501 private quotes tagged humor

“That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.”— A. Whitney Brown

“I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor.”— Dana Carvey

“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.”— Marlon Wayans

“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.”— Marlon Wayans

“I try to cope with everything through humor.”— Gail Porter

“I think that different pleasures work for different readers - a friend of mine won't read anything that's not a cardiovascular sort of page-turner. I tend to care less about plot, but I'm a sucker for humor and strangeness.”— Karen Russell

“Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.”— Barbet Schroeder

“Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.”— Theodore Sturgeon

“Even celebrities, most people have a sense of humor. Most of the people we meet who we've done on the show, like it.”— Matt Stone

“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 think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres.”— Carrie Brownstein

“I try to bring it across on my record, in my dress, in what I do and what I say because to me humor is important. You should have a dose of that and I guess giving it is what I'm here for.”— Bootsy Collins

“Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don't get it.”— Lara Flynn Boyle

“With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.”— Patrick Wilson

“I love a man with a great sense of humor and who is intelligent - a man who has a great smile. He has to make me laugh. I like a man who is very ambitious and driven and who has a good heart and makes me feel safe. I like a man who is very strong and independent and confident - that is very sexy - but at the same time, he's very kind to people.”— Nicole Scherzinger

“They don't make you pay for the humor. It's up and down, but they're trying to give you as many laughs as possible in 2 minutes. They are the most honest comedians ever.”— Mike Judge

“I don't know if my sense of humor goes over Americans' heads.”— Ryan Kwanten

“I think the Canadian sense of humor is dryer than America's and juicier than Britain's. I think it's a cross between the two of them, really.”— Scott Thompson

“I think Canadian humor is a little less broad than American humor.”— Scott Thompson

“Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.”— Hank Ketcham

“Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll likely not see another like him.”— Dick Van Dyke

“Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so much the better.”— Garry Trudeau

“Humor can inform and break down stigma, which is a huge issue in the military.”— Garry Trudeau

“But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives.”— Norman Lear

“Sometimes Americans don't quite get my sense of humor. My good ol' British sarcasm seems to go over their heads.”— Lee Westwood