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Quotes with tag Humor:

Author	Quote	Rank
Charlie Chaplin	A day without laughter is a day wasted.	101
Will Rogers	Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.	101
Betty White	It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver.	101
Francois Truffaut	When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.	101
Irvin S. Cobb	Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.	101
Madonna Ciccone	Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.	101
Malcolm Muggeridge	Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.	101
Nicole Scherzinger	I love a man with a great sense of humor and who is intelligent - a man who has a great smile. He has to make me laugh. I like a man who is very ambitious and driven and who has a good heart and makes me feel safe. I like a man who is very strong and independent and confident - that is very sexy - but at the same time, he's very kind to people.	101
Peter Ustinov	Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.	101
Tim Allen	Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.	101
Hugh Sidey	A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.	101
Kate Walsh	I don't need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It's very much about style and substance and humor, interest, curiosity and really being smart.	101
Kathy Baker	I try to give all my characters a sense of humor, so I guess I feel like I have done comedy, but maybe I'm better known for drama.	101
Kurt Fuller	I grew up as a very sarcastic person. I was always the class clown, and to date girls, I had to be really funny. I was really skinny growing up. I was so thin, I had to run around in the shower to get wet. That kind of thin. So I always had to rely on humor and sarcasm.	101
Lee Atwater	My childhood, adolescence and high school days are unusually important. If there has ever been a time that I developed a uniqueness and sense of humor and the ability to organize, it was then. In those early days, I developed the skills that gave me a certain degree of success in American politics.	101
Michael Keaton	In the household in which I was raised, the themes were pretty simple. 'Work hard. Don't quit. Be appreciative, be thankful, be grateful, be respectful. Also, never whine, never complain. And always, for crying out loud, keep a sense of humor.'	101
Ralph Fiennes	One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.	101
Rashida Jones	Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.	101
Agnes Repplier	Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.	101
Allen Klein	Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.	101
Dav Pilkey	A book without potty humor is like a banana split without hot fudge. It can still be good, I suppose, but you kinda get the feeling that something is missing.	101
J. Tillman	My humor is my creativity, and my skepticism is a gift.	101
James Gray	The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.	101
Rachel Bloom	I'm a comedian, and I have my share of anxiety and depression; so do most of my friends. My humor tends to lie in the juxtaposition of extreme lightness - I'm a huge musical-theater fan - and extreme darkness. And so I really like playing with those because that's how I feel.	101
Sarah Hyland	I'm a sarcastic person, and people don't get my humor sometimes.	101
Will Eisner	Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you're different in a society, you're funny.	101
Bill Plympton	I think it's part of the responsibility of an artist to shock, to upset, to make people think differently, and to surprise people. And that's where the good humor is, if there's a surprise and there's something unexpected. Something that's not normal, not in the realm of general living expectations.	101
Brendan Coyle	I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.	101
David Hyde Pierce	Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens.	101
Elizabeth Gillies	A strong sense of humor, a really awesome personality, and maturity is also really important in a boyfriend. I tend to only be attracted to older guys for that reason. I just love guys who have a really strong sense of who they are.	101
Guillermo Diaz	I connect to humor really deeply, so I feel really comfortable just being in funny projects.	101
Hank Ketcham	Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.	101
Leila Josefowicz	I think humor is important for all of us, and a great comedian is a great treasure.	101
Patricia Arquette	I liked the premise of this material. I love the marriage relationship. They kind of keep each other honest, and they enjoy each other's sense of humor. Kind of a sexy but boring relationship.	101
Sergio Aragones	Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.	101
Doris Roberts	Humor is imperative, more important than food. You have a choice when someone dies. You can lie down or get back into life. Do something for someone else.	101
Max Irons	Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very healing.	101
Thomas W. Higginson	Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.	101
Carlos Ponce	I can't live without a sense of humor. I need to be laughing and entertained at all times.	101
Erik von Detten	In a girl I look for honesty above all, someone who I can carry on a conversation with, someone who has a good sense of humor, someone who's true to herself, and to top it, someone who can get ready for a date in less than ten minutes.	101
Riaad Moosa	When I started out, it was around the whole 9/11 - Islamophobia was just sort of hitting a second wind. Obviously that informed a lot of my humor, and it influenced a lot of what I was talking about on stage because it was extremely relevant at the time.	101
Richard Hyung-ki Joo	If you look back, Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven were mixing music and humor all the time.	101
Bert Williams	The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.	101
Daniel J. Goor	One thing I would say is real cops have real gallows senses of humor and make incredibly funny and inappropriate jokes in the presence of dead people all the time.	101
Drew Fuller	All I do is have fun. When I'm not working, it's about making people laugh. I love making jokes about things. Even when someone's mad at me, I'll deflect anger with humor. My days are filled with laughter. If I'm not laughing, I'm not happy.	101
Rachael MacFarlane	I don't think that I could have survived in my family without a naughty sense of humor; yeah, absolutely. I think my brother and I both get our senses of humor from our parents. I mean, my mother was absolutely hilarious and foul. She had the most ridiculously off color sense of humor, so that was sort of what we grew up with.	101
Regina Hall	Sometimes I make myself laugh, but that's because I appreciate my sense of humor.	101
Sid Fleischman	Humor is the oxygen of children's literature. There's a lot of competition for children's time, but even kids who hate to read want to read a funny book.	101
Jon Scieszka	Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of reading that counts; the focus will naturally broaden. A boy won't read shark books forever.	101
Melinda Clarke	Throw in the humor, throw in that personality, try things you wouldn't normally try.	101
Stephen Sommers	The best scary movies have great humor in them and a great story.	101
Anne Taintor	I'm interested in humor, and greeting cards just happen to be a perfect medium for my message. They're accessible to everyone, and thanks to all the advances that have been made by environmentally conscientious printers, I can get my message across while keeping my carbon footprint relatively small.	101
Jessica Hagedorn	I have been definitely influenced more by Latin American writers than by any other type of writer. They are very close in terms of voice - their humor, their fatalism, their... well, that over-used term 'magical realism.' It's a wonderful term that's just been used so much, we don't know what it means anymore.	101
Marley Shelton	To me, 'Scream' is a masterpiece on every level - the performances, the humor, the tone - it's just flawless.	101
Jerry Robinson	So once I thought of the villain with a sense of humor, I began to think of a name and the name "the Joker" immediately came to mind. There was the association with the Joker in the deck of cards, and I probably yelled literally, 'Eureka!' because I knew I had the name and the image at the same time.	101
Michael Levitt	I love the Swedish people for their detective novels, their archipelago, their sense of humor, their carbonated vodka, and most especially, for their wonderful hospitality.	101
Joe Grant	Dali had a good sense of humor - obviously you could tell just looking at him; he was funny.	101
Jennifer Jones	If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.	101
John Callahan	This is a feminist bookstore. There is no humor section.	101
Maya Angelou	My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.	102
Aung San Suu Kyi	Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.	102
Dick Clark	Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?	102
Flip Wilson	Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.	102
Suzanne Vega	I think people are sexy when they have a sense of humor, when they are smart, when they have some sense of style, when they are kind, when they express their own opinions, when they are creative, when they have character.	102
Clive James	Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.	102
Delroy Lindo	I think it's a brilliant tool to have, not only to have a sense of humor, but to be able to use humor to help one navigate life, and I tend not to be that type of person. I wish I were.	102
Frank Muir	Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.	102
Kunal Nayyar	Sometimes I'll be sitting with my friends; I'll say something Koothrappali-esque and make a face. There is a lot of Koothrappali in me as a human being. A lot of mannerism, humor, mischievousness, my innocence. So I don't know if I bring him home so much as I bring myself to him at work.	102
Leo Rosten	Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.	102
Mac DeMarco	I'd probably describe my sense of humor as 'twisted,' I guess. It's not hard to make me laugh, especially when I'm surrounded by my close friends, especially my bandmates.	102
Marlon Wayans	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.	102
Nicholas Stoller	I was born in England - though both of my parents are American - and there's something about the 'Muppets' where they have this combination of English and American humor.	102
Padmasree Warrior	My mom taught me the power of love. I learned to focus on the long-term big picture from my father. His sense of humor and light-hearted approach always make me smile. My husband is a pivotal anchor in my life. His influence encourages me to be independent and take risks.	102
Patricia Clarkson	I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.	102
Patricia Highsmith	Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.	102
Peter Segal	I think superheroes are heroes with flaws, and in their flaws, there is a sense of humor.	102
Bret Michaels	My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.	102
Bruce Nauman	I think humor is used a lot of the time to keep people from getting too close. Humor side-steps and shifts the meaning.	102
Campbell Scott	If you're playing a good guy, you show some darkness. If you're playing a dark guy, you show something different, like humor, that will mix it up and hopefully surpass the audience's expectations. What I'm battling all the time is complacency in the audience. I try to bring a little mystery to what might happen because that engages people more.	102
Chris Jordan	Set your compass to beauty, humor, and grief; stay the course no matter what, and I'll support you with everything I've got.	102
David Augsburger	Ontologically, chocolate raises profoundly disturbing questions: Does not chocolate offer natural revelation of the goodness of the Creator just as chilies disclose a divine sense of humor? Is the human born with an innate longing for chocolate? Does the notion of chocolate preclude the concept of free will?	102
Doug TenNapel	When I play a game, I want to play, not necessarily laugh. If you try to make me laugh at the expense of interactivity, then you've just created another funny game that isn't very fun. The videogame medium itself is a terrible place for complicated humor, drama, and character development.	102
Laurel Lea	Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating.	102
Ned Rorem	Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.	102
Grenville Kleiser	Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.	102
John Wells	As people, we're generally optimistic, no matter how disabled our lives are, and we find the humor in the darkest situations.	102
Jonny Lee Miller	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.	102
Robert Mankoff	One question about a joke is, how well is the strangeness of the situation resolved? At 'The New Yorker', we retain a lot of incongruity, tapping the playful part of the mind - Monty Python-type stuff. We also try to use humor as a vehicle for communicating ideas. Not editorial comment, but observation.	102
Thomas Langmann	I reread Mesrine's book every year because the way the story is told is fascinating. Today, we don't have gangsters like Mesrine - he had humor.	102
Thomas W. Higginson	There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.	102
Ann Turner	The values transmitted through oral history are many - courage, selflessness, the ability to endure, and to do so with humor and grace. I got those values listening to my dad's stories about the Depression and how their family survived. It gave me courage that I, too, could survive hard times.	102
Cynthia P. Schneider	Humor, humility, and, of course, honesty, all are qualities that work in public and cultural diplomacy.	102
Corey Sevier	A sense of humor is important. I'm always attracted to a girl with confidence. In terms of looks, I don't have a type. I think a lot of girls think that they have to be super-thin, to meet the Hollywood image, but I think a girl who is voluptuous is very beautiful.	102
Danielle Harris	I chose to stylize 'Among Friends' and add a dark comedic element because I didn't want to get pigeonholed as a genre director. I have a pretty dark sense of humor and knew that in order to get distribution, I had to do something in the genre for my first time out.	102
John Gerzema	Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times.	102
Jeremy Northam	He has such a patronizing tone and manner, and such a sarcastic sense of humor. I found him rather brutal, a kind of elegant brutality which appealed. No, I think he came pretty much off the page.	102
Richard Lederer	I think the humor of double puns is incredible.	102
Robert Buckley	I like girls who are funny with a warped sense of humor.	102
Jane Hamilton	As a species, we would not have survived without humor.	102
Romain Gary	Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.	102
Joanne Woodward	I used to be neurotic. I didn't like myself very much. But somewhere in my mid-40s, my neuroses stopped seeming so important. I developed a sense of humor.	102
Maureen O'Sullivan	I seem to have a one-track mind. When I was having babies, I did nothing else. When I do pictures, I go all out. I really think it is easier to manage my seven. You can't afford to humor each one of them. They have to learn to do things when they are told.	102
Jerry Robinson	So, I'm thinking of a name for a villain that has a sense of humor. I thought of 'The Joker' as a name, and as soon as I thought that, I associate it with the playing card, as my family had a tradition of champion playing; my brother was a contract champion bridge player. There were always cards around the house.	102
Jandy Nelson	I do find the sibling connection endlessly fascinating, as I do all family dynamics. I like how siblings seem to create their own parentless mini-civilization within a family, one that has its own laws, myths, language, humor, its own loyalties and treacheries.	102
Jim Backus	Magoo's appeal lies in our hostility toward an older generation. But he's not only nearsighted physically. His mind is selective of what it sees, too. That is where the humor, the satire lies, in the difference between what he thinks he sees and reality as we see it.	102
Virginia Woolf	Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.	103
Anne Hathaway	Kindness is really important to me in finding my own prince - so are patience and a sense of humor. Without those qualities he's no Prince Charming!	103
Bill Cosby	There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.	103
Bill Nye	Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.	103
Charles Churchill	A joke's a very serious thing.	103
Jacob Riis	The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.	103
Lana Turner	Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.	103
Milton Berle	Laughter is an instant vacation.	103
Wavy Gravy	Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny anymore.	103
Zoey Deutch	I find humor to be the most attractive characteristic, but I certainly won't cancel anything out, considering when you love someone you love someone, and sometimes you just can't explain it.	103
Katie Nolan	You are not just a funny person or just a journalist. Most people are hybrids of having a smart opinion and a great sense of humor.	103
Lorrie Moore	Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.	103
