Humor Quotes

“You learn timing on the road. You learn structure and how to read an audience. You learn so much about the business of laughter that you can't learn on a set, because it's all on you. Sometimes you bomb, and you know not to tell that joke again... You just hope people find the humor in the awkwardness.”

-- Marlon Wayans

“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