Humor Quotes · Page 485

My father was funnier than me. My father was Richard Pryor-funny. I'm just a better businessman.

— Tracy Morgan

I always say, 'Thank goodness 'Wimpy Kid' was a comedy because my singing in that was more humorous than professional.'

— Devon Bostick

I think comedy is so specific, so hard. I'd audition for comedies and think, 'I can't pull this off.'

— Melissa Fumero

“She just asked me to pick her up some tampons and a Yoo-Hoo." ~Alex Sinclair”

— Jenny B. Jones

The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history; 't is all toy figures in a toyhouse.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I love inappropriate humour. What else are you going to do? You have to laugh.

— Bojana Novakovic

I think there's still a feeling within society, entertainment aside, that women are less funny than men.

— Zawe Ashton

“No worries, I won't force you to marry me. I'll get over you. There are plenty of fish in the sea and…

— Quinn Loftis

“Believe it or not working in libraries is very similar to working on an ambulance or a fire truck. You take care…

— Lori Reed

“And what renders him so unmarriageable?” Eloise asked. Francesca leveled a serious stare at her older sister. Eloise was mad if she…

— Julia Quinn

On 'Adam Ruins Everything' we do the broadest sketch comedy possible. We do stuff where you can see it immediately and know…

— Adam Conover

“Goodness gracious me,' exclaimed Alexia, 'what are you wearing? It looks like the unfortunate progeny of an illicit union between a pair…

— Gail Carriger

My senior year of high school, I was voted 'Wittiest.' So, several years later, I decided to try my hand at writing…

— Barbara Park

“They sent the shrink round yesterday. He's put me on Prozac. Prozac! He thinks I'm depressed.' 'Aren't you depressed?' 'I wasn't depressed.'…

— Gavin Extence

“Lanie, you live 15 minutes away from your office and you get there at eight. Over two hours every day just to…

— Kristen Ashley

Good-humor, gay spirits, are the liberators, the sure cure for spleen and melancholy. Deeper than tears, these irradiate the tophets with their…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Our whole family has a similar sense of humor. We get over things by laughing at ourselves.

— Monica Horan

If a boy sweeps you off your feet, be careful because he's in the perfect position to drop you on your ass.

— Anonymous

The naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humour was the real salt in them.

— Hans Christian Andersen

“Beautiful face. Beautiful body. Horrible attitude. It was the holy trinity of hot boys.”

— Anonymous

And you can't hide in a comedy scene either. You have to give in to the scene and commit.

— Jennifer Garner

What begins with comedy ends with comedy... in my short view of the matter.

— Gore Vidal

“Humor is the touchstone of the truly mythological as distinct from the more literal-minded and sentimental theological mood.”

— Joseph Campbell

“Every journalist has a novel inside him, which is an excellent place for it.”

— Russell Lynes

“Reality was one step out of line, a cardigan with the buttons done up wrong.”

— Haruki Murakami

Cats have no sense of humor, they have terribly inflated egos, and they are very touchy.

— Robert A. Heinlein

You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a…

— Lars von Trier

I'd love to do a project that falls between drama and comedy - a dramedy with hilarious moments.

— Shangela

If I'm doing comedy, I try to improvise a lot. Even if they don't use it, it helps me loosen up and…

— Zach Woods

'Smart, Funny and Black' is about celebrating, critiquing and learning about black culture, black history, and the black experience.

— Amanda Seales

If you really believe death leads to eternal bliss then why are you wearing a seatbelt?

— Doug Stanhope

I always worked on holidays when I had to wait tables and stuff like that, so I'm used to it, but now…

— Chris Redd

If you are tuning in just for the show, you're going to be sorely disappointed.

— Adam Carolla

“How reassuring." - Queen Elizabeth, when told during a walking tour of Scotland that she looks like the Queen”

— Kate Petrella

“Even geniuses could get things wrong-look at Einstein's unfortunate choice of a hairdresser.”

— Joss Stirling

“Who was the moron on the phone?" "Carl Avery," Kate said. "A long-standing client and potential felon.”

— Jennifer Crusie

“Iwa: he begged on his knees Iwa: the coaches got worried he’d injure his bad knee further so they let him do…

— Powerhh

“Ahahahahaha! Ahahahaha! Aahahaha! BEWARE!!!!! Yrs Sincerely, The Opera Ghost”

— Terry Pratchett

Comedy is essentially made by young men, or older men with some form of arrested development, for young men or immature older…

— Harold Ramis

Comedy is like horror - you have to shock something in the viewer's system to make them feel it.

— Jonathan Krisel