Peter Jennings	Always have a sense of humor about life - you'll need it - but always be courteous to boot.	103
Stephan Pastis	Maybe the bar is low, but most of the strips that are 50, 60, 70 years old that are on their second or third generation of artists, the humor is pretty bland. There are others by people that were raised on 'Family Guy' or 'South Park' that are edgier. Mine's not as edgy as those, but it's edgier than 'Beetle Bailey.'	103
Allen Klein	Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.	103
Christopher Heyerdahl	Certainly, anyone whom I've witnessed, who has gone through something horrible and life-changing, has a sense of ironic humor, or an ability to look at the peculiarities of the world and find humor in it.	103
Cullen Bunn	Reilly Brown is a master of balancing action, humor, and extreme violence, and his character designs for some of the alien races and technology that we encounter is just amazing.	103
Doug TenNapel	When we go to see comedians or funny movies, they don't address the wall behind them; they face us. This is why a game's first job is to entertain through gameplay and secondarily through humor, drama, or other traditional entertainment devices. The humor has to be a gentleman. I mean, it needs to be squeezed in around the game.	103
Edy Ganem	I like guys who have a plan or a dream. A good sense of humor is also a must. I can be weird with my humor and say things that are random. You need to understand that I'm really goofy and go with it.	103
Herman Wouk	I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.	103
Sam Riley	I couldn't really take a girl from Berlin to live in Leeds. I love it here. I miss the Yorkshire sense of humor and things like bitter and Yorkshire puddings, but I can still get my hands on salt 'n' vinegar crisps.	103
Tanit Phoenix	I am attracted to intelligence, a witty sense of humor, an adventurous outlook on life and spiritual awareness about one's self and the world.	103
Andrew Stanton	Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor, but I always knew who was funny, who to hang out with.	103
Barbara Park	My senior year of high school, I was voted 'Wittiest.' So, several years later, I decided to try my hand at writing humor to see if I could be witty enough to make some money.	103
Billy Childish	We are not actually in charge of life, yet behave as if we are the masters of our own destiny. The realization of this fact is quite a hard one. The ridiculousness of our pomposity and presumption can only result in anger or humor.	103
Edgar Rice Burroughs	It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.	103
Emily Rios	I like very dry humor. I don't like things that are over the top. I like subtlety. I like things that are nonchalant. I like characters that are sort of monotone and based in dark comedy.	103
Joaquin Phoenix	I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny - partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and it's a way of laughing at it and getting a release.	103
John Hodgman	My type of humor is me not caring whether people know what I'm talking about or not.	103
Logan Henderson	I love a girl with a sense of humor. Someone who can make me laugh and that I can get along with and talk with and who is just sweet overall, inside and out.	103
Pam Dawber	I need to end up with someone who is strong, intelligent, independent, someone I really admire - sensitive, sensuous, warm, a sense of humor.	103
Alan Thicke	If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well.	103
David Lambert	I'm a big fan of independent girls who are strong-willed, vocal in their opinions, and have a sense of humor.	103
Enrique Vila-Matas	As I write, I control my anxiety and anguish thanks to the invaluable aid of irony and humor. But every night I am subdued by an anxiety that knows no irony, and I must wait until the next day to rediscover the blend of anguish and humor that characterizes my writing and that generates my style.	103
Larry Gelbart	One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.	103
Randall Munroe	I don't have hard numbers about this, but the impression I get is that the amount of eyeballs you get from being on the humor shelf at Barnes & Noble - it is almost insignificant.	103
Ray Stevenson	Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release.	103
Shelley Berman	I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.	103
Alexander Gould	The great thing about 'Weeds' is that everything we do is never quite serious enough to be taken seriously. It always has humor behind it, and it think it makes it definitely more fun for the audience.	103
Bernard Sahlins	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.	103
Christopher Egan	Sense of humor. A girl who doesn't take themselves too seriously. And someone who is spontaneous. They're the three things for me that really attract me to a girl.	103
Diedrich Bader	When you're in Hollywood, you get sort of jaded about what you think the sense of humor of Hollywood is supposed to be, so you can't think outside the box.	103
Liam Aiken	I hang out with the 'nerdy' people - they have a different sense of humor than most kids.	103
Thomas Ligotti	To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be.	103
John Ratzenberger	A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.	103
Robert Altman	Maybe there's a chance to get back to grown-up films. Anything that uses humor and dramatic values to deal with human emotions and gets down to what people are to people.	103
Sid Fleischman	In my first story, 'Mr. Mysterious & Company'... I was asked to take out some of the humor because editors were afraid reviewers would dismiss the book as a joke. Today, humor is enjoyed and no longer regarded as literary brummagem.	103
Malcolm D. Lee	If you look at 'The Best Man,' there's a lot of humor in that, but I never consider that movie a comedy. I felt that it was a drama with comedic elements and comedic parts to it.	103
Mary Kay Blakely	Our humor turns our anger into a fine art.	103
Justin Halpern	Although Kurt Vonnegut may not be considered a humor writer, 'Breakfast of Champions' is one of the funniest books I've ever read.	103
Judith Leiber	I have a good sense of humor. I think everything we do should have whimsy in it.	103
Langston Hughes	Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.	104
Bil Keane	We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.	104
Colin Farrell	I will say that as I get older and calmer and quieter in my own self, the one quality in a woman that I find more and more attractive is kindness. A sense of adventure and humor is important too, but I truly find kindness and consideration for others to be the most attractive thing in anyone.	104
Elmore Leonard	I would say just start writing. You've got to write every day. Copy someone that you like if you think that perhaps could become your sound, too. I did that with Hemingway, and I thought I was writing just like Hemingway. Then all of a sudden it occurred to me - he didn't have a sense of humor. I don't know anything he's written that's funny.	104
Harvey Pekar	You can find heroism everyday, like guys working terrible jobs because they've got to support their families. Or as far as humor, the things I see on the job, on the street, are far funnier than anything you'll ever see on TV.	104
Harvey Weinstein	There is nothing like the way people feel after they've seen 'The Intouchables.' They feel amazing. The word of mouth on this film is incredible. It's intelligent-feeling good. You're not insulted by the low-browness or stupidity of some of the humor. It's so smart and terrific.	104
Horace Walpole	Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.	104
Horatio Nelson	I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.	104
Ian Frazier	Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.	104
Martin Sheen	Those years on the golf course as a caddie, boy, those people were something. They were vulgar, some were alcoholics, racist, they were very difficult people to deal with. A lot of them didn't have a sense of humor.	104
Paul Simon	If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.	104
Simon Wiesenthal	Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.	104
Steve Buscemi	There's a certain type of character that you can't help but come in contact with growing up and living in Brooklyn and Long Island. A certain mixture of moxie, heart, and a wise guy sense of humor.	104
Tina Fey	When humor works, it works because it's clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.	104
Tommy Hilfiger	We are really living the American dream, to be a successful brand in the States and in Europe and to steep ourselves in our heritage. But we do it with a sense of humor. We don't take ourselves too seriously in fashion.	104
Anne Wilson Schaef	I realize that humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive.	104
Carmen Electra	I want someone who can keep me on my toes, has a good sense of humor and a good heart.	104
Colin Firth	I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.	104
Dana Carvey	I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor.	104
Harland Williams	I'd like to explore the more abstract side of people's minds, as opposed to the usual sitcom stuff. I don't want to do the typical sitcom-type humor. I'd want to do stuff like go bowling with pineapples.	104
Honeysuckle Weeks	My uncle worked in emergency wards dealing with people who came in with terrible injuries. He talked about the sketch shows they would put on to lighten the atmosphere. You often find this sense of grim humor in hospitals. The injuries people are suffering are ghastly. You have to laugh at something or you'd otherwise cry.	104
Laura Ingraham	Solutions-oriented campaigning with a little passion and a little humor; I think that will go a long way. I think people are desperate for it.	104
Loretta Swit	M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect.	104
Mort Sahl	Professional comedians, surprisingly, have a lack of humor. They're insensitive to the insanity of our times.	104
Priscilla Presley	As a person, he was wonderful. He really was a great person. He was full of life. He had a great sense of humor. Very talented, of course, but very caring to his parents. There was a very endearing quality about Elvis.	104
Roger Daltrey	I love Sell Out, I think it's great. I love the jingles. The whole thing as an album is a wonderful piece of work. The cover. Everything about it. It's got humor, great songs, irony.	104
Taran Killam	I think that it's hard for vain people to be funny. I think you can look any way you want as long as you have a good sense of humor about yourself. People who are concerned with their looks and what they're wearing and how they present themselves tend to have less of a sense of humor about themselves.	104
Tom Shales	Jerry Seinfeld is amazing in many ways, not the least of them his ability to find humor, and convincing us to find it, too, in the million-and-two details about modern life that under different circumstances might send us into paroxysms of rage.	104
Chris Benz	There is a lack of humor in fashion. To me, it's always been the fun, cool industry to work in, and I always wanted people to be on my side and see how much fun we really have behind the scenes.	104
David Zucker	I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire.	104
Kate Klise	I like working on stories where I can explore the darker corners of childhood without illustrations but with humor.	104
Dabney Coleman	But it was this tough little character part that I was playing, a very funny little guy that I invented over a weekend, because I realized I was not contributing to the humor of this thing. And I had to do something.	104
Elizabeth Gillies	My two big date deal breakers are someone with no sense of humor and someone who chews badly. I will never be with someone who never laughs or someone who chews disgustingly, so if either of those things are detected on a date - it's a total deal breaker.	104
Josh Gad	I was a product of a divorced family and I used humor as a weapon to combat sadness. I used comedy to make my mother laugh in light of the darkness that she faced, and to me it became a very powerful tool at a very young age, at six. I saw how therapeutic it could be.	104
Parker Young	I've dated girls that aren't, this is gonna sound so horrible, that aren't super smart, but they still are super confident, and that's more what I've been attracted to is the confidence and the sense of humor.	104
Phil Keoghan	People ask me what the most important thing to take on the race is, and I always say it's a sense of humor. If you've got nothing but a sense of humor, you will survive.	104
Randy Forbes	While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.	104
David Quammen	On April 3, 2014, Jane Goodall turned 80. The iconic blond ponytail has gone gray, but the sparkle of intelligence, sly humor, and fierce dedication still shines from her hazel eyes.	104
Mark Van Doren	Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.	104
Steven Bochco	'Hill Street,' because of the wacky nature of many of our characters, really allowed us to indulge a kind of cheek-to-jowl juxtaposition of high drama with very low humor.	104
Aleksey Igudesman	We are fans of Mozart and Beethoven, as well 'South Park' and Borat. We believe that we can attract many people who eschew the serious ambiance of concert halls and don't go to classical music concerts because of such reasons. However, there is a 'serious humor' on the stage: funny and ridiculous. That is important!	104
Bobby Clarke	We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.	104
Jack Germond	Candidates should be extremely cautious in displaying a sense of humor. If he or she tells a joke with a point, there is almost certain to be some minority group offended.	104
Michael York	The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays, to the humor that Monty Pythons made popular.	104
Jason Biggs	But because it was able to balance that kind of humor with a sweet story and characters you really rooted for and also got across the girls' point of view, I've heard nothing but great things from younger and older females as well.	104
Jennifer Nettles	If someone is genuine, compassionate and kind, that is a turn-on. A sense of humor is a huge turn on, and that goes hand in hand with intelligence.	104
Josh Bowman	A good sense of humor will get you everywhere.	104
e. e. cummings	The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.	105
Ellen DeGeneres	Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else's expense. And I find that that's just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else's feelings.	105
W. C. Fields	Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.	105
Bill Burr	My favorite kind of humor is basically, if it was happening to you, it wouldn't be funny, but to observe it, it's hilarious.	105
Bobby Knight	And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.	105
Jodie Foster	As an actor, I'm attracted to drama; as a director, it's humor - because it's the story of my life, and I can't be that serious about it. Being alone is a big theme in all my movies, both as a director and as an actress.	105
Margaret Cho	Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor.	105
Patch Adams	Humor is an antidote to all ills.	105
Rick Riordan	I think kids want the same thing from a book that adults want - a fast-paced story, characters worth caring about, humor, surprises, and mystery. A good book always keeps you asking questions, and makes you keep turning pages so you can find out the answers.	105
Tom Bodett	Somebody says, 'Do a Tom Bodett, a folksy kind of thing,' and it sounds like something out of 'Hee Haw,' very insulting. They turn wry humor into disparaging sarcasm, and you get what amounts to insulting advertising.	105
Carrie Brownstein	I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres.	105
Dweezil Zappa	While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory.	105
Fatty Arbuckle	I've never used my weight to get a laugh. That is, used my size as the subject for humor. You never saw me stuck in a door-way or stuck in a chair.	105
Katie Lowes	I think it's important to find humor anywhere you can. In real life, with the darkest, scariest, most intense moments, if you can find something funny, that's good.	105
Konrad Lorenz	We do not take humor seriously enough.	105
Lance Bass	You've got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity.	105
Linda Gray	I've had a very laughable career and what has seen me through is my sense of humor.	105
Mort Sahl	I didn't think that anything is beyond humor - not profane humor, but a good, honest approach to humor.	105
Richard LaGravenese	The woman who runs the Pennsylvania Innocence Project told me that there's a man she's been trying to get out of prison for 26 years. Every night before she goes to bed, she thinks, 'What is he doing?' She says you don't sleep. And yet, she has the greatest sense of humor and this light that comes out of her.	105
Selma Blair	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.	105
Sloane Crosley	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.	105
Stephan Pastis	If somebody is not on the same page with me humor wise, I can't give them that.	105
Allen Klein	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.	105
Helio Castroneves	I like people with a good sense of humor, like Jennifer Aniston. She is amazing and is a great actress.	105
Herbert Beerbohm Tree	Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.	105
