“Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.”
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“It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?”
“It's self-effacing, it's hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor.”
“I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that.”
“I like dark humor. My favorite movie of all time is 'Harold and Maude.'”
“I'm not a traditional politician, and I have a sense of humor. I'll try to soften it and become boring, maybe even very boring, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to.”
“I want to be taken seriously as the type of musician that plays stuff like an electric rake. I mean, how seriously do you take someone like Spike Jones? They take him pretty seriously - a really good musician who made a great contribution in terms of humor, which is part of what I try to do too.”
“The president of General Motors was in a foul humor.”
“The Good Humor man can only be pushed so far.”
“A good sense of humor will get you everywhere.”
“Solutions-oriented campaigning with a little passion and a little humor I think that will go a long way. I think people are desperate for it.”
“Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release.”
“The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.”
“I've always been really dark, and drawn to darker humor. Nothing has been forced, and I don't say anything for shock value.”
“Although Kurt Vonnegut may not be considered a humor writer, 'Breakfast of Champions' is one of the funniest books I've ever read.”
“The thing about For Better or Worse is the only thing that made me an okay director for that is that I have a sense of humor, and it was supposed to be funny.”
“I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.”
“Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.”
“A boy is naturally full of humor.”
“Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.”
“I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more.”
“I think humor is important for all of us, and a great comedian is a great treasure.”
“Dali had a good sense of humor - obviously you could tell just looking at him he was funny.”
“People ask me what the most important thing to take on the race is, and I always say it's a sense of humor. If you've got nothing but a sense of humor, you will survive.”