Humor Quotes

“Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective.”

-- James Wolcott

“Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.”

-- Allen Klein

“Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor, but I always knew who was funny, who to hang out with.”

-- Andrew Stanton

“Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.”

-- Leo Rosten

“I'm not for gratuitous nudity, but if there's humor, I don't have a problem.”

-- Rebecca Romijn

“The darker the film, the more vital everyone's sense of humor is on set.”

-- Eric Bana

“I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that.”

-- Chris Cooper

“People with no humor, they're outta my life.”

-- Patti LaBelle

“I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that.”

-- Lawrence Kasdan

“I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow.”

-- Ian MacKaye