J. Tillman	Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.	105
Jonathan Winters	Well, the most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning - it's a man or a woman without a sense of humor.	105
Bill Forsyth	Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.	105
Colm Meaney	I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things; it makes a character much more three-dimensional if there's some kind of humor. Not necessarily laugh-out-loud type of stuff, just a sense that there is a humorous edge to things. I do like that.	105
Sarah Chalke	I think it's because it's so different and it takes risks. Plus, it's really smart humor. It gives the audience credit in terms of not needing to tell them when to laugh. I love that about the show. There's no laugh track.	105
Sid Caesar	Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.	105
Charlene, Princess of Monaco	The people I mixed with in Monaco didn't relate to my South African mentality or humor... Although I have met some wonderful people since I've been living in Monaco, I regard them all as acquaintances. I only have two people I consider friends here.	105
Emmett Kelly	Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it's because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly don't know.	105
Robert Mankoff	The line between humor and bad taste is your audience, in which some people will find everything offensive, and some people will find nothing offensive, but the truth is that most humor originates in what would be called bad taste.	105
Brittany Daniel	Comedy is so hard to do, so it was very cool to do dead pan humor.	105
Dave Pirner	I'm not 17 anymore. I still have some of the same sort of anger, but I have a sense of humor about it... a sense of being constructive with that anger.	105
Marion Ross	But if you don't watch me, I will try and sneak in some humor. I see humor everywhere in life around me.	105
Riaad Moosa	The Muslims in the Cape are associated with having a very good sense of humor.	105
Ashleigh Banfield	There's not a lot of other stuff I admire about his content, but there's something about Howard Stern and his perseverance in a very difficult industry. He does tickle me in certain ways with humor.	105
Mark Leyner	When I started, I wanted to be thought of as tortured and seductive, not funny, but humor tends to be a reflexive part of a person's sensibility. It's an almost impossible thing to teach anyone, which leads me to believe that it's intuitive.	105
Molly Harper	I was that weird kid that checked out all of the non-fiction paranormal studies books from the library. I've always been fascinated by the supernatural, particularly movies and TV shows that manage to blend humor with the horror - 'Supernatural', 'Buffy', 'Angel.'	105
Jason Kilar	My father was an electrical engineer who worked at Westinghouse in Pittsburgh. When I was growing up, my mother wrote humor columns for the local paper. She was the Erma Bombeck of Murrysville, Pa.	105
Jason O'Mara	A sense of humor saves your life, and being able to make friends wherever you go.	105
Bill Hicks	It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious.	106
Carol Bartz	I manage through a sense of humor. We all work hard, and work has to be a really interesting, fun place. And that has to start at the top.	106
Fay Wray	He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.	106
Margaret Cho	It's good to be able to laugh at yourself and the problems you face in life. Sense of humor can save you.	106
Victor Borge	Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.	106
Victoria Beckham	I like a man who can be a real friend, has a good sense of humor, a good pair of shoes and a healthy gold card.	106
Alison Jackson	I don't really like using ridicule as a form of humor.	106
Courteney Cox	A lot of my humor does come from anger. It's like, you're not gonna pull one over on me - which is pretty much my motto anyways.	106
Guillermo Cabrera Infante	Puns are a form of humor with words.	106
Jack Benny	Gags die, humor doesn't.	106
Michael Buble	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.	106
Nicole Appleton	I find intelligence sexy. I find a sense of humor sexy. I find sensitivity sexy.	106
Rita Mae Brown	Humor comes from self-confidence.	106
Stan Laurel	Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.	106
Allen Klein	You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it.	106
Cass McCombs	I've always littered my songs with jokes. You might need to dig a little deeper to find the humor, but I would totally object to being some kind of distraught personality. I've never tried to attach myself to that.	106
Kara Hayward	I would say that Emma Stone and Emma Watson are two very talented young actresses who are very intelligent and have a great sense of humor and have learned to balance what they love with their acting career, and I think that's really a great thing.	106
Katharine Isabelle	I think you have to have a sense of humor about every movie that you're doing. Your character needs to be relatable in a way that, even when you're doing the most bizarre things, sometimes a bit of tongue in cheek is necessary to keep up the believability of it.	106
Max Eastman	Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.	106
Ron Shock	I look at things logically. The humor I do is to go from A to B to C to D, and F is the funny.	106
Andrea Seigel	I lean toward anything with a dark sense of humor. And since I've been out of school, the majority of my books have been contemporary; basically, I like my characters to have electricity - even better, a TV.	106
Dan Castellaneta	The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.	106
Edward Kitsis	'Northern Exposure.' I loved that show; I loved the way it was able to have episodes where somebody finds a woolly mammoth, he calls the museum in New York, they send a guy out, and the mammoth's gone because someone ate it. To me, that was everything I ever wanted to do. That show mixed emotion, humor and the surreal all at once.	106
Rob Thomas	Reading 'Youth in Revolt' might have ruined my career because suddenly I wanted to abandon all the emotional truth of something and just go out far on a literary limb with completely implausible things that relied completely on voice and humor. And what saved me is realizing that I couldn't do that very well.	106
Charlyne Yi	My humor isn't meant to be mean or hurt anyone. But it's to make them uncomfortable and laugh. I like making people feel a different range of emotions. I like to make people a bit confused.	106
Robert Lopez	I like to think my sense of humor is sort of smart and dumb at the same time. I like to work on multiple levels - smart and dumb, funny and sad, profound and mundane, cynical and hopeful.	106
Dorothea Benton Frank	I think I've learned that if you want to be successful, you have to tell your story honestly and from your heart - and I think a healthy sense of humor doesn't hurt either.	106
Rebecca Wells	I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives.	106
Silvio Berlusconi	I'm not a traditional politician, and I have a sense of humor. I'll try to soften it and become boring, maybe even very boring, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to.	106
Langston Hughes	Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.	107
Bonnie Raitt	I'm happy to say that at 62, I think I've reached that point where stuff doesn't bother me as much, and my gratitude level has gone way up, especially having gone through the loss that I've had, and losing so many of the great artists that I was close to. They taught me how to see it with a grain of salt and a lot of humor and perspective.	107
David Lynch	Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.	107
Inga Muscio	I have a really dark, rich, thick sense of humor.	107
Ivan Reitman	I don't think my sense of humor has changed at all; I was born with this, for better or for worse.	107
Jimmy Buffett	Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.	107
Marlee Matlin	I personally have dealt with any adversity in my life with humor. That's why I told America to 'Read my hips!' on 'Dancing With the Stars' or was happy to play along with Jason Alexander and Jerry Seinfeld in the great restaurant scene on 'Seinfeld.'	107
Naomi Judd	I'm not just a big-haired redhead country singer who dresses flamboyantly, has this wicked sense of humor and wears rhinestones.	107
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield	Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.	107
Vince Vaughn	I've always been a fan of a Johnny Carson because he was so great with an audience and not afraid of self-deprecating humor.	107
Zoey Deutch	One thing my family has shown me is that having a sense of humor is everything.	107
Al Yankovic	It's hard to force creativity and humor.	107
Erin Morgenstern	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.	107
Frank Moore Colby	Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?	107
Jessamyn West	A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.	107
Max von Sydow	I admired Stephen Daldry very much; I think he's a brilliant director, and also, I feel close to him because he has a lot of theater behind him. He's also a man of great imagination and a lovely sense of humor.	107
Monica Lewinsky	I think probably the qualities that I look for in a man are somewhat different than they were before I became a public person, but not that much different. I think that, sort of, the element of trust is certainly much bigger for me, but the other things that - the other qualities, intelligence and kindness and sense of humor, those things.	107
Robin Roberts	The combination of landing the biggest interview of my career and having a drill in my back reminds me that God only gives us what we can handle and that it helps to have a good sense of humor when we run smack into the absurdity of life.	107
Tom Ellis	I've worked a lot in comedy. As much as I love playing dramatic roles, it's always nice to be able to have some humor around when working.	107
Andrew Scott	I find any sort of acting that doesn't have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring. 'Serious acting' is the kind of acting that I don't ever respond to.	107
Bea Arthur	In sitcoms, the women are so beautiful, understanding and well-bred. They have humor, but sort of display it with a twinkle of the eye and not a guffaw. But there's no juice in that for me.	107
Dan Simmons	It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?	107
Heinrich Boll	Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it, or you don't. You can't attain it.	107
Jensen Ackles	There are just certain things that turn my head. It may be a girl's sense of humor, it may be her wit, or her belief system; it could be a lot of different things.	107
Mallory Ortberg	One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots.	107
Michelle Monaghan	I'm not too modest of a person. I've got a pretty blue sense of humor.	107
Rachel Dratch	If it gets laughs, it's funny.	107
Richard Russo	I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end, the comic's best trick is the illusion that comedy is effortless. That people imagine what he's doing is easy is an occupational hazard.	107
Topher Grace	I have a really dry sense of humor. I don't think it's funny when people wink at the camera. That's more of an actor thing, just committing to whatever the thing is.	107
William Collins	Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.	107
Arlo Guthrie	Basically, I think you need two things to get by in this world: a sense of humor and the ability to laugh when your ego is destroyed.	107
Eric Sevareid	Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.	107
Gad Elmaleh	I don't feel any need to play the role of the clown. In my private life I take a break from humor.	107
Lin Yutang	This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.	107
Matt Stone	Even celebrities, most people have a sense of humor. Most of the people we meet who we've done on the show, like it.	107
Tab Hunter	Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.	107
Catherine O'Hara	To this day, I've found that it doesn't matter what a guy looks like if he's really funny. His sense of humor makes him attractive. On the other hand, you don't hear men saying, 'No she's not pretty, but is she ever funny!'	107
David Seabury	Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.	107
John Cassavetes	You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense.	107
Marian Seldes	I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.	107
Roger von Oech	Humor helps people open up.	107
A. Whitney Brown	That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.	107
Bob Hope	I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.	108
Catherine Deneuve	A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.	108
Christopher Morley	Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.	108
Colin Quinn	Everybody's got a different sense of humor. It's just different styles.	108
Foster Friess	Life is just so much fun and so filled with humor.	108
Francoise Sagan	One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.	108
Geddy Lee	Certainly my personality, my sense of humor, my outlook on life was informed by the experiences of my parents and the stories they shared with me.	108
John Kenneth Galbraith	Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.	108
Moliere	The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.	108
Paul Feig	What's great about the geek spirit is that life never seems to stop us, and they never seem to kill our enthusiasm, our optimism and our hunger to experience the world. We keep our sense of humor, we protect our dignity, we talk to our friends about the experience and then we start again fresh the very next day.	108
Robert Collier	Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.	108
Sarah Silverman	Some people say my humor focuses too much on stereotypes. It doesn't. It focuses on facts.	108
Yvette Nicole Brown	I think God has a sense of humor, and the way my lessons come from God is very funny. I have to laugh at myself even if it's a tough lesson.	108
Alex Pareene	I think humor can be an effective way of getting the point across, but there are definitely times where I just write very earnestly.	108
David Rakoff	I'm not sure. But that bless-his/her-heart kind of melancholic humor is among my favorite things in the world. I guess it exposes a kind of humanity - or that's the hope, at least - a kind of grudging respect for human frailty. Unless it's actually kicking human frailty while it's down - I'm not sure.	108
Kate Beckinsale	If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor.	108
Katie Aselton	Okay, sense of humor: plus one. Being able to laugh at yourself: plus one. Being able to laugh at other people without being mean: plus one. Vanity: minus one.	108
Kristin Hersh	I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence.	108
Nancy Cartwright	The Good Humor man can only be pushed so far.	108
William Gilmore Simms	I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.	108
Allen Klein	A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way.	108
Brad Garrett	Humor is healing.	108
Clifton Fadiman	A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.	108
Eric San	If you can understand the humor in the drawing part you'll probably get the humor in the audio part.	108
Matt LeBlanc	You can't be funny if you don't have good material.	108
Mayer Hawthorne	I consider myself to have a decent sense of humor. What's life without a sense of humor?	108
Ray Romano	If golf wasn't enjoyable and there wasn't a lot of humor and enjoyment, even though the game is so frustrating, you would wonder why you put yourself through it.	108
Connie Britton	There's something about Southern women that is so unique yet so universal. Strong southern women are allowed to be soft and feminine and have a sense of humor. But what I love about Southern women in particular is their universality.	108
Enid Bagnold	If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal.	108
Michelle Williams	It felt as if things were literally slipping through my fingers. Things were just streaming away from me. I lost my sense of humor. I'm still looking for that.	108
Claire Scovell LaZebnik	Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.	108
Craig Newmark	In business, there are times when you disagree, and sometimes it turns out that you're just plain wrong. Humor takes away tension and helps you realize you're wrong.	108
Damon Wayans	And for my family, comedically, that was the key to a lot of the humor.	108
Jenji Kohan	I think shows that are completely dramatic are a lie. People use humor to cope. That is how we deal with things. In the darkest situations, there's humor. And if you don't show that, you're not being true to real life.	108
Robert Mankoff	There's public humor, and there's private humor, and they're all appropriate in their own way, and you shouldn't - just as you wouldn't have a megaphone and say certain things that you would say around your friends - things that are perfectly all right within your close social group with whom you share a certain context.	108
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee	Since I became a knitting humor writer, I seem to be understood a little better - at least for the purposes of social discourse.	108
Edmund Hillary	Good planning is important. I've also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you're in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you're depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.	109
