“Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.”
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“The script was just the best I'd read in a long time and I love the humor, which I wasn't expecting, and I like the fact that my six year old daughter can see the show without being, you know, protected from it.”
“I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation.”
“I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.”
“But because it was able to balance that kind of humor with a sweet story and characters you really rooted for and also got across the girls' point of view, I've heard nothing but great things from younger and older females as well.”
“Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor.”
“I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.”
“If you can understand the humor in the drawing part you'll probably get the humor in the audio part.”
“Well, the most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning - it's a man or a woman without a sense of humor.”
“Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very healing.”
“I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor and I am only learning now stupidly that you can't read tongue. When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn't read that way.”
“I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.”
“The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.”
“Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.”
“I met Elton John at an Interview dinner, and we just sort of became friends. He's got such a wicked sense of humor.”
“The combination of landing the biggest interview of my career and having a drill in my back reminds me that God only gives us what we can handle and that it helps to have a good sense of humor when we run smack into the absurdity of life.”
“Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.”
“Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor.”
“People may think of Southern humor in terms of missing teeth and outhouse accidents, but the best of it is a rich vein running through the best of Southern literature.”
“I certainly didn't say while writing 'Gossip Girl,' 'Oh this is going to be big!' It was really like, 'Oh god, everyone's gong to hate these people! They're so bratty!' But I actually think what is so appealing about them is the humor in them.”
“But it was this tough little character part that I was playing, a very funny little guy that I invented over a weekend, because I realized I was not contributing to the humor of this thing. And I had to do something.”
“All my jobs have been with food in one way or another since 1948. My parents were in the hotel business, and I just loved the warm hearted people who worked so hard with such good humor.”
“Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know.”
“Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.”