Humor Quotes
“Humor expands our limited picture frame and gets us to see more than just our problem.”
“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