Anne Lamott	We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.	109
Bill Cosby	Now, Richard Pryor was unique. Many misunderstood his humor. He lit up the hallway, but they didn't understand his use of profanity. He didn't use it just to be using it; he used it in the context of his satire.	109
Carol Burnett	Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.	109
Edward Albee	I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.	109
Geraldine Ferraro	The polls indicated that I was feisty, that I was tough, that I had a sense of humor, but they weren't quite sure if they liked me and they didn't know whether or not that I was sensitive.	109
Tyler, The Creator	I wasn't shy, but I was really hyper. Nobody got my sense of humor. I was a black skater kid.	109
Art Alexakis	I'm a pretty tenacious person; I get that from my mom. So sometimes, I use dark humor. I can't take myself too seriously.	109
Doris Kearns Goodwin	Those who knew Lincoln described him as an extraordinarily funny man. Humor was an essential aspect of his temperament. He laughed, he explained, so he did not weep.	109
Florenz Ziegfeld	I don't have a very quick sense of humor.	109
Lee Westwood	Sometimes Americans don't quite get my sense of humor. My good ol' British sarcasm seems to go over their heads.	109
Allen Klein	Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.	109
John Krasinski	You can't do anything to be funny. That's cringeworthy. If your humor comes out of a place of love every time, you don't make the joke bigger than you. The funniest comedians are in touch with their emotional level.	109
Michael Kors	My legacy would be that you don't have to give up anything. You can be chic but have a sense of humor, you can be sexy but comfortable, you can be timeless but fresh.	109
Mike Mills	To me, sadness and humor aren't disrelated and humor is the best tool I've had against the sadness in my life.	109
William Collins	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.	109
Billy Gardell	The quickest way to defuse fear or insecurity or anger is usually humor. I think comics figure that out quickly, and, once you figure it out, you think, 'Hey, if I can do this and get paid, that would be kind of cool.'	109
Eugene Chadbourne	I want to be taken seriously as the type of musician that plays stuff like an electric rake. I mean, how seriously do you take someone like Spike Jones? They take him pretty seriously - a really good musician who made a great contribution in terms of humor, which is part of what I try to do too.	109
Kay Robertson	You have to fight for your marriage, do whatever it takes. The commitment has to be there. And if you don't have a sense of humor, I don't know how anybody makes it.	109
Steve Allen	Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.	109
Christine Ebersole	I thought my family was really funny. Everybody in my family was funny. My mom and dad both have great senses of humor and really saw the funny in stuff, so I think that's probably where it came from. I always try to see the funny in things.	109
Ana Ivanovic	I like men who have goals, something that they are passionate about and work hard to achieve. A good sense of humor is important too. And I like tall guys!	109
John McLaughlin	I like good humor.	109
Christopher Hitchens	I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.	110
Patti Davis	To me, Ann Romney sounds like a better candidate than her husband. She put her MS into remission through horseback riding, alternative therapies, and a healthy diet. She knows how to pace herself. She has a sense of humor and an innate honesty, and her hair moves in the wind. Maybe she should run.	110
Peter De Vries	The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.	110
Terry Crews	I'm actually a perpetual 13-year-old. I've never advanced beyond 13. Every day, tomorrow is my 14th birthday. That's my kind of humor.	110
William Makepeace Thackeray	Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.	110
William Temple	The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.	110
Adam Carolla	The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks. If my daughter has a mediocre sense of humor, I'm just gonna tell her, 'Be a staff writer for a sitcom. Because they'll have to hire you, they can't really fire you, and you don't have to produce that much. It'll be awesome.'	110
Bootsy Collins	I try to bring it across on my record, in my dress, in what I do and what I say because to me humor is important. You should have a dose of that and I guess giving it is what I'm here for.	110
Gil Marks	Food is sort of like the Jewish sense of humor, a defense mechanism. It is one of the things that helped the Jews survive through 2,000 years of an often very harsh Diaspora.	110
Lynn Shelton	Although humor is present in every one of my films, it has always been used as a way to make the darker, heavier stuff in my stories more palatable. I never set out to make 'Humpday' a comedy.	110
Patrick Warburton	All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to portray this character just honestly. If the humor is within the absurdity and the awfulness of situations, then let it be seen that way.	110
Thom Browne	I love the idea of things being strict and things being uniform. That's the reason why I surround each collection with humor or irony. I want to make sure that it's not too serious and that there is some element that throws it off because otherwise that would make it really boring. There's always a story that's somewhat fantastical.	110
Adam DeVine	I still haven't found the humor in getting hit by a cement truck. My knees still hurt when I think about it, so no jokes about that yet.	110
Amy Schumer	I've always been really dark, and drawn to darker humor. Nothing has been forced, and I don't say anything for shock value.	110
Dav Pilkey	It used to take me forever to read and comprehend stuff, so I decided not to make the 'Captain Underpants' books too challenging. Don't get me wrong - the humor and ideas are often sophisticated - but the books aren't hard to read. I wanted kids who hate reading to find these books irresistible.	110
Jen Kirkman	I have this idyllic love life, but my mind just won't accept that. I would like to bring a new guy home every night. I try to make humor out of that situation.	110
Jonathan Winters	The most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning - it's a man or a woman without a sense of humor.	110
Kara Hayward	Two young actresses I admire are Emma Stone and Emma Watson, because they are intelligent, talented actresses and have a great sense of humor. They have learned to balance what they love in life - acting, school and everything else.	110
Kate Clinton	Lesbian humor isn't trying to sell anything, it doesn't have to sell out. Coming out as a lesbian onstage is still a very political act; if it weren't, more women would do it.	110
Max Eastman	It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.	110
Suzanne Fields	Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time.	110
Treat Williams	I am a great believer that what makes our show different is the humor.	110
Madeleine Stowe	I genuinely liked all of the cast members very much. Steve had a wicked sense of humor. I remember Russell coming to my rescue, once. I watched Eric evolve before everyone's eyes. Maurice loved what he did, so. He treated his character with respect, down to the costuming.	110
Mary Lynn Rajskub	'24' is a pretty serious show - there isn't a lot of improv that is happening. Having said that, I do play around with the delivery. A lot of the humor comes from playing a character who is very furious and really up in her own brain and in a serious situation. That is humorous to me.	110
Robert Mankoff	Humor levels the playing field. I understood that early on - that was something I had.	110
Janet Evanovich	You can get through very serious and sometimes horrible and sometimes embarrassing and very awkward situations with humor. It gives us a way out.	110
Mark Russell	Humor is very very risky, particularly for a candidate, unless he's been in so long that it just doesn't matter, and he's not running for president. But it's just that people are so sensitive and so touchy, and you're just going to upset somebody without ever realizing it.	110
Dr. Seuss	From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.	111
J. Robert Oppenheimer	In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.	111
Aziz Ansari	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.	111
Bob Hope	A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?	111
Dylan O'Brien	When a chick has a sense of humor, there's nothing more attractive.	111
Gary Oldman	People who know me, they know I have a sense of humor, I'm a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown really, and I would love someone to exploit that side of me and send me a romantic comedy.	111
Jennifer Aniston	OK, in all seriousness, I would say I couldn't be in a relationship without equality, generosity, integrity, spirit, kindness and humor. And awesomeness.	111
Naomi Watts	There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, of humor or anything organic, and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely different - I love L.A.!	111
Sam Walton	Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.	111
Steve Buscemi	I just like playing interesting, complex, complicated characters. I like films that also have an element of humor.	111
Wentworth Miller	Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities, a sense of humor, a sense of style, a willingness to be who you are no matter what anyone else might think or say and it's true, I do have a certain fondness for women that have dark hair.	111
William Temple	The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.	111
Frank Oz	I have no idea what a British sensibility or a British sense of humor is. I have no concept of what that is. I have no concept of what American sensibility is. I was born in Great Britain, but I was only there for six months, and we moved to Belgium, where I grew up.	111
Gary Shteyngart	Without humor, I cannot go on and I doubt many of my readers would go on either. Humor is so important. I am here to have fun here with my work.	111
Carrie Preston	Back in 2004, Kellie Overbey handed me her play 'Girl Talk' to read. I fell in love with her brutally delicious humor and the fearlessly deft way in which she drew her characters. They jumped off the page and begged me to give them a space in which to stomp around.	111
Julia Glass	My own life is wonderful, but if I had to live the life of someone else, I'd gladly choose that of Julia Child or Dr. Seuss: two outrageously original people, each of whom fashioned an idiosyncratic wisdom, passion for life, and sense of humor into an art form that anyone and everyone could savor.	111
Debbie Gibson	I've learned to have a sense of humor about myself. Lord knows everyone else does!	111
Don Herold	A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.	111
Shawn Wayans	We have always had gross humor. But we try for funny, not gross.	111
Janet Evanovich	We don't appreciate the value of humor sometimes.	111
Jami Gertz	Being a Hot Mom means being respected as a mom and a woman. And, the key to being a Hot Mom is having a sense of humor about yourself and all the crazy situations that arise.	111
Jerry Leiber	It's self-effacing, it's hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor.	111
Erma Bombeck	There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.	112
Bob Newhart	I think that what comes through in Chicago humor is the affection. Even though you're poking fun at someone or something, there's still an affection for it.	112
Fede Alvarez	There are the horror fans that love the 'Evil Dead' because of the humor, but I'm sure it's not all of them. Not all horror fans love 'Evil Dead' because of the humor, at least not me.	112
Issa Rae	I hate to say it but I hate black humor. I feel like a Klan member saying it, but it's just not funny.	112
Ivan Reitman	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.	112
Tom DeLonge	Humor has become so cliche and boring that nothing's funny anymore unless it involves something totally disgusting that offends somebody or makes them feel really uncomfortable.	112
Eliza Coupe	There's such an odd, eclectic group of people that make up the town of Plymouth, New Hampshire. I don't think I could avoid not coming out of there with a pretty good sense of humor.	112
Richard Roeper	Whether it's viewers of the show or readers of my columns and books, I'm consistently impressed with their wit, humor and insight. That goes for about 95 percent of the audience. The other five percent are why the 'Delete' option and restraining orders were invented.	112
Tom Berenger	There's a hysterical, tired sense of humor that comes after working 14 hours a day, six days a week. I like those things because they take the pressure off the constant stress.	112
Allen Klein	Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.	112
Andrew Scott	I find any sort of acting that doesn't have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring.	112
Ric Ocasek	I think bands, when they're on the road, they keep their sanity by developing an internal sense of humor.	112
Teddy Thompson	I think I'm too cynical for L.A. My sense of humor doesn't go down well here, which probably affects my love life. I need to have a laugh track following me around so people know I'm trying to be funny.	112
Amanda Peet	I'm a big fan of gallows humor. When my aunt passed away, she was in a coma for a day before my cousins pulled the plug. And the amount of joking and base humor that went on that day around her bed was so insane. It's crazy how people talk when something horrible is happening.	112
Arlo Guthrie	Along with a sense of humor, my songs have to be sincere, and they have to be sung from a position of inner conviction.	112
Connie Britton	I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage.	112
Matthew Weiner	Believe it or not, there's a lot of humor in 'Mad Men.' Especially in the dark moments.	112
Robert Klein	Comedy is still alive, and there are still funny people. Jews are still overrepresented in comedy and psychiatry and underrepresented in the priesthood. That immigrant Jewish humor is still with us.	112
Avi Arad	Once we got over the origin story, we could really delve deeper into their lives and characters and angst. So this movie actually has more heart, more humor.	112
James Dashner	I really love middle-grade. Middle-grade books have a little more of a magical, light-hearted feel. You can be a little bit more quirky, you can have a little more humor. It doesn't get so dark and deep.	112
Max Frisch	When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?	112
John Lithgow	Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.	112
Jean Pigozzi	Sense of humor is important in life, not just in clothing. How boring to live a life in beige.	112
Carl Hiaasen	Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.	113
Dee Dee Myers	Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me - just in the sense that it has allowed me to keep my sanity.	113
Edward de Bono	Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.	113
George Herbert	In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.	113
Kenneth Branagh	Sometimes I used to think to myself, 'Have I lost a sense of humor?' but I don't think that I have. I think one can be as snarky and sarcastic as lots of people, but I have never found that it makes me particularly happy.	113
Lynda Barry	If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time.	113
Paul McCartney	And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.	113
Seth MacFarlane	Denzel Washington has a great sense of humor. He did all those 'Nutty Professor' movies.	113
Terry Bradshaw	You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side, they don't like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot's mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain.	113
William Glasser	Using no control and using humor will build a relationship and make a dent to where the client puts the counselor in their quality world and then begins to relate and seek out the counselor. Effective therapy begins with the acceptance of the therapist into the client's quality world.	113
Danny McBride	Confidence and a good sense of humor can usually win a chick over.	113
Dean Koontz	I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others.	113
Si Robertson	A lot of people say, 'Hey, God doesn't have a sense of humor.' Yes, He does. God has a great sense of humor.	113
Sinclair Lewis	There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.	113
Teri Garr	If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor.	113
Agnes Repplier	Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.	113
Cathy Guisewite	I'm lucky that my real-life Mom has both a great sense of humor about herself and an amazing ability to slip into complete denial if the subject matter gets a little too close to home.	113
Peter Eisenman	I'm a Larry David fan, right? And it seems to me that Jewish history from the Talmud on has been a self-deprecating, self-critical kind of humor.	113
Judy Gold	For me, humor is everything!	113
Anjelica Huston	I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.	113
Martin Donovan	My mother was Irish; she had this great sense of humor, and both my parents loved films. There was a very vibrant discourse about politics and everything that was going on in the world where I grew up. So I was genetically predisposed to go into the performing arts.	113
