A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.
Comedy is so hard to do, so it was very cool to do dead pan humor.
I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it’s humor that’s often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.
Women respond to comfort and a sense of humor. I was always able to make them laugh, so that helps a lot.
Gallows humor is part of our coping mechanism. It’s part of our grief process. If we don’t know what else to do, we laugh. That’s a very real thing.
The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that’s how self-loathing is made palatable.
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
I like a man who can be a real friend, has a good sense of humor, a good pair of shoes and a healthy gold card.
I have this idyllic love life, but my mind just won’t accept that. I would like to bring a new guy home every night. I try to make humor out of that situation.
My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.
I think you have to have a sense of humor about every movie that you’re doing. Your character needs to be relatable in a way that, even when you’re doing the most bizarre things, sometimes a bit of tongue in cheek is necessary to keep up the believability of it.
In everyday life, I use positive thoughts, sense of humor, Taekwondo, running, and yoga to make me stronger.
I mean, yeah, I’m sure that Python and the other things have paved the way for a greater understanding of the British sense of humor, but I don’t think it’s all that different than the American sense of humor.
I was a product of a divorced family and I used humor as a weapon to combat sadness. I used comedy to make my mother laugh in light of the darkness that she faced, and to me it became a very powerful tool at a very young age, at six. I saw how therapeutic it could be.
Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.
Sometimes I’ll be sitting with my friends; I’ll say something Koothrappali-esque and make a face. There is a lot of Koothrappali in me as a human being. A lot of mannerism, humor, mischievousness, my innocence. So I don’t know if I bring him home so much as I bring myself to him at work.
It’s great to be able to connect parents with children both emotionally and through humor. I look forward to exploring family entertainment once again and examining the specifics of our day-to-day lives against the backdrop of an extraordinary adventure.
The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
Art Modell was a visionary, a deal-maker and a friend. And he possessed a marvelous sense of humor.
Using no control and using humor will build a relationship and make a dent to where the client puts the counselor in their quality world and then begins to relate and seek out the counselor. Effective therapy begins with the acceptance of the therapist into the client’s quality world.
The president of General Motors was in a foul humor.
If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor.
It’s amazing how these little guys can say things that a mortal human could never get away with. There’s some sort of unspoken license… when outlandish things come out of an inanimate object, somehow it equals humor.
I liked the humor of it, I’ve always enjoyed a sense of humor in God and in religion and in spirituality.
Humor is an antidote to all ills.
Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.
I never wanted to do observational humor because I never wanted to tell people what they were seeing.
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people. I’m talking about a writer’s critics, who don’t address what you’ve written, but want to probe into your existence and magnify the trivia of your life without any sense of humor, without any sense of context.
Any attempts at humor immediately after September 11th were deemed tasteless.
Humor is reason gone mad.
I think ‘Country Girl’ is one song that can veer into country or hip-hop or rap. You can listen to it and enjoy the humor and the fun in it.
The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.
Everything is funny, as long as it’s happening to somebody else.
You see, that’s another thing that my parents gave me: an enormously great sense of humor.
We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.
Brits have a better sense of humor in most ways. It’s darker, more cutting.
My wife is Swedish, so I’m familiar with the Scandinavian kind of odd humor. It’s very dark and very deadpan.
The humor and emotion of the ‘Do You Want to Build a Snowman’ theme makes me cry every time I watch it, and that deep emotion is something we’d love to do on the show. If we can make you cry, we always try to. And ‘Once,’ when it’s at its best, is emotional and fun.
I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.
People ask me what the most important thing to take on the race is, and I always say it’s a sense of humor. If you’ve got nothing but a sense of humor, you will survive.
Cynicism is humor in ill health.
For the most part, comedians are pretty friendly with each other. They always say they badmouth each other, but most of the time, they’re friends. We’re the only ones that can really stand our type of humor.
It’s good to be able to laugh at yourself and the problems you face in life. Sense of humor can save you.
A lesson taught with humor is a lesson retained.
Every time I do a movie like ‘Finding Neverland’ or ‘Chocolat’ or ‘Shakespeare’ in Love,’ we deal with the creative process, but there’s humor and fun along the way. I always love that kind of movie.
I like to think my sense of humor is sort of smart and dumb at the same time. I like to work on multiple levels – smart and dumb, funny and sad, profound and mundane, cynical and hopeful.
Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody? You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.
I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions… the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.
When I was doing research on the M.C.s and spending time with these cats, one of the things that struck me and made me realize that I could deliver this world to an audience was their really dark and acute sense of humor.
People are wired for lots of things. We’re wired for novelty. We’re wired for humor. We’re wired for new pieces of information that surprise us in some way or add value to our lives. We’re wired for fear.
I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.
I think I’m too cynical for L.A. My sense of humor doesn’t go down well here, which probably affects my love life. I need to have a laugh track following me around so people know I’m trying to be funny.
I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.
My dad is just like everybody else’s dad. I see him as kind of a goofy guy with a great sense of humor. I try to get in a battle of wits with him, but he always gets me. I emulate him because I’ve never seen anyone work as hard as he does.
I just am a snob when it comes to humor.
There’s a charm, there’s a rhythm, there’s a soul to Jewish humor. When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, ‘You’re doing a Jewish act.’
I think I have always had a little humor.
My parents armed me with an amazing sense of humor, and it’s what you need when, well, it’s what anyone needs in this world.
God has a most wicked sense of humor.
Edward Norton and I have known each other awhile. I just think he’s the real deal, supremely talented and smart. He’s got a great sense of humor.
I met Elton John at an Interview dinner, and we just sort of became friends. He’s got such a wicked sense of humor.
Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, Stephen Colbert. Those are the guys I look at who are telling me pretty much the truth. And they throw humor into it which makes it much more interesting to listen to.
I really love middle-grade. Middle-grade books have a little more of a magical, light-hearted feel. You can be a little bit more quirky, you can have a little more humor. It doesn’t get so dark and deep.
