Quotes About Humor

I've had a lot of hilarious things happen to me.

If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher.

I think sometimes I should do more carousing, because I don't do much and maybe it would be fun occasionally. It's hard for me to have fun and I'm a serious thinker and a searcher and funny from the front.

I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker.

The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.

I've been thinking of humorous things since I was... I can't remember when. All the way through elementary school, all the way through junior high, all the way through high school, through college and after college, I was thinking of the same kinds of things that I say in front of an audience now.

I did a forward roll for the kids the other day, thinking it'd be a breeze like it was when I was six, and I had to lie flat for about 20 minutes afterwards - 'Leave mummy alone; she's feeling a bit dizzy.'

I keep thinking someone's gonna show up and say, 'There's been a big mistake. The guy next door is supposed to be drawing the cartoon. Here's your shovel.'

Whether I'm performing or directing, I'm aways thinking about rhythm; sometimes it's nailing the right rhythm, and sometimes it's intentionally breaking the rhythm. Those two things are what make something funny or not. How long a shot is and where you put the camera are all part of that rhythm of directing.

The thing that's funny is that everyone thinks I'm dead.

People don't live a good life when they take themselves too seriously, because they're always concerned about what everybody else thinks.

Ally MacLeod thinks that tactics are a new kind of mint.

Matt LeBlanc thinks his own jokes are funny which is problematic when you're driving along - he expects you to laugh and often they're not funny.

'We need a guy who plays dodge ball and thinks he's a pirate - get me Alan Tudyk on the phone!' Those are the jobs I do.

I've actually tried to give Brett Ratner dance lessons, but he thinks he already knows how to.

Andy Dick is so gay, he thinks Margaret Cho is funny.

Nobody who is a Penn & Teller fan thinks of us first and foremost as magicians, but as a comedy team.

I think he's much funnier in many ways than some of the things that I've done. Because it's a little bit more layered. He's constantly trying to teach Luke what he thinks are really deep philosophical ideas, but they're really simple.

My son thinks I'm hilarious, but he's only 1.

I got one letter at the very beginning, like, in the first season, saying - from a woman who was very religious, very Christian, saying how wrong she thought the show was, but she thinks it's the funniest show on television.

Jon Stewart hires people that he thinks are funny. That's it. That's the only requirement.

I think it's always funny when somebody thinks you're going to do something super sexy and then you don't.

My boy and I move. We have this game where if we dress in a particular item of clothing, we have to do a different movement. A hat means 20 jumps - that sort of thing. When I put a scarf on, my son has to drop down and do push-ups, immediately. He thinks it's really funny.

Every actor thinks he can do comedy, and it's not true.