Quotes of: Joke Keyword

People see me laughing and telling jokes, but they had no idea after the show was over, I had no joy in my life, in my heart.

Steve Harvey

I don't want to be 60 years old standing on stage telling some jokes. I want my life to mean something.

Steve Harvey

I've seen 'Pride and Prejudice' about 4,000 times. I'm not joking: I know every single line.

Claire Foy

Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

My father was the kind of guy who'd always say 'Throw out any subject and I got a joke on it.'

Carol Leifer

My father was the king of the joke-tellers. I was so impressed as a child watching him, holding people in rapt attention.

Carol Leifer

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

C.S. Lewis

I am so happy that I married a comedy writer. He's never not without a joke. No matter where we are.

Christa Miller

The idea that any performer type is owed anything is a joke to me.

Henry Rollins

The casting directors that were aware of 'The Real World' looked at me as a joke. It was so hard to get away from that.

Jamie Chung

If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.

Bob Edwards

I think when you dissect a joke too much, you have ruined whatever there is in comedy.

Bob Saget

It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.

Carla Bley

Even if it's a white crowd, I tell my jokes for the four black people in the room, not the 100 whites.

Gary Owen

You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.

Harper Lee

I realize how desperate it sounds for me, as a comedian, to ask you to laugh at my jokes.

John Oliver

I'm not a standup. I don't really have jokes. I don't have 10 minutes. It took a while for me to realize this.

Julia Sweeney

If your regime is not strong enough to handle a joke, then you have no regime.

Jon Stewart

I've been paying alimony since I was 14 and child support since 15. That's a joke, but not by much.

Don Adams

Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.

Dana Carvey

After a while, a joke, if you say it too much, just becomes contrived, or fake-sounding.

Dave Chappelle