Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.
My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.
As a bandleader, I try to pass on the same family values that I grew up with: help people, hang on to your sense of humour, be tolerant, and keep your judgments to yourself.
We were a very funny family. Humour was the tool with which my brother and I tried to get attention. We were always trying to be the funniest.
Relationship humour gets the most laughs. If I'm able to get the women laughing, men will have to laugh along because they would be scared to death.
I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes cliches are true.
There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.
I think the key attributes for a good speaker are someone that's articulate and someone that puts a fair amount of humour into what they do.
There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not going to make them laugh. But there are quite a lot of poems there that aren't funny at all.
Life is hard. It is not too short, it is too long. But you have to learn how to live; you have to have a sense of humour.
You've got to have a sense of humour about sex. When you look at it, it's all pretty ridiculous, isn't it?
You should laugh everywhere you can find even the slightest glimmer of humour.
Humour is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
Mixing humour and harsh reality is a very human behaviour, it's the way people stay sane in their daily lives.
I always have humour in my action movies. I think characters that make jokes under fire are more real. It somehow helps put you in their shoes.
I know you all, and will awhile uphold the unyoked humour of your idleness . . .
You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance.
Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.
I can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes philosophical about humour doesn't know what he's talking about.
I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it's a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a laugh.
Jews, black people - any people who are hated or who have suffered, either as individuals or as a people - use humour. It is a survival skill.
