I don't understand how somebody wouldn't have a sense of humor about themselves.
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.
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.
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.
The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.
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.
Humor that is edgy is never squeaky clean.
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.
A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.
Sure, the comedians who swear or use scatological humor can get laughs, but they're uncomfortable laughs.
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.
Nobody enjoys the 'little show about nothing' humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it.
Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor.
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.
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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.
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.
I'm a novelist first, and I wrote a bunch of books, and everything I write, I just find people are more interesting when there's an element of humor to it.
My humor is my creativity, and my skepticism is a gift.
Humor is my default mode.
