Humor Quote by John Lithgow Download Open image “Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.” — John Lithgow ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Humor Infantile Senses
Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Over the years, I've learned that a sense of humor is the only skill that allows you to turn sucking at life into a… — Zach Anner Copy Share Image
The most valuable sense of humor is the kind that enables a person to see instantly what it isn't safe to laugh at. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor. — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
Humor is a bit like Mary Poppins' sugar-it helps the medicine go down. A little bit of humor allows people to think about very… — James Fadiman Copy Share Image
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Humor is vague, runaway stuff that hisses around the fissures and crevices of the mind, like some sort of loose physic gas. — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image
It's nice when you've done enough movies that you can do your own anthology. — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
The Broadway audience is made up of a greater percentage of tourists now. There's not nearly as much variety and danger and challenge in… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
My sense of myself is that I'm a character actor, and character actors are ready, willing, and able to do anything, to be totally… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
The essence of comedy, drama, and horror is surprise. I have an uncanny ability to surprise people because they look at my face, and… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
I think there are all sorts of ways of turning into an actor, and there are a vast variety of different actors. You know,… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
My very first role was when I was 2 1/2 years old; I was one of Nora's children in 'A Doll's House,' with my… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
I'm as flighty as anybody. You put a lot out there. I've been through the process a lot. When I play a major role,… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
We all grow up with inherited genes and inherited sensibilities, and they run very, very deep. — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
'Mad TV' is one of my most favorite shows of all time and is a huge part of my obsession with sketch comedy. — Shane Dawson Copy Share Image
When you step out and do a song in a musical, the easier thing to do is make it funny. But when those transitions… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
In my opinion, sexiness comes down to three things: chemistry, sense of humor, and treatment of waitstaff at restaurants. — Rhoda Janzen Copy Share Image
“...I haven't guessed where your shirt is from yet Bane, but I don't think it'll matter once it's underwater!' Tristan looked at Bane questioningly.… — S.K. Munt Copy Share Image
“Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.” — Markus Herz Copy Share Image
“Not wise, perhaps, to be rude to the Pope's favorite son, but my viper tongue still required a fool now and then on which… — Kate Quinn Copy Share Image
In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in theater but… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
“[S]ometimes, when you are a food person, the possible irrelevance of what you are doing doesn’t cross your mind until it’s too late. (Once,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
If you were to send a werewolf to the moon, would he be a werewolf permanently? — Kristen Schaal Copy Share Image
“ “Do Southerners laugh at different things than Northerners do? Yes, I say--Northerners.” Roy Blount, Jr., Roy Blount’s Book of Southern Humor” — Deborah Ford Copy Share Image