Humor Quotes

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 may...

Henry Selick

Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.

Harry S Truman

Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.

Herbert Beerbohm Tree

I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.

Hunter S. Thompson

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.

Harland Williams

I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.

Herman Wouk

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 suf...

Honeysuckle Weeks

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

Irvin S. Cobb

Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.

Ian Frazier

People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.

Ian Frazier

I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.

Ian Frazier

I have a really dark, rich, thick sense of humor.

Inga Muscio

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.'

Issa Rae

I don't think my sense of humor has changed at all; I was born with this, for better or for worse.

Ivan Reitman

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.

Jensen Ackles

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 with...

J. J. Abrams

Sometimes an actor will stumble on the joke, and I'm right on them. Back it up before the audience hears the bad version of the joke, because humor is 90% surprise. If they know what's coming, they won't laugh as hard.

James Burrows

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 real...

Jim Backus

I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair.

John Perry Barlow

This is a feminist bookstore. There is no humor section.

John Callahan

You can get through very serious and sometimes horrible and sometimes embarrassing and very awkward situations with humor. It gives us a way out.

Janet Evanovich