Quotes About Humor

Is there a grandmother that isn't spunky on television? Is there such a creature?

My grandmother was very funny. It skipped a generation.

My grandpa is the funniest person in the world, straight up. But mostly everyone in my family groans when he is 'on.' I am his biggest fan.

Cary Grant is really the master of not taking himself so seriously.

I didn't know I was cool, but I was very flattered that some of the younger comedy writers came up to talk to me at the Emmys. I found that gratifying.

There's nothing more gratifying than making someone laugh in today's time when everybody is grappling with some issue or the other.

With comedies, it's been very gratifying to be able to clock in, laugh all day, and then clock out.

It's very gratifying sometimes to make yourself the butt of the joke because it bursts your bubble.

You might be the funniest guy in the world, but if you don't have anything to talk about, people are eventually going to gravitate towards the guy that's actually saying something.

I'm kind of a laugh junkie. It's what I appreciate in life, because life is rich and sometimes it's hard, and I really, really love to laugh and gravitate towards people who make me laugh.

I actually gravitate toward comedy a lot when it comes to what I'm watching, but maybe that's because I've been on such dark work the last four or five years.

I always gravitate toward the humor in something.

I gravitate to ensemble comedy.

The things that I gravitate toward in film and TV are things that make me laugh but then break my heart.

As somebody who works in comedy, I gravitate to the very serious, dramatic things in my consumption of media.

My bottom is so big it's got its own gravitational field.

Things are more complex today, and I think humor has changed a a great deal. People are more sensitive today.

I did comedies for 10 years and I learned a great deal.

President Ford used humor a great deal.

'Scorpion' has so much humor and so much heart and a great deal of action.

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

It's great fun to try to entertain.

I get great joy from being a part of a play that doesn't take itself too seriously.

Everybody wants to be Doug Stanhope; everybody wants to be Bill Hicks - and those are great people to aim for, but they had the fundamentals down. They knew how to be funny.