show.
~ Uma Thurman
I'm dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane.
~ Jim Butcher, Death Masks
I was of the "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, then wonder why life didn't give you freaking sugar so you could drink the stuff" school of thought.
~ Cate Tiernan
Life is funny and we are really funny, especially when we get to be hoity toity; we can be so ridiculous. Life is fun.
~ Desmond Tutu
I find the humor in life, and laugh easily
~ Doreen Virtue
My life is nothing like the Daddy Day Care life. Me around the house is nothing like the Daddy Day Care dad.
~ Eddie Murphy
Life is funny and it is interesting how we make it as serious as possible.
~ Elisha Cuthbert
I don't look for [comedic moments] actually, I just live my life.
~ Gerry Dee