Facts Quote by Billy Collins

You have to have humor. If you don't have humor and you take yourself seriously, you're dead in the water. You have to be…

— Anthony Hopkins

Humor is a serious business.

— Thambi Ramaiah

I've noticed that when people are joking they're usually dead serious, and when they're serious, they're usually pretty funny.

— Jim Morrison

I never took the work less than serious, my work ethic is ingrained in me. But I've always had a sense of humor about…

— George Hamilton

I've heard too many times where people say that I'm this ultra-serious guy. In truth, I've got an extremely absurd sense of humor. I…

— Phil Anselmo

As far as I can tell, comedians are pretty serious people, and that's why they make fun of things all of the time.

— Maria Bamford

When humor is meant to be taken seriously, it's no joke.

— Lionel Strachey

I think a sense of humor is the emotional equivalent of a sense of realism. One should not take everything seriously, and everybody takes…

— Michael Maccoby

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

— Anonymous

Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought; it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels increasingly the…

— Oscar W. Firkins

Humor is essential to a full and happy life. It is a reliever and relaxer of pressure and tension, and the saving element in…

— Richard L. Evans

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

— Peter Ustinov