Quotes About Humor

We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.

Especially working with Adam Brody, he's just so funny in every day life. Working with him is a lot of fun. We play pranks on each other.

In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.

Russell Crowe likes to tell jokes, which I can't. I can't remember a joke to save my life. I don't have a brain for it.

Don't be serious about seriousness. Laugh about it, be a little foolish. Don't condemn foolishness; it has its own beauties.

Life itself is pretty funny when you realize how absurd it can be.

You make a joke out of everything. Life's too painful not to.

And if I was humming "Happy Birthday" and smiling stupidly as I fled for my life—well, that was nobody's business, was it?

The world is not entirely comic and it's not entirely dramatic. You have a laugh and then someone finds a lump and you deal with that. Because that is what life is like.

I adore being hitched. It's so extraordinary to discover one unique individual you need to irritate for whatever remains of your life.

If you're a comedian, you are looking for material in daily life.

When life gives you lemons. . . You might as well shove 'em where the sun don't shine, because you sure as hell aren't ever going to see any lemonade.

Most comedians I know are quite serious, anxious people who find life rather difficult. As a consequence, they make people laugh.

I've been enjoying 'Life on the Mississippi' by Mark Twain that I picked up at the airport randomly. It's very witty and interesting to read about his time as a steamboat pilot.

Any time there's a lot of pressure, it's life and death, you go toward this very dark kind of humor. Soldiers do it. Cops do it.

Business, like life, is funny. We all go through difficult times, and we all have to face curve balls and challenges, each and every week. And we need to laugh when things are funny.

My real life is funnier than anything on TV.

I beat my sons in real-life table tennis, but virtually, I get murdered. I download games on the iPhone that I'm addicted to - I'm a master at "Angry Birds."

The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life.

My comedy notebooks are filled with random journal entries. It's all the same. I can look back on old joke notebooks, and know exactly what was going on in my life.

A lot of times I play a fat woman with cats who has no boyfriends. And in real life, I'm allergic to cats and I've had a boyfriend since college.

I knocked part of my tooth out with a scrubbing brush on stage whilst singing 'Hard Knock Life' in Annie.

I tell my friends married life is boring, but that's just a fun thing to say to make single people feel better.

If I could live a parallel life, I would be a sitcom star; being in front of a live audience would be great.