Freeman Dyson	It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.	114
Gordon Gee	I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes.	114
Ian Frazier	People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.	114
Nicolas Cage	I'll speak for myself, but there's a lot of humor to be found in sarcasm and darkness. You talk to any paramedic, they survive by developing a pretty off-kilter sense of humor.	114
Paula Poundstone	I used to watch 'The Waltons' and sob because my family was nothing like that. We had a cruel sense of humor in my family.	114
Peter Steele	Well, darkness with humor... I'm not an extremely suicidal or sad person.	114
Courteney Cox	I just am a snob when it comes to humor.	114
Delta Burke	I'll do humor about myself, I'll poke fun and everything, but that's me and I can do it to me. I think it's cruel to do it to somebody else.	114
Michael Weatherly	I always felt different as a kid, and the Kinks were like, 'Yeah, we're the Kinks.' Celebrate your difference; don't be afraid of your sense of humor, or your personality, or who you are. It emboldened me.	114
Berkeley Breathed	Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books.	115
Bob Uecker	I make fun of situations and try and find the humor in things, but it's never at the expense of the other guy.	115
Bonnie Hunt	I don't know if I realized that I was funny, but I realized how healing and important humor was in my childhood.	115
Ed Sheeran	Try to find someone with a sense of humor. That's an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny. You don't want to hide away from a point, because some points are serious, but you'd rather have a discussion that was a discussion, rather than an argument.	115
Katy Perry	I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool, but if that's all you've got, it's just boring. Everything I write, whether it's happy or sad, has a sense of humor to it.	115
Lindsay Wagner	I did the 'Bionic Woman,' which of course had a lot of humor in it, and that was really a function of a lot of the ad-libbing and the things that I did in it.	115
Barry Eisler	Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth.	115
Damien Rice	Leonard Cohen has a way with words and with humor that remind me to lighten up, which I appreciate very much.	115
Elizabeth McCracken	You write the way you think about the world. My motto in times of trouble - and I'm speaking of life, not writing - is 'no humor too black.'	115
Karen Duffy	My family has been amazing, and they understand how blessed I am. They've been able to keep my sense of humor.	115
Stephan Pastis	Brits have a better sense of humor in most ways. It's darker, more cutting.	115
Keegan-Michael Key	Surprise is not humor. I think that there can be a fine line there.	115
Kurt Sutter	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.	115
Ray Romano	The comics that are just conversing with you up there and drawing on their own life, yeah, I guess so. I guess some do political humor, some do topical humor, but the ones that I like, the ones that are appealing to me, were guys who were just talking to you about their life.	115
Samantha Shannon	Rowling is a luminous storyteller. I love her sense of humor and the intricate wizarding world she built around Hogwarts. I think all writers aspire to be like her, to capture readers like she does. But I didn't think about 'Harry Potter' when I wrote 'The Bone Season.'	115
Judy Gold	Mother humor is such a universal theme. I wrote a show called '25 Questions for a Jewish Mother.' I had people coming up to me after the show saying, 'I'm Baptist, and my mother is just like yours.'	115
Anne Morrow Lindbergh	Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.	116
Bernard Williams	What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.	116
Bill Burr	They say you don't want to meet your heroes, but those two guys, you do want to meet them, because they do not disappoint. Walken has this amazing sense of humor, and Pacino is like just a sweetheart of a guy.	116
Ian MacKaye	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.	116
James Thurber	Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.	116
Marina and the Diamonds	I quite like dark humor.	116
Paula Poundstone	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.	116
Roger Moore	Tony and I had a good on and off screen relationship, we are two very different people, but we did share a sense of humor, we now live in different parts of the world but when we find ourselves in the same place it is more or less as if there had been no years in between.	116
Andre Rieu	The waltz is a very important part of my life. It's a very important way for me to express my positiveness, bringing humor to the world.	116
Elizabeth McCracken	Humor reminds you, when you're flattened by sorrow, that you're still human.	116
Hattie McDaniel	Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.	116
Herb Caen	Americans are pragmatic, relatively uncomplicated, hearty and given to broad humor.	116
Karin Slaughter	I love puns. I've been known to turn the car around just to take advantage of a good pun situation. It really is the highest form of humor.	116
Rose McIver	There is humor in the darkest of moments - People who I have loved and passed away, and very high stake situations where you can't help but laugh. I think that's very human.	116
Tony Visconti	My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.	116
Alexander Payne	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.	116
Allen Klein	Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.	116
Lionel Trilling	Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.	116
Roy Blount, Jr.	Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor.	116
Ryan Kwanten	I don't know if my sense of humor goes over Americans' heads.	116
Cecily von Ziegesar	I certainly didn't say while writing 'Gossip Girl,' 'Oh this is going to be big!' It was really like, 'Oh god, everyone's gong to hate these people! They're so bratty!' But I actually think what is so appealing about them is the humor in them.	116
Seth Grahame-Smith	But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early writing was very dark and had a gothic tone to it.	116
Ian Frazier	I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.	117
Jesse Ventura	Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.	117
Marlo Thomas	The rejection that we all take and the sadness and the aggravation and the loss of jobs and all of the things that we live through in our lives, without a sense of humor, I don't know how people make it.	117
Nick Vujicic	If we went by the world's definition of who I'm supposed to be because I look weird... 'Well, surely, this guy can't have a productive life, surely, he doesn't have a sense of humor. Surely, he can't love life.' We stereotype people in this world. And so... if the world thinks you're not good enough, it's a lie, you know. Get a second opinion.	117
Oliver Goldsmith	The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.	117
Patrick deWitt	I was intentionally curbing the impulse to be funny and hiding the ability. I wrote any number of very serious attempts at poems, short stories, novels - horrible. At a certain point, I recognized that it was fun to write dialogue that had a degree of lightness and humor.	117
Phil Anselmo	I've heard too many times where people say that I'm this ultra-serious guy. In truth, I've got an extremely absurd sense of humor. I thrive on the absurd - I love it.	117
Shel Silverstein	Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.	117
Craig Kilborn	However, frat-boy humor is funny and it always will be.	117
Jon Favreau	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.	117
Allen Klein	Today's business and health care climate may not be pleasant. Cutbacks, pay cuts and layoffs do not make anyone's job easy. But that does not mean that the humor need stop.	117
Cathy Guisewite	Cathy was the first widely syndicated humor strip created by a woman. The strip was pretty revolutionary at the time not only because it starred a female, but also because it was so emotionally honest about all the conflicting feelings many women had in 1976.	117
Jason Alexander	The thing about For Better or Worse is the only thing that made me an okay director for that is that I have a sense of humor, and it was supposed to be funny.	117
Simon Pegg	I mean, yeah, I'm sure that Python and the other things have paved the way for a greater understanding of the British sense of humor, but I don't think it's all that different than the American sense of humor.	117
Maira Kalman	I like Thomas Jefferson, though he intimidated me. I thought he would have been very tough to be around. I don't know if he had such a sense of humor.	117
Jon Scieszka	My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them is to connect them with reading that interests them, to expand the definition of reading to include humor, science fiction/fantasy, nonfiction, graphic novels, wordless books, audio books and comic books.	117
Groucho Marx	Humor is reason gone mad.	118
Billy Collins	There's something very authentic about humor, when you think about it. Anybody can pretend to be serious. But you can't pretend to be funny.	118
Don Rickles	You can't study comedy; it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude.	118
Frank A. Clark	I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.	118
Garrison Keillor	Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.	118
Michael J. Fox	I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor.	118
Mike Rowe	The thing that makes 'Dirty Jobs' different is that it's one of the few shows that portrays work in a way that doesn't highlight the drudgery. Instead, it highlights the humor.	118
Milos Forman	Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know.	118
Bryan Batt	Be fun! I don't like homes or rooms that don't have a sense of humor or have some sense of whimsy or a personality. Your home should reflect who you are, and what you love. I would never have something in my home because it's the thing to have. I have to love it and it needs some connection to me.	118
Garry Trudeau	Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so much the better.	118
Hayley Atwell	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.	118
Carter Burwell	Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.	118
Manuel Puig	My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.	118
Brendan Coyle	I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation.	118
Simon Pegg	I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.	118
Jeff Dunham	It's amazing how these little guys can say things that a mortal human could never get away with. There's some sort of unspoken license... when outlandish things come out of an inanimate object, somehow it equals humor.	118
John Kricfalusi	Joe Barbera's s always complaining that he can't get humor into cartoons anymore. Just do it. You've got your money. Why do they let the networks run their lives?	118
Jasper Fforde	So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix.	118
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan	Comedy is difficult for an actor. But I think I have a good sense of humor and manage to make people laugh and make them happy.	119
Alan King	And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody? You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.	119
Ben Stiller	I'm not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.	119
Issa Rae	Every black film feels like it's Tyler Perry, and that just needs to stop. But people seem to slowly be looking for what else is out there - 'Is there something else besides this type of humor?' 'I'm tired of seeing men in dresses.'	119
Mike Huckabee	I was a timid little guy when I was a kid. I used humor as a defense; I became the class clown. But deep inside, I felt real vulnerable.	119
Olivia Munn	I have a dark sense of humor.	119
Patrick Wilson	With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.	119
Cheryl Hines	I was a little shocked at how adult some of the humor was, because I was never that into animation before and when I watched 'Shrek' I really laughed out loud.	119
Thomas Browne	Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.	119
Don Bluth	If you look at the game and everything, it's not quite like looking at an animated film, because that's total character. This, this is really movement, but it's got funny little things if you look for the humor. They're actually getting to the character.	119
Lisa Guerrero	We're starting to push the envelope in terms of the expectations, and you can also have your own style, personality and sense of humor, because now we're allowed to.	119
David Alan Grier	As I get older, my sense of humor is my biggest asset.	119
David Chase	'The Sopranos' is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, bad jokes - infantile, adolescent stuff, but it makes me laugh.	119
Jen Lancaster	I'm a humor writer, so I don't always present myself in the best light.	119
Jodie Sweetin	Both of my kids have my sense of humor - they're definitely entertaining.	119
Edward de Bono	It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.	120
Gail Sheehy	In rough times, pathfinders rely on work, friends, humor and prayer. They develop a support network.	120
George Jean Nathan	Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.	120
Nathan Lane	As a kid, I loved 'Godot' because of the poetry and the humor and the strangeness, but then as you get older, it's much more resonant.	120
Peter Steele	As far as humor goes, I've always been a very insecure person and I've always wanted to be liked.	120
Rita Rudner	There are different kinds of humor, some is sarcastic, some introspective. Introspective fit my personality better.	120
Salma Hayek	If you're feeling blue, lock yourself in a room, stand in front of a mirror, and dance - and laugh at yourself and be sexy. Dance the silliest and ugliest you've ever danced. Make fun of yourself and try to recover your sense of humor.	120
W. Somerset Maugham	Impropriety is the soul of wit.	120
Doug Larson	A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.	120
Joan Jett	It's easier to sit there and say you don't like feminists because they don't have a sense of humor.	120
Paul Di Filippo	Quite often, intent on conveying how things can go wrong for a culture (science fiction) or an individual (horror) or all of magical creation (fantasy), works of fantastika often preclude comedy, because humor gets in the way of messages of doom or struggle.	120
Stephen J. Cannell	I love 'Dexter.' The dark sense of humor is wonderful.	120
Stephen Collins	The script was just the best I'd read in a long time and I love the humor, which I wasn't expecting, and I like the fact that my six year old daughter can see the show without being, you know, protected from it.	120
Jamie Farr	I enjoy 'Murphy Brown,' but I am shocked that people really like 'Married... With Children.' These shows are toilet humor, and none of them have good characters.	120
Mike Epps	I think in life, the sense of humor and comedy always exists.	120
Jeff Ross	Athletes tend to have less of a sense of humor than most people. They are heroes to so many. That might be part of it.	120
Mark Twain	Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.	121
Audrey Hepburn	I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.	121
Bill Cosby	Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.	121
Don Rickles	Among my friends, I'm not a little Boy Scout, and they love my humor, thank God.	121
Fred Allen	All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.	121
Lucille Ball	I'm not funny. What I am is brave.	121
Nelson DeMille	G.I. humor is similar to cop humor.	121
Rachael Ray	It's continuously humbling to work hard, you know? As long as you've got a good work ethic and a sense of humor, I don't think anybody can become too much of an egoist under those circumstances.	121
Robert Orben	Humor starts like a wildfire, but then continues on, smoldering, smoldering for years.	121
Xun Kuang	If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.	121
Chris Lilley	Religious humor is not really my area, so I probably wouldn't do anything about that, or politics or something.	121
David Steinberg	I don't really dissect comedy. Nothing kills off humor more than overanalyzing it.	121
Matthew Perry	I need a woman to have a quirky sense of humor. There's a bunch of jokes I use, and if she doesn't get them, she's probably not for me.	121
Petina Gappah	People always ask me how I manage to find humor in so much bleakness. I think this is almost a necessary skill to have.	121
Emanuel Celler	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.	121
Sherilyn Fenn	I don't think I could ever do a network sitcom because the humor is often based on some trite circumstance. I don't want to be a part of a show where it's mostly about coming up with the jokes.	121
Mark Strand	It's very hard to write humor.	121
Billy Collins	Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. It's a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less funny things can take place later. It really is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.	122
Bob Newhart	The schizophrenic has no sense of humor. His world is a constantly daunting, unfriendly place.	122
Mel Brooks	Humor is just another defense against the universe.	122
Michael J. Fox	My view of life is colored by humor and looking at the best in any situation.	122
Calvin Trillin	With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.	122
