Humor Quotes · Page 360

Good comedy helps people know they're not alone. Great comedy provides an answer.

— Bill Hicks

Doing drama is, in a sense, easier. In doing comedy, if you don't get that laugh, there's something wrong.

— Betty White

“Why go for something cold and dead, when you can have something hot and panting?”

— K.R. Smith

I'd love to be able to do a comedy like 'Dr. Strangelove.' I'm not a very serious person. Really, I'm very silly.

— Denis Villeneuve

Well, I'm not afraid to say something if I think it's funny, even if it's harsh or racist.

— Sarah Silverman

“Ah, James, our James," she says, sounding wistful. "Can't live with him, can't kill him slowly enough." - Callie (pg. 141)”

— Cody McFadyen

There is so much competition and content floating around right now, so comedy has to have a lot quirk and heart.

— Varun Sharma

I was deeply unhappy, but I didn't know it because I was so happy all the time.

— Steve Martin

“Emily Post's Etiquette is out again, this time in a new and an enlarged edition, and so the question of what to…

— Dorothy Parker

“I think you're crazy good at this survival stuff, Cary." His shoulders sag. He gives me a small, relieved smile and we…

— Courtney Summers

To see a comedy in an environment where you're surrounded by other people that are laughing is great. That's probably more satisfying…

— Griffin Dunne

“What is evil?' you ask. To which I reply, 'Who are you, Friedrich Nietzsche?' To which you respond, 'Duh, wha? Me no…

— Josh Lieb

“From an illustration in her "Animals of a Bygone Era": a Leptictidium, an extinct rabbit-like animal who left no descendants, says: "Too…

— Maja Säfström

“They always loved my sense of humor. There used to be a light switch inside one of the nurseries that was a…

— Chase Brooks

“The problem, he thought, was that so much humour involved misfortune of one sort or another, and now that same human misfortune…

— Alexander McCall Smith

I've got a reason for running. I talk about a larger goal, which is to call upon the best of America. It's…

— George W. Bush

I can cry at the drop of the pin. But comedy is hard for me; it's the timing.

— Moira Kelly

“I'm not sure I've turned your Commander inside out, but I can assure you if that iron skillet was empty, I would…

— Julia Mills

I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.

— Steve Martin

The subconscious mind has no sense of humor and people often joke themselves into unhappy experiences.

— Florence Scovel Shinn

Among my friends, I'm not a little Boy Scout, and they love my humor, thank God.

— Don Rickles

I don't tolerate stupidity well although I am more than capable of it myself. Wait, what?

— Rock Cowles

This global recession has had a detrimental effect on my sex life. It's ages since I've been able to afford it.

— Anonymous

My granddad doesn't care if he falls down when he's singing, he's just having a laugh.

— Jay Sean

Thanks to people like Lenny Bruce and George Carlin, it's real freedom to do stand-up comedy.

— Simon Amstell

I knew nothing about farce until I read Puce a l'Oreille, and had no idea what a deadly serious business it is.

— John Mortimer

Elvis was a symbol of the country's vitality, rebelliousness, and good humor.

— Jimmy Carter

Whenever she uses the phrase 'I was thinking...,' that means I either have to move, paint or buy something.

— Adam Ferrara

Only laughter can blow [a colossal humbug] to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

— Mark Twain

1st Valentine's Day: 200,000 BC men and women congregate on opposite sides of Pangaea, waiting for someone to make the first move.

— Kristen Schaal

People just associate me with comedy - not that I mind. I don't mind that at all.

— Scott Adsit

“Why save the planet in a politically correct hybrid if you can rule the road in a Chelsea tractor?”

— Aga Lesiewicz

I tried the Scarsdale diet and the Stillman water diet (you remember that one, where you run weight off trying to get…

— Dolly Parton

“If you continually show mercy to a recurrent provoker; your mercy will continue to less and less till you become merciless.”

— Vincent Okay Nwachukwu

I don't think you're dying," I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer. He smiled. Gallows humor.

— John Green

To people who don't get what we do, I say I create entertainment and comedy videos on YouTube - and they usually…

— Joe Sugg

“As soon as I hear the words 'your room' my mind leans over and whisper-hisses, “This boy has lost his mind. We…

— Belle Aurora

“Don't let your teeth make you lose respect by permanently keeping them opened for the sake of being friendly.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I was this extremely dramatic actress. And then, suddenly, I was doing comedy.

— Carol Kane

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

— Oscar Wilde