Humor Quotes
“People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it.”
-- Lorna Luft
“I have a very silly sense of humor. I've never laughed harder in my entire life than seeing someone with toilet paper stuck on the bottom of their shoe.”
-- Paula Poundstone
“I really wouldn't want to live in America. I found New York claustrophobic and dirty. I missed England when I was there, simple things like smells and the British sense of humor.”
-- Jonny Lee Miller
“Every time I've done comedy in, like, traditional comedy clubs, there's always these comedians that do really well with audiences but that the other comedians hate because they're just, you know, doing kind of cheap stuff like dancing around or doing, like, very kind of base sex humor a lot, and stuff like that.”
-- Aziz Ansari
“I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.”
-- Alexander Payne
“Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.”
-- Carter Burwell
“A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.”
-- Chevy Chase
“Bathroom humor, fart, and poo poo humor in movies gets a laugh. It's a pretty easy audience, and that's been around for ages.”
-- Selma Blair
“Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.”
-- Frank Muir
“There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.”
-- Sinclair Lewis
“Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.”
-- Sergio Aragones
“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
“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.”
-- Jon Favreau
“When you meet someone new who instantly gets you, your sense of humor and your attitudes and your worldview, even if theirs are different - and you get them in return. You both talk and talk and agree and laugh and nod and yes, yes, of course you should get another round of drinks.”
-- Erin Morgenstern