Kreayshawn	Guys usually like my sense of humor, and I am pretty down to earth. And I'm a driven person.	122
Patti LaBelle	People with no humor, they're outta my life.	122
Scott Thompson	I think the Canadian sense of humor is dryer than America's and juicier than Britain's. I think it's a cross between the two of them, really.	122
Stephan Pastis	Thomas, my 15-year-old, is effectively my editor, I've always trusted his voice, more than anybody, on the strip for years. He has one of those ears that's just tuned to the rhythm of humor, so if he says something's not funny, my stomach just hurts because I know he's right, and it's already been drawn.	122
Tom Ellis	Lucifer has a sense of fun about life; he just likes to play with people. But the sense of humor of the show is what makes the show entertaining as opposed to dark.	122
Warwick Davis	My dad instilled in me a great sense of humor. I wasn't bullied at school because my outward attitude was confident, and that helps.	122
Allen Klein	Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.	122
Rebecca Romijn	I'm not for gratuitous nudity, but if there's humor, I don't have a problem.	122
Maira Kalman	Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness.	122
Henry Ward Beecher	A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.	123
Don Rickles	Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.	123
Ian Frazier	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.	123
Paul Mooney	I got my sense of humor from my grandmother. You know, my grandmother was very funny.	123
Lisa Loeb	The guys in my band are great-we watch movies, we eat pizza, take walks, read books. Everybody has a really great sense of humor. And my boyfriend comes and visits me on the road.	123
Marlon Wayans	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.	123
Maurice Sendak	My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.	123
Roxane Gay	It's an amusing idea to some, this feminism thing - this audacious notion that women should be able to move through the world as freely, and enjoy the same inalienable rights and bodily autonomy, as men. At least, that's the impression given when feminism and feminists are all too often the targets of lazy humor.	123
Russell Baker	Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder.	123
Scott Thompson	I think Canadian humor is a little less broad than American humor.	123
Allen Klein	Humor can be one of our best survival tools.	123
Darren Star	When I did 'Sex and the City,' it was like, 'Let's do a comedy where the humor is not coming from innuendo but from the a truthful place. This is a show where we're going to be able to say and do what we want.'	123
Matt McGorry	I never particularly thought of myself as great with girls. I can be awkward, and I have a strange sense of humor at times. But I've also been learning to try and embrace that.	123
John Zorn	I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.	123
Maureen O'Hara	God has a most wicked sense of humor.	123
Melissa Rosenberg	My humor tends to be a little more edgy than is appropriate for 'Twilight,' although I got some in there. That was fun! There's just a tonal difference. For me, storytelling is storytelling. But, I do like writing for grown ups.	123
Mark Waters	The 'Twilight' movies are great in their own right, but they certainly don't have any sense of humor to them.	123
John Scalzi	Humor is rare in science fiction... there's so little of it that it automatically reminds you of other heroes with that acerbic humor when you find it.	123
Jemima Kirke	I think Damien Hirst is hilarious. And I think he's a true artist. He's not hilarious first; I think he is a real artist, and I also think he's got an amazing sense of humor.	123
Bob Newhart	People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail.	124
Edward de Bono	Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.	124
George Cukor	I choose my actors well and get to know the quirks of their personalities - and, most of all, I share humor with them. Then I keep my eyes open when they rehearse and perform, because you never know where the next stimulation comes from.	124
Kara Walker	Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.	124
Loni Love	I do talk about celebrity relationships like Kim Kardashian's. I like to find the humor in love.	124
Robert Benchley	There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.	124
Robert Orben	In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh.	124
Adam McKay	I don't think arrested-adolescent humor will fade. Maybe the form will change, but I guarantee its replacement will still be based in immature behavior from mature figures.	124
Al Yankovic	One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don't realize there's a lot of craft behind the comedy.	124
Emmanuelle Chriqui	I appreciate humor so much, but I'm actually not a funny girl.	124
Ted Danson	When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.	124
Allen Klein	When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits.	124
Lauren Willig	My own inclination is to skew towards humor. They say that some people view life as a comedy, others as a tragedy. Me? Comedy all the way.	124
Maira Kalman	I like the brooding man - a brooding man with a sense of humor.	124
William Arthur Ward	A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.	125
Brian Eno	I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence, heightened sexual attractiveness, and a better sense of humor.	125
E. B. White	Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.	125
Robertson Davies	The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.	125
Elizabeth McCracken	Short fiction is like low relief. And if your story has no humor in it, then you're trying to look at something in the pitch dark. With the light of humor, it throws what you're writing into relief so that you can actually see it.	125
James McBride	If you don't have humor, you're not going to make it. You're going to be one of those people who walks around with your head about to explode.	125
Katie Price	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.	125
Tom Lehrer	Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh.	125
Dan Auerbach	Bands from Akron have a sense of humor and don't tend to take themselves too seriously.	125
Amber Tamblyn	I liked the humor of it, I've always enjoyed a sense of humor in God and in religion and in spirituality.	125
Jane Krakowski	Yes, I have a good sense of humor to sort of last a long time in show business, and I think to be able to find comedic value in who you are and the people that you work is always a good thing.	125
Robert Louis Stevenson	Nothing like a little judicious levity.	126
Alan King	We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator... Some would say certain of these refer to the stereotypical, or 'stage' Jew. But objectively speaking, the only crime in humor is an unfunny joke.	126
Alton Brown	I love poking fun at myself. I have a rather mean sense of humor.	126
Andie MacDowell	I'm a huge Muppets fan. Gigantic. I think they're genius. I think they're some of the best work out there and completely underrated, just because of how genius they are. I love that kind of humor. It's so innocent but brilliant.	126
Bob Newhart	Humor is so important to the American scene throughout history.	126
Emile Durkheim	There is a collective as well as an individual humor inclining peoples to sadness or cheerfulness, making them see things in bright or somber lights. In fact, only society can pass a collective opinion on the value of human life; for this the individual is incompetent.	126
Helen Mirren	Humor in a relationship is so important. Many women will say that. Some say, 'If they can make you laugh, it's the sexiest thing on earth.'	126
Norman Lear	But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives.	126
Patti Smith	I have great respect for my parents. I got such beautiful things from both of them. It doesn't mean that we didn't have our rough times, but they were remarkable people who were open-minded, creative and hard-working, and had great senses of humor.	126
Russell Peters	I talk about race and culture, and that's what my fans respond to. If you grew up in an environment where race and culture were never an issue for you, or where you don't see the humor in our so-called differences, then you might not respond to what I'm doing.	126
Washington Irving	Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.	126
Brad Thor	My wife has a good sense of humor, and instead of calling me psychic with my novels, she simply refers to me as being 'psycho.' That's because multiple things in my books have come true.	126
Michael Jai White	I was pretty much a child of 'Monty Python.' I grew up loving that type of humor and even structured a lot of humor in the same fashion.	126
Terrence Howard	Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor.	126
Warwick Davis	My parents armed me with an amazing sense of humor, and it's what you need when, well, it's what anyone needs in this world.	126
John Kricfalusi	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.	126
Bonnie Hunt	Humor is very healing.	201
Chevy Chase	A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.	201
Denis Leary	My dad was very much a John Wayne kind of guy, but he was also a great guy, great sense of humor, a real dedicated dad. I don't think he ever missed a hockey game I was in.	201
Karen DeCrow	Daddy was hilarious. He could take the most mundane event and tell it so that we all on the floor laughing. He trained me in the joys of humor.	201
Ridley Scott	Sometimes I find I'm wearing a divided, split brain in terms of drama and humor.	201
Samuel Taylor Coleridge	No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.	201
Wallace Shawn	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.	201
William Howard Taft	If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.	201
Win Butler	Funny songs aren't usually that good. Like Weird Al and maybe a couple of Beatles songs, but it's kind of hard to bring humor into rock music in an interesting way.	201
Antonio Banderas	I love the diversity of America. I love the plain, normal sense of humor Americans have. It is not wicked, like in some countries. And I also love how new America is.	201
Chad Smith	Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.	201
Elizabeth McCracken	There are two MFA programs here at the University of Texas, and I read on the jury of both of them. And it's amazing to me how many really talented young writers seem to fear humor.	201
Leslie Mann	I like dark humor. My favorite movie of all time is 'Harold and Maude.'	201
Allen Klein	Humor can help you cope with the unbearable so that you can stay on the bright side of things until the bright side actually comes along.	201
Joshua Foer	Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory.	201
Richard Russo	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.	201
Stephen Graham Jones	The way humor's usually used in horror, it's as a pressure-release valve; without it, the drama would escalate out of all control almost immediately.	201
John Ratzenberger	Sure, the comedians who swear or use scatological humor can get laughs, but they're uncomfortable laughs.	201
Charles Bukowski	The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.	202
Bernie Mac	I want to have fun. Life ain't no dress rehearsal. I want to have fun. I'm a comedian; I ain't no politician. So everything I do is with humor, with love.	202
Kyle Chandler	I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage.	202
Steve Irwin	You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.	202
Calvin Trillin	There's always a source for humor.	202
Ted Rall	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.	202
Thomas McGuane	My parents and my sister died... very close together, and after that, I lost quite a bit of my sense of humor. Most of it I think has kind of come back, but I know there was a time when I didn't think things were funny anymore. I kind of think they're funny again.	202
Adam Smith	Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.	203
Gloria Allred	Do feminists have a sense of humor? Yes.	203
Ian Frazier	With reporting, if you work hard, you can usually pull something out. But writing humor doesn't respond to working hard, necessarily. I mean, you could just sit there and look at the page all day and maybe something will come.	203
Ingmar Bergman	From an early age onward, it was said that 'Ingmar has no sense of humor.'	203
Kara Swisher	Sure, I am funny and have a good sense of humor. Mostly, though, I just tell the truth. The internal dialogue people have in their heads - I just write it.	203
Mignon McLaughlin	A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.	203
Alex Turner	Someone asked me what the key to being a good frontman was, and I think having a sense of humor about it is pretty near the top of that list. It's a very strange place to be in, and I don't take that role too seriously.	203
Christopher Moore	My fans have great senses of humor and eat too much chocolate.	203
Garry Trudeau	Humor can inform and break down stigma, which is a huge issue in the military.	203
J. G. Ballard	Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.	203
Justin Timberlake	I guess, for me, I've always thought that there was humor everywhere. And as a kid, I just, you know, I grew up an only child, and I - sort of nothing made me happier than to make my parents laugh. I remember I had costumes and things laying around the house that I was, you know, anything that I could do to make my parents laugh.	203
Kristin Gore	My dad has a dry, deadpan sense of humor, and my mom has an unexpected, wacky take on things. They really encouraged laughing at ourselves and the weirdness of situations that come up growing up in politics.	203
Robert Morgan	Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.	203
Mike Judge	They don't make you pay for the humor. It's up and down, but they're trying to give you as many laughs as possible in 2 minutes. They are the most honest comedians ever.	203
Jeff Ross	Humor that is edgy is never squeaky clean.	203
Howie Mandel	Part of my humor is the fact that I love coming out of left field. I don't want people to expect what is going to happen next.	204
Ian Frazier	Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.	204
Vera Farmiga	I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.	204
Andy Dick	I have a very dark sense of humor.	204
Peter Uihlein	My dad is just like everybody else's dad. I see him as kind of a goofy guy with a great sense of humor. I try to get in a battle of wits with him, but he always gets me. I emulate him because I've never seen anyone work as hard as he does.	204
Gigi Hadid	We get to live in a time that we get to use social media as a tool. It's not just a face on a piece of paper, and that's what makes you someone's favorite model. We can have a very similar sense of humor as someone, and that's why we're their favorite model, or our personal style, off the runway, is why we're their favorite.	205
Kaui Hart Hemmings	I just try to write what I think would really happen, and with grief and tragedy, there are these naturally occurring moments of levity and humor and absurdity. I think that's what life is really like. Sadness gets interrupted, and happiness gets interrupted.	205
Michael Moore	I've been encouraging documentary filmmakers to use more and more humor, and they're loath to do that because they think if it's a documentary it has to be deadly serious - it has to be like medicine that you're supposed to take. And I think it's what keeps the mass audience from going to documentaries.	205
Steve Carell	I don't think of myself as funny - I don't fill up a room with my humor... I would fail miserably as a stand-up comedian.	205
Carrie Brownstein	With Portlandia, I don't think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously. We're okay with making somebody feel uncomfortable or uneasy.	205
Daniel H. Wilson	You probably found 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' in the humor section. Let's just hope that is where it belongs.	205
David Sedaris	When I look at a lot of older stuff that I've written, I think one sign of amateur humor writing is when you see people trying too hard.	205
Gail Porter	I try to cope with everything through humor.	205
J. B. Priestley	Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.	205
Lara Flynn Boyle	Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don't get it.	205
Marlon Wayans	Humor helps ease the tension of race and the differences in society. If there wasn't comedy I don't know if Obama could have ever become president.	205
T. C. Boyle	It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.	205
Allen Klein	Humor expands our limited picture frame and gets us to see more than just our problem.	205
Casey Affleck	If I can't see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny?	205
John Perry Barlow	I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair.	205
Jen Lancaster	Humor's an excellent way to make a point more palatable and/or relatable.	205
Francis Bacon	Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.	206
Dick Van Dyke	Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll likely not see another like him.	206
E. B. White	Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.	206
Judy Garland	I wasn't close to my father, but I wanted to be all my life. He had a funny sense of humor, and he laughed all the time - good and loud, like I do. He was a gay Irish gentleman and very good-looking. And he wanted to be close to me, too, but we never had much time together.	206
