Attention Quote by Catherine Tate

“Because I was a shy and awkward child, I used humour to deflect attention. It was a controlling mechanism. Because I could use it…

— Catherine Tate

I used comedy to deflect a lot of situations; if you make someone laugh, they don't want to punch you in the face.

— Mel Rodriguez

Humour is learned behaviour, and I know exactly why I learned to be funny. I did it from a very early age. My dad…

— Greg Davies

I was a very quiet child growing up. I always knew that I was funny - I just never put it to use.

— Spoken Reasons

When I was a kid, I never did funny things to get attention. I was never a funny person. I was never, like, 'Oh,…

— Steven Wright

My sense of humor was a tool for me getting past my mother and father separating, my older brother having cerebral palsy, and the…

— Tracy Morgan

Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain…

— Zach Anner

Humor was also a defense mechanism from getting picked on at school. If I could be funny maybe people wouldn't bother me.

— Pandora Boxx

I always knew I could hold people's attention and make them laugh every 30 or 40 seconds, and I got approval and attention for…

— George Carlin

I was a product of a divorced family and I used humor as a weapon to combat sadness. I used comedy to make my…

— Josh Gad

I think the reason I became funny was because if I made people laugh, they would let me keep talking.

— Anthony Jeselnik

I was intentionally curbing the impulse to be funny and hiding the ability. I wrote any number of very serious attempts at poems, short…

— Patrick deWitt