Top 660 Humor Quotes

I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor – a very Canadian sense of humor and I am only learning now stupidly that you can’t read tongue. When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn’t read that way.
Michael Buble
I like people with a good sense of humor, like Jennifer

I like people with a good sense of humor, like Jennifer Aniston. She is amazing and is a great actress.
Helio Castroneves
Guys usually like my sense of humor, and I am pretty down to earth. And I’m a driven person.
Kreayshawn
I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.
Ian Frazier
This is a feminist bookstore. There is no humor section.
John Callahan
I don’t think my sense of humor has changed at all; I was born with this, for better or for worse.
Ivan Reitman
The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.
James Thurber
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
Any man who has had the job I’ve had and didn’t have a sense of humor wouldn’t still be here.
Harry S Truman
Humor and laughter – not necessarily derogatory derision – are my pet tools. This may come from my general philosophy of never taking the world too seriously – for fear of dying of boredom.
Marcel Duchamp
If you watch most of the stuff on TV and in movies, it’s usually put-down humor. It’s like somebody being mean or cynical or thoughtless to another person. I never wanted to be that type of comedian.
Paul Rust
Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.
P. J. O’Rourke
I’ve always been really dark, and drawn to darker humor. Nothing has been forced, and I don’t say anything for shock value.
Amy Schumer
If I can’t see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny?
Casey Affleck
I think it’s critical, a sense of humor. It did help me – it does help me, continuously.
Teri Garr
Humor helps people open up.
Roger von Oech
My dad was a very funny man – he’s the one who taught me life would be awfully hard without humor! I’m sure his Irish wit in some way influenced my decision to become an actress.
Joan Cusack
I really hate sitcoms on television with canned laughter and stuff. What really makes me laugh is the real-life stuff. I’ve got a dry sense of humor.
Katie Price
‘Big Bang Theory’ is not my kind of show. It’s not my humor. I don’t like multicam comedies. I don’t want an audience to tell me when to laugh.
Zachary Knighton
I like George Carlin’s jokes. I like his humor. He’s one of my heroes, and I like what he did with talking about everyday things.
Steven Wright
I don’t have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.
Ian Frazier
I don’t really dissect comedy. Nothing kills off humor more than overanalyzing it.
David Steinberg
Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.
Carl Hiaasen
I’ve had a very laughable career and what has seen me through is my sense of humor.
Linda Gray
I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it’s humor, sometimes it’s listening.
Melissa Etheridge
Humor, humility, and, of course, honesty, all are qualities that work in public and cultural diplomacy.
Cynthia P. Schneider
When a chick has a sense of humor, there’s nothing more attractive.
Dylan O’Brien
I’ll let you in on a secret: I can’t stand Jay Ward. I hate being compared to Rocky and Bullwinkle. It’s just a different style of humor.
John Kricfalusi
Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor.
Terrence Howard
A good actor is someone who knows how to take the part and make it real and make it honest and be effective in it. If it’s in a funny movie and, as long as they are cast in an appropriate way, humor will come from it.
Ivan Reitman
I am a great believer that what makes our show different is the humor.
Treat Williams
I’m a comedian, and I definitely see the humor in a lot of things. I am also sad a lot. I cry often and easily. I think you’re supposed to feel all kinds of things.
Ellen DeGeneres
I'm a bug on acting, which distinguishes Second City fr

I’m a bug on acting, which distinguishes Second City from a lot of other revues. It comes from the character, the behavior, and not from the jokes. I don’t think jokes are funny. Humor comes out of character and out of situations the character is in.
Bernard Sahlins
It’s our most underrated value, I think, as human beings is our sense of humor. It’s how we choose our friends.
Philip Rosenthal
I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.
Bob Hope
I don’t think you can define how you acquire your imagination any more than you can define why one person has a sense of humor and another doesn’t. But I certainly would lean to the side that says all those solitary hours of daydreaming were a kind of training for poetry.
James Tate
I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader’s defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more.
William Collins
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
Thomas Browne
I’m not too modest of a person. I’ve got a pretty blue sense of humor.
Michelle Monaghan
One of my favorite things about ‘Star Trek’ wasn’t just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships between the main characters and their reactions to the situations they would face; there was a lot of comedy in that show without ever breaking its reality.
J. J. Abrams
I tend to like dry humor.
Dan Scanlon
A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way.
Allen Klein
It’s always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it’s just hilarious.
Bill Hicks
Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder.
Russell Baker
Picking my topics is sort of a process of elimination for me. Most things don’t work for me. I like to cover science and unexpected things happening in labs. Also, theoretical research doesn’t work for my style. I need scenes and interactions. Then, humor. I’m having the most fun when I can have fun with my work.
Mary Roach
My humor is my creativity, and my skepticism is a gift.
Josh Tillman
SpongeBob is a complete innocent – not an idiot. SpongeBob never fully realizes how stupid Patrick is. They’re whipping themselves up into situations – that’s always where the humor comes from.
Stephen Hillenburg
Roosevelt’s humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.
Emanuel Celler
Believe it or not, there’s a lot of humor in ‘Mad Men.’ Especially in the dark moments.
Matthew Weiner
My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.
Bret Michaels
When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way – you suddenly have a new perspective on them.
Allen Klein
I want someone who can keep me on my toes, has a good sense of humor and a good heart.
Carmen Electra
In the ‘Hurt Locker’ there’s a lot of me in there, a sense of humor, a man of few words and a lot of action.
Jeremy Renner
There are certain things I learned when I first started learning about acting, to try and place the character physically and emotionally. And the way you place them emotionally is often with humor.
David Duchovny
I have a good sense of humor. I think everything we do should have whimsy in it.
Judith Leiber
Laughter is an instant vacation.
Milton Berle
I think American guys tend to be a bit more forward, a bit more chatty and open than the Brits. The Brits seem to have a darker sense of humor, though I have met some Americans who have adopted bits of the British dry sense of humor as well.
Hayley Atwell
I like being a Baha’i who has an out-there sense of humor. God gives us talents and faculties, and making people laugh is one of mine.
Rainn Wilson
It’s funny. People often compare me to other humor essayists. They’re usually quite nice comparisons; I will accept those gladly. But I am always sort of appalled at the idea of being lumped with other, more chick-y female writers. And the truth is probably that neither comparison is accurate.
Sloane Crosley
People are texting and smash into the car in front of them – I think there is some humor in that. And the virtual games. People are playing these virtual games, but they’re real – I mean, the people are really playing, but it’s not a game.
Joe Walsh
Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.
Eminem
All the people who follow me on Twitter know my sense of humor. I sometimes forget the blogosphere will give it more weight than I intended.
Kurt Sutter
At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don’t really think of myself as ‘writing humor.’ I’m simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious.
Richard Russo
Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor

Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes.
Ted Rall
I was a precocious only child, and then I went through a fat, awkward stage for several years, so I learned to fall back on my humor and personality when I was growing up. It’s how you survive, so I think it was more of a natural progression for me, developing into comedy.
Ari Graynor
There are so many things to talk about between black people, Hispanic people, white people, gay people, men, women, it’s all based on fear. We all have fears, this thing that stops us from embracing as we are one. We are never going to be one. People are messed up, but humor lets us see how ignorant we can be.
Marlon Wayans