John Malkovich	I don't understand how somebody wouldn't have a sense of humor about themselves.	206
Kristen Schaal	The more women sit down and write something in a woman's voice for a woman, they more you'll see women in comedy because gender doesn't define sense of humor. Imagination and intelligence and perspective do.	206
Kristin Gore	Both of my parents have great senses of humor.	206
Amanda Lindhout	After spending 460 days as a hostage, I did emerge a fundamentally changed person. But I think, like everyone does as they grow older and probably wiser, I can look back at my earlier life - my history, my mistakes, the joy I felt as a young woman traveling the world - with some objectivity and even some humor.	206
Melissa Etheridge	I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it's humor, sometimes it's listening.	206
Michelle Pfeiffer	I've never met a person who has more integrity than my husband. I respect that. There's his humor and intelligence, too, and he's really cute, all those things - but if you don't respect your partner, you'll get sick of him.	206
Rashid Johnson	The whole ability to look at the complexity of race and any sort of associated -ism and still find humor, that's a very interesting space.	206
Carl Hiaasen	My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in the Humor department, and occasionally even in the Literature aisle, which is somewhat astounding.	207
Dane Cook	My fam is just a regular family. But all of them have great senses of humor.	207
Allen Klein	Advertisers also know that humor can help bond us to their product.	207
Alan King	There's a charm, there's a rhythm, there's a soul to Jewish humor. When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, 'You're doing a Jewish act.'	208
Betty White	I like bawdy humor. I love bawdy humor, but not dirty humor.	208
Bill Cosby	You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.	208
Gregory Benford	As fandom grew more variegated, genzines reflected a broadening of interests, carrying personal columns of humor and reflection, science articles, amateur fiction, stylish gossip, and inevitably, thoughtful pieces on the future of fandom.	208
Issa Rae	Who I was was not acceptable to black L.A. youth: the way I spoke and my sense of humor. Everybody else had relaxers and pressed hair. I wore my hair in an Afro puff. Nappy. The way I dressed. It was all about name brands at the time in L.A. I had no idea. All those things, I failed miserably at.	208
James Thurber	Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.	208
Marlo Thomas	I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny Thomas, and George Burns and Bob Hope and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and all those guys were at our house all the time and telling jokes and making each other laugh.	208
Megyn Kelly	I have the humor of a 9-year-old boy, and sometimes I've had laughing fits on-air.	208
Seth MacFarlane	Everybody in my family had a real sick, twisted sense of humor. Most of the jokes we make in our house, we would just never even dream of making anywhere else. Just sick, horrible stuff. That wasn't anything new to college.	208
Elaine Stritch	I compare Stephen Sondheim with humor, because humor is unanalyzable. You can't analyze humor. You just have to get through it.	208
Jon Favreau	I can't begin to tell you how fulfilling the perennial nature of 'Elf' on television has been for me. It's great to be able to connect parents with children both emotionally and through humor.	208
Allen Klein	Whether planned or not, humor takes our mind off of our troubles.	208
H. G. Wells	Cynicism is humor in ill health.	209
Kesha	You have to have a sense of humor about life to get through it.	209
Marcel Duchamp	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.	209
Tom Wolfe	Working on newspapers, you're writing to a certain length, often very brief pieces; you tend to look for easy forms of humor - women can't drive, things like that. That's about the level of a lot of newspaper humor. It becomes a form of laziness.	209
W. Somerset Maugham	You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.	209
Daryl Hall	I've got a sense of humor. I'm a funny guy.	209
Jasper Johns	I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it.	209
Sam Yagan	I'm an off-the-charts introvert. To me, being around groups of strangers is exhausting. I've had to sort of train myself to think about two tactics: finding common ground and invoking humor.	209
Bob Newhart	I don't know how many sacred cows there are today. I think there's a little confusion between humor and gross passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable.	210
Robert Orben	I remember when humor was gentle pokes. I used to call it 'arm around the shoulder' humor. Now they go for the jugular and they take no prisoners. It's mean, mean stuff.	210
Steve Buscemi	I read the script and decide if a particular character looks fun to play. I look for complexity and a sense of humor. Those are crucial, real things to life.	210
Vera Farmiga	I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.	210
Walter Isaacson	I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom because he was too weak to go up and down stairs. He was curled up in some pain, but his mind was still sharp and his humor vibrant.	210
George Lois	Ad agencies do all kinds of market research that ask people what they think they want, and instead, you should be creating things that you want. If you do something and you get it, the rest of the world will get it, too. Trust your own instincts, your own intellect, and your own sense of humor.	210
Samuel Richardson	Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.	210
Tracy McMillan	Because I was a television writer for many years, I write very conversationally. I put things straight, and with a lot of humor.	210
Allen Klein	Any attempts at humor immediately after September 11th were deemed tasteless.	210
Mallory Ortberg	Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.	210
Charles R. Swindoll	I am often the brunt of my own humor.	211
Lynda Barry	Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.	211
Allen Klein	Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial.	211
Erma Bombeck	When humor goes, there goes civilization.	212
Lou Holtz	The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.	212
Chevy Chase	Let's not call physical comedy falling down and pratfalls. All humor is physical, no matter how you dish it out. It's timing, like a dancer or an athlete would have.	212
Edward de Bono	It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.	212
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel	Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.	212
Kathleen Hanna	I like art with a sense of humor. I don't have a huge art education to understand everything. I don't think that means that art has to be watered down to the lowest common denominator, though. I don't think you have to go to college to be able appreciate great art, but I like art that doesn't take itself too seriously.	212
Rainn Wilson	I think God has a tremendous sense of humor.	212
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette	Total absence of humor renders life impossible.	212
Joan Cusack	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.	212
Louis C. K.	I've met a lot of people who've lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor.	213
Chris Rock	A sense of humor is great - it goes a long, long way in a marriage.	213
Gigi Hadid	Twitter is the place where I try to be more funny. And then I use Instagram just as my diary. I pull some jokes on there, but I think people have a better sense of humor on Twitter.	213
Howie Mandel	I think the thrust of any child is to try to fit in and be part of it. And I can't tell you how many times my humor, you know, what I thought was humor ended up making me the outsider. Like I'd be, I go, 'It's a joke.' And they'd go, 'Well, what was funny?' And they just thought I was insane.	213
Kyle Chandler	Sometimes a scene may be about one thing, and it may end up still being about that, but the emotionality of it comes from somewhere else, or the humor of it comes from somewhere else, and it gives it that real-life quality.	213
Rachael Ray	I wish I could be as thin as Jessica Simpson. I think she looks gorgeous! I have had Jessica on my show several times, and I can tell you that girl is genuine and funny with a great self-deprecating sense of humor.	213
Robert Orben	President Ford used humor a great deal.	213
Wole Soyinka	There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people. I'm talking about a writer's critics, who don't address what you've written, but want to probe into your existence and magnify the trivia of your life without any sense of humor, without any sense of context.	213
Allen Klein	In looking for humor, keep in mind this guideline: Sometimes it takes a little time to see the humor in your upsets; you may not find something to laugh about immediately.	213
Jerry Della Femina	Humor works, and it's the best way to get attention without spending a lot of money.	213
Beck	I love British humor. It's just so - surreal.	214
Benedict Cumberbatch	A woman who knows that she doesn't have to get all decked out to look good is sexy. A woman who can make you feel smart with her conversation skills is also sexy. I believe the sense of humor is important.	214
Bob Newhart	I think there's a little confusion between humor and 'gross' passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable, because they aren't the same thing.	214
Zara Larsson	I don't really have a type. I don't want to be a cliche. But personality is a big thing for me. You can find cute guys all over. But he's got to have some sort of sense of humor, which is so hard to find in a guy. He's got to be a bit smart.	214
Tamra Davis	I learned early in my career to not let myself get in the way of humor but, instead, find what is great in a talented person.	214
Theodore Sturgeon	Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.	214
Allen Klein	When we can find some humor in our upsets, they no longer seem as large or as important as they once did.	214
John Ortberg	When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.	214
Juliana Hatfield	I'm able to see humor in a lot of things.	214
Amy Poehler	Both conservatives and liberals watch 'Parks and Recreation,' and they each think the show is for them, which is really cool. 'SNL' was totally different. It was exciting because everyone was paying attention. Political humor works when people know what you're talking about.	215
Carl Hiaasen	Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.	215
James Thurber	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.	215
Marjane Satrapi	Writing is not for me. I completely lose my sense of humor when I write. I become extremely pathetic, very sensational. Images give me possibilities that I don't have with words.	215
Maynard James Keenan	A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor.	215
Samuel Taylor Coleridge	People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.	215
Umberto Eco	The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.	215
Carmen Electra	People who know me know I have a sense of humor that can really push the envelope.	215
Jason Bateman	My sense of humor lies a little closer to the middle.	215
Scott Aukerman	I came into the 'Comedy Bang! Bang!' TV show with a level of confidence that I don't think I would've had if I hadn't been doing the podcast for three years already. I certainly had to figure out in those three years the sense of humor I wanted to do and the way to talk to celebrities without being incredibly intimidated by them.	215
Tamra Davis	I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.	215
Nicole Ari Parker	My humor is a lot like Kristen Wiig's from 'Saturday Night Live' or 'Bridesmaids.' Quirky, off the beaten path.	216
Zooey Deschanel	Humor is a part of spirituality.	216
Colin Quinn	For the most part, comedians are pretty friendly with each other. They always say they badmouth each other, but most of the time, they're friends. We're the only ones that can really stand our type of humor.	217
John Oliver	People, I guess, generally come to see me do stand-up with a working knowledge of my broad sense of humor on 'The Daily Show'... I don't think anyone would mistake me as an actual anchor.	217
Al Franken	Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.	218
Tina Fey	The only way I could get comfortable around people was to make them laugh. I was an obedient girl, and humor was my one form of rebellion. I used comedy to deflect. Like, 'Hey, check out my zit!' - you know, making fun of yourself before someone else has a chance to.	218
Victor LaValle	'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.	218
David Sedaris	The humor section is the last place an author wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons.	218
Henry Selick	I'm looking at some comedic horror films because I have often been accused of being too dark. I'm not dark, not compared with 'Saw' or anything like that. So I'm looking at live-action horror films, but not slasher ones - ones that have humor and maybe some social satire.	218
Jeremy Renner	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.	218
Ludwig Wittgenstein	Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.	219
Alan King	If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.	219
Jeff Foxworthy	We're all screwed up. And the way Christians mess things up is we act like we've got it going on. And if we would just stay in that place of, 'Hey, we're all screwed up and but for the grace of God, none of us have a shot here.' We need to have a sense of humor about it; that's kind of the way I've always faced my comedy.	219
Jon Favreau	The ultimate storyteller is Shakespeare, who was able to get the 'groundlings' to laugh at his bawdy humor and storylines but could still be studied by scholars to this day for the complexity of his language, meter, and symbolism. That's the real guy.	219
Mike Nichols	I think the main thing about comedy and humor is that it's impossible and always was impossible to define.	219
Anne Lamott	Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.	220
Howie Mandel	The biggest void that people can have in their lives is a sense of humor. Spending your life with someone who doesn't have that wouldn't be palatable.	220
Laura Schlessinger	If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry out of your race.	220
Tommy Lee Jones	I don't think I would describe my sense of humor. Doesn't sound like the kind of thing I'd do.	220
Trey Parker	Me and Matt love to argue, but in general our sense of humor is pretty much alike.	220
Emily Blunt	With Ricky Gervais, it's all shades of wrong, it's my kind of humor.	220
Patty Duke	Without a sense of humor, I would have been gone a long time ago.	220
Ted Danson	Humor can bring people under the tent. And a good joke can deflect some of the intensity surrounding a serious subject.	220
Calvin Klein	What we're doing is fun - if you have any sense of humor at all!	221
Kacey Musgraves	My parents have always had a great sense of humor. And I really appreciate good humor in songs, witty lyrics that sneak up on you and then you listen again, and say: 'That's so funny.' John Prine's songs have always had this really witty tone.	221
J. B. Smoove	I loved Peter Sellers. I thought he was the perfect mix of physical comedy with out-of-the-box humor. I loved his tone; I loved his physicality; I loved everything about what he was doing as a comedic actor.	221
Woody Allen	I think being funny is not anyone's first choice.	222
Alfred North Whitehead	The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.	222
Gordon Gee	I tend to deal with most issues with humor... always have and always will.	222
Liza Minnelli	You see, that's another thing that my parents gave me: an enormously great sense of humor.	222
Albert Brooks	I can't not put humor in a book.	222
Lorna Luft	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.	222
Chuck Palahniuk	In a way, a lot of my humor comes from presenting things that are dramatic or shocking and then people not having socially appropriate responses, having people denying the drama by failing to react to it, and that's a really classic form of humor.	223
Harvey Weinstein	Every time I do a movie like 'Finding Neverland' or 'Chocolat' or 'Shakespeare' in Love,' we deal with the creative process, but there's humor and fun along the way. I always love that kind of movie.	223
W. Somerset Maugham	I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.	223
J. J. Abrams	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.	223
Aristotle	The secret to humor is surprise.	224
George Eliot	Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.	224
Bryan Cranston	Mixing humor and politics is something that works.	224
Harry S Truman	Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.	225
Ron White	A lot of people can find something to laugh at in my humor, I guess.	225
Tom Robbins	Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.	225
Robert Frost	Humor is the most engaging cowardice.	226
Craig Ferguson	I realized women and humor were linked very closely.	226
Greg Kinnear	I can't not find humor in elements of most parts of life, but at the same time nothing ever seems perpetually funny to me.	226
Rainn Wilson	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.	226
Eminem	Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.	301
Daniel Woodrell	Texas humor and Southern humor are pretty similar.	301
