Humor Quotes · Page 132

If God had intended us to drink beer, He would have given us stomachs.

— David Daye

Will somebody get North Korea a Snickers?

— Anonymous

I've always found it easier to be funny than to be serious.

— Molly Ivins

“This is the day the Lord has made, suck it up and rejoice.”

— Donna White Glaser

Nothing is more silly than silly laughter.

— Catullus

I have an aversion to comedy where everybody speaks in punchlines.

— Bobcat Goldthwait

“Basically each one of us is alone here. Everything else is show biz.”

— Art Hochberg

“Hope lies in a genuine embracing and nurturing of one's neurosis”

— Chris Niebauer Phd

Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.

— Bryant H. McGill

I was doing jokey rap stuff in high school. But it was never serious. It was always, like, 'It'd be cool to…

— Andy Samberg

I feel like comedy is important, and I think political satire can be really important.

— Laura Benanti

I try to give all my characters a sense of humor, so I guess I feel like I have done comedy, but…

— Kathy Baker

Dark comedy is very difficult. You have to bring the audience in and push them away at the same time.

— Pierce Brosnan

“Let's think about something more cheerful, shall we? Like puppies or flowers or samurai swords.”

— Heather Wood

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

— Aristotle

The saddest moment in life… When you are at shopping center...You love a SHIRT,you see the price tag and you just move…

— Bibeka

“Get on a bus full of old people and you’ll understand what I mean. It’s easy to pick the woman who’s spent…

— Danielle Wood

There's nothing less funny than somebody trying to be funny. I loved Jack Dee, then I met him and I became the…

— Romesh Ranganathan

“The night before a deadline, I usually am in desperate need of a back rub. And new wrists. And candy. And little…

— Christy Hall

“A lifetime in the business had taught her that, apart from the few good people that work along-side you,nobody is to be…

— Tom Holt

Wedding Singer taught us we shouldnt be afraid of making people feel emotional in the middle of the movie, rather than just…

— Adam Sandler

“John Longridge, the cook at Harley-street, had suffered from low spirits for more than thirty years, and he was quick to welcome…

— Susanna Clarke

“Throughout the course of the day, Bobby Tom's irritation over his artificially oiled and dirt-smeared chest and his unzipped jeans had flared…

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a…

— Edward de Bono

There's nothing more difficult to do than comedy.

— Robert Evans

If you don't have comedy in a movie, you don't have a movie.

— Theodore Melfi

No one is perfect, except for Penélope Cruz.

— Ellen DeGeneres

“I'm not afraid of the dark. I am. Humor me.”

— Joss Stirling

“Great. There goes our security deposit." ~ Sean”

— Dianne Duvall

Whether planned or not, humor takes our mind off of our troubles.

— Allen Klein

When you're small, you either are funny, or you get beat up a lot.

— Tim Conway

For the most part, comedy is the only fair part of show business.

— Chris Rock

We, the comics that we like, we're all, like, post-humor.

— Tim Heidecker

Comedy is a way of hiding - especially character comedy.

— Lenny Henry

Laughter is the best creative medicine.

— John Cleese

“A lot of people have it in for me. It's practically a school sport.”

— Nenia Campbell

“These are Rustbell Rabbits! I'd like to see them try!!!”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“We don't have dealings. He just stalks me. I'm popular like that.”

— Nenia Campbell

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Control is a nice concept, little more.”

— Anna Quindlen