Top 991 Humor Quotes & Sayings

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

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.

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.

'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.

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.

Self-deprecating humor and brutal honesty is a really freeing thing.

If you approach Cannes with a sense of humor, nothing is that bad. You have to take it for what it is; otherwise, it's silly.

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.

Jeffrey Zeldman had an astonishing ability to craft a seductive coolness using educated references, dry humor, and retro/organic imagery.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.

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.

I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

Humor is this great equalizer. It gets people's defenses down, and once they're down, you can discuss some really difficult topics.

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.

But if you don't watch me, I will try and sneak in some humor. I see humor everywhere in life around me.

The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibility, sense of humor, behavior. He is me.

I quite like dark humor.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

A lot about Congress is about forming good working relationships with people, and humor can really help you do that.

It's good to be able to laugh at yourself and the problems you face in life. Sense of humor can save you.

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.

Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor.

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.'

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.

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.

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.

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.

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

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.

You see, that's another thing that my parents gave me: an enormously great sense of humor.

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.

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.

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.

Laughter is an instant vacation.

Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.

I'd say Bill Bixby's character in 'Beantown' is Tom Brokaw with a heart and a sense of humor.

I think I have always had a little humor.

I just have a deadpan sense of humor, I guess.

I've met a lot of people who've lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor.

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.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

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.

Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.

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.

I like the brooding man - a brooding man with a sense of humor.

I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage.

It's very hard to write humor.

Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness.

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.

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.