Susanne Bier	I don't feel that I'm strictly Danish; I don't feel that my sense of humor is strictly Danish or my human sensibility is strictly Danish.	301
Matt Dillon	I like doing comedy, I like doing drama. Naturally I like to do, I like doing dramas, I like conflict, and when I do a comedy, you know, I've found that, like, romantic comedy is the trickiest one, because often it's neither: it's not romantic and it's not funny. So, like, I like a comedy that's biting. It's biting humor or really quirky humor.	301
Manuel Puig	I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.	302
Scott Adams	It doesn't take many people to have a bad sense of humor to get in trouble at a corporation.	303
Judy Gold	I love the vulgar. I kind of have the humor of a 17-year-old boy.	303
Al Franken	There is - I mean - I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.	304
Tommy Lee Jones	I do not have a sense of humor of any recognizable sort.	304
Twyla Tharp	I think a sense of humor will help get a girl out of a dark place.	304
Duncan Jones	My sense of humor often gets me in trouble.	304
Elizabeth Banks	I have such a respect for comedy. It's a lot harder than doing drama, in my opinion; you have to have sort of an innate sense of humor. There are rules to comedy you can learn. But ultimately, it really does require a certain point of view on the world, and that really does appeal to me.	304
Josh Homme	I've always had a sick sense of humor, and I've always wanted that to permeate the music because I don't take myself seriously. I take the music seriously, but I know I'm not God's gift to anyone except my mom.	304
Kathy Griffin	A lot of stars don't have a sense of humor.	305
Elaine Stritch	The people in New York - their humor is on a level that goes, uh, very deep, you know?	305
Margaret Thatcher	It's a funny old world.	306
D. H. Lawrence	It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.	306
Danny Boyle	I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.	306
James Wolcott	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.	306
Matthew McConaughey	I've got a great sense of humor, and if I'm able to say or do something in a movie that people feel like they want to repeat, that's hugely flattering.	307
Andy Kindler	Most of the people in my family were pretty funny. Everyone had a good sense of humor. I came to California right after college, wanting to be a musician.	307
Marlee Matlin	Humor comes in all forms, and everyone has their cup of tea about what makes them laugh. But the day we censor humor is a sad one for sure.	308
Tracy Morgan	My sense of humor is a turkey, and I pull it out of the oven and baste it in reality.	308
Eric Bana	The darker the film, the more vital everyone's sense of humor is on set.	308
Matt Mullenweg	Jeffrey Zeldman had an astonishing ability to craft a seductive coolness using educated references, dry humor, and retro/organic imagery.	308
Steven Wright	Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.	309
Alanis Morissette	In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.	309
Nina Dobrev	You either have chemistry or you don't, but a lot of what attracts me is a guy's mind and humor and talent. I need to get to know all those things before I fall for someone.	309
Mary Roach	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.	309
CeeLo Green	I'm drawn to the unconventional because I've been drawn unconventionally. I believe that I'm supposed to topple over these false images of what's idealistically beautiful. Because, of course, these intangible qualities are very attractive to women. Sincerity. Sense of humor. Success.	311
Grace Slick	Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, Stephen Colbert. Those are the guys I look at who are telling me pretty much the truth. And they throw humor into it which makes it much more interesting to listen to.	311
Michael Caine	My wife, my daughters, even my grandchildren are funny. You've got to keep a sense of humor because anger destroys you.	311
Rick Riordan	When I was young, my favorite picture book was 'Fletcher and Zenobia,' written by Edward Gorey and illustrated by Victoria Chess. It's long out of print now, but its mix of macabre humor and 1960s psychedelia made it a perfect children's book for the times.	311
Bernie Mac	My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.	312
Denis Leary	I'm really happy I went to a Catholic school because a lot of the repressive tactics they use make for great senses of humor.	312
Garry Shandling	Humor is a wonderful way to deal with our suffering because if we can laugh at our troubles, we can feel better. Thich Nhat Hanh is a special man who has helped millions with their suffering with incredible technique. But he doesn't know real suffering, because he has not dated as much as I have.	312
Betty White	Well, I mean, if a joke or humor is bawdy, it's got to be funny enough to warrant it. You can't just have it bawdy or dirty just for the sake of being that - it's got to be funny.	313
Zoe Kravitz	For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.	313
Alan Moore	I'm not a particularly dark individual. I have my moments, it's true, but I do have a sense of humor.	313
Jonathan Swift	Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.	314
Hill Harper	The real important things are kindness and a sense of humor. I've been fortunate to have dated and could have easily married women who have those qualities, and time and circumstances didn't work out. Timing plays a big part.	314
Amy Sedaris	There's humor in everything. There's gotta be humor in everything.	315
Ben Mendelsohn	In Australia, even the darkest subject matter has a little pinch of humor. A little sweet to make the sour go down.	315
Chelsea Handler	Anyone who's married to Mariah Carey - I'm pretty sure - doesn't have a great sense of humor. I mean, let's be honest: she's ridiculous. What is her game plan?	315
Sean Bean	You don't necessarily equate me with humor!	315
Adam Mansbach	Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.	315
Matt Groening	One of the great things about the Internet is that you can read what everybody has to say about everything. It is fascinating to me, the critiques about humor by people who have no sense of humor.	316
Max von Sydow	Ingmar Bergman had a great sense of humor, and he had a very special, characteristic laugh that you always recognized - if he went to watch a theater show, 'Ah! He is here tonight.'	316
Alexander Pope	Wit is the lowest form of humor.	317
Anna Kendrick	Sometimes when I try to make jokes or have a sense of humor in interviews, it doesn't go over very well. But Twitter made my life easier in this way that I didn't expect. It would have taken probably 10 times as long for people to accept my voice and my sense of humor if I didn't have Twitter.	317
Tim O'Brien	Life is never all one thing. It bounces around. Certainly, my own life has. Look at Woody Allen's funny movies - all the humor comes out of sad stuff. Sometimes you have to laugh, no matter what life deals you.	317
Anthony Hopkins	I've got a great sense of humor.	318
Peter Dinklage	I have a need to always make people laugh. I have a desperate need. I love a great sense of humor. The people I sort of surround myself with have that.	318
Steve Jobs	I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend's garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computers and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.	319
John Lydon	I love Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart because they're bringing irony back into American humor, which is a delicious treat. The entire Colbert persona of being extreme right-wing when he's not at all is highly amusing. He does it so well, but sometimes a little too well. My wife is convinced he's completely that way.	319
George Takei	I do find things funny. When you see life through the eyes of someone with a good sense of humor, which my grandmother did, life is a human comedy.	319
Jason Mraz	In Buddhism, they say attachment to anything only leads to suffering. So when we laugh, it's our way of saying, 'I'm unattached to that.' You're tickled by it, it makes your lobes do something on their own. So humor is very important to me. I always take that to the stage first.	319
Marilyn Monroe	I think I have always had a little humor.	320
Hunter S. Thompson	I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.	320
Bob Newhart	What you see on stage is pretty much the way I am... a dry sense of humor.	320
David Lynch	Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.	320
Dick Dale	I make jokes because humor is the greatest healing factor that there is.	320
Miguel de Cervantes	There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.	320
Mitt Romney	I love practical jokes and humor. That there's frankly no joke that I don't think is funny. I love practical jokes, but I don't like being scared.	320
Franklin D. Roosevelt	The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.	321
Luke Bryan	I think 'Country Girl' is one song that can veer into country or hip-hop or rap. You can listen to it and enjoy the humor and the fun in it.	321
Thomas Carlyle	Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.	321
Joyce Carol Oates	I should say, one of the things about being a widow or a widower, you really, really need a sense of humor, because everything's going to fall apart.	321
Samuel Butler	A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.	322
Zac Efron	I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down.	322
Ayelet Waldman	I'm sure there are people who survive tragedy without humor, but I've never met any of them. Nor would I be particularly interested in writing about them if I did meet them.	322
Ice Cube	Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.	323
Viggo Mortensen	You know, Freud accepted his lot very stoically and very well and with a sense of humor. He aged and died gracefully, and there's a lot to be said for that.	323
Samuel Richardson	From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.	323
Don Rickles	Half the battle is that people have to like you before you say one joke, one bit of humor.	324
Paul Feig	Women's humor seems to be a little more supportive. It's just kind of trying to make the other one laugh through funny voices and kind of talking about other people. I respond to that. I feel less like I'm going to get beat up in a room full of women than I do in a room full of guys.	324
Bob Newhart	Humor's a weapon if you want to make it one.	326
Tim O'Brien	Love, as wonderful and horrible as it is, has at its center a kind of pitiful humor.	326
Jerry Seinfeld	Nobody enjoys the 'little show about nothing' humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it.	401
David Duchovny	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.	402
Sloane Crosley	I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you're not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture.	402
H. L. Mencken	There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.	403
Ellen DeGeneres	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.	404
Al Franken	Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.	405
Anne Lamott	I have a very dark sense of humor. I swear. I have a very playful relationship with Jesus.	405
Kirsten Dunst	It's weird doing red carpets; it's uncomfortable. But you can have a sense of humor about it.	407
Roseanne Barr	And, you know, I liked writing humor. Well, I should say, I wanted to write seriously, but it kept turning funny.	408
Gillian Jacobs	For me, I really love 'Tim and Eric' and 'Dr. Steve Brule' and a lot of the Adult Swim shows, so I like strange, weird, sometimes slightly upsetting humor.	411
Kevin Hart	My daughter doesn't even get my humor. She's like, 'Um, no. I don't get it, Dad. Mmm, no, not that one, Dad.'	413
Al Franken	There's plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it's a serious business.	414
Kesha	I'm just very amused by five-year-old humor.	414
Duncan Jones	I have a sense of humor, and sometimes it gets me into trouble.	414
Al Franken	If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.	415
Ambrose Bierce	Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.	415
Mark Twain	The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.	416
Rod Stewart	I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.	416
Thomas Jefferson	In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.	417
Alanis Morissette	Down the road, I'll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on, and humor.	419
Richard Branson	If you are a small company taking on a big company, you need to have a sense of humor.	420
Peter Dinklage	Women respond to comfort and a sense of humor. I was always able to make them laugh, so that helps a lot.	420
George Takei	Humor is a powerful tool, and some of these politicians are so far out and easy to lampoon. They just provide such delicious opportunity.	425
Victoria Beckham	I think the sexiest thing about a woman is confidence, but confidence in a humble way, not in an arrogant way. Sense of humor is definitely important. And sunglasses always hide a multitude of sins. Sunglasses and a great pair of heels can turn most outfits around.	426
Steven Wright	You know those things that you throw the twigs into and it spits them out? That's what I do. The branches are like life, and I throw them into my head and some of it comes out as humor.	501
Albert Brooks	My humor is traced with dark - I've got dark patches all over the place.	502
Tracy Morgan	I want to show the world my humor.	503
Dick Cavett	I'm sure I've all but lost friends by maintaining that, despite their love for it, I always saw Stanley Kramer's 'It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World' as more of an exercise in anti-comedy than humor.	504
Junot Diaz	I'm still trying to figure out how to write about cancer and my family's experience with it. If I had been able to write 'The Pura Principle' back in those days, I'm positive it would have had no humor in it. Which means the story would have been false.	510
Thomas Carlyle	True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.	511
Jason Statham	I love people who have a good sense of humor, tell a good story, tell a good joke.	512
Mason Cooley	Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.	514
Moby	I met Elton John at an Interview dinner, and we just sort of became friends. He's got such a wicked sense of humor.	516
Anthony Bourdain	Since the very beginning, Emeril's had a sense of humor about me calling him names and poking fun at him.	517
Jason Bateman	My family is pretty funny. My mother is British, so she's got a very dry sense of humor. That's where I got that from.	517
Joss Whedon	Why anybody gets my sense of humor I never know, but I do know that when they do, I keep them as close as I possibly can.	518
Joss Whedon	I never write anything without humor, just because I like humor, but at the same time, it is a way for anything fantastical to become relatable.	519
Bill Cosby	George Carlin is brilliant with words, and Johnny Winters is very creative. It's taking something common and drawing out the humor, being clever with words.	522
Pierce Brosnan	I'm very confident that Nick Hornby always gets it right as a writer. He has the vernacular and passion. He is adroit and dry, and balances humor with the humanity of life.	524
Tracy Morgan	If I had to describe my sense of humor, I would say it's contemporary wit, you know what I'm saying?	524
Bill Cosby	Racial humor was about 35% of my act when I first started. But I realized that it was a crutch. What brought it home was when another comedian said to me, 'If you changed color tomorrow, you wouldn't have any material.' He meant it as a put-down, but I took it as a challenge.	601
Peter Jackson	I don't think that because you die and move on to somewhere else that you lose your sense of humor.	606
Sandra Bullock	Poop humor is fun. If you do the toilet scenes well and commit to them, they can be really, really powerful.	610
Zooey Deschanel	Sites like Funny or Die and College Humor are great, but I'd say it's appealing to 80% men and 20% women.	614
John Updike	Humor is my default mode.	615
Mark Twain	Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.	622
Stephen Hawking	Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.	625
Mahatma Gandhi	If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.	702
Marilyn Manson	The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibility, sense of humor, behavior. He is me.	704
Steven Wright	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.	719
Mark Twain	Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.	720
Kevin Spacey	Edward Norton and I have known each other awhile. I just think he's the real deal, supremely talented and smart. He's got a great sense of humor.	811
Barack Obama	Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I'll be right there with you as a citizen - inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.	902
Jeff Bridges	I come from a family of teasers myself. My grandfather was from Liverpool, and he had a dry sense of humor, and he would tease us terribly. My brother Beau was so skilled in his teasing that he could get a rise out of me by simply pointing at me.	912
Mitt Romney	I have five boys in the family, and it's constant competition, sport, humor, and practical jokes.	919
P. J. O'Rourke	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.	1318
P. J. O'Rourke	I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.	1707

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